Man, I haven’t been to a sci-fi con since before Covid. I know there’s no 2025 committee - I hope someone volunteers to run one in 2026.

(I know all about being the change you want to see in the world, but we’re talking about organising an event space for a hundred people and I failed to organise dinner for two last night.)

I agree with the reporter - he needs to port Doom to that mofo.

I built my current PC using one of those PCPartPicker guides, and I’m very happy with it.

The only issue I had was the video driver. I use the Linux Mint Long Term Support version, and the kernel didn’t have a recent enough driver for my card. I just needed to switch to the latest kernel and it was good to go. I actually had no idea how to troubleshoot it, and went to the LM forum to ask for help. I was reading through the guide on what info to supply with help requests and realised that the example fault and solution were the exact ones I was facing!

However, since I almost know nothing , I’m afraid to do things wrong and get a malware, spyware or break security measures of OS.

That right there is the traditional way to learn linux.

My advice is to make a disk image of Mint installed and configured the way you like it, then just reimage the laptop every time you break it.

That’s great! What’s Cosmic Alpha 2?

Very useful article.

Fatdog is Debian by way of Ubuntu designed to run from a USB drive. There’s documentation on the website.

sigh Making CHA my dump stat is gonna fuck me, isn’t it? I roll…

…a natural 20. 😳

It’s not the GM trying to break my spirit, it’s my frickin’ dice. Those little death polygons want to humiliate me by proxy. This is why I bought a creme brulee torch, you little fuckers.

If you pick a new user-friendly distro, nine times out of ten it’ll run like a dream out of the box.

If you want to change something minor like a desktop background, you might need to search through menus for the settings or ask for advice.

If you want to install new hardware, like swapping in a new video card, you’ll definitely need some assistance.

That was a fun read. 🙂

The classy area of the backrooms.

Remember when Bill Gates said that open source software was fascist?

This is a creative and clever solution to a problem and I’m totally onboard with it.

I see confusion over what happened a few seconds ago. I think the cat was batting the soap around on the bath’s rim and got too excited.

Same reason that dude installed Doom on a pregnancy test!

When I’m DMing, I always tell myself I’m not gonna tolerate that bullshit.

But at the table I usually let it happen to see where it’s going.

She looks like a Penny to me.

You’ll grow into those ears someday, lil’ buddy.

Looks like a dialysis treatment centre. Patients get comfy chairs because they have to sit for a long time.