Orion Scribner @frameacloud@dragon.style

@anthracite

I was wondering how fast that was going to happen.

@anthracite

Oh wow, that's awesome! It's great that Artie was so cooperative with the rescue efforts!

@zebratron2084

Hooray for cat rescue!

@jessmahler

That sounds familiar, I could've sworn that I'd seen something about wild carrot on the Mad Gender Science Wiki (which seems to be down right now?) but I'm not finding it on the page where I expected to see it...? Maybe it's in there somewhere else, idk

https://web.archive.org/web/20201205061446/https://madgenderscience.wiki/wiki/Naturally_occurring_feminizing_HRT

Apple fans, if someone has a new Macbook Air, but they have no compatible equipment, what can they do with the Macbook that would make it worthwhile for them to hang onto it? What would make it desirable to someone who's not an Apple fan?

@aearo

yw

@rats

Your idea sounds really cool! I hope sometime you'll find some folks with those skills to team up with to make your idea into a real project.

@rats

I haven't played any of these, but I've been keeping tabs on disability representation in games for a while, because I think it's neat and we need more of it.

In "Extreme Meatpunks Forever," a visual novel about antifascist mecha, one of the playable characters uses a wheelchair.
https://hthr.itch.io/extreme-meatpunks-forever

In "Figment," a pet-raising game, your character customization options let you have a wheelchair.
https://leefy.itch.io/figment

Both of those games were in the June 2020 itch.io bundle for racial justice and equality, in case you bought that.

"Super Wheelchair Boost" is a platformer where you play as a hero with a super boosted wheelchair that can jump.
https://donnys-games.itch.io/super-wheelchair-boost

"Wheelchair Basketball VR" isn't by wheelchair users, but it looks like they put a ton of thought into making it accessible and realistic by talking with real wheelchair basketball players and the game's history.
https://dagliadubi.itch.io/wheelchair-basketball-vr

You can keep an eye on the wheelchair tag in itch to see if any more games show up, with the warning that some of them are going to be ableist:
https://itch.io/games/tag-wheelchair

@aearo

Wow, I was just making a list of different beginner-friendly LInux distros yesterday! I don't remember seeing anything about a built-in command line tutorial, though. That tutorial sounds cool, so if you find it, ping me!

The most beginner-friendly Linux distros are all flavors or derivatives of Ubuntu, so I'd say to look at Ubuntu proper first, and then look at these other beginner-friendly Ubuntu-based distros:

* Elementary OS. Its design philosophy is immediate usability with a gentle learning curve. Its default desktop environment closely resembles MacOS. I haven't looked into this one much, but that elevator pitch makes me wonder if this might be the one you were thinking about?
* Kubuntu. Mostly differs from Ubuntu in graphical applications and tools.
* Linux Mint. This one also sounds like an especially likely candidate to be the one that you were thinking about, because its site has a lot of beginner-friendly explanations about what makes Linux different. Its default desktop environment looks like Windows, but you can choose other variants instead.
* Lubuntu. Its default desktop environment looks like Windows XP.
* Peppermint OS. It's cloud-focused, for netbooks that are always connected to the net, saving space by using web apps.
* Pop!_OS.
* Ubuntu MATE. Of all these, this one does the best at making older computers usable, which is one of its main goals. Yesterday, I installed it on a family member's laptop from 2010, and I'm really happy with how it turned out!
* Xubuntu. It uses a more lightweight desktop environment than Ubuntu.
* Zorin OS has three versions: Core (general purpose), Pro (paid), and Lite (for older computers).

@vortex_egg

I expect that its designers would be genuinely delighted to hear that.

@drwho

I was just telling my family about NORAD Santa Tracker, live now: https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map

And reading aloud its origin story: https://voroxpete.tumblr.com/post/154851884616/arctic-hands-therobotmonster-kuroba101

@Goldkin

Thank you!

@madds

Thank you!

@vagabondsun

Yes, last New Year's, I did share a link to an end-of-year journal for reflecting on the past year and planning the next. It's a printable called YearCompass: https://yearcompass.com/

Is that the one you were looking for?