caseyweederman

There are some very convincing Windows themes. Gnome, too. There are a couple to make it look exactly like the IRIX theme, or CDE.
Personally, I think the default layout is plenty simple. You press the applications icon, you press on the thing you want, that thing opens.
If you can take twenty seconds to set it up for them, run everything they’ll ever want to run, right-click on it in the task bar, click Pin to Task Manager.
Then all they’ll ever need to do is poke the one they want to run and it runs.
KDE also has a Mobile DE called Plasma Mobile. Looks like it can be installed on desktops and laptops too.

I’d say KDE Plasma 6 with one of the one-button global theme modifications can do everything you’re promising, while resulting in a simpler and more familiar layout.
More options help everyone, whether they use them or not.

It’s those things that Batman throws

One of my favorite podcasts, High Rollers (sadly stuck in Hasbro Hell) uses “fate dice”, a set of d6s rolled at the start of each session, that can be used by the players (high rolls) or the DM (low rolls) to influence other rolls and situations, but doing so moves the die into the opposite pool.
I do wish both sides interacted with them more though. It’s a cool idea.
I think they got used the most during the window of time when the DM let the players spend them after seeing a roll (but before knowing the result). They get squelched by forgetfulness and what-if-I-need-it-later-itis.
Sure, adding them then probably ruins the balance, but fun is more important than balance.

Like the Fate system!
I like systems that are player-driven, like Dungeon World. Instead of me putting a bunch of traps into place and hoping you walk into them, the complication of you rolling a failure on something else might mean there’s a trap there.
“Are there any traps there?” “You tell me.”

You can do it with prismlauncher and just hit cancel every time it prompts you to enter your Mojang account

I meant like, PBTA or Daggerheart

Oh, so you moved to a GOOD system. :p

Probably have better luck if you try yay -Syu instead

Huh. I don’t know enough about Flatpak, I guess repo owners get to make that call? Do Flatpaks have a preinst equivalent? Could you theoretically have an empty Flatpak that installs snaps at a system level? I guess it would need explicit permission to write to the filesystem, which kinda seems to be the opposite of the purpose of Flatpak.
And like, even if that is possible, the Flathub maintainers would probably reject it on principle. So I’m imagining CanHub with an extra step in the installation instructions that gets you to pipe a curl’d script into sh, at which point, what’s the point?

And Wizards of the Coast (since bought by Hasbro) are like Microsoft, trying to control the platform as closely as possible, trying to define how people use their platform

I keep getting annoying fake torrents where they put a bunch of junk into an archive and then give that the name of the thing that I’m tracking. The *arrs say “yep, file’s there, you might need to extract it yourself though, not sure what’s going on there” and Jellyfinn just never gets the files, because they’re not real.

I think you mean oþþenþeþ

þlock is þliss

In seriousness, it’s supposed to poison AI scrapers.
In less seriousness, yeah it’s annoying.

I think she’s starting off on the left foot.

They just reach into their computer case and tickle the pins on the CPU when they want to initialize PID 1.

leg

I just sed -i ‘s/bookworm/trixie/g’ /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

Trickery is not the best way to demonstrate your faith in your cause.

I switched to Arch full-time recently and I’ve got to say, it’s way more accessible than its impression suggests. It just… works. The installer is about as easy as any installer these days. There have been no major breakages, even due to my own stupid mistakes. There was the one linux-firmware package thing but that was really just a minor speed bump and the instructions were easy to follow.