Hi! I'm Peter, and you're on my homepage. Yes, it's an old phrase, but this place is my home on the internet, so it's rather accurate. I gave up on social media, and retreated to a version of the internet before MySpace, and I'm trying to encourage people to do the same.
Sometimes I tinker with linux, embedded, and internet things, then write my findings under the IT section. Travelling & braindump content are under journal, photos at photo, while notes contain replies and miscellaneous entries.
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There were so many people staring into their phone, or taking selfies - except them. This young couple took a photo of the place, and not a selfie.
Season 1 of Stranger Things became a world-wide phenomenon. It kicked off a whole wave of music - neon/retrowave - and made everything dripping with 80s nostalgia.
Season 2 still more or less worked, but for my taste, it was way too X-Men, especially with the phoenix-like ending. Then Season 3 happened. It that barely works and it's solely for US nostalgia.
The absolute ingenuity of Season 1, in my opinion, that it was never really clear if the Demogorgon was Eleven's subconsciousness or not; a manifestation of her powers and fears.
Back in the early 90s there was another series which worked across the whole world. It had:
Sounds familiar? Yes, I'm talking about the X-Files.
Stranger Things Season 1 followed a very similar playbook. Shady government experimenting on children; a weird, mysterious world; a single, quite well done monster; investigation from multiple angles from multiple groups of people with different style to solving their own corner of the same mystery. Plus 80s. The X-Files was early 90s, so the 80s vibe hadn't faded completely.
In contrast, Season 2 and 3 of Stranger Things:
If there will be a Season 4, and if anyone wants it to be a success, they'd really need to go back to the rulebook of Season 1.
For many years I used my former ThinkPads as home servers - built in battery, 3G modem, dead silent, sort of too good to be true as a server. Unfortunately my storage needs started to outgrow the options, plus my RAID0 ZFS decided to die within 2 days of the first alert.
Continue »There's a South American school growing around the world teaching ancient Chinese knowledge - or, according to the lovely online world, so they claim. I've now been learning it for while now, so here are my personal conclusions.
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