The Hobbit - (1937 book), by J.R.R. Tolkien cover

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An unlikely little hero is swept into an travel-adventure through dangerous lands to recapture the lost treasures of a fallen Dwarvish kingdom.

Considered a classic fantasy book, it’s definitely a children’s book from it’s narrative tone. It’s slow and awkward in a lot of places, and takes too long to pick up into anything interesting for me. Perhaps it’s because I had read it long ago, and perhaps it’s because of the staggering quality of its associated movies, but I didn’t like it.

Definitely not recommended as an entry into fantasy fiction, in spite of its popularity. Veterans of the genre may as well read this just to say they have.



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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078346/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/superman-movie

An alien grows up with super powers.

Bunches of this movie make no sense. It’s cute and dated, but ultimately not great because of moments of terrible writing.



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Soon to be renamed System Informer

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https://github.com/winsiderss/systeminformer
https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/

A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.



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https://github.com/gottcode/focuswriter
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

A beautified text editor with the widgets around the edges removed (“distraction-free”).

I started using it because I couldn’t trivially get Geany spell checking working. Once I did get it working I stopped.

Although I’ve used this on Linux a bit, it merely idles in my Windows kit.



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