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AldinTheMage

@ AldinTheMage @ttrpg.network

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Love talking all things trrpg. I primarily GM Genesys RPG, sometimes also Star Wars RPG and Hero Kids.

Also into Linux, 3D Printing, software development, and PC gaming

  • Which game do I get that's under 20GB?

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  • I love Skald Against the black priory, and I've also started The wandering Village. Both well under that limit!

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  • Thank mr skeletal

  • Tell me about when you saved someone's life

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  • I left work early one day and was driving home on some back roads. I got behind a jeep that started to slow and drift into the other lane. He kept drifting and went off the road, jumped the bank and went into a very deep quarry pond. I heard a splash and pulled over and called 911. While on the phone I heard a yell for help and hung up (I didn't think to stay on the line until after) and ran across to find this guy barely treading water. I swam in and helped him to the bank and talked to him until the emergency services arrived.

    Turns out he had some severe internal bleeding and passed out driving. The cold water woke him up, but he was too weak and disoriented to swim.

    If I would have left work 5 minutes earlier or later, or if he didn't have the top off on his jeep, he would have died and nobody would have known where. The pond was deep enough that even the vehicle wouldn't have been found.

  • Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre.

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  • I enjoyed the demo for Heroes of the Seven Isles. I bought the full game when it came out but haven't had a chance to play it much. Really fun old school point and click adventure puzzle game with hand drawn doodle-style art.

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  • I use LibreWolf, and I do have issues with a few sites (my local utility company's bill pay only works on chromium), but I still refuse to use a chromium based browser except for those specific sites.

    It is inconvenient, but it can still make a difference. If sites that have chromium only functionality see that enough FireFox users are trying to use the site, they may update it. I know web devs check those kinds of metrics.

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  • Someone at work made a "who on earth uses FireFox" comment recently, like it was some obscure and inferior / outdated software (our company includes FF as part of the standard image for both PC and Mac users). I did not go into my "why chromium is evil" rant, but I did tell them how to adjust their settings to fix some performance issues they were having with it. I'm pretty sure they still switched to Chrome.

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • It's going to be a total re-install, so that depends on what kind of setups you have. Not really different than switching to/from another distro.

    Bazzite ships with KDE, so you could likely copy your themes and customizations for that pretty easily.

    Bazzite is fedora based, and doesn't use apt, but you can use distrobox like I mentioned in my post to get familiar ubuntu packages, if there are things that you need to be not flatpaks. You also can probably copy config files from non-flatpak apps into the flatpaks for most apps. I did this with my Cura configs. It may depend on the application.

    Basically, I just backed up my user folder (~/) and pulled any configs out of there. You could just back up ~/.config and ~/.local but with ubuntu there are likely some things in a snap directory and such. Mainly ~/.config and ~/.local, but some applications may use other directories, like snap, etc.

  • Book recommendation: Fantasy, female author, strong feminine main character

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  • Roots of Chaos series is great and seems to fit these criteria. (The Priory of the Orange Tree, A Day of Fallen Knight, Among the Burning Flowers).

  • Straight into my adblocker

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  • It's not about the ads to buy things. That's part of it for sure, but it's more than that.

    Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc. want your data, your habits, routines, opinions, etc, so they can influence the way you think and behave and understand the world.

    There's a clip I saw recently of Peter Thiel saying they could never get people to vote for the things they want to do, so instead they are using technology to change things.

    Even if you block ads, if you still use platforms owned by tech mega-corps, they have your data. Sure you might not see the targeted ads, and so you think you're coming out ahead, but you don't realize that every piece of content you see between the ads you've blocked is being filtered to influence the way you think about the world.

  • unpacking.

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  • That's awesome, I never knew that! And someone made a similar tool for Linux as well

  • unpacking.

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  • I watched Jurassic Park again the other day.

    "It's a Unix system, I know this!"

    Nedry had a very custom window manager.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 13

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  • That one has been on my list for a bit. I read the Licanius trilogy by the same author and loved it.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 13

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  • Love that one! Going Postal, Mort, and Equal Rites are my favorites in the Discworld series so far (I haven't read all of them)

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 13

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  • That sounds amazing. I love Capaldi and had no idea he did audio books. I've also been wanting to read Watership Down.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 13

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  • Just grabbed Among the burning Flowers from my local library. Really enjoyed the other roots of chaos books so I'm looking forward to this one.

    I read most of the Bullet Journal Method and what I learned from that has been really useful. Also Mistborn is one of my favorite series, and the last 2 books of era 2 are great.

  • Sad Ganymede noises

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  • Most of my space knowledge comes from Elite Dangerous lol. They used a lot of real star catalogs when making the galaxy and visually it's really good.

  • Confirmed functional EverDrive SD cards

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  • PNY Card works with my GB X7! It's a PNY Elite 32GB Micro SDHC

  • HDMI monitor for headless linux server

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  • That sounds very promising, I'll look into it!

  • When you get tired of Distrohopping

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  • Debian is my favorite as well. I prefer KDE, though, because it is pretty. I also don't get the GNOME hate, I just don't love it as much and at this point KDE is way more familiar.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    HDMI monitor for headless linux server

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic