I have a question about... Gaming on Mac. I know, I know. It's for my wife, though. Lol!

She has a very old Windows laptop that I cannot convince her to let me put Linux on to improve its life. I'm looking to source an upgrade for her. She is an iPhone person, through and through, and I thought it might be nice to get something for her in that ecosystem. So, I'm looking into a MacBook of some sort.

The question: how does a MacBook hold up to light gaming? We're talking Sims 4 and Minecraft, primarily.

I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious... does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn't ever considered. Including one which means I'll have to install Edge, so... thanks, I guess. 😂

I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well.

It gets relegated to playing Fraggle Rock and Bluey on repeat for my kiddo these days, but I am absolutely in love with the software.

What are some other FOSS gems that are a better experience UX/UI-wise than their proprietary counterparts?

EDIT: Autocorrect turned something into "smaller" instead of what I meant it to be when I wrote this post, and I can't remember what I meant for it to say so it got axed instead.

For some Arceus-forsaken reason, I have set upon myself the task of catching all the various forms of Pokémon available in Paldea (except Vivillon, fuck that. 😅) and that means getting my hands on an Antique Form Sinistea.

I've been hanging around Alfornada, catching every cuppa I cross paths with for... A while now. I have over three full boxes of Phony Sinistea. I realize now I could just check their little teacup booties for a sticker before bothering to catch them, so I can spend less money on repeat balls now.

But is there anything I should know about hunting this thing down? Are there areas it's more likely to spawn, or areas that it definitely won't spawn at all? I assume you can't breed Phony teacups to get an authentic Antique; will they show up in mass outbreaks? Is there any way to increase my odds of finding an Antique Sinistea? Do I just need to suck it up and keep grinding?

Mine are the Hisuian balls, specifically the Hisuian ultra ball. I just love the design of the latch, and the color palette used for all the balls. I especially enjoy the little flourish on the yellow stripes of the ultra ball!

What's your favorite? Any particular reasons why?

Mine is Houndstone/Ghost. I know it doesn't change the Pokémon's typing at all, but the fact that the little ghost comes up out of its tombstone is just perfect.

As soon as I saw the Orthworm Titan in Violet, this idea immediately came to mind and now it's all I can think about whenever I see this Pokémon.

If you are a member of Blackmoore's Inquisitorial Guild, stop reading.

I don't think any of my players are on Lemmy, but better safe than sorry.

A couple sessions ago, my Dwarf Fighter drew a weapon on a member of the administrative staff of a very prominent magic school. The school is a part of an overarching guild of magi who have branches in all the major cities, and are treated as their own sovereign body. Largely, offenses against the magi are dealt with by the magi, and the state doesn't get involved.

Unfortunately for the dwarf, this staff member has a kind of... Umbridge-esque relationship with discipline. The player has been placed in a magical dream-state to "learn his lesson," the lesson being "I will not incite violence within the school." His guild mates have devised a plan to get him out... by convincing the staff to let them join him in the dream.

His punishment is to face off against a goliath of a man in a colosseum, fighting for his life. If he dies, he wakes up by the colosseum entrance for processing, to be brought back in for the next fight.

The monstrosity he is fighting cannot die, but if brought to 0 enters a sort of stasis where he regains his health slowly, allowing for planning time. Or time to run! He is powered by a crystallized shard of a dead god's soul that the mages are using as a source of nearly infinite magical energy. This is an object of interest for the party.

My struggle here is in thinking of an engaging way for them to acquire said gem and shut down the dream from the inside. Any ideas?

The gem does not have to be physically on the jailer. The solution does not have to involve heavy combat, but it is a welcome addition. The Human Fighter loves a good slog-fest.

Sorry for the wall of text, and thanks in advance for any help!

ForgetMeNot (available in Google Play Store and F-Droid) is a pretty awesome FOSS flash card/quiz app that I'm currently using for my Korean vocab. It has a lot of options and -- importantly for me -- multiple different kind of tests. Self-testing (basic flash card use), multiple choice (they call it "testing with variants"), and spell check. The ability to "invert" cards, so it shows you either the "question" or the "answer" and you provide the other. The ability to hide the "question", so if you want to turn on text-to-speech for phrases/vocab and have to provide the answer by ear.

It's a very neat app, and is a great replacement to paying for Quizlet, in my opinion.

EDIT: My favorite function, which I could not figure out how to do in Quizlet if it's possible at all, is that you can test yourself on multiple sets! I create a new "deck" for each lesson I do in my Korean workbook, and I like to quiz myself on everything I've learned up to now. In Quizlet, I had to go through each lesson individually. ForgetMeNot let's me press and hold to select as many decks as I want, and it shuffles them all together.