I have the D&D 3.5 core rulebooks on my shelf in the nerd nook. I know that I'm never going to play 3.5 again, but it's the system I first got into the hobby with. It would feel wrong to get rid of my personal history of nerdship.
My understanding is that no amount of anti-virus software replaces common sense. As long as you're not downloading sketchy programs and giving them permission to run, you're pretty well set.
Some people might tell you that there's no viruses on Linux, but that isn't exactly true. Linux has something like 2% of the desktop market, which makes it less attractive to develop malware for - but 2% of a few billion computers is still millions of potential targets. Not to mention that Linux dominates the server market, and arguably that's where malware is more valuable. To think that there's no malware targeting Linux is naive.
Many anti-virus suites are effectively malware though. If you decide you do need AV software make sure to do your research before installing any.
Anyway, long story, I don't personally use an anti-virus, and for your stated uses I'm not sure I'd recommend one.
If you're mostly using it as a web browser then I would definitely recommend a solid ad blocker. UBlock Origin is free, highly esteemed, and can be installed as an extension to whatever browser you're currently using.
I'm going to university this September. Nearly everybody says "In university they don't try to understand what you've written it is unintelligible." My handwriting is incredibly ugly. I want to improve it by the time I go to uni....
I used to have really bad chicken-scratch printing and I wanted to improve.
The exercise that really stuck out for me was to find a font I liked in a book on calligraphy and started practicing the alphabet.
Before I started practicing, I didn't pay much attention to how I was forming a letter, I'd just draw it - and it would look messy. Once you start looking at each letter as a discrete number of strokes you start paying attention to the small parts and the whole looks much better.
If you're really lucky, you'll find a guide with arrows showing which way to draw each stroke. Super helpful. Note that this font uses a fountain pen, so it'll look different with a standard ballpoint:
Back in school I heard the story that Haydn wrote the "Surprise Symphony" because he was sick of people sleeping through his music, and wanted to startle them awake. It seems like this was a myth....
Aw man, in the tenth grade we had to do a music recital and this was the song I chose. Specifically because I knew thirty kids would have to play some music whether they were interested in the course or not, and I thought the whole sleepy thing was a funny bit.
"Red tape" is a pretty common idiom here. It's similar to bureaucracy, but it's more like the useless stuff you have to deal with in order to do something.
Say you want to update your driver's license and you need to bring in some ID and fill out a form. That's regular bureaucracy.
If you want to feed the homeless so you have to get a permit for an event, prove your volunteers have food-handling training, fill out forms for your volunteers, notify the police that there will be a public gathering, schedule an inspection of the facility, etc, that's red tape.
Another way to look at it might be that Bureaucracy describes the system in which offices communicate with each other, and Red Tape are the tasks/forms/whatever you have to complete in order to get what you want approved.
I wanna make some games but idk where to start. Thinking of gbstudio but the hardware limits would make making a card game hard, any other easy tools? Is there a gbstudio eqivament for 16-32 bit systems?
I highly recommend Godot for a new developer. I made the switch from Unity and it's just been a pleasure to work with. I'm actually unlearned a bunch of patterns I had to use with Unity because Godot makes things even easier to access .
I don't know if it's got any kind of support for retro systems though
Ah, well you can definitely build for Android with it then. I haven't personally, but so far every other platform I've built for has just been a few clicks and away you go
It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.)...
One thing I try to avoid when I'm writing is when two words repeat. Kind of like your example "the thing is is that." If I catch myself writing it, I try to rearrange the sentence.
Although a pretty extreme example tickles me:
"The cookie he had had had had no effect on his appetite."
I always hear people talking about how beef is so cheap and I wonder how that could be when it costs twice as much as pork in my grocery store. I never thought about subsidies in other countries.
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Anti Malware with Linux
Hello! Sorry maybe for this beginners-question: do I need dedicated anti-virus / anti-malware software for my Linux System?...
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How can I improve my handwriting?
I'm going to university this September. Nearly everybody says "In university they don't try to understand what you've written it is unintelligible." My handwriting is incredibly ugly. I want to improve it by the time I go to uni....
Dic "quid?" iterum!
It's going. I'm alive. ( lemmy.world )
TIL Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" was NOT written to wake up sleeping audience members; that was just a myth
Back in school I heard the story that Haydn wrote the "Surprise Symphony" because he was sick of people sleeping through his music, and wanted to startle them awake. It seems like this was a myth....
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Any lemmies that are politically neutral?
Looking for somewhere to discuss stuff that doesn't swing right or left and doesn't ban people for voicing an opinion.
Does anyone else think of a giant bee with a cowboy hat when they hear the name Beehaw?
Poor owl
Because it takes slightly less mental energy to sit and stress than to do the thing. ( lemmy.world )
Silly DragonForce meme
DnD with non-native English speakers
Why Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket ( www.bbc.com )
Late last year, Emily Johnson took to Reddit to share her frustration with how expensive food in Canada has become....
German parliament will stop using fax machines ( www.npr.org )
Is he winning? ( lemmy.world )
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Beginner gamedev projects?
I wanna make some games but idk where to start. Thinking of gbstudio but the hardware limits would make making a card game hard, any other easy tools? Is there a gbstudio eqivament for 16-32 bit systems?
The easiest problem ( discuss.tchncs.de )
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Why do black people have to be so loud? ( kbin.social )
Like seriously and I'm not even intending to be racist (though some smarmy asshole will for sure interpret it that way for an unironic purpose)....
What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?
It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.)...
Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?
Not like that ( sh.itjust.works )
He thinks the carpet-pissers did this? ( lebowski.social )
Better to do nothing at all than miss that appointment ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )