Every once in a while I'm reminded of SyFy's notoriously bad TV adaptation of Earthsea, and think, maybe I should watch it just once, like the Star Wars Holiday Special. This is not a review. This is why I still haven't seen it.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★★☆ - Nice park with a view of the ocean and Catalina Island, open grassy areas, playground, basketball and tennis courts, lots of parking and clean, new restrooms. Near the Forrestal Reserve trailheads making it a good post-hike restroom stop or picnic spot.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★☆☆ - A simple GUI wrapper around Linux's built-in virtualization support. It makes simple things easy, but to adjust advanced settings you either need to edit config files manually or use another GUI.| Hyperborea: New Posts
Another Bluesky/Mastodon/RSS Combo app like OpenVibe, a bit less polished but considerably more useful. Handles multiple accounts per type, plus custom feeds.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
★★★★★ - Annalee Newitz: A short but joyful tale of creating the future you want out of the present you've been stuck with, told by robots who would rather make noodles than war.| Hyperborea: New Posts
★★★★☆ - A great ultra-light Windows 10 tablet with detachable keyboard. Or an annoyingly slow Windows 11 tablet.| Hyperborea: New Posts
An intriguing followup to Semiosis that weaves several drastically different sentient species (both plant and animal) into a story about factions, community, freedom, communication and war.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Minimalist web front-end for Mastodon and compatible servers. Not as capable as Elk, but more stable.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the POV of an alien plant person who grew up human. Now the invasion has started, and she's sorting out friends, family, and who she can trust from either planet.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A fast, enjoyable read with a few gut punches hidden throughout. Not so much about the moon turning into cheese as how lots of different people *react* to the moon turning into cheese.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
★★★★☆ - Alternate web front-end for Mastodon and compatible servers. Slightly more user-friendly, if a bit buggy, especially on non-Mastodon servers like GoToSocial.| Hyperborea: New Posts
A short, fast tale of frozen people reawakening after the fall of civilization, built around the premise that you need to keep a frozen person's consciousness active in VR, and there are very different reasons you might put people into cryo storage and a simulation.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
Things I've had to do on my PineTab2 to get various features working and/or usable.| Hyperborea Tech Tips
Extremely bare-bones social networking server that runs on low-resource machines, works on the web without cookies or JavaScript, and still interacts through ActivityPub with Mastodon, GoToSocial and other Fediverse software.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
An app for Mastodon (and other Fediverse sites) that cuts through the clutter. Runs anywhere in a web browser, or can be installed to your device's home page as a PWA.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A lightweight Fediverse server, with a clean web interface for viewing public posts. Compatible with Mastodon apps and interacts with other ActivityPub platforms.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A surprisingly capable Chromium browser for KDE and other Linux desktops that runs well even on low-end hardware and virtual machines.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
A simple desktop app for Mastodon and (most) compatible Fediverse servers. Fast, runs on multiple platforms.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
The most ridiculous Linux bug I've encountered in ages: Installing XFCE changed a mouse cursor setting for GNOME that caused the login screen to crash when trying to log into GNOME/Wayland.| Hyperborea: New Posts
The MacBook would boot as far as the login screen, but any attempt to use or repair it would just reboot, even at the Genius Bar. I managed to recover recent files by connecting from another computer over the network and copying them, 60 seconds at a time.| Hyperborea: New Posts
I can go with your scifi/fantasy story’s super-impossible thing being associated with an eclipse. It’s activating or deactivating people’s super-powers? Sure! Certain magic spells can only be cast during an eclipse? Sure! The moon transforms into cheese? OK, whatever. (pun not intended) But please, please get the basic mechanics right! The moon’s phase is caused […] The post Eclipses and World Building first appeared on K-Squared Ramblings| Hyperborea: New Posts
Which Fediverse servers can handle local-only posts, and which apps can publish them? Here's what I've found so far.| Hyperborea: New Posts
Go into Device Manager and tell it to show hidden devices. There could be a broken display config interfering with the driver for the real adapter.| Hyperborea Tech Tips
Personal website of a programmer and sci-fi/comics fan from Southern California: creative writing, photography, humor, and fan activities.| hyperborea.org
How to find the RSS/Atom feeds for Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Misskey, and other Fediverse platforms.| Hyperborea Tech Tips
Whimsical and melancholy tale of the last unicorn's quest to find others of her kind. Well drawn characters and story, very much a classic.| Kelson Reviews Stuff