Returning to the discussion on this topic (if low Int is viable) some time ago, I see that you raised almost no skills outside of combat. This char seems to mostly ride on mutations, which is admittedly the dimension of the game I never explored that much. I tend to always go deep into mechanics, electronics etc. So that’s why I didn’t see much of a path for a dumb survivor build.

So what’s the verdict? Low int doable if you do char build mutations, not skills? Your mutations are from Genetic Chaos, not homemade mutagen, right? (I think that’s how it works)

For now I will refrain from talking from what I think is in the game without testing :) But just one question, when you’re saying “neutral stance”, do you mean the status next to the “monster” in the V menu? (Hostile/Ignoring/Tracking etc.) Or is it something else?

Okay, maybe this is the case, at least now. I have some memories of killing a random NPC (unknown to my character) in clear self-defense and getting pretty severe bad morale from this for a long time. It might have been one of those clowns who order you to drop everything when they see you. Glad if this have been somehow patched.

Bandits you consider them like ferals with guns and weapons that haven’t gone feral

One aspect of this, don’t know if you know off the top of your head: can you kill them with no murder morale penalties? I remember testing this mechanic a while back and I think it was pretty funny, like you feel bad if you kill someone who tried to kill you first, but never if they are a part of quest where you are supposed to kill them. This is from my old memory so might be wrong.

There’s a case to be made, realistically speaking, that using a well-known framework or even a CMS like Wordpress means less complexity specific to your website to understand for the next person. FTP cough SFTP or Markdown/HTML is definitely not beyond non-technical people to understand and use, but sadly there could be some resistance nowadays I imagine.

I would look into static website generators. Sadly I’m not sure what is most reliable nowadays, but I would prioritize easy of use and installation, as speed is probably meaningless on your scale. Here’s a random article.

There is !linuxmemes@lemmy.world and !linuxmemes@lemmy.fmhy.ml.

I mean… “who needs features in 2022” is onto something. But I use both, for various Nvidia and laziness related reasons, and have a dim idea what they do inside, as probably most flamers on the topic.

Feedback: to see an example one has to click through to another file in the repo.

Is it a subset of Markdown or YAML? It is a type of decision that it would be good to be upfront with to the users. It also gives you a framework for further thinking and development, and some out of the box parsability.

As a low int character you cannot read crucial books, even introductory chemistry probably. You have to stumble through your practical experiments, wasting tons of time and hard-to-get ingredients in failed attempts. I think this checks out from both gamist and simulationist perspectives. I mean, even someone really really stupid can learn to accomplish physical tasks (eventually) and we have specifically “applied science” in the game, not abstract theories.

Sorely tempted to ask you to create an Int 4 character and report back to us with you accomplishments, once you do reach the point of cooking up mutagen 😀

I agree and as far as I understand this is how it works in the game currently. I haven’t created truly dumb characters to see if it would take ages to read, but minimal intelligence level to read each book also exists I think. So this is also a soft barrier to acquiring higher levels in skills.

YouTube recommendations are often 30-60% decent and you can always fall back to that. Anything that has tags and similar artist functionality: Last.fm (still technically exists), everynoise.com, more specialized sites like Encyclopedia Metallum. I like to get some recommendations out of band even if I use streaming, otherwise it’s too easy to phase out and make your memory dependent on their algo.

Some (even) more niche and involved methods:

• I am experimenting with using search.marginalia.nu for searching for opinions on forums and personal websites, starting with my “initial” artist, genre or the vibe I’m looking for.
• if you look for an album on ebay or wherever and find a have a small seller with their personal collection, I like to take a listen to some other items from the same person that look promising.
• at least for jazz and probably mainstream pop/rock (? however to call it) there are physical books dedicated to briefly reviewing a ton of albums. I prefer this to typical written reviews because all I need is an album name and some gist of what to expect. If the writer has a long analysis etc. I tend not to agree after listening, I may like some things that they hate and the words have nothing to do with music. Probably the “1000 albums you have to listen to” lists on the internet can serve similar purpose.

Obvious things I don’t see mentioned:

• Bash scripts kept in the home directory or another place that’s logical for them specifically.
• history | grep whatever (or other useful piping), though your older commands are forgotten eventually. You can mess with the values of HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE environment variables in your system.

Context just before that quote:

As we understand it, this contract clearly states that the terms do not intend to contradict any rights to copy, modify, redistribute and/or reinstall the software as many times and as many places as the customer likes (see §1.4). Additionally, though, the contract indicates that if the customer engages in these activities, that Red Hat reserves the right to cancel that contract and make no further contracts with the customer for support and update services.

This is rich, don’t know how many people are aware of that.

I was looking into Arch-based environment and wondered if there is an option for a scenario where you don’t have to update for a few weeks for example, because you don’t use that computer or whatever. But you still want to try the Arch configurability and wiki docs for it.

From what you’re saying, it’s still actually all rolling release. From my (flawed? correct me) understanding it is different from Ubuntu or Fedora, where you can update an outdated OS state and it isn’t supposed to break. Possibly barring changing OS versions.

They may not expose the actual PDF to you at all, just some software rendering of it. In that case I’d focus on making screenshotting efficient. Find a program that lets you save the whole screen to file automatically at once (one button press), or use Firefox ctrl+shift+s -> click on the page area -> save -> enter.

Agreed, I think hosting it on localhost not exposed to the internet is a great idea if this satisfies your needs for now. Do double-check the docs for your system if firewall disallows web server connections by default (Manjaro and Endeavour are based on Arch which is supposed to have good wiki).

Then, if you want to go online, you can export the database and put it into a server install.

Corps passing their stuff as “technically open source” would also be a problem. Google controls a lot of web by open source Chrome, Microsoft controls dev IDEs by open source VS Code. I’m sure OpenAI would find more ways to pretend to be “open” again if it would be more profitable than saying they have scary monster AIs they can’t release publicly.

Open source exceptions would have to be in tandem with breaking them up somehow and setting some limits to their activities.

To add even more, to get the real error log you often have to go to console (GNOME terminal) and run the program from here (command name + enter). It will crash and leave the message you can copy. Not that different from Powershell in windows.

How to know the command name? In KDE you right click the program in the app menu (it’s called Activities in GNOME as far as I remember) and go to “Edit program”, where it is in the text field. For example to run Firefox, you run “firefox” from the console. People can correct me about how it works in GNOME and if there are easier ways. I’ve often tried to guess it, lol. Not only experts use Linux.

I mean okay, this answers your question, but this is up to date for now. These are very early days and I expect a lot more drama and defede’s to come, if Lemmy will survive. You can’t predict that exactly.

If you cared only about not being banned being by anyone, you could just pick an instance with lowest BBY. But you said you also care about the breadth of content (both NSFW and general stuff), and as you said these could be in conflict in the future. If they will, we’re kind of screwed anyway.

I would not assume the worst tho. We’re not on a bad trajectory of banning everywhere left and right at the very start. There is more panic among people about stuff that could happen hypothetically. I have good hopes for Lemmy.

So far it seems that known bans (except the universal one for lemmygrad) are motivated by behavior of the users, not the contents on the instance. I hope it will stay this way. They do not have to read it, you can even hide NSFW here and it works. The other instances are not advertisers who fear NSFW the most.

By flocking to instances doing defederation you encourage this behavior and eventually they are/will be the most happy to ban stuff inside. I am happy to comment from here anywhere, including beehaw etc. (which we still can), but won’t bother to make accounts on closed silos.

As one user I don’t think you can “strategize” better than picking an open instance that is not overrun by trolls and vandals. I think this one is good enough?

Yeah, I even recently commented on a post of theirs from here not knowing we’re cut out. Now it will hang on my profile, presumably reaching them never.