The Bard in Green @ thebardingreen @lemmy.starlightkel.xyz

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10/10. Would watch.

Believe it or not, I had a girl read me that fanfic in 2003. It didn't turn me on, so she lost interest in me. True story.

Nothing pisses me off in life more than when some Bronze Age PoS fortifies a Phalanx on a goddamn mountain, pillages my mine, throws the nearby city into civil disorder and I attack it with 3 Mechanized Infantry units and it fricken' kills all three of them.

It depends. I run an instance with a whole two users and it costs me about $25 a month.

But if I let 200 users join, I would need beefier hardware and a higher bandwidth limit.

However running an instance like Beehaw is probably on the order of hundreds, not thousands of dollars a month.

• sshfs. I use it for everything.
• autossh
• git. It always annoys me how Debian doesn't come with it out of the box. Gets me every time I set up a new server.
• Signal desktop app.

You don't say anything about the operating system you're using.

I like Qubes for this use case. You have one Qube that handles your USB devices and then you can move data in and out of that Qube whatever way feels safest. If we're talking documents, spreadsheets and / or text files, cutting and pasting the text is a pretty safe option. If were talking image or video files, you could re encode them with imagemagick or ffmpeg before copying them between Qubes. PDFs are a bit of a tougher nut to crack. And software is... well... software.

But Qubes is a very troubleshoot it yourself OS.

This is the best answer.

I miss weird niche creative silly roleplay reddits like

r/vxjunkies

r/enlightenedbirdmen / r/madmudmen

r/earth999

r/nsfwworldbuilding - mostly bees with boobs

Felipe's Pizza Grotto

6th Level Conjuration

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: touch

Target: An empty dead end corridor in a dungeon or cave.

Components: V

Duration: Four hours or until everyone in the party is stuffed and can't possibly eat another bite, or until it's clear they aren't going to order and the maitre d looses patience with them, or until the maitre d is destroyed or dispelled. Whichever comes first.

Classes: Wizard, Sorcerer

Carrying all those rations around in the dungeon is hard, plus good luck finding a safe, peaceful place to sit and eat them. Felipe's Pizza Grotto can only be cast in an underground environment, in a "dead end".

The stone walls in a 40ft by 40ft area shift and morph, becoming a pleasant dining establishment. The tantalizing smells of garlic, cheese, spiced meats and baking bread waft through the space. Small marble fountains, statues and potted plants appear, along with tasteful oil paintings on the walls. A counter appears, behind which is a fully stocked kitchen with a wood fired pizza oven, and a wine cabinet. A number of tables will appear, scattered around the space and stools will pop into existence in front of the counter. The whole space is lit with small glass oil lamps and candles. A stone wall with a stout wooden door appears, blocking off the passageway. A maitre d appears blocking the door, asking all who approach if they have a reservation. Any the caster designates will be allowed to enter, all others will be turned away (the maitre d has the stats of a Spectral Guardian).

If the caster and anyone accompanying them do not sit at a table on their own, the maitre d will attempt to show them to a table and will become agitated if they don't cooperate. They will become hostile and berate any characters who have not taken a seat within 5 minutes of entering the grotto.

Once the characters sit down, a waiter will appear with menus, listing every delicacy you would expect to find in a high class restaurant of the sort that serves dishes involving bread, cheese, pasta and garlicky tomato sauce. However, the menu primarily features specialty and build your own pizzas and the waiter will look down their nose and act snooty toward anyone who orders anything else (appetizers, wine, dinner salad and desserts are all acceptable, I recommend the garlic knots and the minestrone soup personally). The waiter will not engage in combat and will disappear if attacked (however, this draws the ire of the maitre d, as does any other interference with the grotto's operations).

Once all characters have placed orders, the various utensils behind the counter spring to life, acting as if wielded by invisible chefs. The pizza ovens flair to life, ingredients appear and are chopped by levitating knives. Dry pasta flies into pots of magically boiling water. Pizza dough hurls itself into the air and spins around, coming down in a classic, flat round shape, before levitating spoons begin ladling tomato sauce onto it and hovering cheese graters cover it in fresh mozzarella, Parmesan and provolone.

When the food is ready, the waiter will supervise a group of levitating delivery trays and serve it to the characters in the grotto. Each character will receive exactly what they ordered and the execution, preparation and presentation will be flawless, the finest chefs in all the land would find no fault with it.

As the characters are eating, both the waiter and the maitre d will repeatedly stop by their table to ask how their food is tasting and if they need anything else. The waiter will refill water and wine glasses and bread baskets. When everyone seems to be slowing down, the waiter will ask if anyone saved room for dessert and will recommend the cheese cake. Any complaints will be handled with a mix of professionalism and haughtiness worthy of food service professionals who KNOW their food is top notch, but also want their customers to leave satisfied.

If any character is lingering over their food or failing to eat it, the maitre d and the waiter will become agitated and start pestering them, asking if their meal is to their liking or they can get them anything else. If this goes on for too long, they will glare at the whole party impatiently, while unoccupied chairs levitate up and stack themselves on tables and hovering brooms start sweeping the floor. The fire in the pizza oven will go out, and the waiter will begin pointedly snuffing the candles and asking anyone lingering over their meal if they need a to-go box. Once the spell ends, the grotto vanishes and the cavern returns to normal. Food in to-go boxes persists, but is cold, disappointing and somehow less nourishing than when eaten in the grotto.

At the GMs option, characters leaving the grotto may be fatigued from the sheer amount of food they have consumed, and may be required to make constitution saves in order continue their exploration of the dungeon prior to resting.

What about Dave's Famous Bread?

The spell I want is my personal favorite restaurant Felipe's Pizza Grotto. I'm pretty sure I know exactly what that one does.

Damn it, idiots both in the US and Israel will see that as a sign from God.

Maxolx / Kzin / Kilrathi - Always gonna start shit with humans, always gonna have a tech edge, always gonna be arrogant and convinced of their own superiority, always gonna lose.

If it's me, my nose is just itchy, and I'm not even thinking about it, or aware I'm doing it. Happens all the time.

If there was EVER a movie where they could conjure an excuse for Jackman to show off his Broadway chops while in character as Wolverine, I feel like Deadpool is it.

How about Reagon / Carter? El Salvadore Death Squads? School of the Americas?

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

They'll beat you, bash you, squish you, mash you

Chew you up for brunch

And finish you off for dinner or lunch

They're marching down the halls

They're crawling up the walls

They're gooey, gushy, squishy, mushy

Rotten to the core

They're standing outside your door

Remember Herbert Farbage

While taking out his garbage

He turned around and he did see

Tomatoes hiding in his tree

Now he's just a memory

I know I'm going to miss her

A tomato ate my sister

Sacramento fell today

They're marching into San Jose

Tomatoes are on their way

The mayor is on vacation

The governor's fled the nation

The police have gone on strike today

The National Guard has run away

Tomatoes will have their day

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

They'll beat you, bash you, squish you, mash you

Chew you up for brunch

And finish you off for dinner or lunch munch munch

Dinner or lunch munch munch

Dinner or lunch

I think making hay out of this problem when it's a niche case nothing burger, especially in a thread full of linux hate, is... Call it what ever you want but...

As I said earlier, I wasn't trying to be insulting, you were coming across in a certain way in the context you were posting in.

Linux has always been a DIY operating system, for very good reason. The compatibility decisions you're talking about were made for very good reasons. There's an easy solution, anyone having this problem (SUPER rare for most users) can reach out and use.

Got 7yuv running on Linux Mint in under 15 minutes. If you consider using Docker to be cheating, consider me a cheater, but I stand by my statement that this is a niche problem affecting a niche group of users, there are even easy solutions.

Give me an example or two of a GUI program that you'd want to run, that doesn't have a maintained version that will run fine in a modern environment, that you're actually frustrated because you can't run it.

We can bitch about how dependency systems work all day. I want to try to install something with a sane use case and see what we're on about, since this is literally a scenario I have barely run into. I gather that for me to run into it, I would have to practically go looking for it. Which to me, sounds like a very specific problem for a very specific subset of users, not a general problem worth paint brushing the entire ecosystem with.

I encountered an engineering firm that did this. I wanted to do it too.

The company I worked for at the time (said engineering firm was doing subcontracting for us) was full of older business people who could never in a million years have wrapped their heads around the idea.