DashboTreeFrog

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[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wish I remembered... Honestly, they had a pretty perfect run getting two gardevoirs and and indeedee up while I was struggling to pull anything beyond basic pokemon so they made quick work of me. By the time I had anything good they were already past 300 max hp I think

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lol, I battled a deck like yours recently (maybe it was even you, who knows) and I was completely helpless. Reuniclus is definitely OP with the right supporters set up

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A bit of context for the Indonesian one, the way "moon" is used there is similar to month, so it's basically "the time of the month is here" said as "datang bulan"

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hell yeah on the Cosmere books.

I'm going through yet another reread of "Way of Kings" at the moment, the first of Brandon Sanderson's "Stormlight Archive". Something recently had me thinking about Kaladin's overall arc so I'm basically speeding through focusing on his story.

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Not to mention XDCC over IRC

Exactly why I signed up to dropout.tv despite a bunch of trouble signing up. For some reason, my card kept getting declined, and I spent over a month going back and forth with my bank figuring it out. In my part of the world, paying YouTube to become a member of their channel and get all the same content would have been way cheaper and WAAAAYY less hassle, but fuck if I'm gonna give YouTube money when I can give it directly to the creators.

I second this. Been using their Nova 3 model for a good long while now and love it, been telling people it's one of my favorite tech purchases ever. Running android and being able to sideload things is a gamechanger for e-readers.

Check out the channel My Deep Guide on YouTube for in depth reviews of the latest Onyx Boox offerings and how they compare to others though before you buy, apparently some weirdness in their newest model

I don't feel like nobody can understand my POV. I grew up moving country to country and my classmates growing up led similar lives and probably had similar POVs. It was only in college that I realized most people lived their whole childhoods in one city, not counting vacations.

I think you'd be interested in looking into the concept of "Third Culture Kids". I think the original book may be a bit outdated and lack some of the complexity of modern globalization, but it definitely made me realize a lot of things about myself when I read the book the first time way back.

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 21 points 2 months ago

I'm really hoping more adoption of Ubuntu Touch and other alternative mobile OSs will come from this, and with that, more support and development to make them feasible alternatives for the average user

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I feel like they've been talking about this since I was a kid. I remember reading in school about phytoplankton as a carbon sink and how it can be used to fight climate change back in the early 2000's, or am I losing my mind?

Edit after reading more carefully. Yes they've been working on it, it's the potential side effects that are the big deal

Researchers have long known that adding iron to the sea leads to blooms of phytoplankton (back in the 1980s, one scientist declared: “Give me a half tanker of iron, and I will give you an ice age”),

[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Weird, working fine for me on Voyager

 

If I'm not sharing, I just drop them back into the bucket/bag. If I'm sharing, I'll just eat them.

Recently though a bucket I was sharing had so many unpopped kernels I started worrying for my gut. Had me wondering how everyone else handles this.

So how does everyone handle unpopped kernels?

 

Any recommendations for something like "Amusing Ourselves to Death" but written after the internet became mainstream?

Something recently had me thinking about the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" that made me want to give it a re-read, and as relevant as the main ideas still are for today, I wondered if there is a more recent book that is just as well received on the topic of society's addiction to amusement.

 

I can't stop laughing but I also have no friends who read Stormlight to share this with 😭

 

Nowadays I find a lot of games feel like too much work and/or anxiety when I just want to relax for like, 30 minutes to an hour after a long day. On the other hand, the games specifically designed to help you unwind just feel boring imo.

In the past I've felt like Outer Wilds scratched this itch, cause the whole experience was engaging but generally relaxed. There was a mystery that kept me hooked and the exploration and movement was fun in and of itself. I also felt like Subnautica filled this role since it was very much at my own pace, with anxiety producing portions which could for the most part be avoided or minimized, and also there was a clear objective to fulfill, get off the planet.

So what games do you play when you just wanna relax?

 

Complete Linux noob so apologies if anything I say or ask about sounds dumb.

I want to start making the switch to Linux and I've got most things figured out I think. I plan on putting either Mint or Fedora on my old Surface Go gen 1 because it's not critical for my work and potentially losing some functionality there won't cause huge issues, but my main use of it right now is taking notes on Onenote that I can then view and edit from my other devices as well.

Looking into Onenote and alternatives on Linux, I keep running into comments about the lack of handwriting support or no straightforward answers about stylus support. Anything Lemmy recommends I try? Also, any advice on running Linux on the Surface Go in general is welcome. Found some resources already but doesn't seem like people do this often.

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