Absolutely agree on all points. We’ve entered the idiocracy era.

Thank you. I’m trying to understand how it works :)

Thank you! Looking into it. To be honest I still don’t quite understand the idea behind it – I’m reading here and there to try to understand better.

Thank you for this suggestion. It looks good, but I see that its last update was 6 years ago. Sadly all or most extensions with this kind of functionality seem to have been abandoned…

Smart monitors are for dumb people.

But doesn’t protect you against ChatControl.

They designed it this way indeed. And on top of that, politicians then (just like today) were not capable nor competent to think enough ahead.

I didn’t know about this! The names really do sound like some in Guyver – “Aptom” for example!

Seconding this. I use Foliate for epub, and Okular for the rest.

What?!.. Wait, I didn’t know about that action movie! 🤯

Oh yeah I remember that! 😂 Not a fan-service transformation at all…

I never played any, didn’t know they used this too. Will check some out. Any suggestions?

Thank you all for these! Interesting that the anime used this graphic device but the manga didn’t. It fits with what some are saying, that this device became popular thanks to computer graphics.

I completely missed the connection with computer games (I’m not a gamer), thank you! Probably computer graphics pushed the device to both games and anime.

Indeed, they look good and are easy to make with computer graphics; I hadn’t thought about that!

Yeah circles and other 2D patterns – or simply plain writing – do have very ancient origins. I think all cultures in their early stage attributed a magic character to drawing and writing, which are inherently 2D activities. This is also reflected in other anime/fantasy common themes, like the item that comes to life because something has been written on it (golem), or the creature that gets increased powers because someone gives it a name…

Thank you for the link! I had not thought about the computer-graphics factor, and that makes absolute sense for the increase in popularity of this graphic device.

Thank you for the “references”! I don’t think I even saw those.

Indeed the idea is old, and inherent in most early cultures in relation to drawing and writing, which were seen as “magical”. And this is reflected more generally in anime, for example in the very common theme of “getting increased powers upon receiving a name”.

What I was wondering was why the sudden increase, because today it seems that all fantasy anime use this device. I had not thought about the computer-graphics factor, and that makes a lot of sense!

Great geeky post 🚀

The episode highlights a growing challenge for fascist, antidemocratic governments.

Yes, all three. Also tried adding these options in a separate file in logind.conf.d/. Some searches on StackExchange show that this worked for some, indeed.

Thank you. In my case, unfortunately, changing the HandleLidSwitch* options didn’t work. Luckily changing udev settings did the job!