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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • This is called localization.

    Information or brevity will always be lost in translation (and communication in general), so the translator needs to pick what information to convey and how to convey it. Sometimes it can be difficult to find a satisfactory localized translation, like translating a pun. Or if the translation has been localizing the Japanese name-honorifics system as whatever the characters in an English speaking country would call each other, but then there is a long dialogue in the show discussing how they are addressing each other; that dialogue can throw a wrench in the translation.

    For Love is War, the source joke word was probably ちんちん (chinchin) which is both a childish way to say “penis” (like “poopoo” is a childish way to say 💩, or like “peepee”) and a dog trick where the dog sits and begs (it might also have additional meanings). The translator probably had to think about how to make a similar gag with the existing visuals.


  • Hmm, I can’t think of an anime that matches the trailer. That is to say, an anime that is an action-horror demon-world adventure with modern military weapons.

    Hole in the ground with horror monsters makes me think of Made in Abyss.

    There’s a gluttony of anime with monsters in dungeons, like DanMachi, Arifureta, and Solo Leveling.

    There’s Chained Soldier, which technically takes place in a hell-ish place with monsters that is connected to regular earth. And there’s some military element to it.

    There’s a gate to another world and modern military in Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There!, but no monsters that I recall.

    Just throwing some other out there: Hellsing Ultimate, Seraph of the End, WorldEnd, Dimension W, .

    When I hear arctic demon, I can’t help but think about The Thing, which isn’t anime.

    You can try crossposting to Anime@ani.social, which is more active. Or post in their next weekly discussion thread.


  • I’d think so. 3k is so many pixels to compute and send 60 times a second.

    But this video says the effect on battery life in their test was like 6%, going from 4k to 800x600. I can imagine that some screens are better at saving power when running at lower resolutions… but what screen manufacturer would optimize energy consumption for anything but maximum resolution? 🤔 I guess the computation of the pixels isn’t much compared to the expense of having those physical dots. But maybe if your web browser was ray-traced? … ?!

    Also, if you take a 2880x1800 screen and divide by 2 (to avoid fractional scaling), you get 1440x900 (this is not 1440p), which is a little closer to 720p than 1080p.


  • I haven’t made a bridge to a VM before today, or made a bridge with Network Manager. That being said, I was able to persuade Network Manger to get a bridge working, and there are a few things I can note:

    • When you setup the bridge, the host network interface should become a slave to the bridge. This means that the physical network interface should not have an IP Address, and your bridge should now be where you configure the host’s IP address.

      • After you start the VM, you should be able to run ip link | grep 'master br0' on the host, and it should display 2 interfaces which are slaves to br0. One for the physical ethernet interface, one for the VM (vnet). And it should only list your ethernet interface when the VM is off.
    • The RedHat tutorial does not show the bridge and the host having different IP addresses, the RedHat tutorial shows the bridge and the guest having different IP addresses. Actually, no, the RedHat tutorial shows the libvirt NAT bridge, not even the bridge that the tutorial describes creating… If you set the IP address of virbr0, I don’t know what happens.

    • If your VM’s network adapter is connected to the host’s bridge, then you should be able to log into your VM and set a static IP address.

    I had a lot of problems getting Network Manager to actually use my ethernet interface as a slave for the bridge. Here’s what worked for me, though:

    nmcli con show
    nmcli con down 'Wired Connection 1'
    nmcli con modify 'Wired Connection 1' connection.autoconnect no
    nmcli con add type bridge con-name br0 ifname br0
    nmcli connection add type bridge-slave ifname enp7s0 master br0
    nmcli con modify br0 connection.autoconnect yes
    nmcli con modify bridge-slave-enp7s0 connection.autoconnect yes
    nmcli con modify br0 ipv4.method manual ipv4.addresses 172.16.0.231/24 bridge.stp no
    sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
    nmcli con show
    ip addr
    
    • Instead of enp7s0, you’d use enp1s0 I guess.
    • Above, I manually set my bridge IP address to a static address because my ethernet interface is wired directly to another computer, so no DHCP for me. If you have DHCP on your ethernet network, you probably don’t need to set “ipv4.method” or “ipv4.addresses”.
    • I set “bridge.stp” to “no” because my network doesn’t have any redundant paths, and the stp process seems to take like 25 seconds before I can use the bridge network.

    After that, I can go into “Virtual Machine Manger”, set my VM’s NIC’s Network Source to “Bridge device…”, Device name to"br0", boot my VM, login to my VM, configure my VM’s ip address. And then I can connect to the VM’s IP address from the physical ethernet network.




  • It was nice to get an overview of all the airing anime.

    I can confirm that Jujutsu Kaisen and Mushoku Tensei are bangers.

    I just watched the first 3 episodes of Reign of the Seven Spellblades because he was enthusiastic about it, but I didn’t find it particularly good. I’d definitely place it lower than Bungo Stray Dogs. I’ll continue watching it for now.

    I want to give Undead Murder Farce a watch, but I have a feeling it’ll be better to binge it once the season has finished.

    I wasn’t even aware of Zom 100 or Link Click, some more to watch in the future.

    I haven’t watched Dark Gathering. I’m skeptical, but I’m willing to give it try.

    I can confirm My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even At Level 1 is trash and mildly enjoyable. Level 1 Demon Lord and One Room Hero sounds like it’s worth trying out.

    As for The Duke of Death and His Maid, I didn’t find the first season interesting enough for me to watch the second. I didn’t even think the CGI looked that bad, I just never felt particularly interested in the contents. The OP song for season 1 was great, though.

    Masamune-kun’s Revenge R is a show I thought I’d watch, but then I saw that I had actually rated the first season a score of 6 on MyAnimeList (which is a barely-not-dropped score for me). So, I decided to hold off. I’ll watch it if it has favorable reviews when it finishes.