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boatswain, to technology in Welcome to Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter

Seems like a weird and random assortment of items. Why was Google Hangouts mentioned, but not Gmail? What about Discord, Slack, etc? Or smart TVs? Almost felt more like guerrilla advertising for a few niche products.

boatswain, to technology in The cult of Obsidian: Why people are obsessed with the note-taking app

CherryTree is way clunkier, IMO, and has too many irrelevant options that get in the way, particularly around formatting. Obsidian is just markdown, so you don’t have the option of spending 15 minutes trying to figure out why code blocks are showing up as dark text on light background even though you’re in dark mode, which was my last experience in CherryTree. Looking and cross referencing documents is also super easy; I’m not sure if CherryTree even does that.

boatswain, (edited ) to asklemmy in Americans, how would you feel about making student loans completely illegal?

In general, I’m opposed to the idea. College professors don’t work for free, and colleges have to pay them.

Professors don’t make up near as much of the bill as the administrators and coaches that pull down 7-figure salaries. There’s almost as much bloat in the US University system as in US Healthcare. The answer to both is the same: they should ideally be free. Failing that, it should be illegal for either to be profitable businesses.

boatswain, to asklemmy in What small (borderline silly) things you appreciate?

Vim is sorcery: you choose mystic incantations from your eldritch knowledge on the fly and suddenly your text is doing exactly what you want.

boatswain, to technology in Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble

The question you’re responding to isn’t about the mobile app for Firefox; it’s about the mobile app for Amazon. Apparently lots of other people misread that too, so at least you’re in good company.

boatswain, to dnd in How do you feel about the rules regarding bonus action spells, and why?

Yikes; I’ve got one player who would go straight for a Sorcerer so he could just do Sickening Radiance followed by a quickened Wall of Force to just microwave whatever he wanted.

boatswain, to technology in Windows 12 May Require a Subscription

Mint was always my go to; feels just enough like the best parts of Windows to be immediately comfortable. Didn’t have any problems until I switched to bleeding edge hardware; since then, I’ve been on Garuda, which had also been fine but more fiddly.

boatswain, to dnd in Help needed: how do YOU do things?

For the game I run, we’re just remote, even though we’re all in the same town and could be in person. For the group I’m a player in, we sometimes do remote, sometimes in person. When we play in person, then DM keeps Foundry on the TV. We bring laptops so we can interact with it.

As a side note one of the things I love about Foundry is how well it pairs with Dungeondraft, which is also purchase-once rather than subscription based. Makes it really easy to have custom maps

boatswain, to asklemmy in What is it with services now separating username and password fields?

So exposing information about users (how they log in) without authenticating that you’re someone authorized to have that information?

The better way to do this is to just have “log in with Google” or whatever buttons.

boatswain, to guildwars2 in One Living World update per quarter feels like too little.

They aren’t doing Living World any more though, are they? I thought the plan was one smaller expansion a year, then quarterly updates?

boatswain, to dnd in Favourite adventures for level 3 and up PCs?

Rime of the Frostmaiden looks really cool (no pun intended), but I haven’t gotten to actually run it 'cause I’m doing a huge homebrew thing.

boatswain, to asklemmy in what is the webp vulnerability?

The one s couple of weeks ago also affected Firefox: thehackernews.com/…/mozilla-rushes-to-patch-webp-…

boatswain, to privacy in The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity

Thanks! I’ve got a server at home for media stuff at the moment; I was going to throw the Home Assistant software on there too. I’ll look into hubs, and hope that Phillips doesn’t lock me out of my lightbulbs before that shows up.

boatswain, to privacy in The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity

I think what they’re saying is that you can buy that hub and continue to use your existing Hue products. Or are you saying that you can currently use them through Home Assistant without that hub? I’m curious because I’ve got a bunch of Hue bulbs and I’m looking into swapping over to Home Assistant because of this license change, and it’s not clear to me what I need in order to do that.

boatswain, to asklemmy in why do americans seem to always have thick necks in photographs?

It’s where we store our excess Freedom

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