I’m a big fan of Fate but I wouldn’t try it with a big group of players who are unfamiliar with it. It’s not a crunchy system but not really rules-light either and needs a very different approach than most traditional games; e.g. if the players aren’t used to self-compels, you’ll have your hands full remembering all the PCs’ aspects and trying to keep them in play so the players regularly get Fate Points.
Very subjective. In my opinion introducing romantic subplots is the laziest of writing.
It looks ridiculous. Should at least have been a smart watch. But I guess you can’t demand a six-figure price without making it an analog watch — no matter if it fits the design.
Vim is actually highly ergonomic; you can do everything with a minimum of keystrokes without moving a hand away to a mouse or touchpad or oven the arrow keys. If that’s worth the time investment to learn it, is a highly subjective question. But I’d say it’s a lot easier than many people think.
If you have your (encrypted) password manager file backed up to one or more otherwise unencrypted media, then remembering your master password will be enough in a pinch. But yes, for day to day password handling you’d want to have a few more memorized, e.g. the ones you’ve mentioned. As those are passwords you enter daily, it’s usually not much of a problem, especially if you use memorization techniques.
PSA: GrapheneOS is not affected by this, one of many good reasons to use it.
uBlock Origin works fine with Firefox but it’s not better. Brave Shield is basically UBO rewritten in Rust and integrated directly in the browser code so it isn’t limited by the extension API and works more efficiently.
This! I never understand people who recommend Librewolf or other forks over Firefox just because some default settings are better.
I trust Vanadium but it’s not the best if you like your web ad-free.
It depends. The artist being a bad person doesn’t automatically make the art bad. But I also don’t want to support bad people. So, relevant questions to me are: Is the artist still alive? Do they profit from my consuming their work? Do I promote them perhaps indirectly? The answers will be different for e.g. Lovecraft vs. Rowling, or rereading a book I already own vs. convincing my book club to buy new copies.
Getting downvoted in a What’s your most controversial opinion? thread is just funny.
Having children in general is selfish and immoral. People shouldn’t be forced into existence to give their parents’ life meaning, take care of them, and/or keep civilization going.
Actually, yes! What is “important” in a general sense is a similar question to that of the meaning of life. In the end there is no external, absolute rule of nature that decides this for us but we must create our own values. And privacy is such a value. In part you can derive it from others like personal freedom but that only moves the question. Different opinions on what our values should be and how to resolve conflicting ones in specific situations is the subject of ethics and has been debated since humans could debate.
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Because knowledge is power and most people don’t like giving whomever power over them for no reason. Also, it shouldn’t matter why privacy is important to people, the fact that it is should suffice to protect it.
I’ve been using the pro version, Moon+ Reader Pro, for years. It’s great for reading EPUBs, which I either buy DRM-free or, if that’s not possible, in any format and then download a “liberated” copy from Anna’s Archive.
Pineapple on pizza is great once in a while. I like to pair it with jalapeños.
I once heard taxes described as “infrastructure subscription”, which I think is a neat idea.
I actually pay for quite a few digital service subscriptions. Off the top my head: Proton (email/VPN), Mega (storage), Kagi (search engine), Inoreader (feed aggregator), Signal (both voluntary donation and for online backup), Audible (audiobooks), Reuters (news), a few newspapers and magazines (online editions), some apps, …
It should probably be a book the reading of which would be most beneficial to everyone. That’s a high bar pointing to some form of practical philosophy. I’d go with an introduction to Buddhism, something like What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula though perhaps there are others better suited for a general audience.