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kattfisk

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  • Skill checks

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  • Worse! At just level 7, a rogue is likely to have +11 and Advantage to pick a lock, which combined with Reliable Talent means they can't fail a DC 21, and have a 1/2 chance of beating a DC 26.

    So if you want there to be uncertainty and challenge, you have to make the DC more like 25-28. Making it all the more likely that the lock should be impossible to the rest of the party.

    If I wanted to formally add ability check crits I would make them add/subtract something from your result. Not automatically pass/fail, because the consequences of that are bonkers.

  • Skill checks

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  • Well DnD consistently doesn't have criticals outside of attack rolls and death saves.

    Like the person you replied to asked, what would you even expect to happen on an ability crit? If the DM only lets you roll on things that would be possible for you, then you would succeed on a 20 anyway. If the DM lets you roll on impossible things, then you have a 5% of doing the impossible. Neither option is good.

    I absolutely let a 20 or 1 have extra effect whenever it makes sense and feels right. But having it be a core rule would be a PITA.

    Not to mention that it would make skill checks even more driven by randomness, which is already a problem.

  • Informative review

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  • Ask them if they have Serbian bubble tea

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  • America doesn't even have pizza! They use the word to refer to some kind of large open-faced oven-baked sandwiches.

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • My old mother, who is completely disinterested in technology, has used a Linux desktop for a decade now without major issues.

    If you aren't a power user the differences between it and Windows are minor. You have windows, icons, menu bars, x closes the application, the box makes it big, right-click to open a menu, left-click to select, it's all the same stuff. Besides, most of your time is spend in a browser anyway.

    Yeah things break some times, but no more than in Windows. Being on a very default Ubuntu installation she can just search for her problems online and blindly run some random console command that probably fixes it, just like on Windows.

    Hardware is easier because drivers are generally just magically there. Software is easier because it's mostly in a repository which automatically installs dependencies and updates and doesn't come with malware.

    By far the biggest problem has been documents and executables that can only be opened in Windows. Mostly PDF forms (fuck you Adobe).

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • Office Open XML was only standardized in order to combat the threat posed by Open Document as organisations were starting to mandate use of standardized formats.

    You write as if Microsoft did this because they wanted interoperability, when in reality they only begrudgingly accept that some must be allowed in order to avoid losing control of the market.

    The real solution would have been to never approve the OOXML standard and not legitimize Microsoft's attempt to make their proprietary format appear open.

  • Watched a video about Debian and now I am not sure is the best for me.

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  • If you want newer stuff the non-stable branches of Debian are perfectly usable.

    Testing (the upcoming release) should be your first stop. But even Unstable works just as well as most other distros. There might be the occasional issue, but anything serious is generally fixed quickly.

    Debian stable is intended for use cases where an update must never change anything that could cause any problem. For the average desktop it's perfectly fine to have things change or to be mildly inconvenienced every now and then.

  • Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates

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  • Butter is rather low volume, so maybe it's doable. But it's very hard to compete with self-replicating organisms that have evolved specifically to use the energy sources, materials and conditions that are abundant on this planet. I'd be more more interested if someone had made a plant make butter.

    Having a bunch of machinery sit idle waiting for power to be cheap isn't particularly good use of resources either. We'd be better off trying to store the power.

  • Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates

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  • "Savor says they take carbon dioxide from the air and hydrogen from water"

    I'm no expert but direct air capture of Co2 and water electrolysis both use a lot of power. So using them for this purpose is likely just a marketing gimmick that doesn't make any sense either economically or for the climate.

  • Aspergers officinalis

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  • I was considering putting scare quotes around "communism", but refrained in order to avoid an argument about what is and isn't really communism. Yet here we are. So much for left unity! ;D

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  • In a fascist dictatorship, they have a lot more in common than opposition.

    But if the dictatorship is a communist one they have more in common with the nazis! Or if your country is invaded by Russia you might find yourself fighting side by side with the Azov battalion.

    There are libertarians who genuinely care about free speech and might make useful allies on those issues.

    Just because someone is the enemy of your enemy, or an occasionally useful ally, doesn't mean you want to unify with them.

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  • The idea that all "leftists" should just work together is stupid.

    Leninism, Anarcho-primitivism and Social democracy (for example) are not different approaches to "leftism" that ultimately want the same things; they are completely separate ideologies that naturally come into conflict. The people who follow them disagree with each other because they want and value completely different things. If they were to put aside their differences there would be nothing left.

    That doesn't mean arguing on the internet about ideology is meaningful, or that there can't be common goals or enemies, just that you should give up the idea that all "leftists" are somehow natural allies, because it doesn't make any sense.

  • Recommendations for a source code hosting service

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  • You are right! I was fooled by my server already having git installed and this requirement not being mentioned anywhere. I guess that explains why it uses SSH rather than SCP/SFTP.

  • Recommendations for a source code hosting service

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  • I feel like you made it sound a bit backwards :)

    There's nothing to install on a "git server", git doesn't have a server component. You can point your git client to a remote place where it can store its files using SSH. But you don't install anything on the server for this.

    Which is why self hosting a git remote is super easy. All you need is a server with ssh and a little bit of storage.

    If you just want to sync code between different computers and have a backup, that's all you need.

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    Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!

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  • There're a lot of privacy enthusiasts who seem to view privacy as a binary. So because Mozilla isn't perfect, it's as bad as can be.

    They also commonly have little understanding of the underlying technology, law, business, etc., which I guess is why they can't do any threat modeling. They're just really scared of a nebulous threat they do not understand. Which I can sympathize with.

    But privacy then becomes more about "staying pure" in some abstract sense, rather than about avoiding concrete threats.

    (As a tip to those who want to do better, any real security starts with threat modeling. There is no such thing as perfect security, it's always a tradeoff. So you must do threat modeling to make sure you're putting your resources where they will make a difference.)

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  • It's not about identity as much as it's a very poor way to try to convince someone.

    Don't base your line of argument on a statement you know the other person will likely disagree with.

    For example "You should play Pathfinder because DnD sucks", holds no weight to people who don't think that DnD sucks. In fact if they happen to like DnD, it undermines your argument, because if you disagree about DnD, aren't you also likely to disagree about Pathfinder?

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  • If they play a system, they probably like that system and find its shortcomings acceptable. You can't convince someone that a system isn't enjoyable when they have first-hand evidence to the contrary.

    Asking people to stop being comfortable doing something they like, so that they can be uncomfortable doing something you like, isn't a good value proposition.

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  • If you lead with "Thing you like is actually bad", their immediate response will be to disagree with you and start defending the thing they like. And if you want someone to listen to your arguments, rather than just try to poke holes in them, you must avoid putting them on the defensive.

    To get through to people, find common ground and build off that. "If you like FEATURE in GAME, you'll probably love SIMILAR FEATURE in OTHER GAME because..." is something that's actually going to get someone interested, rather than start a pointless argument :)