So I love Debian but it prides itself on stability so packages tend to be older. I think this is good for a server but probably not great for a desktop. Ubuntu came along and was like we’ll be like Debian but newer packages. Everything was cool for a while but then they started doing shitty things. The first that I can think of was ads in the terminal. This was not great for an open source app. Then when you did apt install firefox it installed Firefox as a snap. WTF?!?!? (apt should install .deb files, not snaps). Because of this, lately I’ve decided to avoid Ubuntu.

I used Gentoo for a while and it was great but configuring and compiling everything took forever. I’m getting too old for that. Arch seems like a good alternative for people who want to mess with their system. So it’s become a way for people to claim they know what they are doing without having to recompile everything. (Note: I haven’t used Arch, this is just my perception)

Recently I got a new laptop and I had decided to put Linux on it and had to decide what distro. Arch was in consideration but I ended up going with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because it’s got the latest but I don’t really have to configure anything. If I had more time, I might go with something like Arch but I don’t really want to do that much fiddling right now.

Yeah, I actually just started looking at running windows in a containet on Linux and then using RDP, hopefully I’ll get a chance to play with it this week… would let me run windows things without rebooting!

Yeah, I’ve tried it and it kindof worked last I tried. I had an issue where the browser in the upper left just wouldn’t expand and it keeps giving me warnings about direct x expiring. I was hoping to use it but I don’t know if Fusion on Wine is really ready for prime time. :(

Oh, I’ve been a Linux user for a long time, mostly on the server, not as a Desktop. Unfortunately Fusion 360 kindof runs under wine but not really so it’s still the one thing I have to reboot for.

The big thing for me is a hotkey which launches a window I can put in an application (partial is fine) or command and it starts or runs the command… so I do <Ctrl>+<Space>dark and it launches darktable. You can also have plugins that do things. So for example, after I upload my .torrent files, I delete them locally. So I have a rm command which just runs rm ~/Downloads/*.torrent.

Yes, I could click on the menu, type in the command I’m looking for but this is a little quicker. Plugins also allow you to do complicated tasks quickly.

I dunno, I’ve gotten used to it.

Seriously, Ubuntu used to be my goto distro but Canonical’s shenanigans have caused me to look elsewhere. So far I’m liking OpenSUSE tumbleweed.

Seriously, I thought I’d need to install something or configure something, nope, one toggle in Steam. I think everyone who uses Steam and Linux should know about this!

Yeah, I’m just so used to Fusion that it’s hard for me to make the switch. I’m probably going to get tired of rebooting and start looking at FreeCAD 1.0.

Most (all?) of the board game manufacturing is done in China. The equipment to make the boards is all made in China. Even if manufacturers wanted to manufacture in the US or elsewhere, they would have to import the equipment in from China which would be subject to tariffs and be a significant up front cost.

A lot of manufacturers have come out and said this will be bad for the industry as a whole. Underdog games is already having layoffs, Final Frontier Games is shutting down and is blaming CMON as the final nail in the coffin. I don’t think they were doing well in the first place but I’m sure tariffs didn’t help.

Sleeve Kings has an interesting article on the tariffs which claim 70% of their business is US based and 100% of their manufacturing is done in China. Their tariffs went from 0% in December to currently 104%. Stonemaier games has a good article called The Math of Tariffs which outlines a lot of issues. Cephalofair Games has a good article on backerkit titled Tariffs & Tabletop.

There’s so many articles like this, I could go on but I think you get the point. The US is a huge market and costs in the US are going to rise or people aren’t even going to try. A lot of board games are already expensive, slap a tariff on them and they are out of reach for a lot of people and they will look elsewhere. And all this is just on manufacturing, this isn’t even starting on what’s going on with local retailers.

This will also affect people outside of the US because the US is such a huge market. I think initially you might see shipments destined for the US go elsewhere to avoid the tariffs but then things will start to dry up.

I hope these tariffs go away but if they don’t, I think you’ll see the used market increase. Personally I have a big wall of shame so I have a bunch of games I’ve never played so sitting out the next 4 years shouldn’t be a problem for me but I don’t think I’ll like what happens on the other side of things.

This is sure to help food prices go down! /s

He flared the wrong way… he was supposed to bring the nose of the plane up, but he got it confused with the wing.

https://archive.is/J31rj

Tori Amos commented on the allegations:

And if the allegations are true, that’s not the Neil that I knew, that’s not the friend that I knew, nor a friend that I ever want to know. So in some ways it’s a heartbreaking grief. I never saw that side of Neil. Neither did my crew. And my crew has seen a lot.

Gaiman is the godfather to one of her kids and apparently she was pretty close to him. If she didn’t know, I feel like Terry Pratchett wouldn’t have known either. This isn’t like with Epstein where association implies knowledge of what was going on. After reading all that I have on the allegations, I’m comfortable believing that Pratchett wouldn’t have known anything about the alleged sexual assault and if he knew anything, it was that Gaiman was known to sleep around… consensually… with adults. (Because apparently this seems to be known among people close to him… including that he and Palmer allegedly had an open marriage)

So unless further info comes out that indicates otherwise, I will continue to enjoy Pratchett’s works.

Freeze your grapes… wash them and pull them off the stem and lay them on a baking sheed in the freezer. Grapes will last longer and they taste good frozen.

https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure-cooker-chicken-stock-recipe

tl;dr: 45min on high, let natural release, skim off fat. When it’s done I just strain it and then let it cool and then freeze it.

Also a pressure cooker works really well for making stock.

Same with firefox

It’s not illegal to modify a gun, it’s illegal to modify a gun into a gun that meets certain criteria to then become illegal. The crime isn’t modification of the gun, the crime is the possession of a (now) illegal gun.

No, in your case the crime isn’t the fact that you modified the rifle, the crime is that you modified it into an illegal version of the rifle. The crime is possession of a full auto rifle.

If I take a rifle that was setup for one caliber and modify it so it can shoot a different caliber, that’s not illegal.

yes? you can legally purchase a plane without a license… did you read my comment? purchasing != using. You don’t need a pilot “under current contract” you could buy a plane and taxi it around the airport if you want without any licenses.