Ekky @ ekky @sopuli.xyz

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Where do you live, OP?

In Denmark it goes in the same category as not driving when the light is green or keeping to the left on the highway.

While you seldomly see someone get fined for it, taking more than two turns in the roundabout is considered an obstruction of traffic, and therefore illegal.

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I personally started by playing around with Ubuntu, but it just didn't feel intuitive coming from windows.

Went over to Mint, and was very happy,especially with drivers and gaming. I even fully removed my windows installation during this period. Having gained a better understanding of Linux, I have now moved on again.

The only real drawback of Mint is not natively supporting KDE Plasma (as they did before). And yes, you can just install it yourself, but I wouldn't recommend a beginner who barely knows how to install Linux to attempt such an endevour.

One word of advice to OP: don't wait till you can't use Windows anymore. Start by dual booting and getting a hang of Linux, but with windows at the ready for any tasks you cannot yet do/feel comfortable doing on Linux. As you get a better hold of Linux, you should naturally begin to use Windows less.

The worst thing someone can do, is to jump OS without any backup or safety net. Learning to use Windows took a long time, getting a hang of new concepts and getting used to an alien environment. Now, already having a hang of "computers" (Windows), we have digital needs and expectations (E-Mail, gaming, etc.) which will need fulfilling, but many seem to forget that a different OS means different ways of doing our daily tasks and different challenges to handle.

And yes, "different", because Windows definitely also comes with it's own unique challenges, you just don't see them as much when having gotten used to them.

We just had a "once every 100-years" storm surge last fall. Many islands in the southern Danish archipelago were not properly prepared and saw their dikes flood (including my birthplace, and yes, I know others have so much worse conditions, but we are/were rather well protected here in the Baltic sea). There was some damage, not least to some endangered species habitats that the Copenhagen zoo was keeping, and many islands will have to seek an exception with the cultural preserverance agency to be allowed to repair their dikes.

On the bright side, the flood has seen to the fire and flood equipment being checked, meaning that we now have proper portable flood pumps. Even though they at first sent pumps too large to be loaded onto the ferry. Derp. :)

Hopefully this will not repeat for another 100 years, but many of us islanders are not so sure with global warming, so we might have to evacuate and give up the smaller islands within my lifetime if such floods become a common occurance.

And of course we could just replace our 200+ year old dirt and stone dikes and less old water locks with modern concrete and steel dikes, but I think we'll have a hard time convincing the state to put in the required resources for a <10 people community. Even Ærø, one of the larger islands with a population of ~6000, has had problems with dike maintenance.

I guess my advice would be the normal stuff: keep some bottled water and long term food that can be eaten cold, keep a battery bank for your phone, blankets and a bucket, know how to get to your rooftop when in the attic (will hopefully never be necessary in the baltic sea), have a good pair of waders and a good flashlight. And of course, know how to quickly contact any other inhabitants in your local area if necessary.

The current DnD system does definitely have a combat system and enough rules to get you started, though it's way less rule-heavy than most Warhammer, Shadowrunner, and even previous DnD PnP systems I've played. It feels more like starting guidelines than a proper system.

I've considered playing stars without numbers and Fate Core, which should apparently be a very rule-light PnP system, though haven't gotten around to them yet.

There's always been the balance between war gamers and role players (not limited to DnD). War gaming can be fun, but I don't think DnD is especially geared toward it. Likewise, role playing is nice, but those hardcore no-meta (at all, there is no way to have a laugh ooc) aren't my thing either.

When starting a new campaign, I like to ask whether the players prefer role-playing or roll-playing. This also serves as a nice ice breaker for discussing meta.

If you have problems finding a proper DnD group with little role playing, you might want to check out other game systems which focus less on it. Warhammer (including the Pen and Paper systems) seems to focus more on the numbers and strategy aspect.

Not that you can't roll-play in DnD, you just need to find the right group and campaign. A friend of mine once made a campaign where we started in the room we were currently sitting in, but with the stats on our papers, where our world was being invaded by demons. So it's definite possible to be yourself.

Green, blue, and brown are already compatible (or at least green and brown are, except ground), though I'm not sure about yellow and red.

I'm do not understand why it would not be able to charge with a X to USB-C.

As far as I'm aware, even if one of the two connected devices (such as charger and flashlight) doesn't have a proper chip for agreeing on voltage, it will just default to 5v. The only thing that should prevent that is a damaged (as in no + or - connection) cable. Even if the data connections are damaged, it should still charge in slow-mode.

Needless to say, I have never experienced that problem even with cheap china cables/chargers, except, of course, for damaged cables.

Edit: There would be one other scenario, being that one cannot charge a device by connecting it to another device which is not capable of charging, such as connecting the flashlight to your computers' charge-only port.

And yes, I'm from the EU. :)

Edit2: from reading the other comments, I have come to understand that there indeed exist cables which are not capable of properly transferring power, though it boggles my mind as to why.

Haven't tried to use the printer for curing. I built my own curing box using a decommissioned microwave, some spare wood and mirrors, and a rather powerful UV source.

I guess you could build yourself a mirror box to hold the object and place it on the printer instead of using a separate UV source.

The printer should be able to handle the generated heat, so I don't think you'll see increased wear.

I have a friend who also stutters, or, I found out he stutters after knowing him for a few months.

Apparently he uses a similar technique where he "sings" what he wants to say in a slightly higher-pitched voice when talking in a professional setting. He sounds totally normal when using it, but you're not in doubt when he doesn't.

I'm sure it took a lot of training to master it.

it should be supported.

Don't we also use AI to fold proteins and make new medicines such as antibiotics? If not, then we should probably see if we could.

Would you be surprised if I told you I use Android too?

Sadly my Samsung TV doesn't use Linux, and the Steam Link app just got discontinued. :(

I have no clue why you had to include an image, but it appears you broke rule 6 in doing so.

I haven't owned many tablets so far, but can't you get some tablets with SIM-slots? What would prevent one from just using such a tablet as a phone?

I might have been very lucky. I've barely seen anything negative than when people post factually incorrect or potentially dangerous/bricking stuff.

Though, I do keep a healthy distance from the Ubuntu and Arch forums.

Not relevant to the question, but the overuse of hearts makes it seem like they play more on feelings than on logic. Kinda feels like a cult.

That must have been very painful for the cats. Feline legs are not supposed to bend that way.

The rich Americans are seldomly native Amaricans, so the meme is right about the immigrants holding all the money.

Right, I thought it was a group of employees doing this over an extended period of time, might not be a fair comparison after all then.

Not that it's a fair comparison to begin with, I just held a similar amount of annoyance toward the two.

OP might be talking about the steam link app, and not the steam link. But yes, the post is confusing.

Can't talk for anyone else, but I put them in the same category as PETA.

They probably do a lot of good, but it feels like the good they do is outweighed by all the bad they do to get there.

Like kidnapping collared dogs from the streets to euthanize them (PETA), or fighting the (at the time) only realistic alternative to oil, giving all the rich oil sheiks a hard on and adding to the already bad global warming problem (Greenpeace).