Andonome

joined 1 year ago
[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 90 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The internet's fine - the web's the problem.

ssh, Call of Duty, email, random voice-call software on strange ports - all of them work fine. People have problems with websites.

Plenty of websites of course are fine, the problems present when people use search engines and find a bunch of guff written by a bot, Paywalls, and sign-up screens.

They say the best way to predict the future is to create it, so if you want to help there, 'make good art', write and share good content, don't feed the machine. Sounds like you're doing that already if you're on Lemmy.

And if you want to check out a quieter corner of the internet, where things aren't all in-your-face-sing-up-click-here-now-NOW-DOIT...download the lagrange browser and check out Gemini. It's a mostly plain-text protocol, where people read and write, and sometimes share whacky music.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to understand how merging several columns into one would work

It's this button.

Also there are no in cell checkboxes in Calc,

Checkboxes:

https://ask.libreoffice.org/uploads/short-url/biHcqD9rpmk0V92ShVFWZwDVIUD.ods

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Something new with Calc? Not to my knowledge, though I've never found something I couldn't do. What additional features do Google Docs have?

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For online-usage, nothing will ever beat spreadsheets. They exist to crunch numbers and compare values. They work with both text and numbers. And they're flexible.

  • Want to add +2 to perception for elves? Check if race = "Elf" and if so, add +2.
  • Want to add a fixed list of weapons for the player to choose from? Stick the entire list on a secret sheet, then reference them in a drop-down menu.

If a bespoke tool ever came out, it would only do one system, badly. Spreadsheets do any system, and the skills you learn with them are transferrable to almost all other spreadsheet programmes.

There's my indie RPG character spreadsheet (requires Libreoffice Calc). Fill in your name, and it'll use numerological constants to find your race and stats, then tracks your XP every time you buy a skill.

People want to use something like a pdf because it looks like paper, but this instinct is wrong. PDFs are for printing. Their fill-in text boxes are ugly, and programming them is clunky.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (22 children)

The apps are certainly in need of all the help they can get. I have Lemur and Jerboa, and they're both janky as all heck.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My game has fewer rules than Pathfinder by any measure, although 'a page or two' seems a very low number - that sounds more like a little zine than a fully-fledged RPG.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like this idea, but given that players never read the rules, it's a little like asking my granny what kind of package management system her computer should use.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Upon stepping into the room, the players are ambushed (see the core rules for ambushes) by a drow mage (see the Monstrous Manual for more on the drow) riding a Grizwoz (see Appendix B: New monsters). The drow is level 7 (the GM should prepare a spell-list before the adventure starts).

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

About 50% of what I read ~~online~~ is just RSS. For cli fans, newsboat lets you extend the RSS feeds really easily. So far, I have:

  • gemini translation, to get gemini feeds, and a hotkey to open them.
  • a hotkey to open things in w3m (most articles work fine in the terminal, many are easier to read)
  • a hotkey to open youtube videos
  • another to download them and watch later
[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Haggis whiskers are similar, but quite rare nowadays.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

One of the greatest joys of federation, is de-federation.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Kbin is very young software. The dev was doing really well, then /u/spez dumped 10-bajillion users on it. I'm surprised the servers are still operating.

Lemmy's a lot more mature, but it's never been tested with this kind of traffic. It's impressive that any of these sites are still going. I'd give it at least another month until things settle, adjustments are made, instances update, et c. et c.

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