The manga publishing industry in the United States has been dogged by censorship issues for a long time, with even major franchises like Dragon Ball not immune to it. Speaking on the Anime Business Podcast, Dallas Middaugh, the former director of Sales and Marketing at Viz Media, as well as former Director of Sales and…
Your portable power bank should not be weighing down your backpack, satchel, or purse. If you have to think twice before bringing it along, that’s a clear sign that you need an upgrade. Power bank technology has come too far to be lugging around something chunky or laden with wires. INIU’s new SnapGo Air portable…
Atlus’ upcoming Persona 4 Revival might make some changes to previous releases of the classic RPG after all. The remake of the original 2008 title Persona 4 at first seemed to be a pretty faithful recreation of the beloved 2012 Golden release of the game. Slowly, small changes have appeared as Atlus releases new details,…
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This week’s trip into the hall-of-mirrors of modern youth culture features a new piece of post-meaning slang, another poisonous dispatch from the incel parts of the internet, a German earworm going viral, and the return of tanning without worry or necessary fear. What does “TLPUR” mean? This mysterious acronym #tlpur started showing up recently in…
Tesco is also dealing with migration challenges related to data security because its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with the Veeam and Zerto products it uses. “Manifestly unfair and excessive” price hike Tesco initially requested at least 100 million pounds (about $133.6 million) in damages each from Broadcom, VMware, and reseller Computacenter, plus interest….
Despite what some people might think, computers run on electricity and not magic fairy dust. Electricity costs money, and generating it usually has some sort of environmental cost too. In short, most people would agree that it’s better not to waste more power than you actually need. But who decides? More power on a modern…
Summary I run Plex and Jellyfin side-by-side, using whichever makes sense at the moment. Plex is the easy pick for sharing and remote access; Jellyfin is my instant, tweakable local app. Running both gives me redundancy and a sandbox; Jellyfin’s matured enough to be my primary choice. The self-hosted media community loves to treat Plex…
Last year, we featured a lengthy interview with tech journalist/science fiction author Cory Doctorow about his book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It. The prolific Doctorow is back with a provocative new book that serves as a follow-up of sorts, focusing on AI and related issues: The Reverse Centaur’s…
