Someone at work made a “who on earth uses FireFox” comment recently, like it was some obscure and inferior / outdated software (our company includes FF as part of the standard image for both PC and Mac users).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.
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
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AldinTheMage@ttrpg.networkOPtoRPGCreation@ttrpg.network•I made a solo rpg that just needs a notebook, pencil, and 1d6
1·6 days agoThanks! I’ve been playing it when I have the time, and spellcasting is definitely one of the areas I’m working on. I have some re-works planned that I will get added soon :)
If you do try it out, please share any feedback!
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Linux@lemmy.world•Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magicEnglish
2·1 month agoIt’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.
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Books@lemmy.world•Book recommendation: Fantasy, female author, strong feminine main character
2·3 months agoRoots 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).
AldinTheMage@ttrpg.networktoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Straight into my adblockerEnglish
9·4 months agoIt’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.
That’s awesome, I never knew that! And someone made a similar tool for Linux as well
I watched Jurassic Park again the other day.
“It’s a Unix system, I know this!”
Nedry had a very custom window manager.
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Books@lemmy.world•What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 13
4·4 months agoThat one has been on my list for a bit. I read the Licanius trilogy by the same author and loved it.
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Books@lemmy.world•What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 13
5·4 months agoLove that one! Going Postal, Mort, and Equal Rites are my favorites in the Discworld series so far (I haven’t read all of them)
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Books@lemmy.world•What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 13
3·4 months agoThat sounds amazing. I love Capaldi and had no idea he did audio books. I’ve also been wanting to read Watership Down.
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Books@lemmy.world•What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? January 13
4·4 months agoJust 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.
It’s home grown fascism. The fact that Russia may have helped does not absolve us.
The US wrote the book Nazi Germany used to start the Holocaust. We can’t keep pretending the US is noble and all of the evil is outside influence.
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.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Confirmed functional EverDrive SD cardsEnglish
2·4 months agoPNY Card works with my GB X7! It’s a PNY Elite 32GB Micro SDHC

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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•When you get tired of Distrohopping
3·4 months agoDebian 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.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Confirmed functional EverDrive SD cardsEnglish
2·5 months agoJust ordered an X7 and a PNY SD Card. I’ll post here as well when it comes in if they are working.
I almost ordered the SanDisk Ultra pictured, going to kick myself if the PNY doesn’t work and I have to order that one anyway :D
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Technology@lemmy.world•Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies insteadEnglish
2·5 months agoYeah absolutely. It’s a very different experience. I was just pointing out that they are other different reasons to prefer not to do residential service calls that don’t apply to retail. There are a lot of extra steps for retail but it’s all an established process. The guys I talk to that have done service call work all have absolutely insane stories.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies insteadEnglish
62·5 months agoI’ve talked with people in HVAC who have said the same. It’s much easier to provide a service to a business than random individuals.
However, this is different, as this is just a retail product. Micron doesn’t have to deal with the person who doesn’t pay after the job is done, or doesn’t lock their dog up because “he doesn’t bite, it will be fine” and it turns out to be an aggressive monster. This is just assembly line production that they already are set up to do.
I get that they have a limited number of inputs and they are just choosing to make as much money as possible. It sucks to see that go, though. Crucial has always been my go-to for RAM.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Screw it, I’m installing LinuxEnglish
3·6 months agoAnd then power toys shortcuts conflict with the standard shortcuts and requires a ton of fiddling and customizing configs. You know, the thing windows users always say is a reason they don’t want to use linux.




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.