I am DMing a 5+ year game with my friends. We have been running a player driven campaign where I provide options and they pick where they go next. Overall most of their directions isn’t based on backstory but things we did together. I did two or three adventures that had a backstory tie but most were things we did in game.

You want to be part of adventure show interest in things in world and try to interact with them

I didn’t think those whistles were 3D printed but that makes sense. The spontaneous community building and support is amazing

That’s a lot of wood

I have moved two computers from Windows into Mint this year. One worked without any issues. One had a strange WiFi problem with a super old wifi chip but I bought an adaptor for less than $20 that fixed it. Both computers connect to my printer better than with Windows. Which was a present surprise.

I don’t have any specific memories of the early internet but I do remember DOS on the family computer. Having to remember the paths to run the shareware programs we wanted to run on a floppy

That’s what I said. 2000 too few

As a Twin Cities resident we are surprisingly radically progressive. I think it’s important to know how much “work” people did post George Floyd to look at racial bias and systematic change in progressive socials. I know of multiple book clubs of retirees reading books on anti-racism and white privilege. It was eye opening experience here

I think about that all the time. Especially when people online are like “do something”. We are doing something. Lots of things. Lots of small decentralized things so they can’t be targeted as easy.

I had a cheaper folding one in the pandemic and rode it until it broke. It was the pedals as well. I figured this was less BIFL but wanted to see if there was a suggestion

I have some friends with rowers. Might get one of those instead of a bike

I am thinking I might need to get it from Facebook marketplace. Seems more annoying but the best deal

I do like having a higher quality machine that lasts but don’t know if I can justify over 1000 for something. If I can get it used I will get one

Good to know. I don’t care about displays or Bluetooth more about the body. Seems like a bad deal even if it’s cheap.

Any better recommendations?

I am on paternity leave now and I love it. If my wife was making 12 million I would never go back.

That’s how distributed systems work. Easier to take down one but harder to take them all down

Just buy them as plants instead of seeds. I love https://www.prairiemoon.com/

It’s good to see what is out there. Helps you get used to different views and let’s you keep using the verse if an instance goes down

As mention the admin is fighting scrapers which is blocking some larger instances. I still have an account

It’s good to have options and try out different clients to see what you like best

I was on midwest.social and they were having some federation issues. I decided to try out PieFed instead of another lemmy instance. So far I have tried kbin (RIP), lemmy and now piefed.