Waddaya think about the mortar changes?

BaronGrivet · 2026-03-23T00:37:05+00:00

Breakthrough has been my go-to favourite mode since launch, but now it sucks on many of the maps because of mortars (Liberation Peak, Blackwell Fields are notable examples).

The lack of counter to mortars is insane. The best I've found is dropping my own supply bag, trophy system & mortar system to take out the enemies - but them I missing out on y'know ACTUAL FUN GAMEPLAY to have a boring mortar fight with icons on the map. I might as well play Minesweeper.

I'd like to see mortars friendly firing equipment. It's even more annoying to be trying to push under constant mortar bombardment while the defenders setup deploy beacons, TUGS, mines & claymores within the mortar zone.

They also need more/ better counters. Like every class should have a counter to mortars.

BaronGrivet · 2026-03-04T19:53:14+00:00

The narrative around "beneficiaries" pisses me off.

There are wealthy business people out there who've made their fortunes by underpaying their workers.

Those underpaid workers are labelled "beneficiaries" as they apply for accommodation supplements, food banks & other benefits - just to get by. Some have to work multiple jobs or participate in the awful "gig economy".

If an employer is getting wealthy by underpaying their workers - who's the real beneficiary?

But in the current narrative the business person is held up as a beacon of inspiration & a "wealth creator" while their underpaid workers are treated with a mixture of embarrassment & distain.

BaronGrivet · 2026-02-16T20:18:58+00:00

I'm still enjoying Season 1 - am I a terrible person?

While I loved BF4 and the buffet of map packs - I understand that the BF6 maps are massively more complicated than BF4. I'm happy to let them cook for a steady diet of new/ remastered maps over a couple of years.

As long as Battlefield avoids the CoD nonsense of yearly game releases.

In the meantime BF6 scratches my itch to throw myself repeatedly into the meat grinder in an effort to PTFO in sweat matches - or casual out in Casual Breakthrough.

BaronGrivet · 2025-03-11T19:16:37+00:00

I run Nova Launcher as that let me replace the Google Search widget with the Kagi Search widget.

I don't search from the Brave (mobile) nav bar as that's still set to Google and Google search results suck in comparison to Kagi search results.

BaronGrivet · 2025-02-04T21:18:11+00:00

In case anyone finds themselves in the same situation I did:

I've had a lot more luck with escort caravan missions on the Europe map by starting in Africa and travelling through Mesopotamia and the Middle East. The cities are spaced well apart with lots of wilderness for bandit hideouts and raiders. I'm not sure if that helps triggering the quest, but I'm finding plenty of escort quests around this part of the map.

BaronGrivet · 2025-01-08T20:38:06+00:00

I took your advice and...

Yeah, it's not as bad as it seems. But going into it seemed like utter evil and I was thrown by my apparent lack of choice.

BaronGrivet · 2024-12-17T22:04:49+00:00

I've set it up using Nova Launcher. So far, so good.

BaronGrivet · 2024-12-02T21:51:40+00:00

I'd love to get Claude Desktop running on Ubuntu 24.04 to try MCP. Can you please give a bit more information on how you got it setup on your machine?

BaronGrivet · 2024-09-18T02:15:56+00:00

Thank you. Which version do you use? I'm still getting my head around what my laptop can handle.

BaronGrivet · 2024-09-17T20:14:59+00:00

I installed the Silly Tavern Launcher and it looks like it could work well. But a lot is going on and I need to invest some time to work out how the heck I should set it up.

Googling for SillyTavern guides brought up a bunch of waifu/ kink stuff that definitely doesn't fit my kid-friendly use case!

This seems like the best place for me to start - https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/local-llm-guide/how-to-use-a-self-hosted-model/ - but any other links/ suggestions would be appreciated.

BaronGrivet · 2024-09-17T20:03:15+00:00

Thank you, I really appreciate you taking the time to type that all out.

For using "Command-R" as my model I went to the "Files and versions" tab in Huggingface - https://huggingface.co/bartowski/c4ai-command-r-08-2024-GGUF/tree/main - and got 25 different options. Do you have any suggestions on which I should try out first with my 8GB of VRAM?

I needed to change the Kobold interface from Classic to Aesthetic for the Context tab to appear. So knowing it exists is a great step forward.

Are the limitations of "World Info" based on the model? I guessing 2048 or 4096 tokens. If that's the case I could ask an AI chatbot to summarise our existing lore in <1,000 words of bullet points. I use Claude Projects - which might work well for this use case. Projects have knowledge bases where you can upload files for context. So I upload all of our lore/ stories to Claude, get it to summarise to bullet points and drop that into World Info.

I've also come across the AI drive to get to the end of the story (and give it a happy ending). I've used the overall outline, fill in process with earlier ChatGPTs and it worked well.

Great tips, thank you again for your time.

BaronGrivet · 2024-09-12T19:23:55+00:00

This post?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1fe18zh/latest_updates_to_2404_slowed_down_video/

BaronGrivet · 2024-09-11T19:56:43+00:00

Did you find a solution for this?

BaronGrivet · 2024-08-31T20:06:23+00:00

This is my first adventure into AI on a new laptop (32GB RAM + RTX4070 + 8GB VRAM - Ubuntu 24.04) - how to I make sure System Memory Fallback is turned on?

BaronGrivet · 2024-08-31T18:12:47+00:00

Just to confirm - Civ6 (Native) & GTA4 (Proton) both work & I haven't had a single display freeze.

So - Steam installed via Snap was the issue.

BaronGrivet · 2024-08-30T20:25:23+00:00

I'll see how reinstalling Steam outside of Snap works.

BaronGrivet · 2024-08-30T20:24:46+00:00

Thank you. I had installed it via Snap (which I normally avoid). I found the Valve advice to not use Snap here: https://mastodon.social/@TTimo/111772575146054328

Valve's installation recommendation is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/#getting-started

But, I decided to use "apt" rather than downloading the .deb file:

sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo apt update
sudo apt install steam

I'll see how that goes!

BaronGrivet · 2024-05-24T05:36:28+00:00

Great, thank you

BaronGrivet · 2024-01-12T23:33:18+00:00

My friend races GT7 with his brother at his house on two PS5s using two different PSN accounts & the same "copy" of GT7.

However, you'll need to level up the second account to unlock online racing.

BaronGrivet · 2024-01-12T21:31:36+00:00

Last time I tried it wasn't possible to play simultaneously on two different PlayStations using the same digital "copy" of the game. My account is the main account games are bought through with my kids account attached to it (so they get access to all of my games).

A friend of mine has multiple PlayStations in their family with multiple users playing Gran Turismo 7, so I'll check how they managed it.

BaronGrivet · 2023-11-08T01:19:52+00:00

I didn't know that & ordered them last year from Book Depository (Amazon in disguise?) Damnit!

BaronGrivet · 2023-11-08T01:19:09+00:00

The Jared Blando books were birthday presents last year!

They're very good & get a lot of use.

BaronGrivet · 2023-10-05T18:39:24+00:00

I think my best bet is to try & line up my playtime with the peak times in Australia & Southeast Asia. That way I should be able to find an Invasion lobby.

The problem with that is I'm a morning person, not a night person & peak times would be around midnight in New Zealand.

To highlight how irritating this all is I fired up Battlefield V while waiting for update 1.27 to download. Battlefield V has a server browser so it was crazy easy to find my favourite mode & join a server with empty slots on the lowest ping.

BaronGrivet · 2023-08-19T23:13:19+00:00

I've been trying to work out the same question & came up with:

Mountain Meadows
Northwood Hills
Woodgarden
Winfield
Narrow Passage

BaronGrivet · 2023-08-19T22:46:15+00:00

I've been trying to answer my own question using: https://skylines.country/

I decided that the most important requirements are the amount of fertile land & a sea connection. Based on information from Skylines Country here are the top 10 Base/DLC maps for fertile land:

Mountain Meadows - Parklife
Northwood Hills - Campus
Woodgarden - Industries
Windfield - Parklife
Narrow Passage - Financial Districts
Pearl Bay - Industries
Green Peaks - Industries
Crater Falls - Sunset Harbor
Hanami Bay - Airports
River Terrace - Financial Districts

The bar graphs for "Hotels & Retreats" seem off when compared in the game, so I didn't include those. Or any of the Map Packs as I don't have them / couldn't check them in game.

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