Piatro

joined 2 years ago
[–] Piatro 2 points 1 year ago

I like it and have been using it for something like 6 months. I had an issue where I really liked the application and how simple it was but I didn't really want to "budget", just keep an eye on where my money was going. That was fine, just keep zero-ing the numbers every month, slightly tedious though. Now they've got a "report" style behind an experimental flag and that's made it pretty perfect for me.

I set up some family members with the electron app after they had spent 3 days to do in a spreadsheet what I had done in 3 hours in actual. There was resistance initially due to sunk cost fallacy but now they're loving it.

Other options like ynab and firefly were just too bloated and complex for our simple use case.

[–] Piatro 3 points 1 year ago

I agree it's a low-to-mid tier phone but as I'm only using my FP4 for calls, discord, email, browsing, youtube etc it's perfectly fine. Most people don't need a top tier phone these days.

[–] Piatro 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's an argument to be made that without David Cameron's decision to sacrifice the country's relationship with Europe and appeal to UKIP with the Brexit referendum we wouldn't have had May, Brexit, Boris, Truss or Sunak. To be honest I think we would have had Boris anyway but we maybe wouldn't have had such a lurch to the far right as we've had.

Having said that, I think the shift to the right was already underway, a Boris follow-up was pretty inevitable with how skilled he is at fooling people with charisma (that somehow made everyone forget or forgive his leaked conversation to have a journalist assaulted). His legacy will always be his completely inadequate and corrupt handling of COVID. The one good thing I'll say about him especially compared to Sunak is that he does seem to genuinely care about the environment and did enact some positive environment policy.

[–] Piatro 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard the argument as a positive of learning vim and while it did finally force me to touch type I can't say that it had any impact on my programming speed.

[–] Piatro 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I agree with those saying mailing lists are intimidating. I don't know if others are using dedicated tools or something but I find web based mailing list UIs just incomprehensibly bad and difficult to navigate.

[–] Piatro 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious, why did you switch from plug? I keep seeing new plugin managers pop up but plug has been solid for years for me.

[–] Piatro 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know them outside of d&d

[–] Piatro 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Totally would if we were in person or on camera!

[–] Piatro 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah very good questions! Never quite figured it out in the backstory. Do you think a characters reason for adventuring is tied to how you would play them as a character? Also I'm conscious of going too serious with it. One of our party is a warlock who thinks clerics are just stick up warlocks and has a distinct, and funny (to the players at least!) personality, they're fun to play with, I don't want to make a too serious character who's just not fun to play with.

[–] Piatro 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's part of the problem in that I can tell you stats and that he believes that generally people deserve to live, to the point where he has died and caused a party member to die to save someone else, but I can't tell you anything about his personality other than it's me, and every character I ever play is like that. Trying to do something different ends up being annoying (my preachy dwarf cleric) or bland (young naïve wizard).

[–] Piatro 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Too slow to be viable" is a bit strong. I've had a fairphone 4 for at least a year now and I've had no issues.

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