I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
I think you’re the only one taking the comic this literally?
The top two panels do have some !fuckcars energy, but the lower half about the bombing is about a delusional and/or haunted guy who is spurred on by a ghostly woman. Not exactly a call to action against private motorists.
That is true, definitely not an OS exclusive problem!
That’s the go-getter attitude any paramilitary organisation appreciates!
Fresh out of pamphlets, sorry.
Ri-i-ight. Now tell us about the significance of his knit sweater.
Not fake, just ~4 years old spoilers. Also, there’s a twist after that.
Bearded guy here; we never tire of that kind of comment. Please, keep it coming.
I agree that the tone of their articles helps push the quality above some other tech blogs. At the very least they’re sincere!
Windows is no longer an option for me either — I had made a conscious effort to use FLOSS apps even before switching, so there wasn’t much holding me back. And, as you say, once I’d started modifying system settings to disable Microsoft telemetry, I was already at Linux tinkerer levels…
Thanks for this, and the repost of postmarket OSes for Android phones! One reddit community that I used to frequent was r/androidafterlife, and I’ve tried to find similar here. I’m glad that !zerowaste@slrpnk.net offers some of the same advice 👍
Technologies like Electron make it easier for app availability: Controversial opinion but True
I do agree, but currently Electron is great for apps the way Flash was considered great for the web. It solves one problem, but creates a bunch more.
In itself, Electron is pretty bloated*, but I don’t dare check how many versions I have installed because different apps have stuck with older ones. I’d really like to see a less resource consuming, backward compatible alternative to Electron.
* From my thrifty perspective of keeping older hardware alive with Linux, that is. On your high grade, best-of-class gaming rig, mileage will definitely vary.
Like most articles on itsfoss, this one is only a notch over clickbait — a kernel of an idea not fully developed, written with the last minute energy of a student who pushed off the assignment until right before deadline — but I’ll be damned if that title isn’t beautifully turned.
I haven’t had to have Windows installed for more than a decade, but on recent occasion I’ve borrowed Windows and Mac computers for work. Those revisits didn’t give me reason to switch back, only to long for my lean Arch install.
As the next major version of Windows approaches like a Santa down the chimney with all sorts of “AI”-infested gadgets in his sack, I do hope more will make the more often mentioned switch to a Linux distro from the advertising platform OS that came with their computer.
But this headline deliciously reminds us that there is already a good chunk of users who made the jump, or are sitting on the dual booting fence, one boot (sorry!) on either side. This article is for them, yes, but also a gentle nudge for those still gathering courage.
At this stage, it is time to seriously change the perspective of that switch. The single reason for switching from Windows to Linux is … the utter state of Windows. Only the most blinkered of tech journos can continue to pretend that all is well on Windows, and not at all a sophisticated malware infection.
So bravo itsfoss for the clever barb, less so for the depth of the article itself.
Ooh, that is salty! Will give it a try next time the family isn’t around to turn up their noses at my kitchen experiments.
Yeah, Nutella… I think it was the banana+pizza search query that sent me into crêpe-adjacent dessert territory.
I’m genuinely curious, can’t find many banana pizza recipes that aren’t smeared with nutella as well. I assume this is a white pizza base since you mention mascarpone? Then banana topping with a sprinkle of grated hard cheese?
Oh absolutely! That’s pretty much a 400 year bracket starting with Disco s1 (2257 CE). Plenty of opportunity for Mirror Universe shenanigans even beyond the Picard years.
What was Cronenberg Kovich’s line about that again? “The Mirror Universe has been drifting away” or some such?
I’m willing to bet the Terran Empire tried some multiversal invasion that exploded in their collective face and blew them across the quantum plane (if that’s a thing). The Quantum portal could easily be written into that.
why now exactly?
Oh, there’s a huge push to use Copilot in the entire Microsoft office suite now. My workplace is going all in on the damn thing, and I’m sure LibreOffice are also trying to nap some users as the next Windows version looms.
Tell me more, I’m a glutton for punishment.
This show has been a balm for my worst nerd impulses since episode 1, and I will miss it. As finales go, I think this was damn near perfect, too.
Like others have mentioned, Rutherford’s sudden frustration with the Cerritos felt a little off to me, but that’s really small fry in the larger picture of
a bona fide, stable quantum portal to parallel universes hanging around the Alpha quadrant since 2382!
Wow, you’d think that would have been brought up even tangentially in Prodigy or chronologically later set shows? It could even feasibly have been used to
bring Mirror Giorgiou home to her own universe in Discovery s3.
But what do I know, it might not be as stable as it looked in this episode…
Probably to position themselves in relation to Microsoft offerings eager to siphon as much user data as possible for their own ratty “AI” and passing the rest off to third parties?
It’s fairly dire to assume that people in this community will read this comic and go “Oh snap! Why didn’t I think about this before?”
As I just posted in another comment, my read on the comic is that the person we see in the last panel is intentionally depicted as psychotic, and not an aspirational figure… but yeah. Don’t blow up people to prove a point about infrastructure.