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The Humble Bundle has a bunch of BSG (classic and new) comics on sale ($15 for the bunch).
Looks interesting: i've grown kind of fond of e-comics and manga's. About the only thing i can do while mobile, (like going to Disney World) cause i ain't got no phone.
Would have loved one of the phones Ubuntu was trying to crowd fund, but it was like $600-800+, if memory serves (and it NEVER DOES, Batman), but yeah.... money.
Still saving for that computer upgrade, but Disney set me back a bit, lol.
But worth it.
Last years vacation was a staycation. Really sucked. Didn't do anything. Disney World i enjoyed even though the humidity put it up over 109 degrees.
Helllllllla enjoyed EVERY second, pretty much.
Disney really can do a good job, despite the tracky-ness of it all. You just gotta want it bad enough: and i hella needed it.
Always nice to see your kids face light up like it did when Goofy entered the room.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday August 23 2017, @08:13PM (1 child)
I had a blast when I went to Disney (~35-ish at the time).
(Score: 1) by technoid_ on Thursday August 24 2017, @06:43PM
Went twice as a kid and had a great time.
Now that I am an adult and look back, it pains me to think of all of the extra hours my dad had to put in so we could go.
Wonder if we had spent that time together instead, would that have been better? Stretching out the good times instead of packing it into a week. Would we have actually spent the time together or would he have just not been at work.
While my father and I have a good relationship now (not like I have another dad to compare it to), I have some mixed feeling about how close we were when I was a kid. Dad worked a lot and had some crazy shifts (Three nine slide), so I would have liked him to have been around and awake more. The other side of it is, how many things did I have because dad was willing to work long hours and weird shifts?
Perspective changes now that my wife sometimes complains that I am working too much.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday August 23 2017, @08:24PM
What comics and manga have you grown fond of?
Ubuntu Edge [wikipedia.org] was killed by the stupid high fundraising goal. A disgrace. Yeah, we get it, making hardware is expensive and full of risks. But China already produced almost every smartphone back then, from iPhone to Galaxy Note, and they are all pretty much rectangles with commodity hardware packed in.
4 GB of RAM was a lot for a smartphone back when it was announced. Now there are smartphones with 8 GB of RAM [bestsmartphonesunder.com]. There are smartphone docks [alphr.com] these days, and someone out there is probably running a Linux desktop off of a smartphone using a dock, even if there is some difficulty in getting that to work (let's assume that the Ubuntu Edge would have worked flawlessly out of the box).
But the Ubuntu Touch OS was discontinued [wikipedia.org] this year (at least by Canonical). I don't know if "UBports" can carry the torch and make it work well on modern phones.
Now that's a ramble.
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