I am very happy on the Fediverse, but one thing I do miss about the old bird-site was the ability to tweet my complaints about bad service or product design (particularly dark patterns) at the company and get a public reply. They would try to wrangle negative tweets tagging them. It was also […]

Are there any "case studies" of whole communities moving to the fediverse, similar to the Forkiverse? I'm thinking about writing a version of my article https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediverse-an-overview-for-government-agencies/ and aim it at community organizers. #fediverse #community

Years ago (five? ten?) I watched a belly #dance tutorial and tried basic hip motions and shimmy. (Tutorial by Howcast on YouTube.) Since then I feel more confident with my general hip motions. Now I decided I want to learn "The Running Man" basic shuffle element. I weigh ~320 lbs so the whole […]

I'm thinking about my next #pathfinder1e #ustalav session. The party sent missives to four nearby thorps and/or hamlets to recruit people to stand with them against the fire #skeleton champions and their allied #wights. The #skeletons agreed to meet at sundown to collect tribute from the local […]

OK, OK, I'm going to say something here. I like JPEG XL image compression format. (Usual expected file extension: .jxl) I think it's a very cool image format that I wish had more widespread adoption. #jpegxl #jxl #imagecompression

I decided to see if the old cassette deck was working today, and by "decided," I mean I just wanted to play the cassette album of The Jets that I've had since I was six so I tried. Cassette got stuck in the player, did not play. I had to gently pry the cassette door open and release the tape […]

I updated the #Houserules for my #p1e #ustalav campaign to add Cure Deadly Wounds and Inflict Deadly Wounds to the witch spell list as level 6 spells. Witch class normally doesn't have Breath of Life spell (Cure Deadly Wounds is a renamed Breath of Life spell) on their spell list but they do […]

I do need AI for: - Finding cures for diseases - Offer assistance to people with disabilities - Predict the weather - Fight against AI networks I don't need AI for: - Doing my homework - Wrecking my business - Communication - Every single function on my devices - Producing endless digital […]

I have a friend that I've been friends with since high school. I like my friend, but he's drinking the AI Kool-Aid. We went to dinner last January and I told him I didn't want to talk about AI as I hate Generative AI. It's been a year so I guess he's decided he waited long enough. I use Linux […]

Upgraded to #linuxmint 22.3 today. Cinnamon menu changed. It is "more customizable," but removed two features: 1.) Sidebar icons are labeled. Text labels cannot be turned off in menu settings to look like before. This seems like an oversight. 2.) Menu entries are icons accompanied by program […]

We missed our last two fortnightly #p1e #ustalav games (20 Dec and 03 Jan) so my group have scheduled back-to-back weekends on 10 and 17 January to get back into the swing of things. The party are still deep in a #ghoul warren. I'm hoping to introduce two NPCs this coming session (in the […]

I recently got a new Thinkpad P14S. It is a nice computer for sure, but I think it is time to focus on the software side as well. Computers come with software and the software experience matters! Some things I think should be covered in a review: 1. What OS does the machine come with? Having a […]

it has been 0️⃣ days since the definitionally 100% foreseeable event of a certificate expiration caused a minor disaster if your logitech mouse stopped working today on macintosh, you need to manually download and install a fix for the dead certificate […]

Ordered a cheap office chair on 11 December. Before the New Year it said expect delivery between 06 January and 30 January. It was shipping from China. Two days ago I checked status. It reported it had been delivered on 16 December. I tried to report it undelivered and Amazon basically said […]

📺 A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet — #corydoctorow, @pluralistic https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

I finished reading Master of Devils by Dave Gross. It's the second novel of Count Varian Jeggare and his fiend-blooded bodyguard Radovan. (The first in the series is Prince of Wolves.) Master of Devils is 399 pages and I read the last 200 pages in one session, so I was very into it. Haven't […]

I watched a video yesterday about how everyone thinks differently. Some are visual thinkers, some use inner monologues, sometimes thoughts are more emotional impulse, and most people think in a mixture of methods. I was in bed this morning thinking about thinking, and I took a trip down memory […]

This past week I started reading a novel that I purchased in 2011. I've had the softback #book on a shelf for 14 years--I'm a little backlogged on my reading. Today I was looking at it and noticed that the pages had yellowed, but not just that, the signatures appear to have yellowed to varying […]

I had a #p1e #ustalav session scheduled for today (20 December) but it was canceled yesterday evening. These things happen around the holidays so it is what it is. The campaign is delayed until 03 January now. The party are deep in a ghoul warren. They're facing off with a pair of ghasts […]

RE: https://peoplemaking.games/@Alrecenk/115742338586901541 My brother's indie #VR game is on sale on Steam. I'm mostly quote-posting so I could include more hashtags he didn't include in his post. #vr #videogame #videogames #steam

I just finished reading the novel Worldwound Gambit by @robindlaws. I hit a bit of a slow part in the middle but I think this was because I had a gap in my reading and I may have re-read the bulk of a chapter to get back on track. It picked up after that and kept going. I read the last quarter […]

As it says in my profile, I wrote a first draft manuscript but I keep procrastinating edits and further drafts. In March 2021 I decided to write a short story set in the same world, mainly to see if I could write something concise. A few minutes ago I finally finished the first draft of that […]

I little while ago I was playing #thefirstdescendant when I leaned back and HALF of my #chair went over backwards with me. Luckily the space behind my chair is clear so I didn't hit anything but the floor. My controller in my hands was not damaged, and I was not damaged, but my computer chair […]

I play Elite Dangerous and I like game cosmetics so I feel it worthwhile to mention that Elite Dangerous is giving away some cosmetics (vehicle and weapon skins) during the holiday season. The skins are listed for 0 ARX in both the in-game shop and on the web shop, and the freebies list is an […]

I think I lost #whamageddon today, but I'm not actually sure. It might have been a cover. It sounded strange. I'm not going to listen to the original to find out though, just in case it was a cover.

I knew RAM prices had gone up a lot, but I just did some comparison shopping this evening. I bought RAM in October 2023. 32 GB (2 sticks of 16 GB) of DDR4 3200 for $66 (after tax and shipping). The same brand, same dealer, same two-stick set, pre-tax and pre-shipping is now $149.00. My 2GB […]

[Spotify Wrapped (or Equivalent)] I don't use Spotify, however... I did buy an audio compact disc this year. It was Heroes by The Midnight. I also pre-ordered an audio CD I won't have until at least February 2026. It will be Syndicate by The Midnight. (I like The Midnight.) I do […]

OK, so I'm back on my #p1e #ustalav train. Next scheduled session is Saturday (06 Dec). Last session had the party fighting through my hand-drawn #ghoul warren under the graveyard. I've since made a stat block for the ghoul bat swarm. Last time I winged it (pun intended) with a ghoul raven […]

I did my quarterly home folder backup today and I feel better. The drive I back up to is getting full though. It's an older drive so I need to look at buying a new drive for backups anyway. For my next drive for backups, I'd like to learn to use rsync to do incremental backups, just doing an […]

I'm a dork. I like #mpv. That's not why I'm a dork, but... I just compared instances of mpv.conf in my home directory. I checked where each one stored watch_later data. For all the ones that were identical settings, I made them hard links with an extended attribute specifying the watch_later […]

Goulet Pens has a 30% off sale on Lamy products this weekend. I ordered a black Lamy Al-star fountain pen with a Fine nib and also an extra black Lamy steel Medium nib. I'm still not a fountain pen collector but it's fine to have a few "entry level" fountain pens with different nibs, right? […]

My #printer is not working. It is not a #linuxmint issue. Rather, the printer reports "Deep Sleep, Fax Only." The printer doesn't see the WIFI. I tried to reconfig WIFI. It failed to connect and printed a page showing the correct WIFI SSID for the network it failed to find. I blame an […]

I've only had three players since May. If they had a fourth party member, that combat might not have taken two sessions. It was a total of 10 rounds over two sessions. Anyway, that is to say, know anyone in Charleston, WV interested in an in-person game? Is there a #ttrpgrecruitment hashtag? […]

Look at this gem of the past I just watched from CBC, 1995! This was in my YouTube Recommended algorithm today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0EXga2hEIs It features a young @pluralistic extolling the virtues of the Internet. Among other things, he warned people about not getting sucked into […]

I just ordered a new music CD. (Technically two CDs.) The album is Syndicate by The Midnight. It came out as a digital download in October 2025 but apparently the 2-CD physical album doesn't release until February 2026. So I just preordered an album. Preordering an album seems like a weird thing […]

Mostly posting here so I will have a place to link it to a friend...

I have another scheduled #p1e #ustalav game tomorrow, Saturday (14 Nov). Last session the party fought ghouls in a small crypt. They crispied one ghoul with burning hands as it fled down a narrow escape tunnel hidden under a sarcophagus. The cleric PC said they would explore that escape tunnel […]

The #p1e #ustalav game scheduled a week ago was delayed until yesterday (Saturday 08 Nov). Combat continued from the previous session (04 Oct) and took all session. (We ran 18 minutes over allotted time to finish it.) Party fought ghouls. The rogue was paralyzed twice and down to 0 hp. The […]

I just want to remind you all of this gem: https://wondermark.com/c/1062/ (Wondermark #1062; The Terrible Sea Lion by David Malki)

I'm sure I did this the hard way. I have a one-page ODF (.ods) that I want printed as two pages on front and back of a sheet of paper, and I want to occasionally print 10 copies. Rather than pasting a second page in Calc, I've printed to #pdf, and used pdfunite to make it a two page PDF. I […]

I've been waiting for a package today. (Yes, on Sunday from #usps.) At ~9:00 AM and again at ~7:30 PM I checked shipping status at USPS and it said the package was out for delivery. I checked it just now and it said: "Your item is being held at the CHARLESTON, WV 25301 post office at 4:37 pm […]

I need to make a stat block for an RP encounter for my next #p1e #ustalav session on Saturday (01 November). I expect them to have the RP encounter in the graveyard after they finish their cross-session combat with #ghouls. It's an RP encounter that is likely to lead to more combat, depending […]

I just ordered new prescription eyeglasses. I hope the prescription is good. I hope the frames fit OK. I hope they get here soon. #eyeglasses #glasses #eyewear #spectacles

“They’re literally putting 🇺🇸 in reverse”

There’s assholes out here trying to tell you that today’s demonstrations were useless virtue signaling. Asserting your values and showing up for each other is never an empty gesture. No circular firing squads. No trolling. No woker than thou sermons. We build together. We live in truth. We […]

I saw Warner Bros Discovery are enshittifying HBOMax further in the name of the almighty dollar. We had the no-commercials tier, now a joke because they added adverts when you pause shows in the HBOMax app on Roku. We planned to cancel this month anyway, because they offered a 50% discount […]

My computer monitor died yesterday. I've ordered a new one but it won't arrive for a few days. In the meantime, I've got my PC hooked up to another screen in the house. #pc #computer #monitor #hardware #hardwareFailure

I'm currently playing Elite Dangerous and somehow, I don't know how, the game is now running on my third workspace instead of my first workspace. I was switching out of the game to look up stuff in Firefox on my second workspace while I did a very long flight. I don't know how I moved the game […]

I watched this Harvard Business Review video recently. I really enjoyed it. It's about the benefits of boredom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQKfIXMiA8 #youtube #boredom #harvardbusinessreview