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NightFantom

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  • systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

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  • I think it strongly detracts from the post. I basically skipped right to the comments without clicking the link because I'm assuming it's AI slop, and I'm hoping the comments are interesting.

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    YSK that apart from not having kids, living car - free is actually the most effective way to lower your carbon footprint.

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  • -1 child per year is an impressive number to keep up, especially from prison. On the flip side, the number of cars you drive or transatlantic flights you take from prison might also be very low.

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  • Many games with voices also support subtitles, personally I learned most of my English from my parents watching English tv with subs (in our language at first, then when I was a little older English subs)

  • Edit: YSK that Today is the deadline for the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapies and THE THRESHOLD HAS BEEN REACHED but you need to keep signing if you haven't already!

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  • Could be nfc for an nfc enabled eid perhaps? I'm wondering as well

  • Pedestrians Walking on Right or Left?

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  • I have the opposite experience, went to London a while ago and kept noticing most people keep left instead of right like I'm used to.

  • Hey Installer Devs - an installer feature -- copy another system's install?

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  • Who's going to say what is to be reset in a "full new install" and what is kept? I don't think the line is as clear as you think.

    For example, the disk space. Maybe one partition was made to be a flat amount, and another gets what's left, maybe it's a percentage split. Who's to say?

    What if the rest of the hardware is significantly different? Maybe your old amd setup needed no third party drivers, but your new nvidia setup is broken without the third party drivers?

    I don't think copying the username / password is a good idea either, ever, by the way.

    I think the gray area between cloning and just doing a fresh install without copying anything is a little too personal (and/or hardware-specific) to really manage well this way.

  • Roleplaying aside, is there a point in Gnomes and Spell Focus (Illusion) in core DnD 3.5 or at most the expanded 3.5 SRD? There seems to be a dearth of relevant useful illusion

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  • Yeah but those are different niches. The people that already played 3/3.5 didn't feel like 4e was for them (and in a way, it wasn't), so they moved on to pathfinder etc. Some newer players got into dnd with 4e but it alienated the older minmaxer types that liked 3(.5)e. (I have not done any research and this is all gut feeling and 2nd hand accounts by the way). In 5e they struck the right balance to get a kind of 3.5e "light", that can attract new players as well as satisfy older players, though of course you can't ever satisfy everyone.

    You're right of course that mirror image and invisibility are super strong spells that don't benefit from a higher save DC, but the pattern series of spells (of which I consider colour spray the single target version) are still super good.

    In the end, don't forget that "fun" is different for everyone, and with experience you might find yourself wanting to challenge yourself with "suboptimal" choices because it's more fun to play your first gnome paladin than the tenth halfling rogue.

  • Roleplaying aside, is there a point in Gnomes and Spell Focus (Illusion) in core DnD 3.5 or at most the expanded 3.5 SRD? There seems to be a dearth of relevant useful illusion

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  • Oh yeah definitely, game systems are rarely a good implementation outside of the combat. Many DnD games are definitely good (I've played neverwinter nights series, baldur's gate series, dungeons and dragons online), but the real charm in DnD is playing with your friends and having a good time (as well as hyperoptimising your character at the same time, if you like that) (honestly I believe that's one of the realisations WotC made with 3.5e that led them to make 4e, and subsequently 5e, a lot simpler: making it easier to get your friends into it was more important than having myriads of options for breaking the game)

  • Roleplaying aside, is there a point in Gnomes and Spell Focus (Illusion) in core DnD 3.5 or at most the expanded 3.5 SRD? There seems to be a dearth of relevant useful illusion

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  • So for reference:

    Spell focus gives +1 to save DC for the chosen school, in this case illusion. Looking at the spells listed under illusion school and filtering on those useful in combat we have:

    • lv 1: color spray: unconscious, blinded and stunned, will save negates (similarly hypnotic pattern and their higher level variants are all great crowd control spells)
    • lv 4: phantasmal killer: will disbelief, then fortitude or die (3d6 on successfull save)
    • the series of https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Shadow_Evocation and shadow conjuration and all similar spells are pretty good too, they allow you to cast any other evocation/conjuration spell of lower level, at the cost of an extra potential will save to disbelieve (but also at the DC of the shadow spell, which is higher level) (insert "mom says we have heighten spell at home" meme)

    And that's just at first sight a couple good ones.

    Sure, you won't be throwing around +1 save dc fireballs with this (except shadow evocation gives you heightened fireballs, at the cost of an extra will save), but CC is often more useful than direct damage. Especially out of combat (depends on what you mean with "roleplaying aside"), there's lots of good options: hiding behind a silent image is a cheap mass invisibility spell, or distracting guards with ghost sound for sneaky infiltration.

    Good luck!

  • I recently got a fancy wireless Steelseries headset, and since I'm probably going to switch to Linux in the future I'm a bit worried about the continued functionality of it in a non-Windows setting.

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  • I have an arctis something, 7 or 9, not entirely sure anymore and posting this from my phone. Only thing I needed the drivers for the mic loopback settings (which I used my gf's old windows laptop for for like 5 minutes) and otherwise there wasn't anything I needed. The wireless connection base station is just usb plug and play, no drivers needed. Not the same as the nova but my 2 cents, good luck!

  • How many languages can you say Please and Thank You in?

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  • So like impolite would be "give me a coffee", polite is "would you give me a coffee?" instead of "coffee please". Makes sense, thanks!

  • How many languages can you say Please and Thank You in?

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  • Can you expand on the Finnish? Is it engrained in the language somehow?

  • Finding projects that need user testing?

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  • I'd wager most, if not all of them. Ideally you'd have a program you want to use because it's promising, but instead you keep returning to whatever you used before that because certain use cases aren't handled well (or at all).

  • necrulemancy

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  • It's a white horse, OP's spell checking failed a few times

  • I'd just like to gush about Swayland for a sec

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  • Thanks!

  • I'd just like to gush about Swayland for a sec

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  • Got any links to resources you used / recommend for this / further reading?

  • Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

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  • If you do that I'd be very interested to see the results! Especially things like night sight, my gf's camera is as night blind as she is 😅

  • what's your ubuntu?

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  • These days gaming on linux is pretty good, lots of games run better than on windows. Typically the only thing that doesn't work (on release, often afterwards it gets fine) is (shitty) DRM/anticheat like denuvo.

  • Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

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  • Not OP but interested in both privacy and high-tech features. My current (stock) pixel 4a device has a worse camera than many other phones, but the software compensates a lot, netting better picture quality overall very often. I'm wondering how much of that is lost when using graphene instead of stock android, do you know?

    Similarly with the latest gen pixels having AI features built in, I'm assuming much of that is software that's not as easily installed somewhere else..