So i have my main system, i have been running NixOS on for over a year. It has been a pleasure to daily drive. And ive recently been playing with gentoo and funtoo. And althought alot of information, which is somewhat overwhelming but is slowly growing on me and making me appreatate linux as a whole. So i was wondring what other...
I use Linux MX on my gaming desktop and LMDE on my laptop. I also have an encrypted LMDE VM that I use for some working stuff, since I have to use Windows on my company PC (but we’re allowed to have Virtualbox on it).
The desktop is pretty new, I built it a month ago after almost 10 years, it’s i9 and rtx 4070. The laptop is several years old (HP spectre), but since the previous one gave me so many headaches with nvidia optimus, I decided to go full Intel, I’m happy I did because I had no problems with it whatsoever, Intel only on laptops for me going on.
Google’s anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.
I never had to touch anything in uBlock Origin, not even once, I just have to remember to check for updates every now and then. I see some people saying sometimes they still get ads on youtube, not sure if it’s youtube testing new targeting, but I’ve never seen ads on YT anyway, I guess I’m not interesting enough to them XD
Appending reddit to google search has become the only way to get meaningful search results, without it it’s a shitshow of clickbait garbage, I can’t imagine what it will become if it’s not allowed anymore to index reddit data.
I understand companies not wanting data to be scraped for AI training for free, it’s not only reddit according to the article, also news sites, I think it’s a legit concern.
I believe at this point governments should wake up and regulate the matter of AI training globally, leaving it to individual companies will only damage users all over the world.
Regulating doesn’t mean blocking, AI needs to be regulated, it should have been already done, look at stuff like deep fakes, some done even with dead people, fakes with actors faces and voices without their consent, and so on, it’s not just about training, it’s also about how the results are effectively used.
And the fact the training is expensive doesn’t mean everyone should have free reign about it, especially when noone cares about the reliability of the datasets they’re using, of the ethical aspects of it.
As for reddit, we’ve been already shafted, that’s why we’re on lemmy now.
On our company PCs we have both Edge and Chrome, after the latest Windows update a few days ago, every time I try to set Chrome as default browser, a window pops up saying something on the lines of “are you sure? please try out the fabulous Edge first, you might change your mind”.
That annoys me to no end, first we are in EU, where Microsoft has been fined in the past for not allowing a browser choice, second, we’re talking about Windows ENTERPRISE !!, keep that shit out of it, policies on PCs are decided at enterprise level, you can’t spam users about it.
Astarion: best for lockpicks/stealthy stuff, he’s a killing machine with the dual xbow rogue/ranger build from cRPG Bro
Shadowhear: full cleric, quite resilient, she has some amazing abilities like spirit guardians (she can just dash around and one-shot groups of low health mobs lol), spirit weapon (useful to keep some enemies occupied because they attack the weapon and not the party) and a big heal for oh-shit moments - for builds I’m currently using the tempest one by NizarGG but I’m thinking of making my own to enhance the abilities of her I want to use
4th spot I use for the companion that makes the more sense to me to bring depending on areas/quests, so I’m basically switching almost all the time
I’m pretty satisfied with this setup tho I’m probably missing stuff on the 4th slot so next playthrough I’ll use the no party limit mod to see how good or bad my “instinct” is XD
If you go to where Zevlor is standing here in the grove there is an exit to the left up some rocks. When you go out this exit Karlach’s spawn point is a jump down the cliff on the right. You’ll take like 90% damage if you don’t have featherfall or something similar like misty step but you get to her super early and don’t...
I feel like an oversight or a missed opportunity regarding Astarion was that he couldn’t perform Vampire Bite on Cazador during the Ascension ritual fight. Like I understand that you can’t use it on undead but with the trouble that the game established with Astarion explaining how a vampire spawn can turn into a true...
It is, Astarion explains it pretty well, he says that a spawn is not able to bite the master unless the master allows it, and that basically never happens because the master would lose a slave in favor of a competitor.
I mean, I can copy Baldur’s Gate on a PC where there’s no Steam at all and play it just fine, because the game itself doesn’t have any restrictions. If other games have DRMs I don’t think it’s Steam fault.
If you want to be totally free from DRMs you need to check GOG, if a game is there, it doesn’t have DRM, so neither the Steam version will.
You can do that with Steam too, I know because I’m doing it. I have dual boot, I use Windows very rarely (I play on Linux) so Steam is not installed on it at all, I copied BG3 on it to try out mods because Mod Manager doesn’t work on wine for me.
I can assure you the game works perfectly fine without Steam.
With the steam version it’ll try to launch / connect to the local installed steam at startup
As you sure you’re using the right exe? bg3_dx11.exe and not some launcher?
I simply assumed it wouldn’t work because that’s the case with like 99% of steam games
That’s because the vast majority of games implement DRM unfortunately, BG3 does not, Witcher doesn’t either, any game that does not have any DRM can be played fine outside of Steam, tho there are not many.
Some years ago we used to post weekly development updates to let the community know what we are working on. For some reason we stopped posting these updates, but now we want to continue giving you information every two weeks about the recent development progress. This should allow average users to keep up with development,...
NEW YORK (AP) — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission.
downloading pirated material is perfectly legal and it’s just the uploading of the pirated material that’s a breach of copyright
Not sure if you just worded it wrong or you’re confusing piracy with copyright.
Anyway, piracy involves circumventing a protection system to get something for free instead of paying for it. DVDs for example not only contain copyrighted material, they also have copy protection systems to avoid unauthorized distribution, downloading is illegal as much as uploading since you’re getting a copy on which the protection system has been broken on purpose.
Copyright violation, on the other hand, happens only if you publish something you didn’t make without the authorization of the original author, so downloading copyrighted material - that doesn’t have any protection system - is perfectly legal, uploading it is not.
Not being dealt with is not the same as not being illegal. I live in EU, piracy is illegal, as in there are laws against it, but noone will come after you if you (as a common citizen) download pirated movies or software.
Haha, well mods are not officially supported yet, but I’m sure they’ll do something about fixing large too, looks like these devs truly care a great deal about their game and players, give them time, they’ll fix everything and more.
I agree with you, just wanted to add a couple things.
Be aware that not eating meat, while being an amazing stance for many reasons, doesn’t prevent animal testing, since animals used in labs are bred specifically for that purpose, they don’t come from the food industry nor they have anything to do with it. In the country I live there’s a law that says that each lab animal can be used only for one experiment and when experimenting is done, if they don’t end up with permanent damage, they can be given away to rehab organizations for adoption, otherwise they must be euthanized.
I think many countries (EU at least) might have similar laws, people just don’t know, like I didn’t until I went to a non-profit org specialized in rehab of rabbits, guinea pigs and rats used for animal testing, to adopt a rabbit (I kept them as pets for many years, they’re fantastic pets). I learned a lot from them.
will infiltrate and target labs and try to expose them any way they can
Their intentions are good but infiltrating labs to release animals, without knowing anything about them, is wrong, it’s being ignorant of the consequences.
For example, rabbits used in labs are mostly new zealand breed because they are very tame compared to other breeds, they’re also among the biggest. Rabbits in general have very fragile bones, big breeds (more than others) need to grow up in spaces that grant them movement to be able to develop muscles to sustain their weight, they don’t in labs, they’re kept in very small cages all their life, so if you release them without proper rehab, the first time they try to stand up on their hind legs (rabbits do that instinctively) they’ll break their spine and die, just like that.
All lab animals in general live in cages all their lives, suddenly “throwing” them out in the wild to fend for themselves, is condemning them to die horrible deaths. That’s not to say staying in a lab is better, but what those people do is irresponsible.
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I never liked GNOME, too inflexible as you said. My favorite is XFCE and it couldn’t be easier, right click on the entry on the app menu and select add to desktop.
And if you want a custom one, right-click on desktop, create launcher, give it a name and click browse to select the file you want to run, that’s it. Create link if you want to link to a folder.
A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s...
The solution is using a distro that has support for containers (flatpaks preferably) but doesn’t force them on you, so far I haven’t found a single use case in which they’re truly needed on desktop so apt update still does everything for me.
There’s some software that I compile myself (emulators), it cannot be upgraded with a packet manager but that has always been the case.
I use Linux MX but there are other distros with the same approach. It also makes it really easy to see if you’re installing them because flatpak is a separated repository from non-container apps (I think it’s also updated by the package manager but I haven’t tried so far).
Yes, that’s why I stopped using it years ago (among other reasons).
Users are not out of options, they don’t need to check the origin of the apps themselves, it’s enough to ask other users what distros don’t do the things they don’t like and use those.
There are plenty of warnings against doing that, you chose to ignore them and do it anyway, you paid the consequences (I did it too once XD).
That’s fair game, we were curious to see what happened BUT you can’t say the game is bad just because actions have consequences, not “you” personally, it’s the article saying that, it’s bullshit.
The strange ox is definitely something, tho I still don’t know what (not searching yet to see if I can find out ingame), you can talk to it with the spell speak to animals, the interaction is intriguing.
Ubuntu is based on Debian. LMDE have existed as a backup plan in case something wrong happened to Ubuntu, Mint could still go on without problems.
Using LMDE is like just removing a “middle-man”: Debian --> Ubuntu --> Mint, Debian --> LMDE. (I’ve been using LMDE for a few years on my notebook while on my gaming desktop I use Linux MX, also based directly on Debian).
I understand some people don’t want Ubuntu to avoid commercial distributions but for me the reasons are different.
Ubuntu LTS is base on the testing branch of Debian, while non-LTS are based on Debian sid, that is the development branch, in both cases you lose - in my opinion - one of the biggest advantages of using Debian that is rock-solid stability, sid packages are not controlled by Debian security team so in that case you also lose out on security.
Another reason is Ubuntu have been trying to push their own sort of “proprietary” version of containers that have been proven times and again to have serious security flaws. They also use them everywhere and I don’t like that, I want to be free to decide if/when to use them, not being forced to do so for everything.
Sometimes they make very questionable decisions, like when they wanted to discontinue libraries for 32bit compatibility (while Debian does not), ignoring there’s still a huge amount of 32bit software that cannot be recompiled to 64bit (mostly Windows games), that made me question they know what they’re doing.
It’s been a while since I installed Debian directly, anyway I believe it’s a godsend as a base and amazing as a server, but for desktop usage I prefer derivatives because I find them more user friendly.
LMDE vs MX: they’re both really good, MX is a bit more “nerdy”, LMDE is beautiful out of the box and has the total friendliness of Mint, MX (XFCE) is a little more barebones when it comes to user apps/GUIs but it has some fantastic tools to get into its customization, more flexible than LMDE from that point of view.
distribution hopping will add lots of unnecessary frustration for me.
That’s a fair point. Cinnamon is the desktop manager and it’s been the only one available on LMDE so far, in any case, it’s perfectly fine to use Mint, just know that if they ever decide to make LMDE their primary, you have nothing to worry about, being already used to Cinnamon we’ll make it so you won’t notice the difference at all, LMDE is still Mint after all.
Nice! I haven’t tried it yet, I’m still fairly new to the game (and DnD in general) so I’m trying to use as few mods as possible, only QoL for camera and inventory basically.
But when I saw this mod I was really impressed by how well it’s done and faithful it is to a “real” DK, definitely on my list of future playthrough for fun.
It’s a sort of bad luck protection to avoid making you roll low for too many times in a row, it’s an on/off toggle in game settings. The downside is it also works for enemies.
The actual math behind it is not know however (unfortunately).
I played on easy so far too, I left it on because it’s default and I was too new to even understand what it does. I didn’t find fights particularly difficult either, for stealth, traps and lockpicks I use Astarion, he’s exceptional at it.
Now I started a new playthrough even if I didn’t finish the first one yet, because I wanted to try normal difficulty, so I was wondering if karmic dice is really worth it.
Oh, it works against too much “good luck” as well then? Like it normalizes your streaks to avoid too many of either good or bad rolls? I definitely didn’t understand that.
if you understand the mechanics of 5e
I don’t, I knew nothing about DnD when I started but I’m trying my best to learn. Thank you for the clarification!
I’m a new player, didn’t know anything about DnD nor cRPGs when I started, but I like to understand what I’m doing when I play a game so I’m doing my best to learn.
I started on the easiest difficulty with the dice on, by the end of act 2 I think I got a hang of how the rules work (still far from fully understand them but I’ll get there eventually), I noticed that no matter what I did in combat to get advantage or trying to avoid damage, my party ended the fight badly wounded, I never died but still.
I started a new playthrough on normal difficulty with the dice off, it’s been a few fights already that I can finish with most of my party unscathed, something that never happened before even if I was on easier difficulty.
This is just anecdotal experience and I’m most probably getting better as a player, but now that you explained it, I can’t stop thinking it’s also the dice normalizing (or not) things for me.
I don’t regret using it because if you start from nothing like me, there’s a hell lot of stuff you have to “digest” to be able to play, it’s pretty overwhelming so the game sort of helping you in avoiding too many failures is a good thing IMO. But now that I’m starting to get a better understanding of how things work, I’ll definitely keep it off.
I think you would get more suitable recommendations if you told us what your use cases are. Did someone else give you those requirements? Are you new to Linux?
Arch, Slackware current (KDE), Suse tumbleweed, Debian sid and Fedora tick all the boxes but I wouldn’t recommend Arch nor Slackware to someone who never used Linux before, nor I would recommend Debian sid for desktop usage (unless you know what you’re doing) because its packages are not controlled by their security team.
Free and open-source. Receives regular software and kernel updates.
All of them (desktop). The difference in updates is between a rolling release or non-rolling one.
Rolling means they receive updates to software and kernels continuously as soon as they are released, you always have the latest versions but that could lead to instabilities, non-rolling (or stable) are updated less frequently so are more stable, which one to choose depends on what you need to do with it.
Avoids X11.
Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, Slackware current, Debian, Arch, if you choose GNOME or KDE you’ll have Wayland as default AFAIK, probably others.
Supports full-disk encryption during installation. Doesn’t freeze regular releases for more than 1 year.
All of the above.
We recommend against “Long Term Support” or “stable” distro releases for desktop usage.
LTS is a version, not a distro. Distros that offer LTS versions also have a non-LTS ones, get those and you’re fine. Tho not wanting a stable is weird, they can be the best for desktop usage depending on what you need to do.
Supports a wide variety of hardware.
That depends on the kernel, all kernels support a wide variety of hardware, non-LTS versions are best for more modern hardware.
Preference towards larger projects.
All distros mentioned are large projects, Debian is probably the biggest, it also supports several different architectures.
Speaking to the Dungeons & Dragons YouTube channel, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke admitted that the developers feared some low scores for Baldur's Gate 3 due to potential bugs encountered by reviewers. This explains why review codes were only sent a handful of days before the PC launch....
Having some bugs is inevitable, no software is ever perfect, being a bugfest is a different matter, this game is not.
I’m in act 3 and I haven’t see anything particularly annoying so far, BG3 is a masterpiece, giving it a low score only because of some bugs (that devs are very quickly fixing), is a shame IMO.
I hated her at first, but after a while I started to see her reasons and also made her a bit less rigid so I don’t mind her so much anymore.
Only thing I still hate is that I seem to never have appropriate responses in dialogs when she’s being rude, like all my options feel too submissive and I don’t like that.
I come from MMOs, didn’t know anything about DnD nor cRPGs, I needed to be told everything on how to build a char, what spells to take and what items to get. I don’t personally ask but reading responses to other players questions helps me immensely.
It took me a month to learn the rules and understand what’s available in game (DnD is hard lol, when you start from nothing) and now I can start making my own choices even if I don’t yet fully understand everything.
I guess there are other people like me, BG3 is not only for DnD/cRPGs fans.
Query about your linux daily drivers?
So i have my main system, i have been running NixOS on for over a year. It has been a pleasure to daily drive. And ive recently been playing with gentoo and funtoo. And althought alot of information, which is somewhat overwhelming but is slowly growing on me and making me appreatate linux as a whole. So i was wondring what other...
Valve reveals Steam Deck OLED for November 16th (www.gamingonlinux.com)
YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
Google’s anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.
‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Companions: who and do you switch?
Who are your companions? Do you switch during gameplay?...
TIL You can jump to Karlach from the back exit of Zevlor's room in the grove (startrek.website)
If you go to where Zevlor is standing here in the grove there is an exit to the left up some rocks. When you go out this exit Karlach’s spawn point is a jump down the cliff on the right. You’ll take like 90% damage if you don’t have featherfall or something similar like misty step but you get to her super early and don’t...
A missed opportunity with Astarion
I feel like an oversight or a missed opportunity regarding Astarion was that he couldn’t perform Vampire Bite on Cazador during the Ascension ritual fight. Like I understand that you can’t use it on undead but with the trouble that the game established with Astarion explaining how a vampire spawn can turn into a true...
Best throwaway line in your opinion. (startrek.website)
Patch #3 - patch notes (baldursgate3.game)
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community (www.phoronix.com)
Lemmy Development Update 2023-09-22
Some years ago we used to post weekly development updates to let the community know what we are working on. For some reason we stopped posting these updates, but now we want to continue giving you information every two weeks about the recent development progress. This should allow average users to keep up with development,...
Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds (blog.mozilla.org)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/476611...
'Game of Thrones' creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement (apnews.com)
NEW YORK (AP) — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission.
Patch 3 is coming, and it’s a big one. To ensure thorough testing, we’re releasing Patch 3 this Friday, September 22 instead. (nitter.d420.de)
It was originally planned for a day earlier. This is supposed to be the one that brings Mac support.
Here are the details on the grisly deaths of Elon Musk’s Neuralink monkeys (www.theverge.com)
What can you do on Linux that you can't do on Windows?
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When the DM invents an item on the spot and instantly regrets it (lemmy.world)
I mean, come on, this has to be a joke right XD
Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s...
'The Game Just Fundamentally Undermines Itself': Game Designer Breaks Down 'Baldur's Gate 3's Most Fatal Flaws (www.themarysue.com)
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ can be a fantastic experience and a bad game at the same time.
Strange Ox Act 1 Easter Egg
Still in Act 1, so no spoilers please....
LMDE 6 “Faye” – BETA Release – The Linux Mint Blog (blog.linuxmint.com)
Someone made a mod to create the Death Knight class from World of Warcraft. Now I want an Arthas appearance mod, Geralt next :D (www.nexusmods.com)
Karmic dice: yay or nay?
I’m new to both DnD and cRPGs, I’ve read about what the karmic dice does but I wanted to know your opinions as well....
Any distros you reccomend with these requirements
Free and open-source....
Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Feared Low Review Scores Due to Bugs (wccftech.com)
Speaking to the Dungeons & Dragons YouTube channel, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke admitted that the developers feared some low scores for Baldur's Gate 3 due to potential bugs encountered by reviewers. This explains why review codes were only sent a handful of days before the PC launch....
Baldur's Gate 3 - Discussion Post #2
The previous post was starting to lose steam so here is another one....