They have this, it’s sliders
ragebutt
joined 7 months ago
Being a journalist is about taking huge risks to expose things like corrupt governments. Man got the golden ticket and threw it away once he verified it was real
The bigger bombshell from the actual Atlantic article imo is that the administration is doing all of its communication via signal with messages set to auto delete after a week. No one expected transparency but this absolutely confirmed it
And this journalist had the golden key but he removed himself from the group after he was able to verify it was real. wuss
thank god you circled it, I wasn’t sure what was being pointed at
I clicked that link
The one thing that sales do benefit is the potential for future localization and to be fair that does matter if you can’t read the raws
This is why niche titles are shifting. People complain about companies like viz doing less with niche shonen and yuri and stuff, instead translating tons of BL. But you know who buys tons of physicals? BL peeps. And when the expected sales are 3-5k units, if that, might as well go for the ones that drop cash
That said it’s still crap that viz doesn’t localize smaller titles. They can do digital only releases. They have a one time fixed cost of the licensing and localization then just bandwidth, which is not much for digital books, and still make a bit of profit. But their mission isn’t to bring media to people, it’s to make fat stacks
Full disclosure: I don’t have a dog in this fight really bc i can read Japanese and just get raws in Japanese. I typically pirate everything and I do for big titles like oshi no ko (which had a weak ass ending) and shit but for small titles I do buy them to support the creators. Buying from Japanese sites gives the artist (typically) an 8-10% cut and with the weak yen digital titles are real affordable
Oh right duh. Disregard what I said, obviously. Been ages since I’ve used a setup that’s not one big pool
The best way to support the actual artists is to buy Japanese raws. The compensation for English releases varies but since so many of them sell in such small numbers many of the authors don’t get any payment at all for the book sold and only get the initial licensing fee for the series.
Depends on the series, obviously. A huge series that moves tons of books, like one piece? Different story. But the latest niche release that will sell maybe 4k copies at most? Nahhh
Piracy is justified, viz/kodansha/etc are pieces of shit. unless you specifically want to support the localization teams I guess, but they also aren’t getting royalties. It’s a company of suits who “buy” creative works and earn money off them in perpetuity.
As for recommendations: you and I are polar opposites, the summer hikaru died, after the rain
Do you have sonarr set to copy or hard link on import
Copy will fuck over your ability to seed, hard link will result in the files staying on your torrenting drive
By far the bigger issue, although supplanting melatonin has a mixed evidence base to begin with
Just keep in mind thing forward. Like at a minimum get cat6. The price difference between it and cat5 is not that much and it essentially means you can wire your house for 10 gigabit, even if you’re not putting the hardware behind for that now. Unless you have a run longer than 180 feet, which maybe if you do weird runs like I did or your house is gigantic
Then think of what you want down the line, even if you don’t have hardware now. I did my camera poe drops even though I didn’t have all my cameras, as an example. Exterior cameras, interior, doorbell, etc. smart home stuff in general if you use it too. I ended up doing so many drops. Planning ahead meant I could fish bundles of cables when possible. Like in my living room I have a few Ethernet devices so I fished 5 cables at once
Oh also get a cheap label maker, will make your life so much easier. Label everything. Label both ends. Label the jack, label the cable, label the front, label the back. You can get cartridges for label makers that are heat shrink instead of labels and will print directly on the heat shrink. This is by far the most helpful part
And just use t568b and be consistent. For some reason I did 568a on a few jacks early on and it was a pain figuring that out. A cheap cable/jack tester is like $4-9 on aliexpress and will make life easier
Scummy misdirection
It’s technically true and they say it to calm users but what they’re not communicating is that the buyer does not have to guarantee the same protections
They’re “important considerations” but they have no leverage whatsoever. They’ve mismanaged the fuck out of this company and have been desperate for buyers. Now they are in a position of potentially selling to the highest bidder
Coincidentally my parents used their service. I’m logging into their accounts to delete things. Last week when I logged in (assuming this was coming) to request copies of their records the site was snappy and responsive. Today when I log in to actually request deletion of their sample it is abysmally slow. I’m sure it’s getting hammered but I’m also sure they will put up whatever roadblocks they can as they need those samples preserved, that is their value