the most infuriating part is how they decide anubis is bad (valid concerns, i do share some of them) but haven't talked about any possible alternative, even a temporary one, they can use to avoid overworking their two sysadmins. anubis is specially useful for sites like that, where they had very little admin power. trying to use gnu sites lately is a pain because they are often not-operational, which is way more disrupting than having to wait a bit for whatever challenge they could have

the whole post reads like an useless rant without any proper aim. if they are so interested on the free internet, they could probably try and come up with some alternative but the way they talk makes me think they are just ignorant of the modern hostile internet and just want to magically return to the past where this didn't happened without having to do any effort about it

1. the main difference between distros is the packages you can install and the default configurations you get out of the box. The main recommendation is to use a popular distro (like ubuntu, mint or pop-os) so you can get a good level of support in both documentation and forums/chatrooms. other distros range from different defaults to completely different architecture so it's recommended to look into them until you are more used to linux and you are curious of finding a better fit for your specific need

for the image editing you can try krita. it's usually considered better than gimp in many scenarios and also more user friendly.

glad to see unc ensored art of ranma (new anime removed the star in the hat for all characters that used it)

what's left

fursuits

i have been saying this for a while but het people (mostly men) tend to be so far from het that i don't really understand what they stand for anymore

scream of independence

this is probably the first time I read this in english and sounds rad. it could be the name of a metal band or something

I hear "Lucho, no estas solo, carajo" which would translate to "Lucho, you are not alone". Lucho is a way of referring to people called Luis (Luis Arce being the president's name) and Carajo would be something close to "damn" as a possitive expression to accentuate the idea (not really sure how to translate it tbh)

I used to think trump was going to be a better pressident so he will make the US fall faster but after seeing this, i'm starting to think that maybe biden will make it faster

is this really the feeling people outside mexico has about the situation? as someone that lived a big part of his mandate, and part of claudia's mandate on mexico city, I really feel like it was just a neoliberal government disguised as left populism. the biggest changes that I can remember were giving way too much power to the military and ignoring a bunch of problems.

there were a couple of things that I remember being good, but none of them looks remarkable enough to make me thing about socialism. socdem at most and I'm not even sure.

that said, maybe living the period from inside gives me some kind of short sighted view, but a bunch of people there that I know that has leftist tendencies (most of them anarchists, no clue why) have a similar readings of the situation

i mean, the main reason this type of "representation" appeals to chuds is because the "lifeless plastic doll" part and the rest is just part of the stereotype. it's very hard to find chuds that actually like real women

saying "yuri is for the male gaze" is only possible if you have never read yuri... at all like, there are works that are meant for a male(?) audience but they are just a small minority in a genre that is clearly written from women for women (can't remember a single one that is not hentai tho, but pretty sure they are somewhere there)

what i would agree is that there is many "yuri bait" in anime that never resolves and is probably meant for fetishization but even then some of that can be simplified as "author didn't made it explicit to avoid backlash on something and the fandom can't accept anything that is not explicitly said"

RANT OFF

and yes. Josei is really a category full of gems. there are so many good stories there but usually requires some work to discover and to get

this one was never really popular, but hardware gimmicks. from the light gun to dance pads, going through wii motion controllers or even double screen of the ds and wiiu (fuck you nintendo for abandonning the wiiu) I really miss having different ways of playing games that was not only game pads or keyboard + mouse. even if the games were not great, having some physical interaction with them was fun to explore. sadly, even when they were "common", not many games made very good use of them, resulting in most games being mediocre at best

the closest modern equivalent I can think about is VR and it is not something I want to play with