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DM/Players of Lemmy, what are some silly magical items I should add to a campaign?
  • A bag of beach.

    It's a bag of holding that contains a pocket dimension, with a beach, some palm trees, and a cocktail bar run by an Orc who wanted to get away from all the violence in his tribe.
    The characters can all crawl into the bag and the last to enter turns the opening inside out, making the bag disappear in the real world.
    It only fits a light-hearted campaign cause it takes the tension out of a dungeon crawl and it's insanely powerful cause it lets the characters rest, heal and replenish their spells.

  • OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers
  • Unix is basically a brand name.
    BSD had to be completely re-written to remove all Unix code, so it could be published under a free license.
    It isn't Unix certified.

    So it is Unix-derived, but not currently a Unix system (which is a completely meaningless term anyway).

  • OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers
  • Early computers didn't have operating systems.
    You just plugged in a punch card or tape with the program you want to run and the computer executed those exact instructions and nothing else.
    Those programs were specifically written for that exact hardware (not even for that model, but for that machine).
    To boot up the computer, you had to put a number of switches into the correct position (0 or 1), to bring its registers in the correct state to accept programs.

    So you were the BIOS and bootloader, and there was no need for an OS because the userspace programs told the CPU directly what bits to flip.

  • The poor, poor people on r/Conservative...
  • The infighting is the point.
    The dear leader is most threatened by his closest advisors, ministers and generals.
    They are in a powerful enough position to topple him.
    So it's crucial that they constantly fight each other.

  • OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer_operating_system Author: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Benedikt.Seidl Data from: http://top500.org/stats

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    ELI5: ipv6

    Seriously, my knowledge ends with:

    • It offers a shitload of IP addresses
    • They look really complicated
    • Something about every device in your local network being visible from everywhere?
    • Some claim it obsoletes NAT?

    I get that it's probably too complicated a subject for an ELI5, so if there are good videos or resources explaining it in less than half an hour, feel free to share.

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    Lauergadse

    (Vorsicht! Nie den Rücken zuwenden!)

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    Shy FX & T-Power - Shake Your Body [2001]

    still a banger after 23 years!

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    superkret @feddit.org

    There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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