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- Untitled June 26, 2024 5:59 pmyeah, I know they are just lacking manpower. But when I order something from Germany to Poland they are ringing the doorbell before 8am two days later. But when I am ordering from the next county over it takes them 4 days.
- Untitled June 26, 2024 5:57 pmman, I ordered something from Thomann, which is just 70 kilometers from here, to my parents' place, where I am staying this week. It's not even anything big. And Thomann dispatched it quick. And now DHL told me to expect the package on Friday. Friday? You need 4 days to deliver a small package from one side of Forchheim to the other? I should just have taken the bus.
- Untitled June 25, 2024 8:37 pmKids are driving me mad today. Had a trip into town with them and basically dropped like a stone once I managed to get close to my bed.Of course I bet I am gonna be awake way too long now.
- Untitled June 24, 2024 10:30 pmhttps://youtube.com/shorts/jSYWHd-F2Qo?si=LSs0NPPMhVIGP_ht#german
- Untitled June 24, 2024 12:08 pm#introduction (updated 2024.06)age: 40place: europe (germany or poland)he/him#ttrpg #scifi #fantasy #retrogaming #cooking #boardgames #discworld Into #ttrpgs since the 90s, mostly #osr #dnd, #callofcthulhu, #shadowrun, #dsa, #harnworld.I sometimes write and paint, and post moody b/w photos on pixelfed.In IT and will talk about obscure #computer & #linux stuff. #xmpp: kyonshi@earth.xmpp, #irc: http://ereborbbs.duckdns.org:9000/ (my server's webchat)(I also post as kyonshi on text #usenet)
- Untitled June 24, 2024 8:23 amNeighbours came to greet us after breakfast.#horses
- Untitled June 24, 2024 8:16 amAnd then they demand sandwiches with Nutella and Gelbwurst. Which makes me gag. Luckily back home there's no way to get Gelbwurst, so I only have to stomach seeing it when they are here.
- Untitled June 24, 2024 8:14 amWe're on holidays with my parents, and had to go shopping in the village shop already because we were missing direly needed supplies.Nutella. We were missing nutella.The kids have expectations when they come to Oma and Opa.
- Untitled June 23, 2024 10:55 pmRight now is that stubborn time when I should be asleep, my body tells me to sleep, I can't concentrate on anything.But it's also the first bit of time I have to myself the whole day.
- Untitled June 23, 2024 10:03 pmhmm. at my parents and I didn't hear any loud cries of joy from the neighbors. So I guess Germany didn't win?
- Untitled June 23, 2024 3:41 pmOne thing I noticed during my drive today was how many insects got smashed on my front window. Unlike the last few years the whole windscreen is an insect graveyard right now.
- Untitled June 22, 2024 9:18 pmOver the last few years Lodz gradually exchanged the busses running in our area with electric ones.I just noticed how much changed when we encountered a bus in Berlin, and my son immediately asked "why is it so loud?!"Just an observation.
- Untitled June 21, 2024 2:38 pmhow can they make MS Teams even worse than before?I missed two meetings today because the "new and improved Teams" MS had me install all of a sudden stopped notifying me about any and all calls?#microsoft
- Untitled June 20, 2024 6:33 pmI just think it would be nice if we had more roleplaying scenarios from him, because those we have are great.
- Untitled June 20, 2024 6:32 pmand here I thought Albie Fiore never did anything besides the amazing "The Lichway" and "Tizun Thane" for White Dwarf magazine, but right now I realized he also made the classic Traveller adventure 4: Leviathan. Together with Ian Livingston, but Fiore got top billing.And that one also is a fantastic adventure. Turns out he did a lot of other stuff, including crosswords for the Guardian and he helped design Talisman.#ttrpg #dnd #traveller #osr
- Untitled June 20, 2024 2:00 pmStupid idea I had: AI generated website of biographies rewriting articles from Wikipedia, always inserting references to people being lizard people in skinsuits in the most innocuous way.I wonder how long it would take for this to be quoted by other AIs
- Untitled June 19, 2024 7:32 pmI bet it's some utterly trivial formatting issue. It seems it's waiting for the right login data, but I provide that. I know it's correct because I set it and can see the data right now. And yet it doesn't work.Not that #uucp doesn't already have it's problems: somehow the setup is so arcane even people who have been using it for years are surprised which commands work on my system and which don't.
- Untitled June 19, 2024 7:27 pmWhile I managed to get #uucp working with four different remote machines and now am happily exchanging emails and news with all of them, one system still eludes me: my humble Linux notebook.And I am not quite sure why that is. By all accounts I should have no issue making a uucp connection to my server at all. In fact I make a connection and then it times out.Why though?Unknown. No errors in the logs, and the server doesn't even register the attempt.Something seems borked.
- Untitled June 19, 2024 4:01 pmso, Justin Timberlake got pulled over for drunk driving, and the cop was too young to know who that guy called Justin Timberlake behind the wheel was. Feel old yet?https://www.nme.com/news/music/cop-who-arrested-justin-timberlake-reportedly-didnt-recognise-him-star-said-it-would-ruin-his-tour-3766825
- Untitled June 19, 2024 1:36 pmok, crazy idea I just had, but hear me out:a Traveller5 game. that's it. a challenge. #traveller #ttrpg
2 responses to “[HârnWorld] Tool: Campaign Tracker (for DnD B/X derivatives)”
@gmkeros.wordpress.com the thing that would make SQL useful for something like this would be a good front end to interact with. There are campaign manager tools out there (kanka.io is one that I have used. Very flexible but a little slow, at least on my computer). Having the skills to purpose build one for your style would mean cutting out what you don't need to get a much faster and more effective tool. But it's a huge time investment. I might try out this spreadsheet!
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@gmkeros.wordpress.com Your problem is that a database might well be a great way of *keeping* this data, but displaying it and entering it? It won't be great at that.
Generally if you want a friendly interface you have to start programming. But it does kind of depend on the database…
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