I can highly recommend basically anything written by Brandon Sanderson, especially the Cosmere series. It consists of a lot of books (and many on the way), that describe multiple worlds. What makes his books special is the way magic is integrated into the world. It’s not just 14th century Europe with wizards here and there, magic makes an impact on the society in a way that’s realistic. His books are easy to read, with a few exceptions (more on that below).
As for what to start with, I’d recommend two series:
Mistborn - a series revolving around a dystopian world. The first book in the series is somewhat a fantasy heist story. Easy to read, though you can tell it’s one of the earlier Brandon’s books, his style of writing improves in time.
Stormlight Archives - this is the series Brandon outdid himself TBH. The world is at the very alien, but in a way that makes sense. The books suck you in and don’t let go, making you want know more about the world and the characters. Be wary though, getting through the first few chapters takes some determination, as it starts slowly. And since the world is very different to our own, some words don’t make sense at start, which can be slightly offputting. But getting through the first chapters is worth it.
Hey friend, I know it has been a while. Just wanted to let you know that I have been reading the first Mistborn book (The final empire) and I have been enjoying it a lot. I think this is the first time I’m actually looking forward to my reading session so I can find out what is happening next.
Awesome to see the selfhosted community coming together to tackle the massive influx of Reddit refugees (Myself included). It’s crazy to see so many people flock to a new platform this quickly and even more awesome to see how much support is being given to the people actually putting forward their time and effort (And money) to bring the fediverse platforms to more people!
You can buy all sorts of stuff if you have money burning in your pocket, but as far as essential goes, you’ve already got it all.
That said, you might want to get a multipurpose USB-C dongle, for connecting the deck to an external display, keyboard, mouse, ethernet and such. The Deck Dock is okay, but there are cheaper options with the same functionality.
I may have accidentally stayed up all night to watch the meltdown and am now dead. Worth it to be there for the moment /r/funny went offline though (at like 5am, omg I am too old for this sort of thing!)
Today is gonna be rough, I have to somehow perk up enough to record a YT video and seem like I’m happy about it.
Pocophone f1 and I have a xiaomi note 8 as a backup ; because I tend to drop my phone due to carelessness (¯ ¯٥) i have had my screens change twice this year.
Currently… Slackware on main laptop. Slint (Slackware-based) on mini-pc. MX Linux (fvwm respin), Void, and OpenBSD on old laptop. NsCDE is desktop on all except MX.
If I create a link with the target /c/[email protected] like this, I think that gives a relative link that works across instances which may work in the Jerboa app. Any luck?
Edit: no it doesn’t, sorry, but that should help people on the web version who aren’t on feddit.uk.
Hello. I’ve been chronically ill for decades, with many symptoms going back to my earliest childhood memories. Dx are fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and FND (functional neurological disorder, which basically means something happens in the brain and then something weird happens in the body, and they’re related, we don’t know why and aren’t much fussed to find out). I also had unDxed endometriosis, possibly for 20 years, as well. Because GPs have been so unhelpful, I’ve had to teach myself a lot. Nutritional approaches have helped me the most.
OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)
HP EliteDesk 800 G2 i5-6500T, 8GiB RAM - this one is currently the mainstay of my lab, running containers with docker-compose
Nginx as reverse proxy (+ fail2ban, letsencrypt)
Paperless-ngx (+ Redis, Tika, Gotenberg)
Jellyfin
Minecraft server (+ Mapcrafter)
ddclient
Heimdall
Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro i7-8700T 32GiB RAM
I’ve gotten this one fairly recently. A real bargain - costed as much as the CPU alone and was in pristine condition. I will be migrating the workload from EliteDesk to this one. I decided to try ProxMox this time though, so I need to learn a bit first. Also perhaps add a second SSD
How does mapcrafter run for you now? I’m hosting a vanilla server and that’s exactly what I need to see our map. I’m just concerned that it doesn’t function properly now due to recent updates.
I’ll comment about myself too. I am neurodivergent in more than one way and have a couple of chronic illnesses, that when separated, would be mostly just a minor annoyance, but when bundled together become a major pain in the ass (both metaphorically and literally).
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