JustAnotherKay @ JustAnotherKay @lemmy.world

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I can tip the scales but I don't think I'm comfortable yet with changing how the encounters work.

This is actually part of why I'm suggesting to think tactics instead of numbers. Wizards of the Coast have already done a lot of math to figure out good numbers for us in those modules, and a lot of the time they're not wrong. It's much easier in my opinion to make an encounter challenging by saying "this enemy doesn't have a real health bar. You either have to figure out the puzzle or they just hit you once a turn and then fuck off when everyone else dies"

For example, if we're in a cave and my very clever party runs into a group of goblins, I'm gonna throw a sneaky fella behind 3/4th cover on some ramparts with a slingshot. Oh, and the path to get up to the goblin is in the next room. He's not a real threat, but boy is he annoying. There's probably conveniently a rope that leads up there, a meathead can go climb it or someone clever could set the ramparts on fire. If they just ignore him, he's gonna go take those stairs behind him and annoy them for the next encounter too

Difficulty balancing encounters

They're being creative because they want to be powerful. They want that "wow that's clever and highly effective, you're so smart here's a one-shot" moment. So, let them. Balance be damned. Let them wipe out entire encounters if they're clever enough. Or, throw in a fluffer enemy or two that can either get "one-shot" at any moment or be a nuisance for the entire encounter

Edit: If you like friendly competition (and you should probably check with your group too) you can turn combat encounters into puzzles where you're basically trying to stump each other on how to handle a situation. Try to think tactics instead of numbers

Long term, I agree. To test for 3 hours, and then decide which partition to nuke and which to keep? For this particular use case I'd prefer it

Have you hit it with anything to check if your ports are still open? There are a handful of tools for the task

I actually love this idea. I'm on a federated service, why do I need to go to 3 meme communities on 3 instances when I could go to "meme" and see all of them?

Crossposts from within the cross-feed could be automatically hidden to avoid showing the same post multiple times, and then we just start spreading the word to crosspost instead of reposting. I think the only issue is that this would definitely be better to implement client-side because AP is just a protocol to move data, whereas this requires checking too many user-defined variables to make it idiomatic easily. I could be wrong though, I don't know the AP code very well

I actually don't like this advice for this particular use case. The live session is gonna be sluggish because of the USB bottleneck which will make it look like the games run a lot worse than they would with a proper install.

Especially since this person also is already Linux proficient, I would say just jump into a dual boot setup or wipe the windows partition momentarily. Sure, it's gonna take a little longer and it's a bit tedious to have to reinstall windows if you change your mind but I'd prefer a bit tedium over a poor benchmark

What port do you have SSH set to? What ports did you change the services to? Is the SSH port open?

I still think tiling is ultimately the feature you're looking for, even if it's on a floating DE. Most tiling WMs (Sway included) have the ability to float windows, and can even do so by default while still giving you the keyboard-based workflow that you're after.

Tiling isn't an all or nothing thing, Plasma for example is a floating DE that is capable of tiling in exactly the way you're describing by default

And this is why I prefaced with "at first glance" lol

Hungarian looks surprisingly Latin. I guess to be fair, most of what I know about Hungary is WWII trivia and a couple "that's not German!" Fun facts. Is Hungarian Latin based?

I'm not sure what "bojler eladó" is but that looks like either Spanish or Tagalog from first glance, and Laszlo is a Hungarian name.

That is to say, I do believe that Laszlo is used in other languages

I did s bit of poking around. It looks like there's a tool on GitHub for this exact purpose, or you can just save to a .docx from OneNote then use pandoc to convert to markdown

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Usually things like this don't bother me this much, but this... Did you just mix up know/no inside of an acronym? It's one letter for both in an acronym

I have a ring from a 3 month stint a few years back. It was supposed to be an engagement ring (I was dumb lol) but now I just wear it cause it's a nice ring

Agreed! It was a struggle for me and a boon for others.

This is something I run into rather often because I crunch through information. Just skip me to the intermediate course and give me a synopsis of the beginner course and most of the time I'm off to the races

I haven't put out any FOSS yet because I'm still writing a lot of "wtf is this" code but once I can I really want to try to hold myself to the idea of "I do this in my free time, so I provide it for free"

This was a big driver for my distro hopping, until I landed on purple Arch. I'll either go to the blue team or Gentoo or LFS or something if I decide to hop again.

My struggle was that more beginner-friendly distros like mint and Fedora workstations were too beginner-friendly. I struggled to find things to learn because I installed it and had an out-of-the-box windows experience

Zenni works the same, and they ship to the EU it's just a bit more expensive. Most of the time still worth paying the reduced price for the frames, not to mention (I haven't done extensive research on this so I could be wrong, but from cursory glance) they seem to have a more ethical workflow

I think in some areas, the culture is starting to shift around that a bit. I remember the 2000-2010s era having a lot of shows that were more on-the-nose about the topic and then seeing more people talking about how to properly interact with recovering alcoholics on social media in the years following.

Purely anecdotal, of course. I just get the vibe that some areas where drinking used to be very expected, have learned to treat it as a choice

I've only been using Linux for around a year in total, so I've done plenty of "fuck this issue, where's a 'just works' distro" hops lol. I still check out other distributions occasionally to see how they are, but I've been trying to grow accustomed to just googling anything the computer tells me that I don't understand. If it throws a code at me, I wanna know what that code is.

Getting into this habit has made it a lot easier to just say "why are you being stupid? Let me make you not stupid and go about my business" a lot more often

I believe their point is that surveillance systems that are used to identify people are being trained on social media images and they don't want those systems to be better. The point is not personal risk, but systemic/societal risk