I watched the first episode of The Acolyte. I’m not sure that this is true #StarWars. They used safety devices like clips and harnesses! What’s next, railings on catwalks that span weirdly common abysses?
This <$100 thing might be the most performant machine I own. 😆
Also, I've been experimenting a bit with #NomadBSD lately. It's not quite as polished as a Linux distro, but it's mighty nice! (Persistent #FreeBSD-based boot USB image, can do UFS or ZFS and optionally encrypt)
I picked falcon because it was old and a little beat up, but also very functional. rogueone because it was a bit of a rebellious device (a $200 ARM linux laptop!), and Excelsior was especially poignant because of an elegant, but unstable machine.
Somehow in the past week or so I've fallen back in love with the aesthetics and vibe of the Star Wars prequels (especially "Attack of the Clones") as well as the Old Republic games. Nothing else quite looks like them. I want to live in that world...
Well...maybe not an exact replica. I might want to change out the hues to be red-dominated...but I wouldn't need to look too far for inspiration. Another politician from the same planet indulged in this most Sith-like of color schemes. 😉
I think it might be because I went to the villa last April and it's only now truly sinking in. Yes, where Padmé got married is a real place: Villa del Balbianello. And having seen it in person I'm not sure if I could abide being married anywhere else than at that same spot.
It seems a person can get married there. It's expensive for a wedding venue, but since my dream wedding doesn't involve a crowd, that helps to keep costs down, so splurging on the venue might be more financially attainable than I'd expect.
> Filoni’s [#StarWars universe is one] that somehow shrinks with each successive entry. Rather than expanding the galaxy, it just gets more microscopic and interconnected with each episode. […]
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> A leap 1,000 years into the future […] is a creative risk […] that would at least feel lively and exciting. For all its promise, the High Republic is still, like all the rest of Star Wars over the last several years, pushing toward a future we already know by heart.