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Switching to Linux Mint in 2025 - YouTube (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27932508

We had a community challenge on Twitch in January for me to initiate my migration off Windows 10 to Linux.

The process began in February and I've been on Linux as my daily driver for a few weeks now. This video is an overview of that experience, my background and where things currently stand.

I'm very pleased with Linux Mint overall, despite some initial headaches and misgivings. Figured you might be interested in seeing this :)

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Switching to Linux Mint in 2025 - YouTube (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27932508

We had a community challenge on Twitch in January for me to initiate my migration off Windows 10 to Linux.

The process began in February and I've been on Linux as my daily driver for a few weeks now. This video is an overview of that experience, my background and where things currently stand.

I'm very pleased with Linux Mint overall, despite some initial headaches and misgivings. Figured you might be interested in seeing this :)

Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (11 children)

If the remastered versions add modern controls that'd be super. It's the main gripe I have with the older games besides low resolutions.

Micron unveils industry's first 60TB SSD with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

I read Macron and was wondering how the French suddenly had that one in the bag as a country.

Lawmakers Reject Bill That Would Let Trump Destroy Nonprofits in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't have thought they could do it, but very happy they did. Let's see how long it lasts.

Exxon Chief to Trump: Don’t Withdraw From Paris Climate Deal in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

It's because it is ineffective and doesn't have any consequences if they fail. Withdrawing will prompt blue states to push even harder om regulation, as well as the EU possibly waking up. I think they are afraid of the Streisand effect, nothing more.

An excess of billionaires is destabilising politics – just as academics predicted in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I truly believe the world would be a much better place if there was a clear cutoff for wealth. But of course, there would still be weasles out there circumventing such measures. Greed is such an incredibly harmful thing.

Not a single redeeming thing about billionaires. Not a single one. Their "philanthropy" would be entirely unneeded, if they simply paid their fair share back to society, without which they wouldn't have what they have in the first place.

Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't post nearly as much as I would like, because I post some stream related stuff in my own community on lemmy and don't know want to come off as someone who is trying to advertise all the time. I have been reported for that posting to my own community, which... ya know. I get it, nobody cares about yet another streamer dude, but it is a bit intimidating almost.

Spectre Divide lowers skin prices just hours after launch: 'We took a swing that we thought would best set us up to support the game. Turns out we swung a bit high' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

"We thought the unwashed masses would kill each other for the chance to give us all their money for something intangible and entirely devoid of value, but it appears they are even poorer than we thought they were."

'Our Chatbots Perform The Tasks Of 700 People': Buy Now, Pay Later Company Klarna To Axe 2,000 Jobs As AI Takes On More Roles in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Cool! Didn't trust them before, now I can trust them even less.

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Anno 117 : Pax Romana announced (www.ubisoft.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19067997

I am a sucker for the Anno Series and damn if I am not going to enjoy the heck out of the Roman setting. It'll certainly be an interesting ride.

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Anno 117 : Pax Romana announced (www.ubisoft.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19067997

I am a sucker for the Anno Series and damn if I am not going to enjoy the heck out of the Roman setting. It'll certainly be an interesting ride.

Putin seizes $100m from Google to fund Russia’s war machine (in 2020) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Sadly they did not kick his ass. They sort of settled in the end, but they lost their special status and self governance stuff to a board controlled by DeSantis but he put a few pro Disney faces on that board to get it all to settle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._DeSantis

Putin seizes $100m from Google to fund Russia’s war machine (in 2020) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I don't know. Disney lost against Ron DeSantis on home turf. Not quite sure what they are going to do against a foreign actor.

Thoughts on "The Decamarone?" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Loved it. Every single actor and actress is doing a stellar job. The character arcs are fantastical but also believable due to the obscenely crazy circumstances they all find themselves in during the chosen setting of the show. I am very surprised it has such low ratings, I think it is a triumph in what it set out to accomplish.

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[Battlemap] Step Inside Whitechapter Manor: Where Every Room Tells a Tale of Mystery and Intrigue. (ko-fi.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18956931

I've created this multi-level battlemap for a recent intermission campaign with some mystery and intrigue. You can get it all as pay what you want over on ko-fi and use it in your own campaigns. If you do get around to doing that, do let me know what you think!

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[Battlemap] Step Inside Whitechapter Manor: Where Every Room Tells a Tale of Mystery and Intrigue. (ko-fi.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18956931

I've created this multi-level battlemap for a recent intermission campaign with some mystery and intrigue. You can get it all as pay what you want over on ko-fi and use it in your own campaigns. If you do get around to doing that, do let me know what you think!

I realize I may get some divisive answers, but if NATO Countries all agreed, mobilized, and went into Russia full force with no warning, what are the likely outcomes? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The US and the USSR engaged in a race to have the most nukes. After the fall of the Sowjet Union international treaties were put in place to reduce the number of nukes in both east and west.

Don't quote me, but if I remember correctly, at the height of the cold war, both sides had more than 12.000 nukes each.

Humanity had enough fire power to delete the entire globe roughly 40x over then. Why? Because bigger is better.

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Dungeon Keeper is still the best Dungeon Keeper (lemmy.world)
 

Dungeon Keeper was my very first video game addiction. I stayed up late and got up early before school just to get in a few more hours with the game. It had so many mechanics all rolled into a delicious little strategy game that was so different than anything else at the time with weird little quirks and details that didn't have to be in there, but were.

Let me list all the stuff I remember being blown away by and that no game since has really properly captured anymore.

  • The spell sounds and voice acting were amazing. IMPUS NETRUM - NYHAHAHAHA!
  • It's a strategy game but also a full on 3D shooter, if you use the Symbiosis spell. Not just that, but creatures have their individual view points, skills and abilities. Need to exhaust a gas trap? Run over it 50 times with a big red devil thing (I played in German as a kid, don't remember the names of everything). Want to scout around? Become a fly and literally fly around with hex-cell vision!
  • There was little debris falling from the dungeon ceilings, making splashing sounds in water.
  • Creatures hat pointless details like their blood group, just because.
  • You could find special items to transfer creatures from one level to the next (hello level 10 captured knight)
  • Finding diamond veins was truly an accomplishment and changed the map
  • Horny was a mad lad, needed his own dungeon and would slaughter your own creatures
  • The animosity between certain creature types, requiring separate dormitories or hard choices: Spiders vs. Bugs and Flies, Skeletons vs. Fat horned red demons, Skeletons vs. Vampires and more
  • The torture animations
  • The humor on the map choices
  • The voiced insults you could throw around
  • The race against time as your imps barely managed to get the walls reinforced when the dwarves come digging
  • The intro
  • The creatures all having various abilities like trolls working in the workshop, wizards and vampires researching in the library
  • The temple allowing you to combine creatures into new/better creatures or to insult the gods
  • Ghosts rising from dead heroes in the graveyard
  • Being able to raise a little lizard thing into a dragon
  • The various types of doors with the swirling magic door which just looked so cool
  • The Indiana Jones stone ball trap that literally killed everything in it's path, not just hurt or injured, no, flat out kill ANYTHING including level 10 creatures your own included. NO MERCY
  • The Iron Maidens, oh my
  • The chicken farms
  • The speed up spell
  • Pressing CTRL+R to get slightly less pixelated graphics on the dungeon textures
  • The fact that you could drop your creatures without them getting stunned from the fall and be active immediately to fight - This is likely my biggest gripe with almost all "spiritual successors" including Dungeon Keeper 2. Always hated that I need to sort of kind of anticipate enemy arrival times like Deutsche Bahn and fail to deliver my creatures on time like American Market Makers

Honestly, I can gush about this game so much and it has inspired a life long love in me for Imps and Imp-inspired creatures. This is where my username and online presence today comes from and I love the little critters dearly.

What was your favorite part?

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I'm re-reading The Hobbit at the moment. Gandalf might not be a conjurer of cheap tricks, because he's only packing the expensive, high-caliber stuff. (files.mastodon.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.social/users/Imperor/statuses/111595314982620499

I'm re-reading The Hobbit at the moment. Gandalf might not be a conjurer of cheap tricks, because he's only packing the expensive, high-caliber stuff.

@rpgmemes
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#tolkien #meme #hobbit #gandalf #wizard #fantasy #badlydrawn #dnd

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[Question] Where to best upload and share full resolution, uncompressed battle maps? (kbin.social)
 

I shared one of my battle-maps in some places just now (first time for that, really) and got the request to maybe share the full uncompressed version.

My battle-maps tend to be on the larger side and can easily go beyond 15-20mb at times.

I have two issues, mainly where I could use some pointers and input:

  1. I don't want to lose all my rights (not even implicitly due to some vague TOS or EULA shenanigans) where I upload to and I am not willing to use any Google or Microsoft related services (nor any of the other large IT related companies, really - hence why I use the fediverse).
  2. I'd like to be sure I'm not just clogging someones server up with huge files like lemmy for example. Feels wrong to upload such huge files to a free service.

Got any advice? Should I use something like a (free) Patreon maybe?

Thanks in advance!

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