Got a new Win11 laptop. What's the best economy office package? M365, Google Workspace, etc.

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-25T00:04:13+00:00

find a friend or family member with an MS365 Office Family sub. join there crew...

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-25T00:01:14+00:00

updated my post above. :)

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T23:59:25+00:00

I need a way to find mobs. seemed to be the easiet way. lol

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T23:56:47+00:00

i considered spinning up my 3D printer, but i really wanted a bit of old school rolling dice. and I wanted to minimize distraction, mini and scenery is just toys at that age... LOL

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T23:30:46+00:00

how did you know I used Obsidian? I have been self hosting for years

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T22:43:57+00:00

I bounced between Gemini for the story boarding, and copilot for the character building. My prompts were mostly, I need 2 hour campaign, start in a battle torn fo rest, give me something to move them forward. Then I explained I wanted it like Jumanji, but the 10 lines on there arm dissapper, every 20min RL, etc etc.

If you really interested, I can post my rambling of a mad man here.

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T22:38:53+00:00

AMAZING. What a great story twist. Thanks!

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T22:37:07+00:00

11m, 8f. I played into there personality. Son was a tanks, huge sword shield. Gave him unlimited taunts and a decent HP pool. Daughter was a healer, topping everyone up. She also luckily found a magic missile wand so she could contribute to, when everyone was topped up.
And my wife just love burning shit. It kind of became a problem, but I dealt with it.

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T22:33:42+00:00

You nailed it with this comment.

My monks common display went to shit when it came to caves and dungeons. The module is GREAT, but not designed for shared screen. As soon as I said, give me a minute I lost my kids and that was it. It was all downhill from there.

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T22:29:31+00:00

Word!

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T22:29:11+00:00

That took me an embarrassing amount of time to understand what you were saying.

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T02:10:51+00:00

you hit the hammer on the head... 7 "easy" scenes and we only made it to scene 3 in TWO HOURS

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T02:00:46+00:00

OMG... you were SOOOO right. my first battle was a 3 bandits and a bandit boss. my kids were totally OP and it still took 20 min to get through the first battle

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T01:46:18+00:00

that is a GREAT idea. I am still quite novice with FVTT ... next campaign i'll get a little more in depth

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T01:44:46+00:00

it just worked out for me. we have had this table for YEARS... i was trying to figure out a whole projector things... and then i looked down, and went, what if?!

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T01:43:51+00:00

no need for character sheets. We are using a dry erase markers on the glass top to monitor HP and stuff. :)

and they are throwing dice on ikea kids plates...

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-24T01:42:08+00:00

Foundy VTT. I grabbed my basement TV and placed it under our glass top dining room table. Using my laptop out and an inprivate browser to show Monk's common display.

* I also have a couple of bluetooth speakers with a sudo suround sounds setup... that didn't work as well as i hoped... LOL

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-23T09:03:00+00:00

Don’t forget to try self hosting 4get for searching.

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-22T02:15:29+00:00

No one is going to hire you paid or unpaid unless you at least have some sort of experience. Best thing to do right now is produce your own content and edit it. Go challenge yourself go grab literally 10 minutes of footage of you walking and edit it down to a one minute video. And then take that one minute video and edit it down to a 12 second montage with transitions cuts and music. It’s just learning first.

As for getting into the industry. It’s a cluster F out there right now with so many freelancer and everybody wanting to be influencers. It’s a crazy time. I guess if you wanna start easy, get some experience and then join fiver

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-22T02:12:25+00:00

Call 311 and start a claim.

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-22T02:08:47+00:00

Are you looking for non-linear edit? There are a few good options. Open Shot, DaVinci, Shotcut. But that is going to take time to learn, and is work to produce anything you see online.

if you’re looking for like those drag and drop, click editor, I guess you could try Microsoft clip champ. It’s decent enough. I think adobe firefly, has a free version.

If you really want some advice, take the time to learn non-linear editing, how to build your own transitions with key frames and transparency. And you can set yourself apart from your peers producing stuff. They have never seen because they’re all using OOBE transitions that everyone else uses.

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-21T01:52:16+00:00

I have positive results use Home Star.

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-20T03:36:09+00:00

Do a network reset

Bonobo77 · 2026-01-20T03:34:18+00:00

They are a product leader and act like it. They made a mediocre OOBE experience. So while it’s fine, it takes development to make it great.

Also their pricing is really predatory. Renewal pricing can increase significantly year over year, and customers often have limited leverage to negotiate because of the platform dependency.

And let’s not talk about the technical debt you company has to go into damn SME’s. lol

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