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Neil Gaiman Offers To Step Back From ‘Good Omens’ Season 3
  • For those out of the loop:

    The stories have broken from a podcast from Tortoise Media called 'Master, the allegations against Neil Gaiman'. I have not listened to any of it, but have read these two articles from Tortoise, which provide summaries of events and his responses:

    https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/07/03/exclusive-neil-gaiman-accused-of-sexual-assault/

    https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/08/01/exclusive-two-more-women-accuse-neil-gaiman-of-sexual-assault-and-abuse/

    In three of the cases, he claims their relations were all consensual. In two of them, there are NDAs, and one of them is described in some detail in the second article.

    In the last one, he claims he misread a situation and stopped as soon as he realized it.

    It's not looking good for him, that is for sure. I think he's hoping he can deny everything and it will blow over after some time, but it keeps getting worse. It doesn't seem like anything will result in criminal charges, but there is a lot of smoke around him.

    I'm still a fan of his work; it's been a huge influence on my life, so it's causing a lot of difficult feelings.

  • Why do people not like the Ring of Tenacity?
  • It is rather a snooze compared to basically all of the other rings. Sure it can reduce the damage you take, but it takes effort to maximize it's benefit.

    Consider that it's affect scales with how low your health is. It also applies the reduction after armor and it rounds the result in favor of damage.

    This is just a ring you'll wear until you find something better, or transmute it, if it's upgraded.

  • How can we make Linux more appealing as "just works"?
  • Linux is a tool that big corporate entities have profited greatly from for many years, and will continue to. Same with BSD, Apache, Docker, MySQL, Postgres, SSH...

    Valve, Sys76, Framework, etc. Are proving that using Linux to serve an end user market is also profitable, and are capable of supporting enterprise use-cases.

    I understand that there may be specific problems to solve wrt improving adoptability, usability, compatibility, etc., but Linux is doing more than ok within the context of the FOSS ecosystem (and increasingly without).

    Your thinking is slightly skewed, IMHO. Linux doesn't have an inherent incentive to compete with MacOS or MS, and if it did, it would be subject to the same pressures that encourage bad behavior like spying on users, creating walled gardens, and so forth.

  • Head of the Demon

    First offering from Head of the Demon; occult black/doom metal from Sweden. All three of their releases are highly recommended.

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    homelab @lemmy.ml krakenfury @lemmy.sdf.org
    Dell Boss N1 questions

    I've recently picked up an Intel P4000 and I'm purchasing some parts to set it up. Since it's an older platform, I get that there are some limitations on what I can use, so I'm worried about buying things that aren't compatible.

    I'm interested in installing a Dell Boss N1 Monolithic to run Proxmox in RAID1, but have some concerns:

    • Will it even work with my system board? Maybe my search skills suck, but I can't glean from the Internet how tightly controlled Server hardware ecosystems are. Would my mb even recognize a component like this, or the drives installed on it?

    • What drives work with it? According to the user manual, there are only three supported drives, and they have to be 480gb or 960gb in size. Had anyone tested using different NVMe M.2 drives?

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    Understand me
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    Is it ok to create a personal community?

    It would be my own personal link aggregation space that's not just my profile. I am one of those neckbearded Reddit refugees who sometimes doesn't play well with others. Am I just being removed?

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    daily.bandcamp.com Pagan Fires Burning: The New Wave of Dark Folk from the UK and Ireland

    Confronted by increasing social dislocation and an escalating cost-of-living crisis, these artists are turning to the arcane mysteries of yesteryear to alleviate modern malaise.

    Pagan Fires Burning: The New Wave of Dark Folk from the UK and Ireland

    Cool Bandcamp article about the weirdo folk scene happening in Ireland and the UK these days. I got turned on to stuff like The Incredible String Band, Third Ear Band, and Gryphon in my 20s, so this has been great to see. Odd that they didn't mention Broadside Hacks or Junior Brother, but it's still rad.

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