Yeah, there’s a lot of niche software for specific needs that’s doesn’t have alternative or have subpar alternatives on Linux. Even as a full-time Linux users and supporter, I still have to acknowledge that the amount of investments gone into enterprise stuff over the year have basically made switching from Windows for a lot of professions almost impossible. Unless we start having more funding and development from state actors, the market share of OS won’t change significantly anytime soon.

I was in Sichuan just this Lunar New Year for a tour and the whole time I have to have my caffeine addiction fixed by either instant coffee I bagged myself or tea. Almost nobody drink coffee over there. There are some coffee shops here and there in tourist attractions but I wasn’t able to locate a place that can make a stiff cup of Joe, most are bland instant coffee like water with milk. Supposedly you would have more luck with that going somewhere more south east and closer to Vietnam

If they could they would 10x the amount of explosive in the version against China. Malware is just a start.

Can I have the sauce for your wallpaper please?!

Where can we check this out?

Very beautiful. Is this a real place?

What about Kislev, Araby and Bretonnian. Their mages are basically holy maiden priests or divine teachers?

The same military force that’s under your beg and call and supervised by your own military force that is funded by your trillion dollars debt? Somehow I don’t think you’re gonna have any problems with the bank at all my dude.

To add to this comment. You should look out for the ThinkPad T series (no p or s after the number) if you want ease of repairs and upgrade.

Probably will wait until a tear down video is available. Pebbles are nice devices but absolutely garbage at fixability.

Hit me right in the nostalgia with this one. Used to played the heck out of it on SEA and my local country server. The game is super grindy for my taste now but I still feel nostalgic about the community and people there.

Corrected, they should all be arrested and fired at.

As a Vietnamese I would go with Luna explain that the questions were most likely biased and the results were pulled out from the ass of a hardcore liberal.

However, the PRC wasn’t on friendly term with Vietnam after the Sino Soviet split. Alongside border skirmishes and proxy war with China in Cambodia, Vietnamese people felt pretty betrayed when China normalize relationship with the USA and developed so fast while we were still under sanctioned by the US and have no more helps when the ussr collapsed. Furthermore, the South China Sea dispute have certainly been an issue that keeps flashing up the resentments from before and made many Vietnam have a much lower opinion about China and Chinese people.

To modern Vietnamese, the USA is the far away enemy of our next door frienemy which makes them a good opportunistic Ally on paper. Furthermore, America’s propaganda is so much better than anyone else, which makes a lot of people even in Vietnam have some false images of the USA. At least they don’t have as much propaganda from China to improve their reputation, yet

I’m from Vietnam but I migrated to America in early 2010s for work. I can only tell you what I known from back then. There was no openly pro south Vietnam people in Vietnam. If those kinda people even dare to show their true color i.e. display the flag or openly call for the revival for South Vietnam, they would’ve been shut down really fast and have an express line to jail for reeducation purposes.

That doesn’t mean that those people don’t talk anonymously online or behind closed doors though. The economic problems in Vietnam after the war also didn’t help with building confidence in people who was directly benefited from the southern government. In fact many older South Vietnamese still have a rosy colored picture of the puppet regime. But at least those people are dying out and with them any passion for that fascist regime.

Most of the time the platforms are already in capitalist hands so it’s really easy to just ask them to self moderate to ban and evict the left. The they just boost the “center” and voila!

What killing King Charles actually accomplishes is that merely Lelouch has one less enemy so he can focus on stopping his brother Schneizel, who represents a much more competent threat than his father did, one with the connections to build the Sword of Damocles…

There is two problems with this conflict though. Firstly, the way that Lelouch built a resistance against his brother was not to win back his old allies and prove to them his trust worthiness, but by magically flip the whole chessboard and turn every Britannian into a mind slave willingly do his bidding. That sounds exactly like liberal fantasy fixing the system and transform it into a force for good. Secondly, Schneizel also did a board flip and get everyone on the rebel group to support him as their leader for a war which essentially is just a fight for the throne of the world. The rebel even complicit in a nuclear first strike attack on the Britannian capital which have unknown number of civilian in it.

Now, the very existence of geass magic fundamentally divorces the world of Code Geass from ours, but I thought the Black Knight reaction to Zero’s identity and the power of Geass made a lot of sense…

This plot point however shine the spot light on the structural problem of the whole rebels. They are just a bunch of people with no unified ideology that can let them look pass the fear of the power of geass to even offer Lelouch a chance to explain himself. They don’t even offer him a real trial before trying to gun him down in cold blood. While I’m sure there are many example in real life where people flipped out and assassinated their political leaders for less. The story decision here to let Lelouch be saved not by the quality of his ideology, or any of his policies but just purely because another broken and exploited character clung onto him and bailed him out with their life speak a lot for the quality of the rebels leadership and ideology.

That’s my main problem with Code Geass to be honest. Overall, it’s an entertaining show with the facade of anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, pretty twisting story line and some awesome mecha battle. However, the show stop short of offering any true solutions to the problems and instead just outright prescript great person theory and enlightenment dictatorship to imperialism. It doesn’t even have any representation for communism, anarchism or any more leftist groups. Instead, we had an imperial capitalist monarchism vs a bunch of nationalist monarchist of a different religion vs some liberal democracies in the background.

I think that kinda reflect the core message of the show, which is pretty libby, though. “society is bad because of bad people, and you can totally just simply wish them away”. At the end of the day, all evils can be fixed by magic. From the imperialistic empire, monarchism, fascism, capitalism and classism can be fixed by just magic them away with your command. It smell a lot like the liberal enlightenment centrist idea that everyone but them are know the truth and that the truth will destroy every opposition regardless of material conditions.

Even before that, Lelouch’s comrades who is a pretty mixed group of different nationality just give up on him when he lost his mask and reveal that he had been a Britannian prince all along. Sure there were other mistakes that he made that lead to a bunch of genocide and loses before that, but I don’t remember his comrades (outside of Kallen, his lover) even let him explain. This spoke lowly of the capability of revolutions and freedom movements by showing them as a bunch of morons who are just led by conman that’s just one revelation away from getting lynched.

Sadly I have heard this types of liberals pacifist both sides comments a lot from my own Viet communities. It’s highly concentrated in the new Viet dispora who came to the US after the 90s. Something about not having to pay the price for their freedom and peace and seeing how rich the imperial core is compared to their own country make them speak highly of the people who oppressed and killed their grandparents while shitting on said grandparents for fighting back.

what are you thinking of training on that AI processor?

Once again the West reminds people that “rules based order” means “you obey my rules and stop asking questions”