Notices by Stefan Ihringer (compfu@mograph.social)

@libreoffice Hi, maybe it has something to do with theming support, but on MacOS I can’t set a fully bright UI style. While the icons and so on are light the background around the page stays dark gray. Can’t do a screenshot right now….

@seanbala I have seen Earthsea because it was on Netflix, but to be honest I don't remember a single thing about it except that the thumbnail had a big dragon on it. Are the books it's based on a manga series or are they actual novels?

What’s the worst #Ghibli movie and why is it „The boy and the heron“?

@glynmoody Reading the book „A city on Mars“ right now and it argues that all these fancy CGI pictures of Mars bases are ridiculous: Due to the radiation there they would have to be underground. Some of these images show solar panels smaller than people have on their balconies but on Mars there’s just 30% of solar energy due to the distance. And the list goes on.

@MattMerk @LillyHerself Saw this on a German satire site similar to what the onion is in the US. I‘m assuming they made did.

https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/12/musk-sprung.html

@glynmoody Or the UK could get their energy from the EU‘s grid (while Morocco feeds it into the EU on the southern end)? Brexit can’t be the obstacle, can it?

@libreoffice The now abandoned #NeoOffice fork was my go-to office suite on MacOS even though I‘ve installed Libreoffice on any Windows PC I got my hands on 😀 Is there any way or plans to make LibreOffice feel more native on MacS? Is the work that NeoOffice did lost to closed source or could it be salvaged?

@seanbala Hey Sean, thanks for your thoughts. I've watched the dubbed version (German in my case). I'll try the Japanese version with subtitles!

I just re-watched "Howl's Moving Castle" because I had forgotten what exactly it was about. I nodded off towards the end, and I'm sure that in a few months I will once again be unable to recount the exact plot.

But it looks so gorgeous. I love the depiction of early 20th century European cities. The "airplanes" are a nod to Nausicaä or Laputa but are animated much more fluently. The quality holds up all the way to the end. But the plot just feels so obtuse to me.

#Ghibli #Miyazaki

Did Howl make a deal with Calcifer? It feels like a bad one for both. Or was Calcifer just happy he didn't die in a lake like other shooting stars? What did Howl get out of the deal? Magical powers or additional powers?

We never learn the reason for the war but at the end it turns out that the scarecrow is the other nation's prince? Then there's the overused "kiss of true love" trope - but not between the main characters...

I wish I liked the movie more. But it confuses me too much.

The seven space samurai are fighting the space Nazis in spaaaaaace! #RebelMoon

It's worth watching for the super real android in the first act. If it was full CG then... wow! But even if it was a practical suit and they replaced the actor's neck with CG bolts and pistons it looks amazing (the robot from Lost In Space was done that way).

Story-wise it goes downhill from there. It's a mix of 300, Dune, Warhammer... an All-You-Can-Eat buffet of visuals and characters.