PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

I use LibreOffice. It's wonderful.

hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

for anyone wondering about privacy and whatnot, i'm happy to say that the developers are pretty committed to have 0 trackers and 0 data retention. you can read more in their "about" section, but here's the basic important stuff:

Senpai says you’re welcome

Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.

Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element “overflow” and change it from “hidden” to “visible” then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.

There’s also a Firefox/Chrome extension called Behind The Overlay that does all that with one mouse click. Used it for years; what a time saver.

And if you encounter a true paywall, use Archive.Today to bypass it. Just paste the paywalled url into the blue “search archived snapshots” box near the bottom:

hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

for anyone wondering about privacy and whatnot, i'm happy to say that the developers are pretty committed to have 0 trackers and 0 data retention. you can read more in their "about" section, but here's the basic important stuff:

COBALT MENTIONED OUTSIDE OF TWITTER???

^ (one of the lead devs that made cobalt)

thank you for your thingy, it's real useful 🙏

GET PRETENDO NETWORK !!!

official 3ds resource post

I might've added the BG3 Art Book to my dnd assets stash

It' 100% does not have things like the 5e players' handbook + 5e’s character sheet, several gm guides, critical role's explorer's guide to wildmount, baldur's gate and waterdeep city encounters, 101 potions and their effects, volo's guide to monsters, both of xanathar's guides, a bunch of other encounters, one shots, and class builds

In no way are there any pdf’s relating to any wizard who may or may not be residing on any coast

(Edit that I’ve moved the folder to the new link above! So if you catch a different version of this post that link won’t work anymore!)

Here, have a mirror of the final Nightly build of Citra (March 3rd 2024), and the most recent build of Yuzu I could find via the Wayback Machine. (February 28th 2024)

hello google chrome refugees

don't use any of these browsers, they're also chrome

Here are my favorite firefox plugins for security/anti-tracking/anti-ad that I recommend you get

please get off chrome google is currently being investigated for being an Illegal Monopoly so get outta there okay love you bye

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

Where do I copy-paste these to? "My filters"? "My Rules"?

'my filters'! if you look closely you'll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

Things that will make your computer meaningfully faster:

Things that are likely to make internet browsing specifically meaningfully faster:

Things that will make your computer faster if you are actually having a problem:

Things that will make your computer superficially faster and may slightly improve your user experience temporarily:

Things that do not actually make your computer faster:

This post is brought to you by the lady with the 7-year-old laptop that she refuses to leave overnight for us to run scans on or take apart so that we can put RAM in it and who insists on coming by for 30-minute visits hoping we can make her computer faster.

Do it. RAM is cheap these days. My laptop maxes out at 40gb and is running 24gb and that is just so I can fuck around on the internet and play with photoshop occasionally. A single 32GB module costs like a hundred bucks and will feel like a dream.

Like, if you're thinking about skipping an upgrade because it would be overkill or too decadent or just ridiculous those are not good reasons to skip an upgrade. Skip an upgrade because you can't afford it, or if there's a technical problem that prevents it, but if you use memory heavy applications there is no reason to skimp on RAM when it's cheap and easy to install.

Your math program deserves a hedonistic paradise, and that is within your grasp as long as you have a hundred bucks and a mailing address.

Defragging is good when your used disk space is getting low. (I try to keep mine to less than 50%.)

Every Microsoft OS since Windows 7 (released in 2009) has done automatic defrags. Every Mac OS since 10.2 (2002) has done automatic defrags. If you are not running linux (in which case how defrags are managed will depend on distro) and your computer is less than 13 years old, it should be doing defrags without any input from you, and doing an additional defrag will not change your computer's speed.

SSDs do not need to be defragmented, and you should not defrag your SSDs.

However if you're above 90% utilization on your SSD you may start experiencing slowness and other issues, so in that specific case (high utilization of an SSD) you can improve your computer's speed and reliability by deleting files.

this book is worth more than a dozen restaurants that grow their own microgreens on the roof

ACCESSIBLE GARDENING FOR PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES

using a 20 year old computer to look at gandalf pics at 12:30am

welcome to my world

hi i’m rly glad people enjoyed this and i want to share that yes, i’m exploring Gopher, the archaic alternative to the world wide web aka every single website that starts with http://

for people who don’t know, Gopher “websites” uploaded with this protocol are exclusively plaintext directories that lead to either text files, images, or other downloadable files. its so stripped back, there’s zero advertising or corporate tracking, and everything uploaded there is hosted by random nerds who still have stuff up from the 90s.

if youre on a modern machine, where most browsers don’t natively support loading Gopher pages, the best way to explore it is to access it via an http proxy. this link takes u to one:

https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

(alternatively u can pick up an old ass secondhand computer, and find a browser designed for its OS like Classilla on my 2001 iMac, which natively runs Gopher)

from there u can read some helpful text files about how to use Gopher servers, but i highly recommend scrolling down and just clicking on “All the gopher servers in the world”. and just click on random shit. there’s also a (unreliable) search engine, Veronica2. just typing random things and exploring servers is how i found this stuff.

I’ve genuinely not had this much fun in years being “on the internet”. so much random niche stuff and genuine cultural resources, as well as cool tools using those limiting constraints. its such an antidote to being on a corporate-controlled, advertising riddled web that wants to track you and sell you like a product for data harvesting. i highly recommend exploring it and feeling like ur doing internet archaeology

So you made a neocities... now what?

Okay, here it is! So you’ve seen how web2 is becoming more and more corporatized and toxic, you know web3 will be a capitalist nightmare if it becomes reality, and people are rediscovering the nostalgic charm of the web1 era so you want in. You want to stake out your little corner of the internet, you made your neocities account, maybe a proboards to go with it…

Now what do you do with it?

This is a short(-ish) guide intended to give you some direction when populating your own site. This is not a technical guide for building a website, I am by no means qualified to teach you html or css, and besides those resources exist already. Think of this more as content inspiration, organized loosely based on what you already use social media for and what you’d be bringing with you to a new space.

If anyone has ideas I didn’t think of, feel free to add on!

Keep reading

Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

The site is '12ft Ladder' found here:

Reblogging this on ALL my blogs because holy shit is it useful

In light of the news that Hasbro is considering using multiple properties it owns for NFTs, including D&D, I would just like to remind everyone that PDFs of virtually all D&D source books are available online for free if you look and it's always moral to pirate from WotC

The Trove is down, though. Does anyone know of a good alternative?