Mullvad is a great VPN though, if Mozilla branding gets more people to use it instead of any of the scummy ones that are everywhere these days, it’s a good thing for privacy, the open web, etc. - the causes Mozilla is supposed to represent. It’s way better aligned with their goals than a lot of the other non-browser stuff they’ve been doing. I’d rather see them profit from that than from nonsense like ‘sponsored stories’ on the homepage.

Drop shipping is a great analogy though - branding and marketing is the only thing Mozilla is bringing to the table as far as I’m aware.

My first VPS was for a Minecraft server so I named it cobblestone. I’ve kept using Minecraft related names for all my machines since then, and I try to pick ones that are at least vaguely related to the function or appearance of the machine. For example my cluster has brute for the master and piglin01-piglin04 for the workers, but those are the only ones I’ve numbered.

The exception is my two Klipper RPi’s, one is octopi since that’s what it originally ran, and the other is named after the model of the printer. For some reason I never named my printers.

I probably wouldn’t use a naming scheme like this for production servers though - I’d either go with functional hostnames or something like the periodic table which you can pick from arbitrarily. My home servers and clients aren’t cattle though, so I like having a little personality to the names there.

Yeah, I have a 5W diode laser. It’s not ideal for wood but with enough time it will cut through 1/4 inch ply or MDF. It’s a nice tool to have but make sure you do your research - a lot of the stuff on the market is wildly unsafe, even shipping with counterfeit safety glasses.

Backups. Cloud services like Backblaze B2 are so cheap for the durability they offer, it just doesn’t make sense for me to roll my own offsite solution with a Raspberry Pi at my parents’ house or something. Restic encrypts everything before it leaves my machine.

Password manager- it’s too important and it’s the thing that has to work for me to recover when I break something else. I’m happy to support Bitwarden with a few bucks a year.

Email- again, it’s mission critical and I have a habit of tinkering with things and breaking them. And it’s just no fun. The less I need to think about email, the happier I am.

Since @slyflourish@ttrpg.network is here on Lemmy I guess I’ll ask: do you think larger 2x2 or even 3x3 tokens would be useful to add to the set, and if so what icons would you suggest?

Edit: I can’t figure out how mentions work, currently on Voyager on Android.

Thanks! I definitely want to run some more one shots until I get comfortable with things, then I’ll probably run Phandelver. Will definitely check out your stuff again.

I used this for my first time DMing (there was an attempt to run PF1e several years ago but we don’t talk about that one) and it went great! The scripts made the role play sections super easy, and the playlist really helped sell the setting.

I did pull a few punches to err on the side of not killing characters. I didn’t use pack tactics with the rats and I left off the poison effect with the centipedes. 3d6 poison could have easily one-shotted first level characters without death saves, which just seemed unfair for an encounter after they’d already beaten the boss.

If I run the module again I’ll probably also add some minions to the spider room. With 6 PCs it ended up being a pretty easy fight.