Watch the entire season of 3 Body Problem

Once Upon a Time definitely went on too long.

For Fedora, replace the current installer (Anaconda) with the openSUSE Tumbleweed installer.

One of the aspects I love about the openSUSE TW installer is the ability to remove groups of packages for the initial install. This is particularly useful if you never use certain programs or intend to replace them with the Flatpak version.

“Blank Space” by Taylor Swift

Got a long list of ex-lovers

“Lonely Starbucks lovers”

I watched the first three episodes of the recently released Percy Jackson series.

The book series was a big part of my childhood, and I was mildly excited for the TV series (read: hoped that it was better than the film series).

I’m still debating if I should finish the TV series. I found a particular detail in the third episode that convinced me that I am not the show’s target audience:

The Thirteenth Floor (1999) depicts a better story about simulated reality than The Matrix (1999) does.

making analysis or historical commentary on film

I’ve been really enjoying the podcast Four Play on the Last Free Nation Culture channel: https://piped.video/@LastFreeNationCulture https://www.youtube.com/@LastFreeNationCulture

have elements of disaster which is good enough here

Going by this criterion, my favorite disaster movie is Con Air (1997)

Technically not a time travel show, but it is my favorite show of time travel: “White Tulip” (Fringe S02 E17)

Season 4 of The Boys

Release of KDE Plasma 6

Inception (2010)

I use Stremio + Torrentio and the torrents that are cached show up but can’t play anything at the moment.

I am also encountering this; “Playback error, please try again” is the error message that Stremio presents.

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams (joint UK and US production, premiered first on Channel 4)

great ones that never took off in the states

This TV series fits this description to a T because I reckon that most people, when thinking of a sci-fi TV anthology series, would bring to mind Black Mirror.

I watched Electric Dreams shortly after finishing the latest season of Black Mirror; I found the former more enjoyable and poignant than the latter.

I want an android style permissions menu

Same. In addition to the prompt-based permissions that @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee brings up, I’d like to see more granular control of permissions. For example, a flatpak app’s access to webcams, controllers, etc. are all controlled through just one permission: --device=all (aka “Device Access” in KDE’s Flatpak Permission Settings).

Tenet hurt my soul

As someone who watched Primer and Tenet back-to-back (both first-time viewings), I am amazed that a film produced on an astronomically higher budget than the other could be twice as confusing, twice as long (!), and so much more exhausting because of the story’s reliance on world-ending stakes.

I completely agree with the last sentiment you shared! I think of Cloud Atlas as a flawed gem and am glad to have watched it at least once.

When I feel very bored, I go to the Wikipedia page of a movie that I do not intend to watch anytime soon and just read the entire plot write-up, as well as the “Critical Response” subsection.

Cloud Atlas (2012)

I didn’t think the plot of the film was too confusing, but trying to keep track of which cast member played which character in each respective time period while watching the film was challenging.

I didn’t grasp the implications of the final scene with Aaron and the workers until I checked the plot write-up on Wikipedia.

Hopefully, this release also includes this fix for forced Vsync for fullscreen games under KDE Wayland.