Laren

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that my desktop is a cat.

If I want it to boot in wayland? No, fuck you, fails to kick up.

Sometimes? It just boots in wayland. No problem. Not an issue.

I can't figure out what the difference is between these two situations. I'm sure the explanation lies somewhere in the logs, but right now, I think the key is to ensure I don't want it to kick up wayland, thus ensuring that it does.

There's no rhyme or reason otherwise.

Today in #TTRPG and #DND news:

Apparently, Vampire: The Masquerade is coming to... #dnd5e? Guess what, if you're confused, so am I!

Context: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2195-q3-2026-partnered-content-release-schedule

I'm gonna be honest here, I don't know how I feel about this. It encourages people to play more D&D, rather than, y'know, games built for certain settings and tones...

But maybe, juuuuust maybe, it'll be a 'gateway drug'? I dunno. This is weird.

#wod #vtm

I got a steam controller in the initial wave. (I hit the 'next step' button on the purchase screen a *lot.*)

Handles great. Fantastic responsivity. My use case is with my and my partner's decks on the TV, so the USB connectivity is a great thing tbh.

And I learned today it Wilhelm Screams if you drop it.

10/10, Valve.

Paying the cat tax!

I maintain that, from the perspective of a SOC analyst, the difference between an admin doing admin things and an adversary doing adversary things....

Is often just a ticket number.

#YesIActuallyPostedSomethingSecurityRelated.

Swapping a charger between two laptops whenever one gets low feels like one of those scenes where two people have to share the same oxygen tank to stay alive, passing it back and forth between each other.

Yes, I could plug in another power brick, but this is not the point.

New Ravenloft book for the TTRPG crew: https://www.dungeonsanddragons.com/ravenloft/

Color tarokka deck, a few new subclasses. (Reanimator artificer. Is this the first time they've officially published an artificer thingy outside of the book with artificer?)

Hoping the rest isn't a rehash. Ravenloft is like... one of their biggest things (Curse of Strahd is a huge thing for folks) and messing it up would be... not great.

(Still mad about what happened with Spelljammer.)

#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpg

I enjoy writing as a hobby, but getting a portable thing to write on that isn't my phone is... a concern.

Every time I go to look at a dedicated writing device (think like a freewrite) I'll admit, I boggle, hard. They're all *incredibly* expensive. That freewrite I mentioned? Like $550.

I can get 8 gigs of RAM and one of those stupid RGB spacers for that.

Part of me wants to work up some kinda cyberdeck-y writing machine using a Pi Zero W 2, an e-ink screen, and a decent keyboard. At that point, though, I may as well take a thinkpad or a basic chromebook (with linux on it, because to hell w/ chromeos) and use that...

EDIT: Okay, I guess the idea of making my own writing device isn't exactly unique.

https://www.reddit.com/r/writerDeck/

With Nova having gone Nova, what launchers (...that aren't the default...) are folks using these days?

Is it just me, or is the state of screen widgets on android just getting *worse*?

More screen real estate demanded for fewer features and a shittier layout. Yeah. Nah, your widget just gets evicted entirely and now I have Shodan looking at me.

She's still annoyed I'm unlocking my phone by booping her.

I'm not sure what it says that as more and more video games come out, graphics tech improves, et cetera...

I just want to run more tabletop games.

Managed to get my Steam Controller order in, juuuuust under the wire, judging by when it went out of stock.

That's going on the TV dock. :D

A few 'my cat doing cute things with her tail' poses.

She loves her cat tree. 💖