LocalSend should be called God Send because it’ll save your life. It’s AirDrop, but for everything and open source. Works really well, no setup, no server.

Audiobookshelf. Not exactly a “hidden” gem at this point, but I’m putting it here for today’s lucky 10,000. Simply the best way to store and stream audiobooks. Does podcasts too, and ebooks, although there are better tools for those.

Source is they made it the fuck up.

I came here to say this exact same thing. Videogames are an art form, and the history of that art should be preserved, both the successes and the failures. People should be able to look back on what was a hit and what was flop, on the ideas that worked and the ones that didn’t, on the well made games and the badly made games. All of it matters, all of it is part of the same story.

They absolutely can. Paradoxically, Republicans actually want everyone to think of gerrymandering as vote rigging, even though they claim its not. That’s because they want Dem voters to feel depressed and stay home. I reality (explanation here for the people that don’t know), while gerrymandering is vote rigging, it’s not ballot stuffing or some other form of blatant cheating like that. Rather, it relies on spreading your voters as thinly as possible to win as many seats as possible, because in first past the past winning a seat by 5% is as good as winning by 25%. But this leaves you vulnerable; if the numbers swing hard against you - say, because you have a staggeringly unpopular president - you can end up losing a lot of seats as all those thin margins shatter at once. This tactic could really blow up in their faces, and people need to know that so they know to get out and vote. Turnout will be critical.

It sounds great, but in practice it really doesn’t work. It’s not just the vastly different power levels, it’s the vastly different scope of the threats each splat is facing. In Vampire your main concern is internal and external politics. Meanwhile Werewolves are in an all out war with Cthulhu, and Mages are battling an enemy that routinely rewrites reality itself. These things are not compatible.

It was a desperate attempt to create some level of compatibility that lead to New WOD, but that didn’t really solve the problem and in the process it destroyed most of what made the individual splats interesting in the first place.

You’re better off with something like Dresden Files if that’s the kind of game you’re looking to run. WOD isn’t really set up for it.

And what percentage of those were pastors and priests?

Yes I expect to get downvoted

You should. Not because you’re some bold warrior for free speech valiantly defying the woke mob like you seem to think, but because you’re just flat out wrong. You’re spreading disinformation and acting like you’re standing up for facts.

Trans women who are engaged in medical transition are either taking high dose androgen blockers, or have had their source of androgens removed entirely. In fact, the average medically transitioning trans woman has less testosterone than the average cis woman. I know trans women who work out, who engage in physical sports and even combat sports. They struggle immensely with the fact that their bodies just flat out refuse to build muscle. I know people who do the kind of exercise and eat the kind of diet that would put the average guy at 200-220lbs within a year, and their bodies resolutely refuse to go past 140-160.

Trans women are at an astonishing disadvantage in sports. The few who excel do so either because they’re in sports where those disadvantages don’t matter (in which case, there’s no advantage to be concerned about either) or do so in spite of those disadvantages. This can be seen in the numbers; until recent panics started leading to bannings, many international sports including pretty much all of the olympics allowed trans women to compete as their stated gender, and yet trans women are actually under-represented among trophy and medal holders. Statistically, by sheer population ratio, they should be winning more than they are.

Transphobes love to latch on to any individual example of a trans woman performing well as if it justifies their argument, but when looked at in aggregate the statistics show that there is no danger of unfairness being posed by trans women in sports. No amount of bullshit about “bone density” and other meaningless shit that has never been suggested to matter in these competitions until hateful bigots needed an excuse can change the reality that sports are doing just fine. The only reason more trans women are winning in sports now is because more trans women are competing in sports, because more people feel comfortable openly expressing this part of their identity.

Because of course they’re fucking TERFs.

Rack another one up in the Right Wing Christian Child Molesters column.

Weird, the Queer Trans Child Molesters column is a lot smaller. I wonder why that could be?

The problem, as always, is that parents don’t want to put the work into educating their children, they want the government to wave a magic wand and make the problem go away. And that’s what gets you half assed solutions like this.

I was 50/50 on whether you were going for that, or Murderbot.

I’m actually a big fan of that decision.

The idea that non-binary people have to visibly appear non-binary is a harmful stereotype. Murderbot’s physical appearance is a part of its design that it has no control over. Why should it look androgynous? Just because it perceives itself as genderless, doesn’t mean it’s creators did.

I hope the show will actually dig into that at some point. I think it’s really important for people to see an agender character who still has a strongly masc appearance.

Honestly, none that are all that great. I tried Kodi in various forms, LibreElec, OSMC, MythTV, Steam Big Picture, and KDE TV (or whatever its called), but you’re just never going to get a great experience with stuff like Netflix and YouTube on Linux.

In the end, I bought myself an Nvidia Shield, switched out the launcher for one without ads, installed Smart Tube Next for ad-free YouTube, and I couldn’t be happier with the results. I’ve got my apps for Nebula and Dropout. I’ve got Kodi and Jellyfin for my home library. It has barely any power consumption, it boots fast, it runs a huge variety of emulators, the included remote works great (plus there’s a remote app for your phone that controls the entire system), and the wife acceptance factor is exceptional.

I’m really big on self-hosting and building all my own stuff; I use lots of repurposed hardware salvaged from companies I and my friends work at and I try to avoid off the shelf products. But I’m genuinely kicking myself for not buying a Shield sooner. It really is the best TV solution for a self hoster.