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AldinTheMage

@ AldinTheMage @ttrpg.network

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Love talking all things trrpg. I primarily GM Genesys RPG, sometimes also Star Wars RPG and Hero Kids.

Also into Linux, 3D Printing, software development, and PC gaming

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • I miss the old tts voices and now everything is ai generated garbage :( Bring back the robot voices!

  • You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands

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  • That's why we use JavaScript on the front end, JavaScript on the back end, and you can streamline it even more by using JavaScript for the db layer too. After all, if you have too much data to be reasonably parsed in a single .json file, you are probably just architecting wrong.

  • Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

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  • Yeah absolutely. It's a very different experience. I was just pointing out that they are other different reasons to prefer not to do residential service calls that don't apply to retail. There are a lot of extra steps for retail but it's all an established process. The guys I talk to that have done service call work all have absolutely insane stories.

  • Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

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  • I've talked with people in HVAC who have said the same. It's much easier to provide a service to a business than random individuals.

    However, this is different, as this is just a retail product. Micron doesn't have to deal with the person who doesn't pay after the job is done, or doesn't lock their dog up because "he doesn't bite, it will be fine" and it turns out to be an aggressive monster. This is just assembly line production that they already are set up to do.

    I get that they have a limited number of inputs and they are just choosing to make as much money as possible. It sucks to see that go, though. Crucial has always been my go-to for RAM.

  • Americans' thanksgiving pie preferences by state

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  • Sweet potato pie, contrary to the graph, is pretty similar to pumpkin pie, except better.

  • Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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  • And then power toys shortcuts conflict with the standard shortcuts and requires a ton of fiddling and customizing configs. You know, the thing windows users always say is a reason they don't want to use linux.

  • Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'

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  • That should also come up in a reviews also. Not trying to imply one guy should get fired as a scapegoat, just talking from experience how much it sucks to know your code caused major issues.

  • Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'

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  • So the actual outage comes down to pre-allocating memory, but not actually having error handling to gracefully fail if that limit is or will be exceeded... Bad day for whoever shows up on the git blame for that function

  • Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

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  • It does look very chonky, and not very aesthetically pleasing.

    However, as a heavy user of the steam deck over the past year, I am super excited. The track pads and the extra inputs on the steam deck give so much flexibility to play games that otherwise wouldn't work well with controller at all. I'm just hoping it feels better (or at least not worse) than the steam deck in terms of ergonomics. I plan on getting one for my desktop PC.

  • Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin

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  • I've seen some people say they got fusion 360 working on linux with bottles, but I didn't have any luck with it. I use OpenSCAD and FreeCAD for making models to print, but if you need Fusion360 specifically for work (or specific Adobe products) then you are kind of stuck unless your company is ok with a change. You won't be able to view or edit other people's Fusion360 files without that specific application. You can always run Windows in a VM on linux and install only the applications you need it for there. If you have a good enough PC that is viable, but isn't a great experience on a lower end system.

  • Using Vim is Amazing

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  • Do you use vim motions in your JetBrains IDE? We use Webstorm at work and I installed the vim motions plugin because I want to get more fluent with using Vim but I haven't really given it a fair shot yet.

  • A hypothesis

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  • My 8 and 9 year old kids use xubuntu on a 2013 macbook air. They use it for writing stories, making a lot of pixel art with Piko Pixel, and some code block style programming with Lego Spike. They are learning about multi-user systems, file management, etc. I'm keeping an eye out for a cheap pc that can run Minecraft (lots of those right now since people are just trashing old win 10 machines) because the older kid wants to learn how to make Minecraft mods.

  • Andrew Cuomo slammed for ‘embarrassing’ AI Halloween attack ad on Zohran Mamdani

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  • Also the fact that a lot of the big firms really seem to be just interested in it as a way to get more user data. People will share some pretty sensitive info with an LLM that they wouldn't otherwise provide.

    Running locally is definitely the way to go, if you're going to use them.

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • It's always something 😅

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • That sounds really frustrating. When my 1070 croaks I'm going with an AMD. Probably not going to upgrade before then since I mostly play older games and GPUs are just too expensive these days. First it was crypto mining, now it's AI... I just want to play my single player RPGs!

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • That sucks. I have definitely had issues with certain hardware on other machines. Even with this Bazzite install, sleep doesn't work (thanks to my Gigabyte MB, as the other poster mentioned) and I have some weird behavior with ethernet, but my asus wifi card is working fine, thankfully, and that didn't work properly on windows when I tried it before I stopped dual booting.

    Hopefully you can find something that works well with your setup. The most frustrating issues to debug are ones with support for some specific hardware that isn't widely used by other Linux users, and may not ever be fully supported. Now that I am fully on linux, next time I upgrade I'm going to try to find components that are proven to work, and will probably be avoiding both Gigabyte and nVidia.

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    Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS

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  • "Install this bloated spyware in exchange for a little bit of convenience" is like 80% of modern tech and I don't know how people are just ok with that

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • Huh, I may look into this. Sounds neat. Thanks!

  • Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic

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  • I still had to wait for a long time for shaders to load on initial launch on some games (DA Veilguard) but performance seemed fine. I didn't have performance issues on Ubuntu so not sure about your particular issues, but another thing to consider is based on your card, the latest nvidia drivers may not be correct - I had to download an older driver package for my card (1070) as recommended by nvidia. Bazzite had me select which series of card I had when downloading the ISO, so I assume it included the older drivers for my card. I haven't actually checked the installed driver version though