Very few sane people want to hold office. The truth of the job is that it’s almost nonstop fundraising. The system is intentionally broken to keep money in power.

Book banners bringing attention to books that scare them is galaxy brain in action.

DM: I’m sorry there’s really no good place to hide in here.

Rogue: You know how good my stealth is. At least let me roll.

DM: sighs Fine. But to make it all the way across the brightly illuminated room unseen, you we will need to roll 4 times, OK?

Rogue:

• Nat 20
• Nat 20
• Nat 20
• Nat 20

DM: Yeah, I’m going to need to see that d20.

Glad you sorted it!

The DeDrm plugin and the most recent Calibre worked for me just yesterday on a brand new book. Something that’s easy to miss is that you need to put in the serial number of your kindle device and make sure you download the e-book for that same device. Otherwise the plugin won’t be able to decrypt it.

At reddit, line must go up. So user experience must go down.

View source worked for me, but there’s a couple of tricks to it I think…maybe.

First I made sure I was on the channel’s main page and not one of the channel’s videos. Then I did right-click “view source”. The source is all smashed together (unformatted) of course. It’s annoying to search and read like that, so I copy-pasted the source into my favorite text editor and was able to find “channelid” it that way.

It’s a really nice app. Very customizable.

I’m glad you mentioned airplane mode. I noticed something interesting about my Kindle after I set up a Pi Hole on my home network. The kindle would constantly try to connect to the Amazon mothership. Because the Pi Hole was blocking it, it would try it over and over again and this quickly depleted the batteries (maybe trying to boost it’s WiFi signal? I’m not sure). Putting it into Airplane mode helps preserve battery life noticeably, back to what it was before I installed the Pi Hole.

And all things Meta.

Yup, making a DRM-free backup somewhere is the only way to protect the content you paid for from the whims of the overlords.

More hilarity: as of about a week ago, it appears the reddit algorithm has also started boosting posts with negative karma on their horrible mobile app. Guessing it’s a move towards ‘negative engagement’. I have not seen it myself (I don’t use the reddit app) but I see users complaining about it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1frcdxs/it_looks_like_reddit_is_currently_trying_new_ways/

The only way to win the reddit game is to not play.

Happy Prime Day to the GROUND!

I half expect him to go running into Putin’s arms at some point.

Alternative headlines:

• Dell wants to contribute to global warming for no good reason.
• Dell wants to expose workers to death by automobile for no real reason.

The cat and the vamp are both nocturnal, so this works.

My old cat would be doing parkour on my face and the headboard all night.

23 Data Miners and Me.

Thanks for the followup!

I’m with you, I think it’s probably BS. But I suppose it could be taking highly compressed low resolution snapshots.