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I can't imagine wanting to read it at all. It sounds impossibly stupid and incredibly boring.

But it is good that it is not a whole other game. In comparison to DnD where you have to change your game to upgrade, you pick your game as FTD or 50TD. If you keep distributing FTD, that would be helpful. But I realize the cost involved in supporting two versions of a game, at least in print. But it will still be there in digital. That is like the equivalent of being able to play DnD using previous editions along with newer ones. That is actually an amazing, if not somewhat coincidental/maybe accidental approach?

So, I have not yet tried FTD, but I tend to like to create as much as I run and play games. Do you use an open license, or is there a submission process for the outside world at this time? I also dev and can do the VTT side of things myself, so not sure how your company handles that side of things either. Is there a page I can reference? I ask because the game I get into must also be one I can create content for, and I am kind of returning to the TRPG scene after over a decade away.

That is kind of the issue with DnD. It is hard to play. It is hard to run. You have to be a monk with no other life to invest the time to make it come naturally. In the 80s, when I played it the most, it was such a kids game this never was a problem. A kid has all the time in the world, and would only obsess over the nuances of the game. However, in college with the introduction of 3e, I began running my games from inside spreadsheets.

As for 5E, I just quit caring. I spent too much money on that game all my life already only for them to switch out the rules. I have the 5E books but they are not very practical for use. I have to wear reading glasses because the print is so small. I don't like doing that because it makes my eyes weaker, and I mean like for the next few days they are weaker, not in years to come.

I would recommend getting a more practical game like Shadowdark, a clone, or possibly a retro clone. There are plenty of free retroclones and clones of 5E thanks to the SRD and OGL or CC license that allows others to create content for DnD. OSRIC3.0 is good. OSE is good. Labyrinth Lord. They are all much more playable TTRPGs than modern D&D. I would avoid Pathfinder 1E unless you want to have more of the same issues not knowing the rules, but PF2E is much more practical.

I realize they decided to play 5E but am not myself as knowledgeable about all the 5E clones and spinoffs, but there are many. And there are many that are much more playable than D&D itself. I heard Five Torches Deep is one of the better ones, but have not played it or even bought it yet. That is on my shopping list, but these days having a hard time getting everything on that list. So haven't bought a game for a long time. I play the ones that are free.

I often wonder what people do all day. There is nothing to do. There is no one to talk to even if you want to and who wants to? People are hardly as approachable as they used to be. So, maybe I might read or try and write something or program. It is nothing but more work really. That is all there is to do that offers any reward. Work instead of play. Heh.

I find it interesting that no one notices Arch is not arch. It is really how you install it. You have more than one choice for everything that way. Well, you know, after you install it, what is so arch about it?

It is not that it works on any CPU architecture. It is not either as if you are in an agnostic package management environment. You are still using the same shell you chose on installation.

If you want to be truly cool. Get a live ISO and use a package manager to install the distro you want. Or use debootstrap or pacstrap. I used to install my own Debian and Ubuntu using nothing but a live DVD or ISO on USB and the debootstrap command.

Then I started using arch-install-scripts. I enjoyed doing my own ZFS on root before it became available in installers, but you know what. It usually works better if you still do ZFS on root with the live disc or USB. For some reason, the installers don't get it quite right and then if you update your kernel later, they might not boot.

But IMO there are others that are more arch-agostic than Arch Linux. Vanilla OS, for instance, lets you install any package and use any package manager. You might have to add the one you want to use, but you can do it. You can install other shells on any Linux.

When you have installed Linux in as many ways as can be done you begin to realize at a certain point. This isn't how to be smart. This is actually kind of stupid. I should just use an installer like everyone else and tweak the one I install. No more OCD. They are all the same Linux anyway if you are that capable. You are not limited to the distro you install.

First of all, nothing today is "woke". That movement is gone and the term is too loosely associated with things that are not setting well with anyone today. It is not what Hollywood is saying. It is what they are not saying. How they are not doing things. They really just want to feed a superiority complex, and will not stop postulating until they represent no one.

I always hated the way they along with politicians pretend to own any moral high ground and everyone else has to inherit whatever problems exist. It would be much smarter to recognize how others have moral integrity rather than try to monopolize and personalize morality into an insatiable agenda. That is why your average person cannot be entertained by anything anymore and cannot go into work against the will of the new morality police.

Ever think to yourself? "That sounds like Jason Statham!"

Like all 80s kids there were a few things I religiously enjoyed. For me it was things like playing D&D, playing guitar, heavy metal and reading books like a nerd. I don't know if that was as unusual as many people might believe, but I did not know then what I know now. It was Megadeth that I should have been listening to, Cthulu that I should have been playing, and the Bible that I should be reading instead. After the Black Album, I began to figure this out.

He was a propagandist not a comedian.

A landlord cannot directly ask unless your disability requires modification to the property. Then they cannot pry for details.

How many Americans does it take to change a lightbulb?

All of them!

Nighthawk

But let’s be very clear about something. When thinking about buying Wi-Fi six or seven you should understand that the higher speeds are only going to be beneficial when you are transferring data between devices on your own home network. So these higher and routers really only are advantageous to businesses. The only way you might ever need such a thing in your home is if you live in some kind of mansion full of people. The reason why they are available to you and me as average, ordinary, every day people is because that helps keep the price lower for the routers across the board.

I thought about this because I had no idea during the 80s why a media that hates Reagan would ever promote him so much the way they did. Then I figured it out. It was because they wanted to pass off someone as a conservative when he pretty much stood at 20% taxation. This was merely a beneficial compromise at the time with taxes that were higher than have ever been in documented history. You realize when I’m saying there is no king or emperor that ever raised a tax that high.

It is just like the 60s. You’re supposed to believe absolutely everybody that was a baby boomer in the 60s was a hippie. The reality of that is that was probably only a fifth of the group that we call baby boomers. But they had to sell something to the baby boomers and they had to pay for the baby boomers in a very big way to get them through most of life for one particular reason. If you had not seen the 80s feed the baby boomers and fat in their stomach so much today they would not be able to support themselves even as much as Generation X. However, that was how to keep them from being a burden to government programs that they wanted to introduce. How do you introduce government programs when you’re gonna have to pay for an entire generation because you have a government that has made them broke?

Sorry for being such an anti-politician to answer your question but that’s the magic question. That’s why I often see people leave the room when I begin to talk because it hurts to hear the truth.

Hell yeah!

Amen to that! I did that myself. Almost every other morning I would get on my laptop and Windows would not let me in with my pin. Apparently, if my phone can’t sign in then eventually, it will block me from signing in on my computer for two hours.

Of course I have been dual booting Windows/Linux but finally decided to just get rid of windows entirely and boot to Linux only. Now I am much more productive. If I get rid of my TV, then I will only be working. I wonder if I should do that too.

Yesterday’s Linux today is maybe Arch or Endeavor OS or NixOS?

Today’s Linux? Fedora or Ubuntu or Kubuntu?

It really impresses me as a matter of perspective, based on experience. Some people use Debbian-based distros and don't personally interact with a desktop like KDE.

Some people use Fedora and never even try Ubuntu. Most people don't install Linux without an installer anymore, but in the beginning, that was the only way you could when it was just Slackware.

Whatever happened to openSUSE?

Thank you for reminding me of that. I really like rust and just started studying it. I think it’s funny how this has become a debate in there are now sides. There’s a lot that people just assume about that conflict that is not entirely there.

For instance, compiling something memory safe in and of itself requires more capacity or bandwidth. In some cases, you have to be sure that that will not create a vulnerability just because the hardware cannot handle it. So there are times when it might be safer to compile with C.

Then there is also that the notion you still can’t use more programmatic ways outside of C, but along with C. That seems to often be overlooked. Rust provides a good solution all by itself but C can utilize outside options to achieve the same thing.

Admittedly, however, I can’t wait to use Rust with a custom kernel in my application container.

I have heard that before and I should probably check it out.

I don’t think that the compile time really matters unless it is a situation such as infrastructure as Code?…

But when I say that I am really thinking of CaaS whivh takes on many roles. Containers as a Service is also used to create things like Commerce as a Service. Or, IaC might make compile time a decision breaker for Rust.

When I think of C and compiling something I think of like software that I got from a repo. As for that being just a normal part of using Rust not sure it compares. I would use C for CaaS that compile code from source if compile time was shorter that way. Not sure it is or is in every situation. Same for IaC.

It may not always be faster . That really depends on hardware in practice. Rust has some nice security implementations that I would never want to go without. My opinion, though leans toward the notion that you should use one or the other in most situations. Rust or C.

That is good for another reason. Linux distros need to be more formal about how they distribute software. Traditionally, this requires one volunteer package maintainer per software package. This has caused GNU developers to separate modern distros from themselves because a user can unwittingly install software against license. And can get away with doing it with wit as well.

So, not only does that make it easy for end users but it will make more software available. It also does Linux the favor of outsourcing package management so it is someone else’s concern. It is an immense waste of time and purely inefficient to have every distro repo populated with a package built and compiled over and over again which demotes the job a volunteer will do to not much more than being a GitHub Geek.

You only have to contribute that much but on the other hand that is all you get to do. It has to be done. Each distro relies on 10’s of thousands of volunteers to merely package software. Imagine what else they could be doing.

If everyone shifted to Flatpaks that would also outsource the open source where it can be more easily managed like it should. Another point could also stand to be proved by doing things this way. That is it open-source does not mean it has to be free. Having paid software managed alongside open-source that has varying degrees of license compatibility is good for developers who often are not familiar with package managers and distro repo software versions.

Versioning software is not hard when you are just doing it for one package, but the more open-source a developer uses the more each software dependency must also be examined and tested. It must do more than appear to work and so also each dependency. So if you are package maintainer not only do you have to worry about an apps software dependency, you have to worry about your app being a dependency .

And then collectively package maintainers must ensure this compatibility between commonly shared software dependencies. And if an app needs an earlier version of o dependency and another needs a newer version and the only solution is to make an intermediary version, you need another volunteer to maintain another package just to compile a compatible binary.

Subdual damage attacks?

Despite what you think of Google, there is one little thing that they don’t tell you is that their browser chrome is mostly made up of open source contributions that were stripped from the open source version of the browser chromium. So although I really don’t like the government, pretending that they’re competent at all, this is really not anything that’s gonna cause me to cry for Google. Maybe we will all find out that Google and the government were made for each other.

I am tired of seeing sell-outs like Mozilla. I was going to switch to Brave, but found out LibreWolf is better. Firefox has earned the title "Google Inside" with me, because it is not really much different than Google Chrome in terms of privacy and lacks the same features. Brave is a good choice, but LibreWolf is better. In reality, the only way to protect your privacy is to change your name and go into hiding. Lol!

It is inherently more secure than say Windows but that doesn’t say much. There is a manual for all aspects of securing Debian.

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-manual/

However, it is important to note you can do most of those things to harden any OS. I think some people mistakenly believe that installing Linux is security enough but it is open source. Open source assumes security through simplicity while Windows assumes security through obscurity. Mac is probably the most secure without any help but at the cost of privacy.

I would say it definitely is secure but still needs to be secured.

I currently have a case open with ICANN. They not only seem to own a domain I searched for and didn’t buy when it was available but also are not making available domains I posted for sale.