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Daemons is like a good rendition of a forgettable 2000's shounen battle anime. It might shine compared against Shaman King and Zatch Bell (I was so young when I watched these, I don't remember if they're actually good), but it's hard to think much of Daemons once you've seen battle shounen done well (Jojo, FMA, HxH). I was watching the series as it aired, and I dropped off after episode 12 (I think because there was a short break). I will continue to watch it, but it doesn't pop out as a show to watch even though episode 12 ended with a cliffhanger.

It could be a slow burn, but perhaps too slow. From a recent MAL thread on the manga:

Is the manga anywhere near completion?

No way. We’re still on setup arcs. We don’t even know who the main antagonists are yet.

With most Linux OS's you have a choice of what desktop environment to use. The desktop environment controls most of what I would call the OS experience. Most linux distros will have KDE or Gnome installed as the default desktop environment, though there are often some more minimal or power-user focused desktop environments offered. I've heard Cinnamon is another good choice.

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-F, F3, F11 generally behave the same on most Linux desktop environment and software as they do on Windows.

Alt-Tab, Alt-F4 are commonly supported

For the run menu, Alt-F2 opens a similar menu in KDE and Gnome. I can only go into the specifics with KDE, but I can also run commands with the regular Windows key start menu. Though when I personally run commands, I generally open a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T) so I can get tab completion. On KDE, Win+E opens a file explorer. Almost all the keyboard shortcuts are customizable on KDE, but I prefer to swim with the current whenever possible.

For some distros, you can write a "Live" version to a flash drive to try it out before installing, but opening applications will be slower than running on an SSD.

Make sure to catch the mid-ending-credits scene. Other than that this episode is about what one would expect, and it gives a descent indication on where this story is going.

Ubuntu used to have an option for that and the screen shot from the site looks quite a bit like the old Ubuntu installer.

Oh, right you are. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi

It even has a wikipedia page! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(software)

From the documentation site you linked, Q4OS doesn't run inside Windows. The Q4OS installer runs inside Windows, and it stores the root filesystem for Q4OS as a file inside an existing Windows drive partition. I'm not personally aware of other Linux OS's that do either of these things, nor do I particularly desire a Linux OS that does either of these things. I can see it being useful if you want to keep your Windows installation fully intact. I imagine disk I/O performance takes a small hit.

That was a lame place to end the season, unless the next season picks up again in a few months. Overall I had a nice time with this show.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

I didn't know this about bluesky D:, but it makes sense. Thanks for the heads up. The atproto ecosystem seems to have cool features for user empowerment and it seems to work well on the few occasions I've visited atproto sites. I hope they can find an ethical way to persevere, but I can't imagine that being easy.

Venture capital funding. The plan is always to do a rug pull. Though if it properly freely licensed and the code is reasonable enough to be forked, it's less worrying but still risky. It's better to work with honest people.

Completely sealing off every good route for the heroine. 😏

Well now I'm properly excited for this series.

From the title I thought this was going to be about making hats for magicians. I love the world building (A+ so far, though the idea of being able to keep magic secret is little hard to accept. I doubt that the series will focus on that so I think that I can lock in going forward.) and the fascination with the magic system (B to A+, depending on how well it explains advanced magic). The pacing so far is great: fast but doesn't feel rushed. I suspect that this will be my favorite show of the season.

I went back to look at the easy-to-see magic circles. It seems that there is a wide variety of sigils. The signs around the sigils seem to have less variety. And there seems to be some variations on the enclosing circles. The floating carriage and the forbidden spell appear to have 2-levels of nested magic circles. If this was a re-incarnation power-fantasy show, the protagonist would probably immediately aim to create 3+-levels of nested magic circles... but judging from the forbidden spell, 3-levels might have the potential to instantly destroy cities.

How the magic circles function with stone formations is a little bit of a mystery for now, I guess you could just say that there's durable special ink (or whatever the ink's made of) in the cracks.

A developer submitted a PR code change for systemd userdb.

My proposals (that's really what PRs are) are to implement a solution that meets the regulatory requirements in several jurisdictions by providing a way to store a self-reported birthdate locally on the machine. These laws also require that this date is collected during account creation (hence why I made PRs against installers) and you can enter any value here, even January 1st, 1900. There is no proof required, no ID scanning, and no external tracking. Nor do I have any desire for that to ever change.

Apparently the developer is confirmed to be just a regular guy. He thinks it'd be worse if every desktop environment implements their own solution to comply with these laws. He's against the various laws related to this incident.

As a fallout for submitting this pull request, he has been extensively harassed. His personal information being repeatedly posted online; his information used to sign up to a lot of sites, groups, churches, car dealerships, ordering food for him; threats of murder; regular textual harassment.