My son would love this analogy 🤓😎

I watched the show and then read the books in grade 7…my son is now obsessed with them in grade 1! They have contributed so much to his drive to read. Such a fantastic series.

I was wondering what that crazy bar at the bottom was! Sometimes it’s green for me. Yet another reason to keep on the degoogling train…

I have this exact same issue with Proton VPN using RethinkDNS…my Wireguard proxy works for a while but then randomly cuts out (on my second user profile). In my case it looks like there’s a kill switch when that happens at least but still…can’t find any reason why it keeps dropping.

I prefer the first game as you’re exploring a wild and hostile world while trying your best to survive and discover what’s actually going on. You have no idea why assassins keep coming for you, what’s going on with the iron crisis, or how it could possibly relate to you…but for some reason, you are tangled in a messy web of intrigue, politics, and danger.

You’re right…you are SO underpowered and helpless in the first game. Getting to any town is such a relief. But this makes adventuring so very worth it and so rewarding. I feel like the first game is brutally realistic, whereas the second is more fantastical. I love the cool gear and interactions of BG2, but the first one just feels so urgent and pressing to me.

The EE versions really changed the game…so many improvements without needing mods. However, the modding community is amazing as well. NPC banter packs, item packs, new quests, etc…there are so many options to modernize the game!

Baldur’s Gate, both 1 & 2 on PC (I prefer #1). I had to actively consider whether it had been at least 25 years it came out and…I feel super old now 😅.

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Fennec is a great project but it doesn’t have as many privacy-oriented changes as Mull had. For a true successor, I’d recommend the Mull fork IronFox. You can use this gitlab link to download via Obtanium!

Dragon Age: Origins. Haven’t played since it’s release and wanted something in the same vein as the original Baldur’s Gate…does not disappoint!

Agreed - and Bluey rocks!

Definitely hear you there, but wrong flatpak 😉

Fun fact: St. Augustine started out as a Manichaean! Super interesting stuff even from a purely philosophical POV.

Aha - Take On Me …such a mesmerizing video. A girl reading a comic is sucked into a world in between the two realities. Really cool artistically and you can’t help but wish you could see more of the story.

Near Antigonish in Nova Scotia is a forest called Dagger Woods…the sign is right on the main highway. The story goes that a young lady was killed there a few centuries ago and you can hear her screams. First far away and then it slowly gets closer and louder till it’s piercing loud. Nothing bad happens but super freaky!

I use Shelter from F-Droid to create a work profile and then install RethinkDNS on that profile which blocks any trackers from the “bad” apps (you can add a tonne of blocklists). Additionally, if you have a Pixel, GrapheneOS has total app isolation (including storage scopes) so Messenger only has access to what you allow.

No worries! Strange of them to put a deadline…I agree the hardware is pretty solid!

Yeah, thankfully worked in Brave! I use Firefox (Librewolf) and haven’t installed Chrome in years…def annoying but not unexpected from Google!

If you haven’t already, be sure to convert it to Bluetooth mode from WiFi before the end of December or you won’t be able to use it anymore…I only found this out after trying to set it up with my Retropie. The link to the google web tool to convert it is here!

I have an HP Envy and it has honestly been a dream with any distro I throw at it. I find KDE to have better touch gesture support than Gnome, but I have been running Gnome for a while now and it hasn’t bothered me at all.

My bank app works great even without google services!