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I do not, sorry, if you go to the bare domain there's contact info for the guy who does

Unreal Engine means it's a pass from me, especially for this - if it's not RuneTek, it's not RuneScape

I also finished Roadside Picnic recently and was enthralled, easily the best sci-fi I have read this year, I can see why it's spawned so many derivative works.

The Tarkovsky film wasn't bad either. I played a little bit of the game but increasingly I find immersion in video games difficult.

Recently I have begun reading more than one book at a time, which I have never done before.

I'm not stellar at this yet, trying to juggle three turns into progressing two fairly quickly with the third much slower...

Clive Barker, Books of Blood - Currently in volume three. I've always found horror to require, like fantasy, a concentrated effort on my part as a reader to sustain suspension of disbelief. But these are great fun even if that's difficult sometimes.

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We - With sci-fi for whatever reason I do not suffer from the suspension-of-disbelief problem, the worldbuilding is much easier to immerse myself in. (Before this I was reading Roadside Picnic which was extremely good)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago - The slow one, still very interesting, nonfiction is uncommon for me

Full circle, streaming is just OTT cable TV now. Actually this is worse than cable I think because previously I could buy HBO or Starz and actually get an ad-free premium channel.

Agreed - information always expands to fill the available space, and placing a cap on your available space is an underrated strategy

I mostly remember how it felt to be a child and it's extremely important to me that I continue to do so as I get older. The best days of my life are when I can capture the perfect nostalgia, or deja vu, of the past when I was much younger. Sometimes only for a split second, sometimes longer. Increasingly I believe it's one of the few things in life that truly matters on an existential level: how children feel, and how we feel about (ourselves as) children.

Would appreciate recommendations for reading material about this.

Perhaps that's the grandparent commenter's idea but I don't think it's the point the article is making:

> So, seriously, I do really like the smartphone idea. It’s just that I don’t have any browser or "social" app on it. And I don’t want anything else than what I have.

> I wish I could say it is all I have, that I’m a true minimalist.

He defines true minimalism as having an _ideologically conformant_ computer, not no computer at all.

Depending on what type of computer (if not smartphone) you have at hand, you can probably use a search engine to find the same menu. Or ask somebody at your table. Or ask the server. Or point at somebody else's food and say you want what they're having. Or eschew the menu entirely and ask to be surprised. Chef's choice can be fun.

Or leave yeah, I think that's valid. TFA is predicated on the notion of pretty-much-lying to people by telling them you don't have a smartphone even if you do. Leaving a restaurant if you can't find a menu seems like it'd be on similar ideological footing.

File is File not exclusively because it has to do with files (though file-related actions should also be there) but because of relative significance versus the other menus

In the "File" menu you are doing something that has the potential to fundamentally alter the app you are using, by tampering with (typically a large portion or even all of) the data files it contains, or by resetting the state of a running session (file > new window in browsers)

"Edit," semantically, is the same but for a subset of that data, often only a single piece of data. Here I'll sustain that the "create a singular new password/event" button could be under Edit, not File, since those are not actions scoped to the whole app or to the filesystem, instead only to individual records in a database.

"View" is read-only and actions under here should not write anything anywhere. And so on.

Please do not abandon decades of UX tradition in favor of inserting tautologies into your programs.

(1Password/Passwords, Automator/Automations, really? might as well put a pictogram there rather than duplicate the word - I already know what the app does, I want the UI to signal what scope my actions are applying to)

"Project" for DaVinci Resolve makes sense, probably because it's a synonym lol

Propaganda to what end? Are you referring to anything in particular?

Is your angle merely that shadow library hosts should be operating their services entirely for free (to the point of refusing payment) or is there something we're missing here?

I doubt most dontators think of it as "paying for Anna's Archive" - I pay to contribute to the institution more than for the minor convenience of the fast download links. I'd still donate even if I got nothing extra in return.

It also helps that AA has the best UI and search of any shadow library I've seen. Some really established bittorrent sites win out on curation but otherwise AA is top tier, not something I'm accustomed to seeing from a (free, no-signup!) clearnet/direct-download site

As far as GP's question I think you can be in it for the money (though I personally have my doubts that Anna is) and also be a force for moral good as well. Whether the operator's morals perfectly align with all of our ethics is an open question but the room at large generally tends to agree.

Also Torrentfreak's reporting has been extremely solid for an extremely long time so the link itself fits here too

I have a year membership to AA now, been meaning to contribute for some time, archive.org is next on the list

Much like the pushback we are seeing from the citizenry against things like Flock and AI datacenters, we can push _forward_ too by ensuring important institutions (legal or otherwise) remain funded