Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 15, 2023

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• Technology and Free Software

  • Scripted rooms in D&D

    One D&D issue is when a module’s room description has something happening just as a party is about to enter a room.

  • Installing FreeBSD in 2023

    I have a bit of a history with FreeBSD. While my first major encounter with open source happened to be Linux, I ran FreeBSD as my daily driver from around 2007 to 2013. My first installation was in about 2005/2006 on a spare desktop system based around an Athlon K6 with 256Mb of ram, a system which had largely been pieced together from discards and literal garbage picking. It's crazy to think that I was compiling pretty much everything from source using ports on such a crap machine, but I learned a ton and fell in love with "real" Unix in a way that Linux just hadn't really managed to captivate me up to that point.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Anyone else pondering what it would be like to leave Reddit behind for Bubble?

    • degrowth and its discontents

      When I was barely a preteen, I was a frequent user of music-themed forums. They were not small by any means: they were full of regulars that you'd run into in most threads, and as IM services like MSN gained traction, one could even dare extend a friend request so that you could talk in real time on the weekends when school and work were out of the picture.

    • Social Post Angst

      If I write a post saying things are great—is that bad?

      I’ve never really done social media, but my understanding of how it works is this: people all post about the things in their life that are great, and everybody feels bad because their actual life is not as great as the ones they read about.

      For the most part I prefer to only post about positive things. I prefer to write “reviews” of only things that I like, and to talk about experiences that were positive.

      I would hate for anyone to feel bad as a result.

    • New GmCapsule Home Page

      Just a quick note: I've added a proper home page for GmCapsule.

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