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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I assume you mean D.J.T is grasping at straws? Which he absolutely is! “Laughing Kamala” isn’t the solid burn he thinks it is LOL Suing to force Biden to stay in the race? Haha LOL good one! Oh, they’re serious? I don’t think forcing someone to stay in a race against their will is a viable legal option?? And I bet Trump is regretting his VP choice now! His whole platform seems to be “Chicks right, they should shut up and get back in the kitchen! Fricken crazy cat women running the place! NO they can’t choose what to do with their own body! Get pregnant or you’re worthless! Shouldn’t be able to vote if you don’t churn out babies!” Awesome VP to run in a race against a woman LOL Loved his speech about how he drank a diet mountain dew yesterday and today… Riveting stuff! LOL Is it telling that I can remember the soda he referenced but I can’t remember his name? I’m sure it’ll come to me…




  • No actor/actress should have their pool of potential roles made vanishingly small because of a thing they can’t change, the colour of their skin! And then on top of there being very few roles for people of colour in western pop culture based on your criteria, the very few roles they COULD take are often ALSO given to white actors/actresses in bizarre acts of whitewashing idiocy! It’s infuriating! Talent, passion, skill, training, these should be the kinds of factors involved when choosing who gets cast for what role, not where you fall on the colour wheel! It’s just crazy to me that it’s even a consideration at all and in future people will look back and be incredulous that it ever was!? At least I hope that will be the case, as we are making slow progress in that direction.




  • Nah, I’d be like, go on! Do you associate that song with a particular event, person, time or place in your life? When did you first hear it? In what context is it your fave? Have you ever heard it played live? What was that like? Could you ever imagine another song taking its place or is it too sentimental or ingrained into your very being?

    Basically a question like “fave colour/song” is often a simple test. The kind of answer you give should indicate whether or not the topic can be opened up or expanded upon or even just indicate if you want to talk to this person at all right now. If you answer “blue I guess”, and look completely disinterested or “insert massive pop hit of the moment” and leave it at that, then they know to go about their day or try another topic like “So what about that sportsball game/weather/current event?”. But you might give them a nuanced answer that will lead to more conversation.

    It is handy to have a simple, 1 dimensional responce if you want to shut down the conversation quickly or direct it to another topic.


  • 0:00 We all know, that GNOME has been one of the best desktop environments providing
    0:03 a graphical user interface for the Linux operating system. It delivers a next-level
    0:08 user experience that is similar to Windows and macOS. However, there are a few things you can
    0:14 do to enhance your gnome desktop functionality. This is where Gnome Extensions comes into play. 0:21 An extension is a software that allows you to take your GNOME customization to the next
    0:26 level. By using the extensions, you can customize GNOME Shell,
    0:31 add app transitions, as well as additional features like window tiling.
    0:36 In this video, I will show you the top 15 must-install GNOME extensions for Linux
    0:42 systems in 2024. For demonstration purposes, I choose to use arch linux but these extensions can
    0:49 be used on any GNOME-based distribution such as Fedora, Manjaro, Zorin, Pop OS, and more. 0:57 Before we begin, If you enjoy this video, please
    1:00 like and help the YouTube algorithm make it visible to more people.
    1:03 Requirements The only requirement of this
    1:05 video is to ensure you have installed the flatpak package on your Linux system. Then, open the
    1:11 terminal on your gnome desktop and download the extensions manager using flatpak. Once installed,
    1:19 open the extensions manager. This is a simple tool that allows you to install any gnome extension.
    1:26 The user interface is clean and intuitive, with two sections on the top bar, Browse and Installed.
    1:32 The Installed section displays all the extensions installed by the user. The “Browser” section,
    1:38 allows you to search for any GNOME extension. Let’s start installing gnome extensions.

    Astra Monitor
    1:45 Search for Astra Monitor and install it. Astra is a monitoring extension for the
    1:51 GNOME top bar that helps users track various system performance metrics such as CPU, GPU,
    1:57 RAM, disk usage, network statistics, and sensor readings. It offers comprehensive
    2:00 monitoring capabilities with detailed information accessible through hovering
    2:05 over resources. The interface is highly customizable, allowing users to choose
    2:22 what resources to monitor. The extension is designed for optimized performance,
    2:27 ensuring lightweight operation without unnecessary resource consumption.

    Pano Clipboard Manager
    2:37 Pano Clipboard Manager provides a graphical overview of your clipboard history making it
    2:43 much faster to find previously copied content, such as text, images, website URLs & more 2:50 You can view the clipboard history at any time, from any app, by pressing shift + super + v on
    2:57 your keyboard. So when you copy anything on your system it will be shown here.
    3:06 By clicking on any item in this row allows you to copy and paste it elsewhere.

    PaperWM
    3:16 PaperWM is a Gnome Shell extension that provides scrollable tiling of windows and per-monitor
    3:23 workspaces. It’s inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers, it makes working
    3:29 with different applications very easy. Hovering on the left or right gives the preview of an app,
    3:36 and clicking on it puts the app into focus mode. By toggling the workspace button,
    3:50 you can change the Windows focus mode to the center or default.

    MiniView
    4:06 MiniView displays an app window like Picture in Picture Mode. Pressing Shift + F12 opens & closes
    4:13 mini app View. By holding the left mouse button you can drag the mini window and
    4:23 by holding Ctrl and dragging the window with a right mouse button, you can resize the preview.
    4:30 By hovering on the Window preview and scrolling
    4:33 with the mouse wheel switches to different applications. 4:37 This is my favorite extension that allows
    4:39 to monitoring of a specific app while working with other apps.

    Quick Settings Tweaker
    4:52 Quick Settings tweaker lets you add media controls, notifications,
    4:56 and volume mixers to quick settings and remove useless buttons giving
    5:00 a brand new look to the default quick settings and making it more functional
    5:04 and practical. You can notice the date menu goes vertical and looks minimal.

    Privacy Settings
    5:12 Along with that installing the privacy settings extension adds a privacy toggle
    5:17 that allows you to enable or disable the camera, microphone, and location services.

    Apps Menu
    5:31 Apps Menu is a must-have extension that categorizes the installed applications
    5:37 making it easy to find the app you need based on category.

    Places Status Indicator
    5:50 Along with that places status indicator, Add a menu for quickly navigating places in the system.

    Logo Menu
    6:05 The Logo Menu is similar to Apple’s macOS menu for the GNOME Desktop.
    6:14 This extension provides a simple menu along with the ability to get the icon
    6:19 of your distribution on the top left part of the panel for a great look.

    Just perfection
    6:36 Just Perfection is an excellent gnome extension for customizing the gnome-shell.
    6:41 Using this extension, you can tweak things like the dock, notification panel, icons, and more. 6:57 For example, you can enable or disable system animations, panels, clock, app menu & more. 7:12 You can also change the behavior of the workspace preview,
    7:15 whether to show a workspace switcher or not, how you want to open the app grid, and more.

    Top Bar Organizer
    7:26 The top bar organizer allows you to organize the Menu items of the top bar. You can simply
    7:32 rearrange all these menu items according to your liking by dragging them with the left
    7:37 mouse button. You can even delete the specific menu items by clicking on the three-dot menu.

    SpeedUp Gnome Shell
    8:03 Gnome 4x UI improvements tune Overview UI to make it more usable. You can increase the size
    8:08 of Workspace thumbnails, hide the search bar & show it only when the user begins to search. 8:24 In combination with that, Impatience is another
    8:26 extension that helps increase the animation speed of the GNOME Shell

    Wiggle
    8:44 Wiggle is an extension that magnifies the cursor when the mouse is moved rapidly
    8:49 which is extremely useful especially when working with large screen monitors. So
    8:56 when you forget the location of the mouse pointer just wiggle the mouse to find it.

    Blur my shell
    9:08 Installing blurMyShell extends a blur to the dock, panels, activities overview, and more.

    Burn My Windows
    9:32 BurnMyWindows triggers an app transition when it’s
    9:35 opened or closed providing stunning app transitions that may surprise everyone.

    Caffeine
    10:00 When running an important task that needs to be monitored, use caffeine which prevents
    10:05 your system from sleeping. Upon installing this extension, you will see a new toggle
    10:10 added to the quick settings Menu allowing you can enable or disable caffeine mode.

    DDTerm
    10:30 DDTerm is my favorite drop-down terminal extension for GNOME Shell With tabs and
    10:35 is compatible with Wayland. This allows quick access to the terminal by clicking on this icon
    10:41 on the top bar. It’s very responsive and also provides an option to customize it. 11:03 That’s pretty much it, these are the top 15 best gnome extensions that
    11:07 you must try on GNOME Desktop in 2024. Let me know if I have missed anything,
    11:12 and feel free to share your list of extensions that you use in the comments section below.









  • Our table loves Owlbear R2 but AboveVTT looks incredible?! We actually play in person, all use D&D Beyond on our phones for our characters and project Owlbear scenes/maps onto the table (miracast over wi-fi from an old windows PC to a cheap 1080p projector) and use a mix of physical minis and condition rings and digital props & AoE markers. The DM has Owlbear open on a tablet to load in scenes and maps while I use a keyboard and mouse to help with zooming the map, placing AoE markers etc. It all sounds completely mad now that I type it out?! It works for us :-D



  • From what I’ve briefly read China (and many other countries) have regulated that e-bikes must be under a certain weight (55kg) and top speed (25km/h) and anything over that is no longer considered an e-bike but rather a moped/motorbike that needs everything a motorbike would require i.e you have to get a licence to drive it and registration/plates.

    It sounds resonable to me as the lines between an e-bike and e-motorbike got blurred real quick. Besides there’s no way these wheelchairs are faster or more convenient than even a regulated e-bike?? Or am I missing something?? I guess you can ride them right into your office/up to your desk…