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  • Or don't, and just pick what sounds fun!

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    YouTube limits Video Viewing for Ad blocker Users
  • I've been sitting pretty with both uBlock Origin and uMatrix stopping both the ads and the delay from YouTube. Not sure what exactly is doing which, but it's been working for me

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    Pizza, people
  • Switch to calzones, they're better.

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    Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China
  • The only thing stopping them is their own incompetency. Truly a thin wall, but as their older generations start dying off we'll see that wall broken down.

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    House Votes to Oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker: Live Updates - The New York Times
  • Which, as history shows, is a tenuous proposition at best.

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    Why Are Pepper Grinders A Thing In Restaurants?
  • Should give you an idea of the quality of the coffee at Starbucks, I guess. One step above diner coffee here in the States, but that's not really saying much.

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    Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform
  • Would it be pronounced "sh-it" or "z-it"?

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    Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform
  • Quick, tell him that on Twitter! Maybe he'll actually do it and we'll finally be rid of his godawful grandstanding.

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    Home composting question: high quantities of egg shells per week
  • Try garbanzo bean water, or aquafaba, using unsalted canned garbanzo beans. The protein chains in the water function very similarly to egg whites.

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    Desk Garden
  • Hardly ever. The leaves store water, and it thrives in arid conditions. I'd water it about as often as a snake plant.

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    Fake Cisco Webex Google Ads abuse tracking templates to push malware
  • Joke's on them, I use uBlock Origin and uMatrix.

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  • So I wanted a bit of greenery at my desk, and decided to set up a small garden. It's coming along! The plants in order from left to right, top to bottom:

    • Sansevieria Trifasciata
    • Tradescantia Zebrina
    • Mentha Suaveolens
    • Hypoestes Phyllostachya
    • Hoya Carnosa
    • Portulacaria Afra

    I had a problem with spider mites, but hopefully by taking cuttings of the mint and dumping the rest of the plant we're all good.

    (Second time attempting this post, phones are not great with posting images.)

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    Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom
  • They did. It's called the Vita and it's still amazing even after Sony dumped it. I have one a friend cracked for me, and any game I could possibly want to play runs at a crisp 50 fps with no fluctuation. If only they had marketed it better.

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  • It's kind of wild to think about, that the brain drain that happened to Russia with the rest of Europe in the 1950s is now happening between states here in the US.

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    Japan launches moon lander and X-ray observatory
  • I'm pretty sure this has something to do with using the Moon as a jumping-off point to the rest of the solar system. Assuming we can get a functioning colony on the Moon, it will be significantly easier and cheaper to get to Mars and potentially other planets as well. This might just be something I heard from a friend of a friend though, so don't quote me on it.

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    So you've beat Baldurs Gate 3, well now it's time you had a real DnD Adventure!
  • My suggestion for balancing encounters? Don't. As long as the monsters and traps feel appropriate, full balancing is unnecessary. There's a couple reasons for this. One, your players will escape or beat situations in ways that you could never have imagined, and; two, if things get too hard and everyone's really struggling, you can scale back the encounter and even fudge dice rolls if it makes narrative sense to do so. Deus Ex Machina is not off the table either, for D&D at least. Remember, your players are heroes: something saving them right as all hope was lost is par for the course. The only time characters should die permanently imo is when it makes for a compelling story.

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    Engineers Just Made Concrete 30% Stronger. The Secret Ingredient? Coffee.
  • And I've already reported it as misinformation. Nice when a website lets you report stuff without having an account.

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  • So after reading a number of posts and comments on here about Linux, I've decided to give 'er a go. I have access to an Azure VM, but I have never done anything involving Unix before and have only a basic understanding of coding in general.

    Where do I even start? The most daunting thing for me is command line script, as it seems I have to memorize close to 150 common commands and their functions. Is there a set of tools or free classes that would make it easier for me to understand, or should I just get stuck in there? I was planning on using Pop!_OS since I do a lot of gaming and it seems like the closest thing Ubuntu has for that purpose.

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    What is your favorite TTRPG that isn't DnD?
  • My favorites are Blades in the Dark, Savage Worlds, and Wushu.

    Blades' setting is extremely fun to mess around in, think Dishonored. It's a Powered by the Apocalypse game, so if you know that style it's pretty simple to pick up.

    Savage Worlds lets you make up a lot of your own settings, abilities, races, etc. much easier than D&D, and includes a unique upgrading dice system for stats. It also houses Deadlands, which is one of my favorite settings of all time.

    Wushu is essentially just old Chinese/Japanese martial arts films boiled down into a game. Super fun, extremely fast, and limited only by your imagination. It is really rules-light so keep that in mind. I think the entire rules are about 18 pages long, and the rest of the book is optional rules and settings.

    Honorable mentions go to Call of Cthulhu because Eldritch horror is my jam and Vampire: the Masquerade because sometimes I want to get political with my urban fantasy! Oh, and Fucked-Up Little Man because one-page Dark Souls RPG funny.

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  • Finger limes are an unusual fruit that has caviar-like flesh and pops in your mouth. They come in all kinds of interior colors, and sound amazing. I've been trying to find some in California, but they're native to Australia and I haven't seen any even in specialty stores. Does anyone know where I might find them here?

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