On desktop I really like Vimium. It enables keyboard navigation on basically any site

…Or to go first bright flashes in the distance

I have a PineNote tablet which is built on a RK3566 and I quite enjoy it. It’s a neat ereader/tablet hybrid that runs regular Linux (Debian) and has an e-ink screen

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”

-Blade Runner (1982)

This is the one I use on my work PC: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Mostly what it does is change things back to how they were on older Windows versions. E.g. the start menu is aligned to the left corner instead of the center. It is great at removing unnecessary bloat apps like Xbox Game Bar, and disabling various telemetry and ads such as the spam Bing search in the start menu.

I also found that PC had an annoying driver suite (resource hog) called something like “AMD Adrenaline Edition” that the debloat script missed. I had to uninstall the factory graphics driver and reinstall the “minimal, driver only” version from AMD.

Use at your own risk of course. Microsoft often breaks these things with Windows updates

A very similar thing happened to me a while back. Mine was “only” a 10% pay cut but it was extremely demotivating.

Of course, since I was in the US I had no such thing as a tribunal

It sure looks like a Dell XPS to me. Those old XPS cases were nonstandard so it was very hard to upgrade the parts later on.

eMachines had cases that look like that too back in 2006

For some reason on the controller UI equipped items are still shown in your inventory. They just have a little helmet icon in the corner to show that they’re currently equipped.

So when you’re selling the 100 Road-Dust Grey Clothes it’s really easy to also select your camp clothes and underwear

I think that one predates YouTube. I remember first watching it on a friends computer who shared his files during a LAN party

Yep. I’m on Debian for many years now. Every broken update I can recall was either caused by an undocumented PPA or nvidia drivers (which have finally been fixed, for my card at least)

What is the trigger for that chatter? I assumed it was actually an indication that you have a scene in the queue to play at the next long rest, but that doesn’t seem to be the case

Gale is such a sweetheart. I agreed to gay romance him mostly for the lulz but I found myself really moved by how gentle and caring he is.

Although his interaction with the wizard in the tower in act 3 was somewhat less wholesome lol

I have heard of people disassembling laptop battery packs which are apparently made of multiple 18650 cells, which are a super common standardized part that can be sourced very affordably. Then they simply replace the cells and keep the original battery enclosure and charging circuitry.

However, Chromebooks tend to be built for planned obsolescence, so it may very well be a one of a kind part

Plus it was usually yellowed and sticky with nicotine tar

TIL about soy chorizo and it sounds amazing 🤤

For a moment I thought that was the githyanki egg rather than a watermelon

Way back when, Slashdot had something like this to place in your signature. It was a code string that looked like a PGP/GPG signature but the letters were actually personal details.

I recall you could encode age, gender, and relationship status in it, and I think location and whether you worked in the tech industry

Save often and don’t worry about save scumming. There are a lot of gotcha traps, especially in the early game, that are funny when they don’t wreck all your progress by propelling you into a bottomless pit.

The game lets you save just about any time, even in dialog right before you pick something to say. Don’t worry too much about failing dialog choices though. Even a failed roll still gives you interesting story. Some interactions might only happen if you failed your roll.

But again, save often because the game can have bugs and can crash or mechanics can work differently than you expect.

There are almost no quests that have a time limit where they count how many long rests you’ve taken. Most of them the game will give you an indication that time is running out, but even if you ignore it the story still makes sense - you’re just too late to finish a quest a certain way.

Almost all quests don’t actually care about time so you can long rest whenever you like and in fact you should rest more often than most gamers probably do because a lot of the story events happen when you sleep.

Often the best tactic in combat is to run away, especially on higher difficulty settings.

P.S. If you’re playing with a controller (e.g. on console) there’s a puzzle in act two that is broken. If you get stuck on a puzzle with colorful lines and brains, it’s not because you’re dumb but because you have to click the left thumb stick to enter precision mode to click things like a computer mouse. Otherwise the things you need to click to solve the puzzle are too far away from the character and you can’t complete it

Actually, it’s implied in lore that Bhaal, the god of murder, is the one who cums. Into your mouth. I’m not making it up

11/11/11 is the Skyrim epoch