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[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Picard breaking down in the mud with his brother about his assimilation.

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

Peacemaker, love it

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Probably not what you are asking for, but the character creation process in the Traveller ttRPG is a great mini game. You basically take a person from 18 to however old you want, and their life path is dictated by your choices and random dice outcomes. It's a lot of fun. You can end up with a retired admiral, a prisoner or criminal, psionic, etc. Going through this process with a table of friends let's you build in rich fun connections along the way. The actual RPG then starts with mature, connected characters with a history, instead of 4 randos meeting in a tavern. In the classic Traveller you can even die in character creation. Current iterations removed the death component but you can be maimed from accidents in your career and start the game with a mountain of medical debt.

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 28 points 8 months ago

e pluribus anus

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This is my answer too. I think each version of the doctor shines in a fun unique way. My favorite was my first (Christopher eccleston) but they are all wonderful.

"Never be cruel, never be cowardly. Hate is always foolish…and love is always wise. Always try to be nice and never fail to be kind"

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Wine bottles. After thousands of years of drinking you would think humans would develop a bottle design that doesn't dribble down the side after pouring.

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Light bulbs! I thought when we moved away from the traditional incandescent the new stuff was supposed to last forever. Why do they die all the time!?

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

What? No. How can that be?

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Biomedical engineering professor teaching an entire course on how DNA in its natural state is not actually a double helix and that Watson and Crick were wrong. The guy spent decades of his career after getting tenure pushing this crusade of his. It was a great class and I loved it.

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Razzle dazzle root beer

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Russ Feingold, or Thom Hartmann

[–] hbar@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

A peck, equivalent to 2 dry gallons. Yay imperial units!

 

Hi, I've been fiddling with PopOS the past year on an old laptop and I like it. I'm getting ready to convert my windows 10 desktop to Pop and leave windows behind entirely, before I do I want to be sure I understand a few security concepts.

I've read suggestions that say don't run as root, create a separate user account and only use root when necessary. Do you give that user account sudo privileges? If so, is that any different from just being root?

Also I've installed the ufw firewall but left it with default settings. Is that something I need to look into more?

Thanks in advance!

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