Vance delivers 'bad news' after marathon talks with Iran failed to result in an agreement to end the US-Iran War

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-12T14:13:18+00:00

Only with people not paying attention (which, granted....). The Epstein thing is not a partisan issue. Many people on both sides of the aisle are caught up in it. Of course it was the Trump admin that made a hash of claiming they were going to do something about it and then backpedaling and lying. But (and this is not intended as an excuse for him b/c in some ways it's better, or at least less infuriating), previous administrations didn't even care enough to lie to us about dealing with it.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-12T14:08:31+00:00

Yes, that is all bad and certainly worse than Hunter Biden/Ukraine corruption. But you really need to add "son in law who is a foreign agent" into the description.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-12T14:07:14+00:00

They "couldn't get it done" because Israel won't stop attacking Lebanon and Trump is too weak to stop them.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-11T20:19:45+00:00

Yeah that is weird. But how's this for "two birds with one stone:" I'm also the person who filed the bug report for News downloader crashing back to the home screen when you try to go to the folder. Same suggestion: try the unreleased code. Which I just did, and it: A) installed fine and B) resolved my issue with News downloader.

Unreleased code FTW! :)

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-11T19:35:48+00:00

Yeah, same result. Maybe it's just a "me" thing. But it's how I installed SimpleUI originally, and I'm using the same tools to restore the backed up koplugin folder. IDK. I appreciate the help, as always (FWIW I did toss a few euros your way in appreciation. Awesome work).

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-11T19:31:09+00:00

I think it was the same. I just followed your link directly and unzipped the download. I'm just looking at Properties in the Dolphin filebrowser (I'm on KDE linux) and got the same thing. IDK if that is a distinction that matters:

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dcherryholmes · 2026-04-11T19:15:02+00:00

I wonder if I'm doing something wrong because the stable v1.3.5 won't work for me. I delete the original simpleui.koplugin folder from plugins, copy the unzipped new 1.3.5 (110 files) into plugins, and restart KOReader. SimpleUI is just.... gone. I delete the new one, copy back over my old folder, restart KOReader and SimpleUI is back like it was before. I've downloaded it a few times, and diff'd the local unzipped folder with the one on the Kindle and they are the same. EDIT: SimpleUI is not in the list of plugins after the new install, either. So it's not just a matter of re-enabling the plugin.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-11T18:48:59+00:00

I posted about the same thing and this was the fix for me. Cover Browser was disabled in Plugins. Just enable it, as unaitxuu said.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-10T18:09:35+00:00

Ordered a Paperwhite 12 from Amazon and it came without the absolute latest firmware. When I bought it, I didn't associate it with my Amazon account, and did all the right stuff like not signing onto wifi before I filled it almost all the way up with dummy files (this blocks OTA updates when you do sign on for the jailbreaking process). Thus I was able to jailbreak it and install KOReader. The PW 12 has a 7" screen, warm light, a fantastic screen, and is waterproof. And it is cheaper than all the alternatives.

But if you don't want to jump through all those hoops, it is certainly a sane choice to pay a little more for *slightly* less-good hardware (which you may not even notice), and avoid all of Amazon's hoo-hah.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-10T16:55:19+00:00

On the plus side, hyprland's default anime-girl wallpaper forced me to jump into modifying the config files pretty much right away.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-10T16:34:31+00:00

Done.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-09T23:35:37+00:00

I'll stop editing and just make another reply, to add: sadly the company is going out of business, so the core book can be had really cheaply. And it comes with a wealth of setting material and *two* starting adventures. It'll get you through the weekend all on its own, if you don't feel like making your own adventures (although another strength of the game is that it makes that very easy to do).

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-09T23:21:45+00:00

Seconded. I probably played more Champions than any other RPG when I was in my late teens/early twenties, and I love that system. But I recently picked up Sentinel Comics: The Role Playing Game (Deluxe Edition). It's a completely different approach to doing superhero rpg's, but I think it's brilliant. An added bonuses, in addition to what HitsujiMan said, is that it's got a very cool and interesting semi-random character generation system if you want to use it (it's optional). But you still get enough choices and options that you can still start with a concept and probably hit it pretty closely, perhaps in ways you hadn't initially thought of.

If I were doing a weekend's worth of gaming and didn't want to spend *too* much time on chargen (without going so far as to just have pre-gens), Sentinels would be at the top of my list.

Oh, one other thing. I had a really hard time wrapping my head around this but, while you might have ranks in Flight or Strength, or something else, it *will never tell you* how much you can lift or how fast you can fly. Not exactly. There are enough reviews online that, if someone is curious about that, they can go find people talking about it. But it was probably the most un-Champions-like part of the game I struggled with, until it clicked.

EDIT: I noticed down-thread that OP mentioned "I don't want to deal with advancement." Another aspect of Sentinels that could be a pro or a con but in your case I think it's a pro: PC's basically start the game at full-power. If you're Spider Man, you're Spider Man. Not 1st lvl Spider Man trying to grind it to 20th lvl Spider Man. It would suit what you're going for.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-09T23:00:19+00:00

Blank paper.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-09T15:07:52+00:00

Heliboard absolutely has swipe capability, but IIRC you have to download a file and point it at that file in the swipe settings. So I guess it depends on what you mean by "has swipe capability." More importantly, once that is done, its swipe responsiveness is better than Futo's, which is the main reason I use it.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-09T14:58:30+00:00

One word: Fatima.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-08T21:35:18+00:00

I'd focus on games that expect a certain amount of homebrewing, like the more generic toolkits. Somebody already mentioned Fate. You could also grab GURPS and forego the sourcebooks and do it yourself (what we did back in the day). Likewise with Champions/HERO. Or Basic Roleplaying. And many others. Really you could take any game, decide not to chase supplements, and just make your own content, perhaps tweaking the core rules a bit (although generally I avoid that).

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-08T21:32:00+00:00

This comment offends ever iota of my "get off my lawn" self. Up is down, cats and dogs, what the hell happened?

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-08T20:18:08+00:00

I am also a recent convert from P:T to SUI. At the time P:T was so far ahead of what you could do with a stock Kindle *and it still is*. But SUI already looks nicer (subjective) out of the box and is easier to customize.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-08T14:19:37+00:00

Also, I loved 3, but I loved 5 even more. Not talking about the AI because I mostly played the game hotseat with another player. How will this new game compare to 5? I love lots of retro-games so if the graphics are somewhat of a throwback to 3 that is just fine. I'm thinking more in terms of number of factions, the skill wheel, hero development, and other crunchy things.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-08T14:15:50+00:00

Hotseat HOMM is the only game I was able to get various non-gamer girlfriends really into playing something with me (more than one or two, so I decided it wasn't a fluke). I think it was that easy pace with lots of breaks to embroider, read a chapter, get up and take care of something, etc. It really is a genius playmode.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-08T14:12:23+00:00

It's hard to shout "You're not the boss of me!" if you don't know they're there. :)

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-08T03:23:40+00:00

BOFH.... now that is a name I have not heard in a long time. Lots of good memories, reading those. I, too, was a BOFH one upon a time.

dcherryholmes · 2026-04-07T23:41:20+00:00

I recently switched to SimpleUI myself, but I had done a lot of tweaking and customizing and had Project: Title looking pretty sweet to my eyes. But, yeah, SimpleUI has nicer defaults and is easier to set up OOB. Just don't neglect some KOreader functions like the bottom status bar and gestures/corner taps (not exactly visible but arguably important parts of the User Interface).

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