Niels K.

Doing things with computers, likes to run, loves magic and plays tabletop RPGs and old video games.

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2026-03-28 20:51:24 UTC

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@nprofile…hl5m Iirc they don’t have a visual mode but you work only with movement-commands etc
2wy - yanks the next two words
:2,5d - delete lines 2-5

2026-02-25 18:07:04 UTC

@nprofile…yejy ever heard of RFC 6764? It would be great if you would follow that instead of only trying the mail-domain. There is also a specification apparently for config-v1.1.xml but you ignore that also for carddav and caldav 😩

2026-01-25 20:18:49 UTC

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@nprofile…l9z3 Do you do magic? There is a sponge ball on the floor

2026-01-23 22:36:10 UTC

@nprofile…yejy how do the e-mail-addresses in Thunderbird pro work? Are those aliases or are those 15 distinct addresses that just use combined space. I am asking to know if I could have then accounts for all my family members or if all of them would need their own subscription.

2026-01-13 20:39:05 UTC

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@nprofile…smwg In dem Plan hieß es doch „lebenslange Erb- **und** Schenkungsfreibetrag“. Was damit verhindert wird, ist, dass alle 10 Jahre 500.000 verschenkt werden und man dann nochmal erbt. Man will ja die großen Vermögen einschränken

2026-01-04 08:29:08 UTC

Is here anybody who knows Dungeon Crawl Classics? I bought two bundles in the past and have now 5 different versions of the Core Book (4th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th print). For what is this useful? #rpg #dcc #ttrpg

2026-01-03 08:20:54 UTC

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@nprofile…0adl @nprofile…tmfh Die Ryzen 7 7840U und 7840HS sollen wohl inzwischen den Abstand deutlich verkleinert haben. Und ab und an hätte ich schon ganz gerne X86 in meinem Rechner (Thema Virtualisierung)

2025-05-24 10:15:29 UTC

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@nprofile…plfl Wozu? Vertraut ihr euch nicht, wenn einer Würdelergebnisse ansagt?

2025-02-15 14:50:58 UTC

Today morning I wrote that the new book „Picks and Shovels“ by @nprofile…qz4x had me hooked and that I don’t know if I get anything done today. Well, I finished it. It‘s an awesome read. Get and enjoy it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

2024-12-22 12:19:20 UTC

My year in #running. There will be two runs added until the end of the year.
I approved massively this year. Next year there will be a marathon I run outside of a race, the Berlin Marathon and probably my the S25 and the Nikolauslauf in Berlin. I am not sure yet about races with a shorter distance.
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2024-07-06 06:27:01 UTC

Even though I am using Unix-like operating systems for decades but one thing I am still struggling with is job control.
I.e. I start a long running process with output like rsync -av in my terminal. I know about ctrl-z and bg. But output is not detached. What I want is sending also the output to the background and getting it to the foreground from time to time to check on the status.
I rarely have long running tasks without output, so I always wonder what to do with job control. #linux #bsd

2024-06-28 10:00:12 UTC

Don’t use “Outlook (new)” in #Windows 11. I just did a tcpdump and looked also at my #mail servers when setting up an account in there. The mail client only spoke with Microsoft-servers, never with my mail-servers and I saw on my mail-servers only connections from Microsoft-IPs.

2024-05-12 08:01:08 UTC

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@npub129r…0vg0 Oh sorry. Wrong message to wrong person.

2024-05-12 07:28:42 UTC

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@npub129r…0vg0 In my experience the solution to “I have a problem with mail client X” is rarely “Use another mail client”

2024-05-12 07:07:29 UTC

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@npub129r…0vg0 I’ll try that but it shouldn’t be necessary in the first place :/

2024-05-12 05:34:14 UTC

I really try to like #kmail, but this mail application has always some problems. Right now I want to get my inbox empty. I delete a bunch of mails and a few seconds later, they are back in the inbox and then they can´t be removed at all. #kde #linux

2024-04-06 11:51:49 UTC

Next month I will start to run the new Vecna-campaign from #DnD5e
It is a campaign starting at Level 10. Does DnD expect a certain amount of wealth and magical items at that level? #ttrpg

2024-04-04 03:28:04 UTC

I am thinking about switching to #NixOS from EndeavourOS (Arch). Where should I I start?
Where can I read about best practices?
I read that flakes aren’t actually that important on a laptop but I should use home-manager.
Can I also use different WMs/DEs with home-manager?

2024-03-26 09:44:36 UTC

Mir wurde als #Shadowrun-Roman „Marlene lebt“ empfohlen. Ich habe schon eine ganze Menge Romane aus der Welt gelesen und das ist einer der schlechteren. Es ist eine ganz schöne Qual durch das Buch zu kommen…

2024-03-02 19:40:49 UTC

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@npub196k…elcc Bad

2024-03-02 00:24:57 UTC

I saw today Dune Part 1 & 2 in the cinema. 1 was quite cool, 2 was ok. A bit confusing from time to timee and the time frame was too short.
The book where the story needs years to develop (according to the plot in the Wikipedia) makes more sense to be honest.

2024-01-29 06:06:05 UTC

Ich hab den alten Brief mit Transport-PIN und PUK noch. Pech gehabt - die Ausweis-App ist der Meinung, dass die Transport-PIN falsch ist. Technik die begeistert. #lastpost #eid

2023-09-01 12:13:26 UTC

Day 31 of #RPGaDay
I forgot to post yesterday.
Favorite RPG of all time: Shadowrun!
I don’t care about the edition. The world is awesome and I love the dice pools (big trolls == big dice pools) and you have a reason why strangers run together. Sometimes I don’t like the crunchiness.
I ❤️ #Shadowrun

2023-08-30 17:05:25 UTC

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@npub1j2u…c034 Well, we don’t have extra-territoriality…yet

2023-08-25 06:56:09 UTC

I hate glueing together tabletop minis. Warhammer 40k-minis are even worse than Star Wars-Minis (except those battle droids maybe).
And all for the kids…

2023-08-23 13:46:22 UTC

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@npub1yj4…puzc @npub19s4…j53l You could even open them up in the installation-scripts.

2023-08-23 13:39:15 UTC

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@npub19s4…j53l You didn’t. I know how firewalls work. But when you build a desktop distribution with a firewall enabled by default I expect that ports for common services are opened also by default.

2023-08-23 11:59:40 UTC

Desktop #Linux-distributions that block mDNS (UDP/5353) by default are something that I don’t understand.

2023-08-21 07:11:10 UTC

Day 21 of #RPGaDay
Favorite licensed RPG: Alien RPG is just awesome.
One of the best RPGs I’ve ever played.

2023-08-20 10:24:56 UTC

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@npub1e3l…v8a3 The bundle is not available anymore

2023-08-20 10:18:30 UTC

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@npub1e3l…v8a3 I don’t know. I never had that problem before with HumbleBundle and eBooks.

2023-08-20 06:34:02 UTC

Beware: When you buy books from HumbleBundle it can happen that those are only keys for Kobo. And those books are protected by Adobe DRM.
It just happened to me and now I need to figure out how I can get them onto my devices (please don´t try to help me; I will find a way). #fuckDRM

2023-08-19 12:32:21 UTC

Insects might feel pain or joy. Very interesting article about it and it’s implications: Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-insects-feel-joy-and-pain/

2023-08-18 16:07:57 UTC

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@npub1ct2…khz2 Musste noch nen Film schauen oder schlechte Musik hören

2023-08-18 14:52:38 UTC

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@npub1ql0…ykes Mich wundert ja immer wie die FDP mit Subventionen umgeht. Wenn der Markt das alles regelt, sollten Subventionen gar nicht notwendig sein.

2023-08-17 20:28:07 UTC

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@npub19wf…ufh6 Hm…next idea would be for me to follow the snap-theory. That would mean check if a slow starting app is installed as snap and if yes, see if you can install it as a “normal” application via apt-get. Uninstall the snap, install the normal application and see if it is faster. Tbh here I don’t know a lot of Ubuntu because I run usually other distributions.

2023-08-17 18:41:05 UTC

For the people who wanted to be informed about a sustainability-report for smartphones: Greenpeace replied and wasn’t helpful unfortunately. For Germany they only linked to the list of Fair Trade-smartphones that are available here: https://utopia.de/bestenlisten/fair-handy-faires-smartphone-liste/

2023-08-17 18:17:57 UTC

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@npub19wf…ufh6 Otherwise “dmesg -t” or journalctl might help to see if anything throws errrors.

2023-08-17 18:15:12 UTC

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@npub19wf…ufh6 The difference between hdd and ssd can be huge. In addition Ubuntu uses mainly snaps these days which can be pretty slow.
Do you have lots of data? Then maybe tracker (gnome) or baloo (kde) are indexing which can lead to io-problems while they are indexing. I have pretty bad experiences with baloo.
How proficient are with Linux? If you know a bit more, you could use top or “vmstat 1” to see where the performance problems come from. If it is io-wait you could install

2023-08-17 16:52:59 UTC

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@npub1ccu…3732 I know only a macOS-user who switched to Windows.

2023-08-17 06:31:06 UTC

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@npub1att…shzn Newsblur im Netz. Auf iOS und macOS Reeder. Auf Linux NewsFlash.

2023-08-16 18:29:53 UTC

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@npub15ax…lqq5 🤣

2023-08-16 07:05:12 UTC

Day 16 of #RPGaDay
Game you wished to own: the 2nd or 3rd English edition of KULT
I played it once and it was pretty awesome. I have the new version (as PDF) but I’d really like to have the old version.

2023-08-15 16:57:27 UTC

More vacation. “Return to Monkey Island” in a day. That was fun 🤩

2023-08-15 07:35:31 UTC

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@npub1uc9…f059 Thanks for the reply

2023-08-15 05:07:55 UTC

@npub1uc9…f059 how are you financed? Running the application and the storage has to be payed by someone.
I don’t see any subscribe-button on the site/in the app.

2023-08-13 17:08:13 UTC

Hat irgendeiner meiner Follower Erfahrung mit https://commown.coop gemacht?

2023-08-10 20:31:28 UTC

Day 10 in #rpgaday
Favorite tie-in fiction. You might not believe it when you read my last posts but I am a hardcore Shadowrun-fan and I love the novels. especially the older ones were cool like 2XS by Nigel Findley or Burning Bright by Tom Dowd.

2023-08-10 20:29:15 UTC

Only two days to go to be current on #rpgaday
Favorite dice: the D6. Always available, everyone has it. Unfortunately only really usable when using at least 3 imho and gets pretty useful in pools (hey Shadowrun)

2023-08-10 20:26:50 UTC

Let’s see if micro.blog still works for me. More #rpgaday
Favorite character. Another hard one. Back in the day I built so many characters I used as NPCs… There was this hardcore bike ganger though for Shadowrun who always wore the knitted stuff from his sister who is knitting for him in rehab.

2023-08-10 20:19:15 UTC

Smartest RPG you ever played. I dont know the name but it was a small indenpendently never published game that dosnt use dice but some mechanism for shifting your values in attack and defense and did some cool stuff without any dice for skill checks (which I cant remember unfortunately)

2023-08-10 20:16:19 UTC

More #rpgaday
Favorite game you never get to play. That’s a hard one. If I really want to play something, I just tell people that I will run something and usually find players. But in the end I think it is Feng Shui.

2023-08-10 20:15:03 UTC

More #rpgaday
Ildest game you’ve played. Let’s chefk the Wikipedia. DnD 2nd is older than The Dark Eye 1st. There you have it :)

2023-08-10 20:10:17 UTC

Let’s continue with #rpgaday
First RPG bought (this year): I buy very selectively these days. And I think the only game I bought something for is Shadowrun
Most recent game bought. As mentioned in 3: Something for Shadowrun. if talking about something new, it is Blade Runner.

2023-08-10 20:07:01 UTC

Ok. I missed some days for #rpgaday
Thus I start now and post the first ten days.
First RPG played this year: DnD 5. My regular group has a monthly game, so this is where it is at.
First RPG Gamemaster: I think my brother…or a friend of his. This is like 35 years ago…

2023-08-10 06:04:20 UTC

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@npub192g…kxm0 Inside a data center FDE would have done so as well but getting access should be harder and therefore it might not be in the threat model.

2023-08-10 06:03:03 UTC

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@npub192g…kxm0 How did the attacker get Hardware access? If it is a machine outside a data center, full disk encryption would have prevented the attack. Or did I miss something?

2023-08-10 05:00:33 UTC

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@npub18kr…96vt Und danach installiert man “ncdu” ;)

2023-08-10 04:31:38 UTC

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@npub12f7…lkxh Thanks. I will delete my post after some more research. But something from Suse about this would have been nice.

2023-08-10 04:29:48 UTC

Regarding my last post about #Suse and anti-semitism. Lunduke seems to beproblematic and has a personal grudge against the company. But I find nothing really from the company that counters his blog-post
openSUSE has at least a CoC (I don’t know how good it is written though; not my expertise) #linux https://code.opensuse.org/project/coc/blob/main/f/Code-of-Conduct.md

2023-08-10 03:50:22 UTC

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@npub12f7…lkxh This was more in the news last year when the article was written. The only comment Suse apparently gave was “we investigate internally and don’t say anything about it as long as we investigate but we are against discrimination”

2023-08-09 18:35:53 UTC

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@npub194q…7t42 I don’t damn the work of the people who work alongside the company but that also doesn’t mean that I want to use a product from a company that doesn’t seem to have a problem with anti-Semitic behavior.
The question is: why don’t the other people speak up or why do the volunteers if they know about this behavior don’t orient to for example other distributions

2023-08-09 18:33:37 UTC

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@npub194q…7t42 Behavior in the last 5 years (especially that behavior from a German company) is something different than the behavior of the mother company 80 years ago (especially that just bought a company some years ago).
Would the new CEO said something like “oh, this is a problem”; I’d see it differently

2023-08-09 18:21:14 UTC

Ok…it seems Suse is a problematic distribution as well… 😭
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-time-suse-the-german-linux-company
So I have to research for a new one because that behavior from a company is a definitive “no” for me #linux

2023-08-09 17:40:10 UTC

@npub1hyk…3p33 I really like that “Red Team Blues” is for Dan Kaminsky. He was a great person.

2023-08-09 16:44:30 UTC

The best soundtrack to #Shadowrun is still the OST of Blade Runner by Vangelis.

2023-08-08 10:18:58 UTC

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@npub1a55…uk87 I really have to create again my own campaign with my own embedded metaplot

2023-08-08 09:15:15 UTC

I am reading the first time a novel about the CFD in #shadowrun. That is the third metaplot about body snatchers (or are they even more? Bugs Shedim, CFD…)
How about something new?

2023-08-06 14:09:11 UTC

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@npub15yr…wcyx Rebuild or re-sync. The latter one is iirc a monthly cronjob/systemd-timer from md that runs on the first Sunday or so

2023-08-06 09:58:36 UTC

Oh, I found a way to contact support. On the website when logged in the account management-settings. #pocket

2023-08-06 09:39:52 UTC

@npub100c…gkwp does pocket really have no mozilla.social-account or only X?

2023-08-06 09:37:37 UTC

Wow. Pocket has really no support except some FAQ-articles. And the “Contact Support” link is just a link onto the support-page. I didn’t expect that from a company like Mozilla.
They also list accounts on X and not on Mastodon or so.

2023-08-05 15:14:55 UTC

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@npub1u2z…xg9v Endlich mal wieder so richtig angeranzt worden von nem Verkäufer oder sowas?

2023-08-05 12:29:11 UTC

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@npub1ykv…ey6z Mail from the family to the vim-use mailing list

2023-08-05 12:28:47 UTC

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@npub1end…m0kk August 3rd according to the mail of the family to the mailing list

2023-08-05 12:22:52 UTC

RIP Bram Moolenaar
Thanks for your work. I use it daily. #vim

2023-07-29 08:33:30 UTC

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@npub15cw…gt0k Before that Fedora, before that EndeavourOS (which is Arch-based)
Leap is not the right choice. For one its future is unclear and I want something that stays relatively current; otherwise I´d use Debian probably. Ubuntu is not in the mix because of all the snaps.

2023-07-29 08:02:52 UTC

After several weeks with #OpenSuse Tumbleweed it still feels a bit weird. Especially how repos are handled and how often I have to take care about dependency conflicts. I can’t remember when I had such problems in the past. And without the repos I miss some software (like codecs). #linux

2023-07-23 17:43:10 UTC

Ok. My #shadowrun-mission was so good that Shadowrun has now at least three more players. They directly bought a 5th edition rulebook because that was the only one available at the convention and want to buy a 6th edition one. Nice 😊

2023-07-05 19:01:29 UTC

I didn’t expect this: I pay $20/month for #ChatGPT Plus and cannot use the API without paying extra.

2023-07-04 19:01:22 UTC

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@npub1y82…p6z4 I have several videos from him and all the stuff is pretty hard to do and some are real balls of steel-things

2023-07-03 10:35:36 UTC

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@npub1l0m…w988 I am using tumbleweed and installed a couple of weeks ago

2023-07-02 18:01:32 UTC

For some reason my Doom emacs behaves differently in #OpenSuse than with other #Linux-distributions or macOS. I have no idea why or how to debug.
All in all #OpenSuse behaves with some things quite differently than I know it from other distributions and my laptop 🤔

2023-07-02 13:06:59 UTC

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@npub16k8…4gfr Like Blades in the Dark?