I use LibreOffice on my Mac and I’m very pleased with it. However there’s no iOS app. Collabora is hot garbage and Pages now requires a subscription. Also, Pages and Collabora both have styles and formatting issues which require I fix things when I get home. So what else is totally compatible?
As the title says, what are some of your favorite Classic Traveller TAS products?
For Mongoose Traveller 2e Ships of the Core Rule Book Update 2024 and also Ships of High Guard Update 2022 by Mark Anderson have no business being this good.
I’ve recently decided to run a new Classic Traveller series so what are your favorites and suggestions?
Whether you are in recovery like me or jut struggling. Sitting in the problem and whining isn't ever going to help. The only way out is through.
Was looking for a solution for storing my CT books and stumbled across these on Amazon and I thought some other people might like them too.
There is a saying in the traditional Buddhist teachings of Tibet: "The ultimate materialism is believing one has to manufacture the buddha-wisdom." All our grasping after unusual experiences or higher spiritual states comes from lack of confidence in the power of this original nature.
-- From Natural Wakefulness by Gaylon Ferguson
I had a fantastic conversation with another addict on the phone today, and we were talking about early recovery. It made me want to post about this. I was about me looking for an easy and comfortable way to deal with my feelings. And for me, it ended up not being either. However, I was numb.
My first sponsor gave me a piece of advice that has sat with me for my entire recovery, and that was that if I was comfortable in the first five years of my recovery, I wasn't challenging myself every day. We want an apartment. We want things. We want a car. We want a job. We want a girlfriend. We want all of this stuff that we might have had before everything happened. But in order to have those things, we have to work our recovery first.
I didn't need a job. I needed a job that allowed me to work on my recovery. That means I didn't work so many hours that I couldn't go to a meeting. That means that I was open and honest with my supervisors so that they understood why I needed to be off at a certain time or why I couldn't come in until a certain time, so that they understood that these are the things that I need to do in order to be a good employee.
I wanted to live on my own, but I also knew that if I tried to live on my own immediately I was going to use again. I had to find a place to live that supported my recovery and held me accountable. So I had to live in a halfway house for a while, and that's okay.
For me, putting my recovery first is not looking for what I want, what's easy, or what's comfortable. That's even still true now that I have a few days clean.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wyxvqdx1zo
These are not gonna be popular and this is very telling that it was delivered by Tim Cook and not John Ternus.
Obviously the entire night asleep in bed wasn't enough. It's a shame she's so poorly treated.
I’m working on rebuilding and relearning my GM skills after a long break from running games. It’s embarrassing how much those skills have degraded, but I’m not giving up. About 30 years ago I used a tool called Inspiration for mind mapping, but it’s all Windows based now and terribly overpriced. Now I use SimpleMind. My question is, do you use mind maps as a GM. If you do what tool and why. If you don’t, why not?
I thought I remembered that there was a fan-made FATE port for Traveller. Was I dreaming?
Can we please have a macOS upgrade megathread? It is getting so tiresome.
I am planning on starting a new Traveller series using Classic Traveller. I had issues with my last series and want to try again, using some of the ideas from the first series and some new ideas. So what do you think is the best Traveller specific GM advice that you have read, or received in conversation.
Series specifics: I am using the CT Fanatical bundle as the rules. I am adding Ken Beardon's Universal Game Mechanic. This may or may not be important but I just wanted to mention it.
Moving to monthly payment and the Basic $25 plan just to see how it works for me. Not a huge data user, maybe 25 or 30GB per month. Occasionally stream on my iPad but have excellent home internet connection.
How many users are doing this?
I recently read a mean spirited and frankly ignorant post regarding the 12 steps, and I’d like to clarify and present that NA especially and the 12 Steps in general are not a religious program and help more people than any other recovery program.
My 12 step program is quite a bit different than that of a Christian, Jew, Muslim or any others who have a traditional higher power and that’s okay. We don’t deal with any specific substance or higher. We deal with the subject of addiction.
I think that many critics of the 12 Step fellowships are being mean spirited and unfair to people in Recovery. As an atheist in recovery for the last 8 1/2 years, I’ve learned a lot of things. The primary thing I’ve learned is that the 12 step programs are one way to recovery. They aren’t the only way and there are many other options available. The people who wrote the book and founded NA came from a religious background and lacked the different language necessary to describe what they were talking about. All of the steps are a metaphor.
Step 1: I cannot do this alone. I have tried to solve my problems myself and I have failed over and over again.
Step 2: It can be done. Other people have managed to get clean and stay clean so I can do it as well.
Step 3: I need to accept that the program can work. Although there are other paths to Recovery, the 12 step fellowships are the largest proven way to do that. So I need to be honest enough to admit that I need help, I can’t do it alone, and a program can work.
Hundreds of thousands of us at least and maybe millions, atheists and agnostics,have successfully navigated the various 12 step programs.
Whether you choose to follow the 12 step ideal or not, these first three are, I believe, the same three questions that every addict answers before they enter Recovery.
Balena Etcher doesn’t work for creating ChromeOS Flex or Windows ISOs anymore. It appears to still work with mac ISOs. Is it time to move to something else and what do you suggest? 
Yes, Apple Is Reportedly Retooling Some Liquid Glass Problems for macOS 27.
*I for one welcome our new(sic) liquid glass overlords.*
It appears that Crucible Highport is down. Does anyone know if this is permanent? I was looking for something that used to be there. I admit it has been a while.
It seems like a lot of people agonize on and pontificate here over sharing their nonbelief, and I don't get it. I don't think it's necessary for us to share the fact that we don't believe, nor do I think for many people it's even safe. It's possible our perspective is skewed.
Getting past the anger that I had about religion and getting into my own solution, and my own peace, has been the most positive experience of my life. It is just as uncomfortable for you to insist on your not belief as it is for a believer to insist in their way. On either side of the argument proselytizing is wrong.
Why do we feel it necessary to have just the right arguments or just the right answers, when those things exist only in fairytales?
I had a lot of religious trauma, had a lot of anger, and didn't want to let go of it because I felt I had to be heard--but wasn't heard by believers and I just felt more tired, more angry, and more frustrated at the end. They probably did too.
Today my goal is to allow people to be wrong, especially if they insist. Be kinder, more mindful, more thoughtful, and do more good works to show, not tell, that I can be not just as good a person as an atheist--but a better one.
I hope you can also find your peace today.