shadedmagus

u/shadedmagus@lemmy.world
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on AI in Firefox · c/fuck_ai · 5 pts · 71d

I'll have to disagree with the Zen option. I got frustrated when they started removing settings for features I was using a year or so ago, and the community is prickly. I went back to Firefox when they finally made vertical tabs available.

I guess I'll have to look into Waterfox or Phoenix now if Mozilla is bent on fully integrating AI. I'm already considering Kagi for search since DuckDuckGo is following the AI wild goose.

on Single player games · c/games · 2 pts · 71d

This also applies for some single-player games as well. I'm 48 and I had to "git gud" on Expedition 33 in order to progress - learning how to time parries is pretty critical for getting through the tougher fights.

If you know of any cottage shops making superlative GPUs, please let the community know!

As for this discussion, I have had very few problems with my RX 7800XT. Compare this to the issues and performance Nvidia GPUs have on Linux wrt gaming and the official drivers, and it really makes me hope that the recent work on NVK will eventually lead to some relief for our GeForce peeps.

I guess it depends on what your use case might be. I have heard that Manjaro is decent for a desktop Arch experience, but I have yet to try it.

My use case recently was for a living-room PC that works like a console version of the Steam Deck. For that purpose, ChimeraOS works really well. It's an Arch-based distro that uses the Steam Deck controller-first interface and so far is handling almost everything I've thrown at it. It even has a remote admin app where you can install games from GOG or Epic (although GOG support only installs the base game at the moment, no DLC or updates) or upload console ROMs for emulation.

I would say if you go this route, get a PS4/PS5 controller. The touch space is recognized as a mouse, which removes the need to attach a mouse for those moments when you need to get into the desktop (such as formatting a secondary drive for use in Steam).

I'm guessing the damage is lower due to the persistent damage and the fact that spirit damage can take effect if the target has fire resistance/immunity.

Spirit damage is a new damage type that replaces the law/chaos alignment damage. There was also a leaked sidebar from Rage of Elements which has the following:

Vitality and void replace positive and negative traits and damage.

I presume this is due to positive/negative being OGL terms.

I'm starting to not trust RPGBot as definitive when it comes to his PF2E guides. I didn't notice it when I was looking over his 5E stuff, but he seems to be doing his ranking purely on "Does it help do damage?" and "Does it help the damage dealers do damage?" which is not a neutral space to be ranking from.

I do agree that it's good for basic insights - just be mindful of the bias and check other guides.

That does make the Fused Staff feat look pretty appealing then! But for true strike I don't know if that's action efficient, since you can't Spellstrike with that spell. The actions needed for that go like this:

  • Change bow to staff
  • Cast true strike
  • Change staff to bow
  • Spellstrike

And I'm not sure how you fit a Spellstrike into the same turn without taking an action the previous turn to set up for it. But having a Staff of Evocation or another evocation-based staff sounds like a great idea!

If it's affordable for you, I would say take a look at the NUC Extreme kits for a living-room PC upgrade. Custom small form-factor that was designed for standard GPU sizes (check the dimensions carefully - my Sapphire 6700XT fit the specs but was still a tight fit), and it's fairly quiet even with graphics settings set up to high.

My wife has been happily playing her games in the living room this past week, and I've been able to sneak a few hours in between.

Our group uses HeroLab Online, and most of us bring laptops to the table.

I've tried a tablet before, but it's difficult to switch tasks especially when you have to do anything other than focus on the character sheet - like now, I'm manning the Kingmaker map to notate where we've been and what we've run into and I don't think I could do that effectively on a tablet.