You can also look at Japan, where railroad isn’t even the main moneymaker for the companies that operate them (pretty sure some even run at a loss). Instead, it’s the hubs that those railroads create (ie all the real state connected to the stations which is owned by the railroad companies and can be rented out to businesses).

In essence, railroads shouldn’t be built because they’re profitable. They should be built because they’re a basic necessity for unifying a country/region. The profit comes from the increased mobility and the new hubs and opportunity that mobility can create. But most politicians are too short-sighted for this.

Modern versions of Photoshop are deeply integrated with another software called Adobe Cloud. As in, you can’t even install Photoshop by itself, it needs to be installed and managed via Adobe cloud, which has to constantly be running in the background for Photoshop to work (and it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s some kernel level BS, knowing Adobe). They are also reliant on other Adobe online services for some tools and services, and not just the generative AI ones.

That’s usually what causes a lot of hangups I believe. For example, if you need to connect your Photoshop to your client’s Adobe cloud or share files through it, or maybe connect Photoshop to other Adobe products like Indesign or After Effects, that may not work properly. This even applies to pirated versions of Photoshops on windows, where a lot of the patching comes from blocking Adobe’s constant interference with the program as it’s running, but as a result several tools may end up not working.

As for stuff people want from Photoshop, this is anecdotal from me but I primary use Photoshop to letter things and literally no other program that runs on Linux even comes close to the simplicity and versatility Photoshop gives me for lettering with its type tool. It is just so simple to configure text the way I want to and there are so many ways to modify it. Clip Studio Paint is the second best contender (makes sense since it used to be primarily a comic creation software) but, shocker, it doesn’t run on Linux either.

Every open source tool I tried, Gimp and Krita included, is so many miles behind in this department that I thought I had returned to the stone age when I tried using them for this purpose earlier this year. Krita didn’t even have a live preview of the text I was writing. It was completely unusable for my more advanced needs.

This is why I just tell people who use Photoshop and Adobe that want to switch to Linux to just accept dual booting. It’s realistically the only thing that won’t constantly lead to headaches with the software.

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The entire video disrespected the Japanese people and the families of the deceased in the efforts for clicks.

This is the understatement of the century.

He and the people he was with literally found a dead person who had committed suicide and filmed it all while giving whacky reactions.

Thousands of online celebrities are assholes, but I only know one person who took a video of a suicide victim and posted it online for the world to see, and that’s Logan Paul.

This is legit the opposite of my experience. I am a relatively tech savvy user, I like to fiddle with all the settings and an ugly UI doesn’t inherently deter me as long as the experience is good, so when I first installed jellyfin I was ready to have a clunky experience fighting the UI.

Despite that, I was legitimately surprised at how Jellyfin was far less confusing for me to use out of the box than plex ever was. I found Plex’s UI very confusing to navigate on my TV and my family did not like using it either. I remember especially hating all the extra categories and freemium content plex added that I wasn’t interested in viewing but couldn’t remove (or at least did not find a way to remove). In Jellyfin all of my content is just there and very easily categorized and there’s no superfluous elements in the UI, just my stuff that I want to watch.

I remember plex also gave me more trouble during installation than jellyfin did. I actually found jellyfin very pleasant and intuitive to setup. Plex sent me down a Google rabbit hole to diagnose why it wouldn’t boot at all.

It was genuinely such an awful experience as a first-time user that it made me wonder why anyone would use plex.

The issue is really that Kakao is not just a comic app.

They are basically the Meta/Facebook of South Korea, one of the most valuable companies in the whole country, and they are in quite literally every facet of South Korean life.

They do instant messaging (KakaoTalk), payments (KakaoPay), banking (KakaoBank), public transportation (Kakao T), games (Kakao Games) and probably way more I’m forgetting. If you’re in south Korea you cannot live without Kakao almost.

Webtoons are not a significant portion of their income, but they have so much disposable income and such a drive to go after pirates that they don’t care.

Their actual audience in South Korea is very anti piracy too and support these moves. It’s a very similar case in Japan, but not even the richest Japanese manga publishers are as filthy rich like Kakao, they mostly spend their resources fighting piracy within their borders and leave it at that.

Also the monetization model you’re describing is unfortunately the most profitable currently. They employ it because it works. Webtoons are also by far, and I mean by faaaar, the most consumed comic format. Majority of the public is now reading comics on their phones and Webtoons thrive there. So there’s a very big financial incentive to go after mobile apps because of it.

Unfortunately that’s also the primary reason Kotatsu was targeted and shutdown

Bundling the sources with the app has become very risky because one specific multi-billion dollar Korean company (Kakao) has openly made it their mission to hunt down these apps’ creators and nobody can stop them. They literally brag on Twitter about it and everything.

So the best way to avoid litigation and ensure longevity at the moment is to completely separate the app/reader from the actual sources of content.

But it’s not that inconvenient. Once you add the repository url you can see all the available extensions in-app and download the ones you want. They are also updated automatically so it’s not that involved after the initial setup.

All Mihon forks also have an update checker so you’ll pretty easily keep the main app updated as well.

Mihon or any of its forks:

• Komikku
• Yokai
• TachiyomiAZ
• TachiyomiSY
• TachiyomiJ2K

Note you will need to add the extensions manually but that’s pretty easy to do. This is to avoid DMCA issues like what happened a few months ago with Tachiyomi and now Kotatsu (same company that took down both FYI)

The reality is you and others are afraid of change. There is no windows-only program I can’t run.

Well I’m glad you represent everybody.

People who need to use software like the Adobe suite professionally? They should just abandon their whole career and not use Adobe. Because being unemployed will really show em.

Ah, that’s a shame. Seems like they cut corners, which isn’t uncommon with these things.

Regarding the harem elements, in the source material the girls do gush over him a lot as well, but he does not reciprocate at all, so I just ended up automatically filtering it out because it’s inconsequential, but I do get how some might find their eternal subservience off-putting, especially since with anime it’s harder to brush that aside VS words in a novel.

I just found the series interesting when looking at the broader main plot, which thankfully is the majority of the focus after a certain point. I do also remember the girls being a tad more annoying early on, but once the focus shifts more to politics and all the factions involved, the harem antics get dialed down a lot to make room for it.

The site you’re referring to is almost certainly Syosetsuka ni Narou, a free-to-use Japanese web novel platform, exactly like Wattpad and AO3 as you mentioned. Super common to have a very long title to grab reader attention there, because that’s literally the only pitch you have for new readers on the front page or search pages.

And yes I wanna say almost every modern light novel has its start there. Publishers scour that site for potential new work all the time. It’s not uncommon for you to be following a web novel there and then suddenly get an announcement about how it’s being picked up by a publisher/editor for serialization.

The title sometimes gets slightly changed but usually it remains as is, and that’s how it ends up on anime/manga.

Maybe a hot take, but having read the manga and novels, I would describe this as one of the lesser trashy series of this type. Its geopolitics, world history, and artifact/weapon systems are expanded way, way, waaaay beyond what is normal for trashy fantasy slop.

It also doesn’t even have romance, which is rather uncommon when you have an OP protagonist in a fantasy setting. The protagonist has zero interest in dating anyone despite the endless number of cute women around him who are desperate to pounce on him (it’s got plenty of great male side characters too btw, shout-out to my man Gold).His objectives and his focus remain consistent throughout: plan out his revenge to the most minute detail, expand his political influence to liberate humanity, and discover the truth of the world.

Obviously I’m not saying this is a 10/10 underrated masterpiece, I know this is still a revenge power fantasy at the end of the day, but damn does the lore and the development go above and beyond what you’d expect for something like it.

(spoilers if you want more details)

All this to say that I hope people give it a try. I have not watched the anime because the source material is so far ahead, but if it follows the source even remotely closely, it should be on par in terms of entertainment.

Very curious if this counts living with your parents. Because I know for many countries you technically have a home, but it’s because you haven’t left your parents’ house even after you turned 30 (very common reality in the Mediterranean area).

They now use LTS chips designed for IoT devices

This is no longer the case for the Fairphone 6. It uses a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, which is a regular SoC for mobile devices. I believe this is because Qualcomm finally extended support for these chips past 5 years.

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It was heavily criticized due to the severe drop in animation quality after the first episode. It’s like they spent 95% of the budget in episode 1, which got everybody hyped (and it is legitimately good), and then left the rest of the budget to pay a couple of overworked interns to haphazardly put together the rest of the animation.

The events of the story are all there, and the art style is the closest you can probably get to the original, but it does fail to capture a lot of the magic of the manga due to shoddy animation. I wouldn’t recommend it, personally.

If you want to enable the setting, it’s under

Settings > Profile > Advanced Settings > Mark this account as a cat

(wording/location may vary if you’re using a misskey fork but it should be under the profile settings somewhere)

This will give your icon cat ears in public timelines and any text you write will be converted to catspeak. Works better in Japanese, which is the language it was designed for, but in English words like “now” get converted to “meow” for example.

Best way I can describe misskey as a user of it is that it’s like mastodon but if they implemented every feature request possible. I mean it literally has a toggle to convert your text into cat speak for no other reason other than the dev felt like it. It even has its own markdown language to give your text crazy effects because who wouldn’t want an emoji amplified 4 times that spins and changes color?

It uses activitypub as well so it’s entirely interoperable with mastodon instances (although some functions like quote posts or the custom markdown language aren’t formatted as nicely when viewed from a mastodon instance)

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Plus all this stuff can be disabled in discord too, if you want to be that serious. There are per-role and per-channel settings that let you disable images, link embedding, external emojis, etc.

It gives you choice. I have no choice in Element, it’s always unfun all the time.