I'm a hazardous materials technician for a university. I enjoy teaching (when I have the chance), reading, role playing games #ttrpg, listening to music, and drinking copious amounts of coffee. Married to a wonderful woman, proud pet parent (one dog, two cats). #ADHD Try my best to be an ally.
Consider using various browsers for different purposes, EFF’s Daly Barnett told the @WSJ. “Choosing a different browser based on the level of privacy one needs for a specific activity will do wonders for the overall risk their digital footprint carries.” https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/internet-browsing-privacy-99ee0be8
Okay, its a terrible picture and its not ironed cause its way too hot to iron. The pattern is straight, fabric is just bundled up under it.
#DeathByCrossStitch by #LongDogSamplers. Stitched on white 16ct aida fabric, using approx 370 metres of black DMC thread, 6 needles used. Final stitched area is - 55cm wide and 69cm high.
This was a labour of love, a challenge, a reward to myself, part of my #MentalHealth journey.
I did a survey to check how many of you have used one of my browsers, Opera or Vivaldi, with Vivaldi being my current browser company and Opera being my old one.
A lot of you shared your story and that is much appreciated.
1061 did the survey.
61% had used both Opera and Vivaldi.
15% had used Opera
12% had used Vivaldi
11% had never used either.
Thank you all for joining in. I hope those of you that are not using Vivaldi, will give it a try.
It's so weird seeing people pleased to see Charles Xavier back saying his immortal line.
In the comics, just as Magneto has been on the side of the angels for the last twenty plus years, ol' chuck X has been a moderately unrepentant asshole, soundly shunned by his one-time "Son", Scott Summers and even given lessons in morality by Emma Frost, the White Queen! And lately he figured he could save Mutantkind from eternal dominion by shooting child Moira McTaggert in her past. He was prevented from doing so (thank you, Rachel Summers) but only after he pulled the trigger.
The Onslaught storyline in the early 90s was among the first to really take the shine off his character, Onslaught's revelations re: Xavier's secret 'love' of his underage student, Jean Grey, serving to shatter trust and cast him in a much darker light. Subsequent stories, such as revelations he knew all along Scott had another brother, simply pushed him further away from his original portrayal os a moral guiding light for the X-Men, undoubtedly leading to their wholesale departure from him in the Utopia era, Cyclops' ascendance as the mutant driving force ("Cyclops Was Right") and Magneto's welcome into the fold as a more or less permanent state of affairs. There was a fair amount of revisitiation of earlier decisions too; looking at how he talks a very noble game but in practice he oversteps moral boundaries almost as a matter of course, wiping the minds of entire towns to protect the X-Men's identities, leaving people to believe him dead (as he just did in the cartoon...!) and more besides.
He's also a fairly crappy father to his son, David a.k.a Legion. I have one of those so it's less easy to forgive him that. Even in the Krakoan era (Krakoa is for ALL Mutants) where the likes of Apocalypse and Mr Sinister were made members of the governing council, he mistook David's peaceful reconciliatory overtures as David seeking revenge, and -get this- struck back first. Even when he's Winning at Life he's still a jerk (Thank you for that immortal insult, Kitty Pride).
And going purely by the cartoon let's not gloss over his arrogant presumption in calling for "his" X-Men when his Will handed them wholesale to Magneto, and he's subjected them all to the pain and grief of his loss for MONTHS.
I think the decline of the GURPS toolkit book is tied to RPGs drifting away from fiction and back towards tabletop games.
Someone raised on boardgames and 5e isn't going to respond well to the idea that a book (that looks like shit) for a game they don't play is going to be mire useful and inspiring than a branded plug-and-play supplement.
@zozo@deinol@Taskerland It felt like Steve Jackson just decided it wasn't a priority and worked on other games.
For a period when I thought about getting into 4e GURPS, the books were really hard to get and way too expensive.
They also never did a good job of providing examples of play in the books, so it was largely up to players to do it ALL themselves.
GURPS was never a particularly fun ready, but it really didn't help that 4e was written with all the charm and enjoyment of a physics textbook. And the art was dull too.
At least 3e had Dan Smith's whimsical art that made it feel like you COULD really do anything you wanted with the game. 4e felt plain and uninspired.
@deinol@Taskerland@zozo If I remember correctly, they were promising to put out like a big book a month but they couldn't keep up with the goal they had set for themselves. Eventually it was smaller digital releases before they started picking up more here recently.
@deinol@Taskerland@zozo I wish they would provide some more guidance on running GURPS or rewrite the book to make it friendlier and easier for new folks to use. It's like Linux; you have to really want to get into it or be forced to use it to get into it. And it's hard to convince others to give it a fair shot.
I have another one for #TuneTuesday and #SameTitleDifferentSong. This one often comes to mind for me, too. The third one is missing the 'ing' but I'm still counting it, especially since Dave played for Tom and they were friends. I love the SHIT outta all THREE of these songs.
Hey @Vivaldi, why is it that when I click on an email in your mail program and hit the delete button on my keyboard, nothing happens. It only works when I highlight the email in the list on the left side of the screen, but every other email program I've ever used allows me to delete it from either location?
@epp@Vivaldi If I click on the email from the list of available emails, yes, this works.
What I also want to see is if I click on the panel where the text of the email is and be able to hit the delete button in order to get rid of the message. I like to click on the email itself to be able to use the arrow keys to scroll up and down the message with the keyboard.
As it is now, I have to click on the message to use the keyboard arrows but I have to click back on the list of all of the emails to delete it with the keyboard. I don't want to have to go between keyboard and mouse when I get that functionality in Outlook, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, and most every other email program I've ever used.
@Vivaldi Now that I've revived a three year old post that I'm the second person to show interest in after the original poster, I feel like I'm being attacked for showing interest.
This is yet another example of why I find using your forums to be of little to no help to me.
@Vivaldi I was hoping for acknowledgement of the other poster being out of line or a mod asking for more civility or even a "sorry that happened". You've got another forum user harassing folks for using your system for supporting requests.
Yesterday, at home, I was able to use #Vivaldi 's built-in adblocker fine on Youtube. Come in to the office today, and I had to shut it off because videos are inaccessible. #UBlockOrigin and #PrivacyBadger by #EFF work just fine though.
I'd love to not have to use other extensions, but looks like we're not quite there at the moment.
@Vivaldi I use the same blocker lists on both computers. Now, my work machine has Windows 11 and my home machine uses Manjaro Linux. Not sure if that makes a difference.
Oddly I don't have issues with Vivaldi on Android, so I don't know if there's a difference between mobile and desktop sites.
If this is a known issue, have you considered finding existing lists and adding them by default to Vivaldi? Would that help in more people utilizing your built-in blocker? Are there any plans to improve or make it more robust so that we don't need to use extensions like UBO?
