I watched Netflix's 3 Body Problem over two days. It was definitely competent enough to be watchable, but the more I think back on it the less I like it. I haven't read the books, so it's hard to separate some of the flaws in the adaptation from flaws in the source material. Since it was adapted by the Game of Thrones team, it's probably safe to assume it was mostly the former.
One of my main criticisms is that it seemed to introduce a lot of different ideas but only very shallowly, which I am going to assume is book -> TV lossiness, but when you do that this aggressively I feel like it makes the whole thing seem like a messy pile of absurdity. Another issue is that it seems like this world-ending threat can only be solved by a small handful of people who just happen to all know each other already, though (paradoxically) several of them basically do nothing productive until the very end, as obvious set-ups for a sequel. The most egregious issue that I can probably safely blame on the book is the whole Panama Canal thing, which seems like an indulgent excuse to use a "neat" sci-fi concept, but is so over the top and absurd that it could only exist in (bad) fiction.
OK, rant over I guess. If you've read the book(s) let me know that you think.
I recently started using #ElementX as my matrix client, which required me to set up a separate "syncv3" service alongside synapse on my homeserver. Works great.
It's my understanding that Element X is a re-write that will eventually replace mainline "Element" in the app stores. What happens then to Element users who aren't using a sliding-sync-enabled homserver? Does it just break? Is sliding-sync going to be folded into Synapse/Dendrite? If so will syncv3 be deprecated?
Everybody is a-wonderin' what and where
They all came from
Everybody is a-worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go
When the whole thing's done
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me
Think I'll just let the mystery be
Due to a recent password misadventure I briefly switched pods and noticed that a lot of user's profile pics (specifically) are different from the other pod's view. In some cases users who appear to have no profile pic set on my original pod do have one visible elsewhere. This leads me to believe that there's some kind of issue on my end. Is there a cache I can purge or something like that to have profile pics re-imported from their originating pods?