Can’t wait to try it!

Sky whales!

Baby blue whales weigh 10 times that amount!

But what if I’m a bladeless fan?

I had no idea they had a name!

I’ve had it as long as I can remember, though not very often. It would only be a few times a year I’d say…

I don’t like Flatpak, so that makes it an easy choice for me. Flatpak apps never quite integrate properly

I like having Flatpaks as a fallback option, but if something is available in the arch repos, aur or chaotic-aur, I’ll always go there first

“Wrong” doesn’t have meaning in this context. Someone is giving you a label to try and describe a personal experience that they have access to that you don’t. The label they choose to communicate that to you is subjective. Because it’s subjective, other people can (and likely will) disagree with their self applied label. But that’s part of the process that impacts them when they choose and use the right label.

As much as you may think otherwise, sexuality and identity labels aren’t objective. They are subjective and self applied, because it doesn’t matter what label you pick, or how clear cut you think it is, there is someone, somewhere, who uses it differently. There is no single “truth” when it comes to these things.

So yeah, picking a label that helps you navigate the world is the smart choice. Because if you’re trying to pick a label based on some objectively true definition, you’ll fail before you begin, because there is no such thing in this context

That’s why sexuality labels and identity labels are best when they’re self chosen. People get to decide for themselves what helps and what fits. And part of that whole process is dealing with other people offering their opinions, whether you asked for them or not. That stuff impacts the labels people choose and/or the labels people choose to share.

It doesn’t sound like calling yourself blue eyed in that circumstance would help you exist in and navigate the world…

They didn’t enter the machines date of birth…

At least it’s not too grubby

Labels are meant to help you navigate and exist in the world. If it’s achieving that, it’s the right label!

That’s exactly why I used them!

I’m running a rolling distro on my main desktop, when I first moved over to linux (a couple of years ago now), I kept breaking things without having the knowledge to fix them. And then I discovered snapshots!

The one thing I would say to be aware of, is to make sure you have a bootloader hook as well, that will let you actually boot in to the previous snapshots from the boot menu.

I use CachyOS and it has this stuff as out of the box options during the installer.

I like not using government and mega-corporation mandated systems designed for privacy invasion and control of what people can access.

I could care less about apps, because I can just avoid them. My concern is the OS level stuff, and currently, all of the legislation is around requirements that the OS itself capture birthdate data.

The moment that becomes mandatory at the OS level, is the moment I drop whatever it is that is forcing that issue. Systemd was the first to pre-emptively comply with facilitating the change at scale, so chances are, they will keep doing the same going forward.

It’s most likely where I’ll be hopping if unavoidable age gating comes to systemd

I just submitted my responses. Can’t wait to see the results!

I’ve been GMing now across 40 years or so, and my GM style these days is very different to when I started. These days, I’m much more a “fly by the seat of my pants” GM, with all of us building a story together. I see my role as bringing unexpected elements in to the story we’re building, so that the players themselves have a dynamic environment to build their characters against, rather than it just being collaborative storytelling.

I use dice for a similar reason. They allow for the unexpected and for unpredictable outcomes. They mean that the players themselves feel uncertainty when making choices for their characters.

Do you spend more time on encounter prep, or art prep?

That’s my secret. I never prepare

In all seriousness, there’s a couple of questions like that, asking which type of content I spend more prep time on, but I genuinely don’t spend time doing prep on anything, which makes it hard to answer those question. I voted in the middle, but it won’t distinguish my answer from someone who does prep, but spreads their time equally.

The only shift now is Microsoft shitting the bed so hard that people don’t want to deal with them.

That’s a pretty important difference…

It’s all down to the way the brain works. Our brains use up something like 20% of our calories when standing still doing nothing.

Grass does not supply the amount of calories and micronutrients needed to keep the human brain running, simply because it is low on both of those things.

Grass eaters have multiple stomachs, slow digestion and graze pretty much the whole time they’re awake, and because their brains use a lot less energy than human brains, the balance works out.