A little background information: Since we’re all busy adults, our group plays mostly via chat instead of meeting in-person. And I don’t mean voice chat, but taking turns typing out the actions of your characters in an actual text-based chat. Occasionally, we get a newbie wanting to join and usually embrace them with open...
Uh-oh, you seem to have a storygamer on your hands. Some newer systems such as PBTA and Forged in Darkness have a “pass the GM stick around” mechanism, and borders between players and GM are slightly more fluid. I presume this is her first time playing a traditional RPG, so I would recommend taking her aside and telling her that in D&D (which I assume you’re playing) players play only their characters, while the DM plays the rest of the world.
They will shit their pants once they find out about the metaverse logo. Personally, the Threads logo reminds me of a coiled tapeworm, which is very appropriate.
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over concerns about its new Threads app, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In the letter, which is addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro argues that Meta used Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property to build Threads....
And what would be those “trade secrets”? The ability to make posts and have them being read by other people? I’m pretty sure every forum software since the '70s has prior art. Elons fragile narcissism know no bounds.
Meta’s new Threads app is closely linked to Instagram, so much so that you can’t delete your Threads profile without deleting your Instagram account....
Oh look, it’s almost as Meta is an untrustrworthy actor that plans to EEE the fediverse. I consider any instance that federates with Meta a lost cause, to be defederated as well.
At this point, you will either try to mitigate the harm caused by proprieatry software by adding as many Open source programs to your MS system, or treat the underlying cause and install a FOSS OS.
Eh, Hermetic Qabbalah has been a part of Western Esotericism since the 17th century, and one of its foundations. I would say its a separate spiritual practice inspired by the Jewish Kabbalah, but wholly separate from it.
Depends what you mean by “best”. Personally, I use Lubuntu, as it is an ideal combo of features vs. resource lightness for me. Linux light and Puppy Linux are also among more popular lightweight distros.
Download BalenaEtcher and burn an .ISO of your selected distro to a USB memory stick - Pop!OS and Linux mint are perennial favorites. Bear in mind that this will erase all data from the stick.
Boot the laptop into BIOS (you will need to check with the manufacturer to see which key you will need to hold to do so) and scroll down to the “boot from device” or similar option. Select “Boot from USB”, save settings and reset your laptop.
If all goes well, and your laptop likes the distro, you should see a bunch of cryptic text scroll by. Don’t worry, this is what Linux shows instead of a loading screen. A menu should pop up, asking you if you want to try out the Live distro, or install the OS. Choose the live distro first, this will create a version of the OS that works from the RAM disk and does not install on the hard drive.
You can now play around with the OS, browse the internet, play games, anything except saving locally to the hard drive (unless you Mount it, but that’s another story). When you are good and ready, you can either choose to dual boot to Linux and Windows, or take the plunge and use Linux as your primary OS!
Hope this explanation wasn’t too rambly. Have fun!
Yeahhh, I really don't need bleeding edge software on my daily driver box. If you enjoy doing post mortems on logs, more power to you, I have things to do.
In this week’s newsletter: Facebook has been hit with a €1.2bn fine by EU regulators, and the cracks in the fault lines of data regulations are showing. Could that be a good thing?
Minimalist PDF reader suggestion?
I usually read PDFs in Chrome, which has a lot of distractions. Where do you read your PDFs or e-books?
It feels like the early days of the internet!!!! (lemmy.world)
garfield is an ally (lemmy.world)
Interfaith dialogue rule
Taking control of other peoples' NPC's
A little background information: Since we’re all busy adults, our group plays mostly via chat instead of meeting in-person. And I don’t mean voice chat, but taking turns typing out the actions of your characters in an actual text-based chat. Occasionally, we get a newbie wanting to join and usually embrace them with open...
The Mark of the Beast (sh.itjust.works)
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We get it guys (i.imgur.com)
Twitter warns it could sue Meta over “copycat” Threads app (www.theverge.com)
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over concerns about its new Threads app, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In the letter, which is addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro argues that Meta used Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property to build Threads....
Deleting your Threads profile will also kill your Instagram account (www.androidauthority.com)
Meta’s new Threads app is closely linked to Instagram, so much so that you can’t delete your Threads profile without deleting your Instagram account....
Lemmy will meme anything. Heres some Corn. (i.imgur.com)
Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings (www.theverge.com)
Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent....
Hermetic Kabbalah - Introduction (www.digital-brilliance.com)
Welcome. This site attempts to be the broadest, least partisan, and most informed source about Kabbalah available on the WWW.
A buggy Windows 11 update keeps slowing down SSDs (www.techspot.com)
This app. (lemmy.world)
Finally tried the official Reddit app. It’s as bad as they say.
Arise from your grave! (lemmy.world)
Rule: be wholesome always (i.imgur.com)
According to some economists, we need more unemployment in Australia to get inflation under control. Perhaps they would like to volunteer? (www.abc.net.au)
File this under “I’m got mine, the rest of you can sod off”!
rule (lemmy.world)
The price of a cinema ticket in this day and age. No wonder people aren't going to the cinema anymore. (lemmy.world)
If You're Like Me... (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Context (lemmy.world)
It's important (lemmy.world)
TechScape: Warnings of a ‘splinternet’ were greatly exaggerated – until now (www.theguardian.com)
In this week’s newsletter: Facebook has been hit with a €1.2bn fine by EU regulators, and the cracks in the fault lines of data regulations are showing. Could that be a good thing?