It Follows is definitely one of the best horror movies regarding suspense and general feeling of ... gloom?! Eireness?! Futility?! Darkness?! Whatever it is, I love it!
And the (potentially) underlying message is powerful.
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A Knippix Kombi-Zange. Well played! Good tools are worth every cent.
(FYI: this is divorcées attempting to date)
Went on my 1st date after divorce. Sat down together at a café. After greeting each other, she immediately asks "So when do you intend to move to my town?". I reply by saying "Whoa! Take it slow. Let's get to know each other first!" and feeling that she can't be serious about her question.
She, however, explodes in my face that she has a life and a kid in that other town and no time to waste. I managed to reply that I have a life and kids in this current town we're in, too, before she jumps up and storms away cursing.
Not the most conducive first post-marital dating experience.
Definitely "Abzû" and "Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice". One is a beautiful piece of art that touches me every time I replay it and the other finally gave me a wonderful example to show to friends & family of how noisy it is in my head sometimes.
+1 on this. Hiker+Trail-Runner here. So I sometimes encounter cows on high mountain passes where taking a detour can mean hours of delay. But after getting kicked like that once, I am very careful around herds, esp. when they have young ones / horns (as they often do grassing on mountains) / bulls in the mix.
Now I'm left wondering what the children of a water system look like.
In no particular order:
- Finally do those after-class reading + tutoring sessions for kids in my daughter's school.
- Sign up for shifts on the "Good-Night-Bus" in my local town that looks after homeless people during night-time.
- Play hand-pan, guitar & other random instruments at local relaxation spots to add to the overall atmosphere of "the good life"
- regularly offer my handymen skills to my neighborhood via local web-platform and also contribute to "Repair-Cafés" as a helping hand
- Find a local community-garden project to help out at so that the city stays 0.1% greener than without me
- Offer my yet-currently-relevant professional skills (Frontend / WebPerf / CDNs / DevOps) to a NGO that couldn't usually afford my wages (again: preferably something relevant to my region to feel a sense of impact)
- Keep maintaining my OpenSource repositories and publish new ideas ASAP to prevent Software Patents
Yes! No.1 reason: microphone quality! I have to attend many calls every day and no Bluetooth headset (BT v.4 > 5.3, SPS, AAC, LDAC) has even come close to the simple quality of a ~25,-€ wired headset.
Long-term custom ROM user here.
Regarding security: as always, it depends on your threat model. If you fear a government actor getting access to your phone, a locked bootloader won't slow them down.
Regarding privacy: I've had both VPN logs and external Wireshark running against traffic going in&out of my custom ROM phones & sometimes I still do it for fun. If you know what you're getting into (e.g. LoS still using some Google services) then a Custom ROM usually holds far fewer surprises than some questionable OEM ROM (and which is terrifyingly scarce regarding changelogs while still having OTA update power).
tl;dr: stick with well-known ROMs & you get ... not the best of both worlds ... but a "good enough" of both worlds.
As a parent, EVERY kid feels like your kid. This made me cry.
Many other good ones have already been mentioned, so I won't repeat those titles. But "Suspiria" (2018 edition) definitely deserves a mention. The ending is just ... well, clearly somebody amongst the original writers had some issues regarding reproductive systems ... but the other 98% of the movie feature brilliant suspense & eiriness at all times. And Tilda Swinton is simply to-die-for in it. ;)