Thank you all, I think I will have to look around some more for my Linux Laptop.

And they sell replacement parts for a sensible price. I love that site.

No, sorry. We are playing Age of Rebellion rules during the Old Republic, because the children wanted to be Jedi.

I second with Vampire: The Masquerade, The Dark Eye, Shadowrun and StarWars RPG in my family. Teach your kids to play and they will never have time or money to waste on drugs. ;)

I got them made at WASD Keyboards. They have a prepared design file for 104 key ISO (and some more layouts) you can use. My board carries 108 keys, but I don’t mind the programmable keys looking different than the main set.

Quality wise, they look good, and I like the slightly rough feel. “Side print” is Qwerty in my own hand, with acrylic marker, for the kids. Profile is Cherry.

I hope they aren’t as huge as they look.

Reddid was / is a lot more lively, with enough posts in a day that I had to turn off notifications. Lemmy has not as many users around the world, and subocribing to a lot of communities does not equal reddit traffic at all.

I feel this is restful, and it offers the opportunity to learn new stuff. Also, by subscribing to different communities on different instances, you mix it up and make everything link together more tightly.

There might be a future when you have to currail your subscriptions, but just now, you are doing everything right.

In my family, we play a lot together. We play (pen & paper and LARP) roleplaying games with various friends and are rather active in terms of analog (is that the right word? non-digital) offline creativity. Hanging in front of a computer or phone is not our main pastime by any means.

I follow you on the idea that spending too much time online will take something off your humanity. I feel stuffed with candy and slightly ill. So we all, adults and kids, have phone-free meal times together, and take a walk and play some ball games weekends in the evening. This is very important in keeping us together and talking to each other.

On the other hand, my husband and I play video games together in the evening. He has the controler, and does tactics, I keep the health bar monitored and do strategy. The whole family including aunts and nephews all over the republic gathers once a month for the family raid in our favorite online game. That raid is stuff for childrens’ and adults talk for at least a week.

I think one problem with asocial media is that they encourage you to sit still, reading other people’s problems you cannot solve, and all the while you loose your own social contacts and family connections, because you can’t really tell them about what you read online, eh? They usually don’t understand.

Doing stuff together and talking to each other is the most important thing. You get playful and creative all on your own, if digital distraction and silence is gone.