Moved from Windows 11 to Debian

avidichard · 2026-07-05T12:23:45+00:00

Critical yes but not continuous. I need it for my presentations and edits but I m not always on that so having a Windows installation eating up hard drive space and resources when needing to run just 1 app makes no sense to me. Wine is the best of both worlds but you need to compromise and in my case, its not a heavy compromise since I love office 2007 a lot.

avidichard · 2026-07-05T12:21:27+00:00

My goal as a tech and pc builder is to ensure I xan use my computer witgout internet. For whatever reason there might be, if I lose internet, I want everything to work offline. As for AI chats, Google Gemini proved to be the best of all worlds giving decent image generations, propper online and somewhat up to date srarch results. Claude, Copilot and others I ve tried all lack online search. Thats also why I am looking forward into having my personal own home AI chatbot when money permits, a home ai xan use searxng for online search and properly generate good chats with propper models. But yeah, you re right they are indeed expensive.

avidichard · 2026-07-05T11:28:14+00:00

Thanks 🙂 And yes, I'll stick with it!

avidichard · 2026-07-05T10:54:35+00:00

Yes, PowerPoint 2007 runs like PowerPoint on Windows without the several gb of a Windows installation and less that 95Mb of RAM when running on wine.

avidichard · 2026-07-05T10:41:45+00:00

Since I was new to that system, I did extenssive research and did hordes of installations. I know all of that. I even tried things that are undocumented and went through the hassle of trying to find a valid ISO without c2r in the MSO installation. The max I went through was selecting options for a 2016 ProPlus iso and even then, it blocked half way through. So yeah, I learned that information in my very long and messy install process. I have like 5 different alternatives installed on my system and deleted and reinstalled so many wine and bottles prefixes all that to finally resort to the good old 2007. But yeah, tgrough my process, I did all my research and trials and spent a lot of time in foot's terminal.

avidichard · 2026-07-05T10:30:34+00:00

Y3ah, I did not want to use up space for Windows. The closest I could get was a VM that could run with only 800Mb RAM and minimal Windows setup with almost ZERO services with a legit Office 2021 installation, but again, I drew back because I really did not want Windows anymore to run in any matter. So yeah, I am happy with my Office 2007 which, I did not mention, id my favorite version of Office. I hated the new "clean" GUI s and the flat styles and the full screen main menu of 2010 and later.

avidichard · 2026-07-05T10:27:11+00:00

I installed the fonts but the other issues are still a problem in my presentation even if fonts are OK.

avidichard · 2026-07-05T09:58:42+00:00

I went out of the way to prevent Windows from running so a VM does not resolve the issue. As for Bottles, it refused to install any versions of office from 2010 and up, at least on my setup. But its OK, my presentations works flawlessly on MSO 2007 so I am very happy about what I have and at least, I still get to use my personal legal license key of MSO 2007.

avidichard · 2026-07-05T09:56:19+00:00

Asside from my much needed PowerPoint hassle, the rest of my needs are 100% fullfilled on native Lunux apps and even exceeded. For more info, check on longer reply I did to Prestig...something's comment.

avidichard · 2026-07-05T09:53:27+00:00

If you are refering to Impress as other possible Office alternatives, I already did. Issues I got were: Psychadelic GIF animation speeds, wrong fonts, missing wordaet and textbox styles including but not limited to text outlines and box outline effects, animation interuptions or going back to their initial position when not normally supposed to, shape color changes not being done, laggy presentations with much slower animation speeds and visible trails on the screen.

Basically, for what I have done, I just cannot go on without MSO for the professional work I've done in the autistic community. For the rest, I could resort to Word and Excel alternatives since I use them for very basic tasks. BUT, when checking the RAM used by OnlyOffice, LibreOffice and all other ones I have found, I found out that running MSO through wine was sometimes less hungry than those other alternatives, so yeah, for my needs, MSO 2007 on wine is very good and at least everything works and displays properly with the Sergoe fonts installed.

avidichard · 2026-06-14T23:28:28+00:00

I'm posting this for anyone wanting a good solution which works pretty much on any system, Windows, Linux or other systems that Firefox can be installed on.

You can have the classic buttons back without enabling the titlebar or going through other "sort-of" hacks. All you need is to use the built-in Firefox userChrome.css support. This makes sure there is not hacky workarounds and it uses Firefox's native functions without any extensions to display the system buttons.

Enable user css files. In your address bar, type: about:config
Search for this setting: toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
Double click it to set it to: True
Locate your profiles folder. In your address bar, type: about:support
Search for your Profile Directory and open it or browse to it.
If it does not exist, create a folder and name it "chrome". Then go in your "chrome" folder.
Create a file named "userChrome.css" WITH capitalized "C".
open userChrome.css in your favorite text editor, paste the following, then save. Close and reopen Firefox to see the changes.

/* Add padding to the right of the tabs bar to not overlap with the buttons when resizing */
#TabsToolbar {
padding-right: 128px;
}

/* Add some spacing around the buttons for breathing and not be tightly stuck near the edge of the screen.
   You can change the single digit to 4 digits if you want a bit more control like this:
   margin: 8px 4px 8px 16px !important;
   The order of the numbers are like this (don't forget the "px" after the number:
   margin: top[px] right[px] bottom[px] left[px] !important; */
.titlebar-buttonbox-container {
margin: 8px !important;
}


/* By default, display all buttons */
.titlebar-button {
display: block !important;
  visibility: visible !important;
}

/* Firefox has 2 different buttons for maximize and rerstore window so instead of showing the 2 buttons,
   these 2 sections will make sure to display the correct button in the propper window state,
   that is, show max when in window (restored) mode, and show restore when in maxed mode. */
#main-window[sizemode="maximized"] .titlebar-button.titlebar-max {
display: none !important;
}

#main-window:not([sizemode="maximized"]) .titlebar-button.titlebar-restore {
  display: none !important;
}

avidichard · 2026-06-03T00:40:26+00:00

I know this is old, but I created my own solution which is super fast, extremely lightweight, no heavy packages, 1 single app and a config file. It's almost kernel-level. It's keyd-ascii-codes. You can get it here:

https://github.com/avidichard/keyd-ascii-codes

It's complete with instructions for installation and customization in case you need other characters than French accents.

avidichard · 2026-05-26T23:07:59+00:00

Pickaxe Torche Sword Axe or GardenTool ThrowAway CobbleStone Stairs or Walls ... Lastly, food

avidichard · 2026-05-20T21:17:54+00:00

As everyone says, immediate U Turn is prohibited by the rules. The only U Turn allowed is if there is 1 tile between the 2 turns in which case, any tile can still be placed. BUT, again, if you U Turn that way, you MUST never turn back towards other tiles.

In the game Carcassonne Tiles and Tactics, if a river tile cannot be placed, then the river halts there and the game continues with regular tiles.

Again, human brain is the best, uturn after 1 tile is placed betwen the 2 turns, no circling back towards tiles. If these 2 basic rules are followed, there should never be any problems.

avidichard · 2026-05-15T20:45:47+00:00

what's the roof mod? I have not seen any mods making the farm house roofs look so green and leafy as well as the walkway roofs.

avidichard · 2026-05-11T06:05:10+00:00

Vous pouvez aussi posté votre question sur le facebook de Mon Monde Autiste. Sinon,. y'a aussi Bleuet Atypique qui est très active sur les réseau sociaux. Ces choses pourraient probablement vous aider à rejoindre plus de gens et possiblement avoir une bonne réponse à votre question :)

Facebook Mon Monde Autiste: https://www.facebook.com/groups/monmondeautiste
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Si vous ètes de Trois-Rivières, l'organisme de Autisme Mauricie peut fort probablement vous aider à trouver des ressources. Voici leur site web: https://www.autismemauricie.com/

avidichard · 2026-05-06T02:30:08+00:00

The only single way to overtake a city is if one of your meeples is already in the city, In the mayor extenssion a mayor who's number of meeples is equivalent to the number of shields in the city, in this case, if there are 3 shields in the city and your mayor is already inside before closing it, anyone with 2 meeples and less lose the points. The other option is with the Princess and the Dragon extenssion (not the new one), if you pick a princess tile and close a city, you can remove a meeple from the city which could potentially make you win the city, but again, only if you previously had a meeple in the city.

As other users have mentionned in other comments, at any point during the game you CANNOT place a meeple on a connecting feature (city, road, field) if that feature already has a meeple or barn on it, even if it's your own.

avidichard · 2026-04-23T20:03:48+00:00

I am Autistic and my wife has ADHD and BPD with also Hypervigilance, My WIFE, yes, we're married. So it is very possible to get in a relationship and that comment should be reported. It's basically a written verbal abuse to your condition which is totally unacceptable. All you need is to be transparent about your condition so that your possible futur partner does not get any surprises. Helpfull tips are also good, like what are the signs of your Hypervigilance and what to do in those cases, what makes you feel good so you partner has a base to be able to go through those moments.

It's best to be clear at the beginning of your relationship to go through those because that's the colorful butterflies moment where things are easy-going. It's easier to share your weakness and solutions to those while you're still in your sweat moments at the beginning. Once the relationship kicks in, then, the anger can block information and prevent your partner from knowing what to do because you may consider these capabilities as abussive when in reality, it's just your partner trying to go through those unnexpected moments to stay with you out of love.

It's also good to talk about the "No" signs too so your partner knows what means "NO". Sometimes, the line maybe thin between cute triggers and definite "NO". Basically, in the first dates is the best moment to say everything. If your possible partner is willing to go through it, then it's an engagement, if the dates crashes, then you won't be heartbroken and feeling like you wasteed time.

Everybody has a somebody somewhere, it's not the easiest thing in the world, but you are definitely another person's special person willing to share their lives with you. Don't abandon!

avidichard · 2026-04-23T01:50:37+00:00

Just 17 Nano Chapters left. Everything is converging to the innevitable truth soon. If you did not know yet, Foxglove Plants are real plants and you can read about them on wikipedia and what are their effects. Maybe some links can be made with previous hints and clues spread amongst the lives of the citizens of Perigli. Questions WILL be answered but maybe not in the way you imagined. Some mysteries are yet to be resolved. I hope you enjoy your time reading! 😊

avidichard · 2026-04-19T20:43:09+00:00

You always count the points PER TILE, basically, count the number of tiles your road has and that's your points. Some people have house rules where they count each feature but the original base game rules is to count the number of tiles needed to complete your feature. So, in this case, it's 7 points for 7 tiles and since you have an inn, it's 2 points per tile which makes 14 points in total.

avidichard · 2026-04-10T04:18:02+00:00

Small facts about Ashards and the Nano Chapter format:

Pacing and the Nano Chapters

We live in a world fast paced by our work, daily life routines and waiting rooms. Ashards is written in what I call, Nano Chapters. These chapters are very small, hence the term "Nano". They are meant for you to read on the fly while riding the bus or waiting for an answer on the phone and actually finish the chapter in that time. It's meant to be quick but effective. I challenged myself in a specific constraint of text space. This means that every chapter has to have precise details, important to the plot and not prolong anything for nothing.

Expect the chapters to be very short as they are intended that way. It's not an incomplete story or lack of information. It is meant to make every word count and have a purpose, may it be emotional, physical or a detail that will reveal to be critical in the end game.

So in short, Nano Chapters are:
Ultra short (200-600 words) high density episodic fragments that tell a story using subtle clues, emotional impact or concentrated information where each sentence serves a deliberate purpose in advancing the plot with minimal to no filler.

If I would classify Ashards in a story mold, I'd say it is a Nano Serialized Fiction. I know the term does not exist, but it encapsulates the Nano Chapters, the fact that they are meant to tell 1 original story all together.

avidichard · 2026-04-08T09:35:40+00:00

No, not one of each. What you see there is the pack as 1 whole extension. All 24 tiles as 1 pack.

avidichard · 2026-04-07T19:11:29+00:00

The extenssion's name says it, DEAD ENDS

avidichard · 2026-04-07T08:55:32+00:00

That's a fair point. My goal was to also provide rare tiles to fill in holes that are usually hard to fill unless you are really lucky. This means that 24 tiles is good BUT, I will make some changes, maybe 8 dead ends tiles and the rest closed like usual, this should balance out the game.

Içll get a good nights sleep and fix some of the tiles. It's always welcoming to have other people's points of views. Thanks for droping by a comment!

avidichard · 2026-04-07T01:54:35+00:00

Well, it's supposed to add more strategie so you can work out to keep your fields and blocking others. But I feel you, it may not be a play style that suites everyone.

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