AldinTheMage

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Since I got zero votes for an animated version, I made one anyway. in c/pixelart@retrolemmy.com
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 4 points 18 hours ago

This is beautiful

Anon studies Organic Chemistry in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 day ago

Only exception I have seen was when the professor was kind of a troll. He was a good teacher. This was in a pretty entry level physics class at a tech school, so we basically got a high school level physics as a pre-req for our degree in whatever 2 year program we were in.

He spent the week leading up to the first big test talking about how hard it was, how people needed to take it seriously, etc.

He handed out the grades after and everyone was visibly upset, nobody had a passing grade. Then he explained, after letting us freak out for a minute, that the score at the top was out of 50, not 100 and I think everyone passed

After that the class pretty fun.

Sometimes people like to complain about windows and iOS in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 day ago

"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 in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 days ago

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

Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago

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

Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have heard of rebasing but I haven't dug into it. Sounds really cool!

I do use my PC for gaming, but Bazzite did come with a lot of other "gaming" software that I don't use, so it's good to know there is a lighter weight alternative that otherwise has the same benefits.

Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 days ago

I have an older Ryzen 5, 16GB of ram and an nVidia 1070, so not cutting edge for sure. I downloaded the regular desktop version, not the steam big picture console-ish version, and steam account was not required. I just closed the steam window until I was done with my setup. I haven't seen any performance issues

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Decided to try out Bazzite on my desktop PC - Distrobox feels like magic (ttrpg.network)
 

My distro of choice is Debian (I like their philosophy and it works great on my laptop) but I have an nVidia card in my desktop PC, and driver management was kind of annoying. Decided to try Kubuntu, which worked ok, but I didn't really love, and then I didn't update for a bit too long and had some repo issues trying to install updates. I didn't bother digging into what the fix would be, since I had been considering Bazzite for a while, as it has been talked about a lot for gaming.

Knowing literally nothing other than "Bazzite works out of the box with nVidia" I figured I'd give it a go. First off, I was surprised at the size of the image, and how long the install took. I did some reading about atomic distros and began to understand why things were set up that way. Seems pretty cool! I still don't love that as soon as I logged in on my fresh install, Steam opened up and asked for a log in, but that is what I signed up for with Bazzite, I guess. The nVidia drivers out of the box worked fantastic, as advertised, and I love a good KDE desktop, so it's not all bad.

Initially I was frustrated that some things weren't working in the flatpak versions of the app (couldn't get to my 3d printer using the .local address from the browser because flatpak has a bug with mDNS) and layering a package with rpm-ostree seems like overkill and not a good experience. Then I watched some videos on distrobox.

I can just distrobox create --image debian:latest debian-box and then use apt install for whatever packages I want, export them and use them as if they were natively installed on Bazzite??? And this works on any distro??? I have been using Linux exclusively for a few years (and on and off for more years), but I have been totally out of the loop with distrobox and atomic distros. This feels like the same level of magic I felt when I first dual booted Ubuntu back in the Windows Vista days. This seems like it will fix 99% of the issues I run into on Linux.

I know distrobox isn't exclusive to atomic distros, but I wouldn't have discovered it if not for Bazzite.

Anyway, none of this is really new info, but I just wanted to nerd out about it for a bit with people who will know what I'm talking about.

Dolphin gets serious in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 days ago

I installed Bazzite and it felt so much like installing Windows for me (huge install image, slow process, lots of loading wheels and user friendly "pretty" screens to get set up). It didn't feel great, but I figured I'd give it a fair chance and learn how to use a different setup than I'm used to.

I still haven't had a chance to actually do much with it (only a couple of hours between work and other stuff) but I am really interested in the concept. After reading up more and watching some videos I now understand why the install process is so big and the reasoning behind it. This type of distro really does seem like a great option for regular users.

Only issue I've had so far is connecting to my RaspberryPi to control my 3d printer using the .local hostname, since flatpak apparently has a bug with mDNS. IP works fine, and I did rps-ostree install a browser, which was kind of a pain, and probably not the correct way to address the issue, but that was within the first hour or so of using it and I haven't figured out the best way to do that type of thing yet. Really looking forward to learning more about the setup and how to customize stuff on top of it. Distrobox seems extremely powerful and sounds like it will give me everything I want.

Still have vanilla Debian on my laptop, which I absolutely love, but using it on my desktop PC was kind of a pain due to some proprietary drivers required there (nvidia).

Somehow *this* is what's going to convince me to distro hop. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 25 points 6 days ago (4 children)

pretty

Documenting the descent into madness in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago

This is the real pro tip. "Debian packages are behind" but you can just clone the repo or download the .deb and get the latest version of the tool you want. I know there can be dependency issues but I haven't run into any with the stuff I use.

No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 month ago

This is amazing! I will definitely be making use of this

No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Expeditions are amazing, but I've only finished one because I'm usually out of the loop and start them way late. It would be amazing if they brought old ones back into rotation so people who are new or just missed them could earn the rewards eventually. I feel like they have enough now to make a pretty good rotation without feeling repetitive

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I made a 1d6 table of random rooms for a game I'm working on (europe.pub)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by AldinTheMage@ttrpg.network to c/micro_maps@ttrpg.network
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It's meant to be played on graph paper. The general idea is a randomly generated dungeon crawl. When you get to a door, you roll 1d6 and draw the next room! Each M is a monster, and each L is loot, which also has random tables to determine what is what, or you could use random tables from any other system with the general idea.

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I made a solo rpg that just needs a notebook, pencil, and 1d6 (aldinthemage.itch.io)
 

I started working on a solo notebook RPG after getting sucked into GnollHack on my phone ruined my progress on reducing screen time (also RIP Grindor, level 19 elf ranger, killed by Scorpius due to me not understanding illness mechanics😭).

I wanted something on paper that has a similar vibe (though this has nowhere near the depth). Just fighting monsters, exploring infinite dungeons, collecting loot and learning spells.

I have never written an RPG system before, but it was fun! I'm still finishing up development and making tweaks as I play, but it's finished enough to play test!

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