bionicjoey

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bionicjoey ,

Is the desktop using a wifi card? You could plug it into the router to shorten the journey and halve the number of wireless hops.

bionicjoey ,

Lots of organizations use "Open" because it has positive connotations in people's minds. They aren't trying to suggest that they specifically follow the FOSS philosophy.

See also:

  • OpenAI
  • OpenTable
  • Based on a cursory DDG search, dozens of other companies with open in their name, including a crypto exchange, a publicly traded tech company, etc.
bionicjoey ,

I highly recommend you look up a 3rd party D&D 5e adventure called "The Secret of Skyhorn Lighthouse". You can get the PDF for free. The author does an absolutely incredible job organizing information on the pages in a way that perfectly captures just the stuff needed for the adventure and nothing extraneous. IMO it's the best organized adventure I've ever run.

Every scene is limited to just one page. With clear explanations of each important NPC one might meet in that scene, what the dramatic tension should be when the party is on that scene, etc.

If I could have every adventure I ever run for the rest of my life follow one format, it would be the format of that adventure.

bionicjoey ,

What distro are you on? I was able to run it with proton on Steam without much hassle.

Do you use the device you torrent on for personal things as well?

I'm just curious as I've permanently dedicated my laptop to torrenting. I've been too nervous to install anything but the VPN and Firefox on it. Now, I'm curious to mess around with Linux some more, which is what I use on it, but I can't fully test out what all I can do with it without signing into accounts....

bionicjoey , (edited )

I don't have a dedicated torrent machine. I sometimes use my phone. Sometimes my gaming PC. Sometimes my TV's PC.

bionicjoey ,

The correct way of saying it out loud is "pop exclamation point underscore O S"

bionicjoey ,

Nope. Only the one that makes big money for Hasbro is good for mental health.

bionicjoey ,

So it has nothing to do with the trees?

bionicjoey ,

WOTC has greater resources than Paizo so they could theoretically do the same thing better (if they were so inclined). I'd love to see them turn D&DBeyond into a first party AON analogue. But with better UI, faster updates, a powerful API, maybe a featureful character builder, etc. all available. Maybe they could charge for the character builder and API, but the game content should be free just like PF2e.

bionicjoey , (edited )

They go together though. Like what's scary about the surveillance is how much censorship there is. Because it would be dead easy to arrest someone for thought crime if you are constantly surveiling them.

bionicjoey ,

Nah, it's Perl

How to download music from YoutubeMusic ( music.youtube.com )

I have a **youtube music subscription **and have not figured out how or if I can download music/playlists from it. Note this is different than just downloading music from YouTube. Just wondered if anyone know a way to download to PC or MAC? Thanks

bionicjoey ,

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

bionicjoey ,

I've heard of both, only ever used YouTube dl. Not sure what the difference is

bionicjoey ,

From reading the readme, it appears yt-dlp is actually the one that's a fork. It says it's a fork of YouTube-dl.

bionicjoey , (edited )
  • Good group dynamics
  • A DM/GM who strives for verisimilitude (particularly at the expense of overdone tropes)
  • Players who exhibit some level of system expertise and are engaged in all pillars of gameplay
  • Clear audio and good editing to remove the long silences and crosstalk
  • GM does creative things in terms of how they run their game that I feel like I can learn from
bionicjoey ,

I can't help you with a cracked version, but I can help you make your decision and tell you it's very worthwhile. I bought it 5 years ago and have probably used Foundry for hundreds of hours (at least 500 hours based on some quick mental math) with different groups for a total of a dozen different players.

It requires a bit of tech savvyness to learn initially, but just from reading your post I can tell you'll be fine. It blows every other competitor out of the water. It has a massive community of open source mods which augment it in various ways. Most game systems are also FOSS projects with large communities of developers supporting them.

It's like the Linux of VTTs, though that's not a perfect comparison because Foundry itself isn't FOSS. But it's highly configurable and moddable, and it really rewards an admin who likes to tinker, while at the same time being very usable right out of the box.

bionicjoey ,

That's just because the admin didn't make sure it was updated before game time. I have never had that problem because my server is always on and I connect to it a couple hours before game time. Also I never update the software before a game.

bionicjoey ,

Are you savvy enough to search the internet for a guide on how to do something technical, evaluate if the guide you find is right for your situation, and then follow that guide to do the thing? That's basically how I set it up for myself. You don't need to understand the deeper workings of stuff. If you've ever modded a video game before or troubleshot a software issue, you're probably savvy enough.

FVTT does all of the things you mentioned here out of the box. No need for tinkering.

bionicjoey ,

simplethese

Bone apple teeth

bionicjoey ,

I don't follow this stuff at all, so I have no idea what the advantages are of Wayland that I'd actually see and benefit from in my daily use. That being said, I saw everyone saying it's better, so I tried switching to it. After rebooting, my PC just showed a black screen. I needed to use a TTY to revert back to xorg. So no, as of right now I'm not using Wayland.

bionicjoey ,

Can you give a TLDR version? That's quite a wall of text.

bionicjoey ,

Touch grass /j

What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....

bionicjoey , (edited )

Not me but a colleague of mine wrote a bash script that had something like this and ran it on a server:

FOO="/home/bar"

... Many lines later ...

rm -rf $FOOT/*

Reminder that bash will resolve uninitiated variables to the empty string.

Luckily he halted the process after it had only nuked /boot and /bin. If it had gotten to /var and the mounted data storage within, we would have been in trouble

bionicjoey ,

Yeah if you don't put bash in European mode, it is a lot more dangerous.

Safest way of using WeChat on Android?

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn't the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I...

bionicjoey OP ,

To answer the question: GrapheneOS and a separate profile would be the safest

I appreciate the suggestion, but maybe I should add that I'd like to not have to change up my phone too much. It's a Fairphone 4 running the OEM Android and my preference would be to keep it that way. Are separate profiles like that a thing on stock Android?

If you are both outside of china there really is zero reason (other than preference) to use that piece of spyware.

She travels back to China sometimes, uses it to contact friends and family back home, and uses it to chat with lots of mainlanders here in Canada. For her it's not weird at all.

In fact, she expressed to me that she's perfectly comfortable with the fact that they use WeChat combined facial recognition technology in China for payment processing. When you get on public transit, you can have them scan your face and it will automatically charge you the bus fare. It really skeeves me out, but it's simply not the hill I want to die on in this relationship. I'm crazy about her in so many ways, it's okay with me if we don't see eye-to-eye on digital privacy.

bionicjoey OP ,

That's a great point, thanks! I will definitely be using the international one. I expect since I'm getting it through Google Play it'll be constrained based on the OS permissions I give it. And I don't intend to give it any permissions

bionicjoey OP ,

She's not very tech savvy at all. It would be asking a lot. I'd rather stick to something she is comfortable with.

bionicjoey OP ,

I'm not in the US, but what is this Shelter you speak of?

bionicjoey OP ,

Yeah she's an iPhone user. And she wants to use WeChat because it's like second nature to Chinese people. It's as normal to them as email is to us in the west. They are totally desensitized to the digital privacy concerns.

She has WhatsApp as well, but it's not set up properly on her phone so she doesn't get notifications for it. Plus I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work if she traveled back to China.

bionicjoey OP ,

I've heard of matrix bridges before but I'm unfamiliar with how to actually set them up and use them. I understand the basic idea is that they relay messages out of matrix and into some other messaging service, but I don't understand how to actually enact that onto the element client on my phone. Matrix is so complicated 😅

bionicjoey OP ,

Thank you! This is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for!

bionicjoey OP , (edited )

Maybe get a girlfriend that isn't a brain washed spy? \s

Listen here, I like my qt tankie sleeper cell gf. As long as she doesn't hear anyone say the activation phrase, she's very sweet.

For real though, this app is pretty culturally ingrained over there and so I don't really have the option of pushing something else (we all know how real messaging app fatigue has gotten these days). Especially when other apps will be restricted whenever she travels home, and we want something that can serve as a backup when other communication methods aren't an option. I'm pretty sure WeChat will work through The Great Firewall, so it's ideal for our purposes. I have no idea if the same can be said for WhatsApp or Signal.

bionicjoey OP ,

Relationships (of all kinds) are about compromise. You have to recognize that outside of the echo chambers in communities like this one, literally nobody cares about digital privacy to the extent that us nerds do. So you can choose to be dogmatic in your approach and alienate yourself from the >99% of people in the world who don't care, or you can recognize that your own desires for digital privacy need to be weighed against your desires to form meaningful connections with other people.

Personally I prefer to be pragmatic in my approach. I do what I can to look after my privacy within the constraints of actually doing what I need to do to connect with other people. That's why I made this post. My mind is made up that I'm going to at least try to use WeChat, but within that constraint, I want to do everything in my control to limit the app's visibility into the rest of my system.

bionicjoey OP ,

Yeah I was considering Waydroid but then I lose the ability to connect outside of my PC

bionicjoey OP ,

I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. If I'm going to do that I might as well buy the burner phone once I'm actually in China rather than preemptively get one now. I like her a lot but I'd say we're at least a year away from going to China together.

bionicjoey OP , (edited )

Yeah I ended up installing it in an Android work profile using Shelter, and it is a disaster of an app. I expected a lot more of a professional looking app given how popular the WeChat service is and how big of a company Tencent is, but it's like a shittier WhatsApp. It's not even localized properly, a bunch of strings in the app (like error screens and stuff) are in Chinese, and the English is poorly translated. The mechanism to reply to someone's message is unclear (it's not just long pressing or dragging on a message like in other apps), and you can't send a reaction emoji to a message.

bionicjoey ,

l've always imagined that a silicon based life-form (one of the few realistically proposed possibilities of inorganic life I know of)

Angela Collier - The aliens will not be Silicon

bionicjoey ,

2fa can be handled by a cycling number like authenticator apps

bionicjoey ,

Kubuntu is the easiest entrypoint for a noob IME. It was my first distro.

bionicjoey ,

As for gaming, literally just install Steam and try installing some games from your library. Steam automatically loads up Proton which is the compatibility tool that makes Steam games work on Linux. If you want to check, you can go to the website ProtonDB, but 99% of the time, they'll just work.

bionicjoey ,

I use it sometimes, but tons of creators apparently DM their content to their subs rather than posting it, which doesn't show up here.

bionicjoey ,

If I'm trafficking drugs AND abusing kids, do you really think I have the time to also be the sysadmin for a major piracy website? Abusing kids and trafficking drugs is already a full time job!

bionicjoey , (edited )

On KDE I found a keyboard called something like "US English international with AltGr deadkeys" which does what you describe

bionicjoey ,

I'm unfamiliar with the difference in nomenclature, but the UX OP is describing is pretty much the same as what I've used. Eg. R-Alt + " + i = ï

bionicjoey ,

Honestly a good change. Defaults should be handled by the OS. If a software wants to be your default, it should ask the OS to present the selection screen and allow the user to choose the option.

bionicjoey ,

Aren't these just the bloatware that some OEMs would put on their Windows image? Why would you actually want that?

bionicjoey ,

You should look into how Docker works. It, or something like it, is probably the better tool for the job.

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