Yeeeeaah…I’m done with D&D and WotC. As is most often the case, when a thing I like becomes a giant megacorporation they start doing shitty things to the people that got them there in the first place. TTRPGs are a truly vast hobby, and I see no reason to give my support and business to a company willing to fuck over it’s fanbase to make extra money - not when there are so many other great games/companies to support.
Have you taken a look at SimpleX? I ditched Signal in favor of it - AND it’s FOSS!
I’ve replaced Signal with SimpleX, and for SMS I use Simple SMS Messenger.
I’m a huge fan of this show! Hands down the funniest show I’ve ever seen, with TONS of little hidden things (that are hilarious) scattered throughout each episode. Every time I watch it, I find something new that cracks me up. I really, really wish they would have continued the series, but sadly we will only ever have six episodes of this gem… :(
You don’t have to worry about that. Microsoft will continue to make inroads into the Open Source community, hiring away all of the talented programmers and quietly assimilating the most useful projects and then turn around and make it all proprietary. If you think I’m full of it, let me remind you that this is EXACTLY Google’s business model - and it works.
The pandemic woke a lot of people up in more ways than one. The re-emergence of unions and the struggle for worker autonomy after a nearly 50-year hiatus all across the country is a direct result of workers realizing how little their health and wellbeing actually matter to their employers - and they are (rightfully) pissed off about it.
It’s pretty difficult to truly understand circumstances that one has never experienced. Sure, you can read about them or watch a movie, etc…but there will always be something lacking that will likely prove pretty jarring if one should ever be in a position to experience the real thing. At best, we create elaborate fantasies in our minds to accommodate the gaps in our experience - and that’s usually when reality slaps us in the face. =)
Maybe this will help?
I understand the privacy aspects of TOR, and I fully support the idea of the TOR Browser, but holy jumped-up jesus on a birch-bark canoe is it fucking slow…
When it takes, on average, almost five minutes for ANY webpage I try to access to load, that’s just not a useable browser, imho. This is 2022, not 1995.
SearX.org is what I’ve switched to. I quite like it so far. Open Source and highly customizable and more private than the others out there.
Yes, yes, I’ve heard all of this many times before. It still does not change the fact that leftists in this country are a divided and disillusioned lot. We can’t get out of our own way long enough to get any real work done. At least that’s what I’ve seen for the most part over the last 30 years. There’s no real unity, which was my original point. And until there is, we’re all just spinning our wheels. Careful study and research is great, but is far too often a cowardly excuse for inaction.
I’ve used it. It works great! Shuffle mode isn’t quite as varied as I’d like, but beyond that, it’s a really great music player.