Links Gemini 03/03/2024: NixOS and NextCloud, Back Into Ricing
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Fast-Talk skills
I sometimes write about alternatives to skills like “persuasion”, “fast-talk”, “investigation” etc. Skills that replace the parts about roleplaying games that I think are fun with a die roll.
Now hopefully even if you disagree with the exact selection of which skills I personally prefer our table roleplay out you might find some value in those alternative rules for your own design.
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Worth
It has been a matter of great deliberation for me how best to spend my time, and to do so in a way that provides a good return on the future, perhaps not economical, as I am not so much interested on those matters of liquidity, but in the quality of my time in the future as well as the utility I may have, be it for myself, my family, or even for society, much as I find myself showing such contempt for the current state of society. The truth is, that being myself a rather unimportant individual who has not yet made his time on this Earth worth to anyone, and having received so much from other people, that I acknowledge the great debt I have towards those who have benefited me, directly or indirectly, knowing or unknowing, and that I should make the investment of such resources that have so far kept me alive to be in any way meaningful.
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Telling stories about the future
I love the Dune chronicles. The series has an incredibly rich lore, and it uses it so well. It has a lot of things to like, as well:
Dune is a story about colonial oppression, and an oppressed people (the Fremen) rising up to remove extractivists and take their land back.
But... they're being lead by a white guy, or as close as you could get within the Dune universe. In the film, they refer to him as an "off-worlder" and "foreigner" many times. It's been a while since I read the first book, but they had a similar characterization. Not to mention, he is of "noble blood."
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The Drive
The car was an older one. It wasn’t rusted or broken-down, no, but there were dings and scratches, and some of the paint had been worn away by acid rain. Despite this the driver — Clara, the app said her name was — had a four-point-nine-star rating and had apparently been driving for five years. Good; who wanted a three-star driver, or a newbie? Even with the best of drivers, the trip was bound to be bumpy at best. No need to make the odds worse.
Mike groaned behind his rebreather when he saw that Clara was wearing one too. The car didn’t even have its own oxygen?
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Character shard headcanons
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The Skill Fix!
Characters can have skills that do nothing mechanical, like say Persuasion for example, let’s say it does zip & nada for you dice-wise, you need to roleplay it out, but here’s the fix: when you do use it, you get an XP bonus. Max once per session or rather, every session where you have used one or more of your “the skill fix!” skills you get an XP bonus equiv to one tenth of a level (in addition to other XP you're getting).
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Leftover ham
So I shoved it between two bread slices with some cheese, and heated that up. Y'know, pretending I care about myself and won't just eat raw slices of pink industrial ham for dinner.
The bread, apparently, was not expecting to be cooked. I think it's because the decorative flour burnt or something. It tasted strong. Bread usually won't taste like that, even "traditional" breads go for a light taste. This is kind of how I imagine old bread tasted like, before everyone started going around with humidity sensors and thermometers. People just trying to make a flour paste taste better.
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Technology and Free Software
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NixOS and NextCloud
I spent a few hours upgrading my NextCloud[1] server from version 26 to 28. Sadly, it was not a pleasant process, mainly because there were some index changes that were conflicting and the migration code kept having a problem with creating indexes with one name for `oc_table_name` because it conflicted with `table_name`. This is probably because I have a relatively old NextCloud setup that has been migrated from OwnCloud over the years and didn't use table prefixes.
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Getting back into ricing
Back around 2015-2017 I was a typical Arch Linux user running i3 and having a great time as long as I didn't need to do silly things like use a printer or plug in an external display.
Then I started school and decided having a laptop that works reliably might be important, so I switched to Gnome on Ubuntu.
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Internet/Gemini
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Some thoughts about the small web
So with the danger of coming late to the party again,
I was thinking about the consept of the small web, and that Gemini and Gopher, are only a part of it.
There are a lot of places in the "normal web" that are of the minimal aesthetic, and there are tools and ways to discover them. But what is the small web?
I mean is there a definition that we have come to?
Is there a set of requirements that we have come to agree upon, that a web site can qualify as a small web place?
And if not, shouldn't we?
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.