I feel like you gotta know the party a little bit… If they aren’t the type to talk their way out of a problem, then the monologue has to happen from some relative safety instead of within arms reach of the not-paralyzed barbarian. Hold person exists. Magic Mouth. Message. Hell, a big ol’ balcony above the party.

Else you gotta have a back-up plan like fallout where the players get the information from a journal or something - maybe it isn’t as clearly laid out and it’s harder to follow the breadcrumbs but the party isn’t just lost in the wind looking for the next guy to punch.

1. Winboat or Winapps - Both will let you use Adobe programs in linux pretty well with a sandboxed vm. Getting better every day. That is assuming you can’t get done what you need on Open Source software alternatives - some are really good, others are a bit of a let down.

2. If you are fully on board with Kernal Anti-Cheat, then you have already given up on actually owning and controlling your PC. That said, there has been talk recently by windows about kicking 3rd parties out of the Kernal, so KAC might actually die soon (we can only pray).

3. I’d be curious to know what you are regularly using regedit and group policies to change. For a start, I bet a lot of it can be changed in the settings GUI or aren’t problems that need changing to start with in Linux. Secondly, I think learning CLI is significantly easier than learning regedit - the navigation at least is a lot simpler imo. Unless you are just running .reg files you find on the floor of the internet, if you learned to use regedit you can definitely learn the Linux CLI (as much as you’ll need to in order to do what you want).

Just saying, it is constantly evolving and most of the road blocks are out-dated or hinge on reliance on some other big tech company besides microsoft that is just as far down the enshittification rabbit-hole. It is not a decision you made once and have to keep living with. None of us swore a life-debt to our “team”. :)

Did they release an unredacted copy? All I can find is they came out and claimed it was Giuffre… Not nearly as strong of a position if so.

It really doesn’t have anything to do with 220v vs 120v systems. You can easily boil water with 15 amps at 120 volts. We used to have dishwashers with strong enough heating elements in the US to do this from cold running on 120v. It is a lot more to do with the efficiency standards set by Department of Energy, starting in 1994 and then further restricted in 2013 to maximum 307 KWh/year and 5 gallons of water per cycle. Prior to this, dishwashers in the US worked very differently than they do today. This is also why dishwashers in the US do a terrible job of drying dishes now - not enough energy to power a bigger heating element like they used to have.

On top of that, many current built and sold machines (at least in the US) are in fact more complicated than let on above, even the cheaper units, just not how you’d think. In order to try to squeeze as much performance out of those efficiency standards above, many have a turbidity sensor in the water flow path that checks how “dirty” the water is. If it doesn’t detect much, they will stop the cycle early, which means they “use less energy per year on average” (for the above legislation) and then can use more energy in a cycle “that needs it”. This often has a downside of people that significantly pre-rinse their dishes get really bad results from a dishwasher because the cycles will end so early the detergent hasn’t even fully dissolved yet and will be scattered and stuck to the dishes.

They are correct though that most don’t have temperature sensors in them, because frankly it doesn’t matter - they are either able to get to the needed temperature with the energy they are allowed or they aren’t. The only benefit of letting the machine know would be so it can display an error code to alert the user there is a water temperature problem (but most mfrs don’t want to do that because the average user won’t even bother looking up the error code and will just try to return the product or get a warranty service call, both of which cost the mfr money).

I can’t speak for outside the US, but in the US your dishwasher needs to be hooked up to a hot water line. The detergent won’t dissolve properly under 120ºF - 140ºF and they are restricted from using enough energy to get from “cold” to that temperature. Most of the manufacturers will even print in the manual that the water temperature coming in needs to be 120ºF so it can get hot enough to perform all functions.

If you hook up a US residential dishwasher to a cold supply line, you will be hand-washing all of your dishes.

with a pronounced first syllable

They are one syllable words…

That’s the first one… Wait, how do you think Cache is pronounced??

Damn it, it’s been too long and I forgot the name of slow fall… I think that means you won the internet today.

But it always happens to be the book a new guest wants to check out…

Hope you’re quick on the levitate, cause we are going to summon you off a cliff.

OMG Lemmy “fixes” double spaces after periods??? (Or maybe it is alexandrite doing that?)

I am horrified. Disgusted. Fuck. Back to Reddit I guess, I’d rather be commodified AI training fodder than barred from double spacing after periods.

Double. Space. After. Periods.

Period.

I don’t think this fits the topic because it is not “doesn’t matter at all” tier. This matters. Hasbro is a massively shitty company and D&D just keeps getting worse (a raging barbarian gets to use strength to hide and to notice things, and gets advantage on the roll in 2024 rules…).

It is very important to the health of the hobby that people start playing, and giving attention to, other game systems.

Oracle makes money. They don’t care how.

Shit I miss Ventrilo… Setting up custom binds so I could talk shit about the raid leader directly to the other warlock in the group just by pressing a different “talk” button was amazing. And I can still here the push-to-talk notification sounds… When the guild moved to Discord, I died a little inside and didn’t even know it yet. Yea, we have a meme channel now, but at what cost??

I always wanted a hollowed out book as a child. So I took a steak knife and a random book I figured was big enough, and started painstakingly carving out the center. I still have it somewhere, it’s kinda cool, but now I really would rather have a bookshelf hidden door, or maybe behind a painting, hiding a secret lair.

This just sounds like your solution is for women to show real nude pictures of themselves so others can differentiate between their real nude body and AI fakes… wtf.

Nobody gives a single salty fuck what chatgpt says.

Ah, that adds a lot of context. Sorry, the post just sounded like this was a “you” initiative.

Super weird that you upgraded your fiance’s computer to Linux, but not your own? What’s the driving factor here that led to using your partner as a lab rat?