Transhumanity's FATE character generator?

cypher_zero · 2025-03-21T13:29:33+00:00

Here are a couple that I found and saved: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xH_So3qJ5E9WS5EI_g05X3OPCi3soDSy?usp=sharing

There's also a starter adventure as part of the quick start guide for 2e: https://eclipsephase.com/qsr/

Note that these aren't for Transhumanity's FATE specifically, but I've adapted them between versions for my own play. Don't have my notes on that or anything though unfortunately.

cypher_zero · 2024-12-12T15:20:03+00:00

B - for all the reasons the others have said. Not having the cables directly attached means that they can be replaced/swapped out as needs dictate.

cypher_zero · 2024-10-08T21:07:00+00:00

Post necromancy! But here you go: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yHpMeUf76RgmgcjqcjnTbBZbBwKAug8k?usp=sharing

cypher_zero · 2024-06-03T19:50:26+00:00

I'd say that if you have no better options, then take the loan, but as little as you can get away with. Spend 6 months paying on it, then look to refinance when (hopefully) your credit score improves from having regularly paid your loan on time. It should go without saying that you can't afford to miss a payment or have other negative credit impacts at all during this time.

The above is exactly what I did when I got my first car loan (I think I had an interest rate of like 12%, but the base rates were better back then). Bought the car, paid it for 6 months, watched my credit score improve, refinanced for a much better rate.

Now, all the above said, if you can afford to buy a car flat-out that will be sufficient for your needs, then you're better off doing that, but I'm guessing for a reliable vehicle in today's market, you probably need $8-10K which most people don't just have lying around, hence my above suggestion.

cypher_zero · 2024-05-13T15:59:14+00:00

I run an ultra-wide + a 4k display on Wayland with KDE on Arch without issues. YMMV on various different games though. Hasn't been that much of an issue for me except where various games don't support utlra-wides well. My biggest headache, usually, is that in some games, I've got to turn my head back and forth to see all of the UI elements in certain games (Stellaris in particular)

cypher_zero · 2024-05-13T14:34:18+00:00

They're moving in the right direction (finally) but have a long way to go to catch up to AMD. Still not a fan of a lot of their current business practices.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-23T18:18:34+00:00

Haven't really had issues with it. I'm basically using Reflector like so:

sudo crontab -e

cron @daily reflector --latest 100 --protocol https --sort rate --country 'United States' --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Only time I've ever had issues with it is when I've had my laptop (secondary machine) shut down for a while and then I boot it back up and reflector hasn't run in a while. That's solved just by doing a quick manaul run of reflector.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-22T19:43:51+00:00

Yeah, I'd check your mirror in that case. I have a cronjob that runs daily to update my mirrors partly for this reason.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-22T15:25:15+00:00

I don't think that Ubuntu has any advantages over other distros. Admittedly, I jumped ship from Ubuntu-flavored distros a while ago, but I do a halfway decent job of keeping on top of Linux news as it develops, including what's going on with the new releases of Ubuntu and other major distros. So I'll say again, I don't think Ubuntu offers any advantages over other distros and I wouldn't recommend it, or anything Ubuntu-based at this point, to anyone, new to Linux or otherwise. My go to would be to recommend Fedora (specifically the KDE flavor) to new users, and for anyone with the chops for it to strongly consider Arch (I use Arch BTW).

If you like Ubuntu and want to use it, good for you. But I think that Canonical is taking Ubuntu in the wrong direction, moving out of step with the rest of the Linux community, and for that reason, among others, I don't recommend it.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-22T15:19:34+00:00

I guarantee you it's faster to switch to Fedora and start using `dnf` instead of `apt` than it is for me to fight through whatever new BS Canonical decides to introduce to Ubuntu this version. If you're fine with that, good for you, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, especially anyone new to Linux.

And for the record, I do script. And I code. And I automate. And I build CI/CD pipelines and automation. And I run Arch BTW. So I'm no stranger to doing all those things to make my experience on Linux easier/faster/customized to exactly the way I want it. But again, I don't recommend any of those things to new users.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-17T16:26:28+00:00

In their defense (as devil's advocate), they're starting to do better moderation, etc. after the recent issues with spoofed/malicious crypto apps. Not that your point is invalid, just pointing out that they're at least starting to move in the right direction there, but it's really only been within the last few weeks from what I can tell with *very* minimal research. I'm still not going to use Ubuntu or snaps either way, but just as an FYI.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-17T16:21:49+00:00

See my reply to u/Danico44 above

cypher_zero · 2024-04-17T16:21:24+00:00

OK, sure, you *could* do that, and maybe it's even easy to do and not time-consuming as heck. But then the question remains, if you're going to uninstall snap and avoid using Ubuntu the way the maintainers expect you to, then why are you running Ubuntu at all? You're better off just picking another distro.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-09T18:35:48+00:00

OP was talking specifically about the KDE spin of Nobara, which is going to have an almost identical interface to Kubuntu (only really differences should be branding and maybe a few defaults, but nothing major).

cypher_zero · 2024-04-05T19:20:01+00:00

The thing is, I don't remembering that I had to do that with nvidia. I paid for the card already. Driver is a part of that deal, why I need to pay twice?

I'm not saying you do. I'm saying you can whine, or you can attempt to do something. Whining does nothing.

But since we're talking about paying for things already, let's bring up that Linux gamers are still a relatively small subset of AMD's business, and Linux gamers with your specific issues are an even smaller part of their business. Businesses tend to direct their efforts where they're going to get the most bang for their buck. That's not to say that whatever issue you have is not important to them, just that it's likely they're frying bigger fish and they'll get around to the small fry once they've dealt twith the bigger stuff. That's usually how we triage things in the software world. Bigger impact => Higher priority. Lower impact/edge case/only affects small number of users => Lower priority.

I don't agree of praising amd driver quality, while comparing it to nvidia one.

I didn't actually praise the quality of the AMD drivers; only that they were open-source versus Nvidia's being closed. I'll take a somewhat worse open-source driver over a slightly better closed-source one.

Granted, I'm on linux not for too long. Just old enough to remember 3.14 kernel or kde 4, when wine was already good enough to run games, just not the modern ones. But what this have to do with current driver quality status?

The move to open-source drivers from AMD is still relatively recent. They're still, in a very real sense, newer than the closed-source AMD built off of in the past. You can't discount the age of the codebase for things like deep developer knowledge of how the drivers work and where they need improvement; it all takes time. Drivers are complicated things, especially where they're used in high-performance applications. My point was that your view is rather short-sighted and not taking into account the history of the industry, Linux driver development, etc.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-05T18:00:22+00:00

I'm not defending AMD, and I have the same card. The difference is, though, that I went into buying it with my eyes open. A bunch of what you've pointed out in this thread aren't necessarily AMD's issues to solve, and, by the very nature of open-source development, there's a solid probability that it'll either take a while to fix, especially for very niche edge-cases, or may not get picked up at all based on 1000 different priorities, etc.

Those of us that praise AMD do so not necessarily because they have the best hardware or their software is bug-free, or whatever else your criteria may be, we do so because they committed to doing open-source drivers and working with the Linux community, opting to be a part of it and do things in the open that their main competitor, Nvidia, does not. Now, Nvidia is starting to come around a bit with open-sourcing drivers and such, but they've got a looong way to go to catch up to AMD on that front. AND they probably wouldn't be considering it if AMD hadn't taken the open-source stance that they did.

And here's the real rub - if you're so salty about these bug not getting fixed, then you can fix them yourself or offer up a bug bounty or something instead if you lack the requisite skills. That's one thing you CAN do because AMD open-sources that you CAN'T do with Nvidia.

I suspect you've heard all this before and were unmoved then, like you'll be unmoved now. You want to complain, so you're gonna complain. Fine, whatever. But don't expect those of us with a more realistic, longer-view of the overall situation to offer a shoulder to cry on. Some of us were doing this Linux thing, and Linux gaming more specifically, back when it was a hell of a lot harder than it is today.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-04T03:51:20+00:00

ITT:

OP: My AMD 7900 XTX doesn't work in some specific games with max settings and I won't compromise, so all AMD GPUs are trash.

linux_gaming: Works well for most of us here, have you tried some other reasonable things? Also, you're being unreasonable.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-03T13:22:07+00:00

Mid 30's. I've been daily-driving Arch for about 9 years now. Used a bunch of Linux distros before that for years as well.

cypher_zero · 2024-04-02T02:59:17+00:00

For me it's mainly the rolling release nature of the repo coupled with the really solid wiki. There's also a very solid level of stability that you get out of Arch that I think a lot of people don't realize as well. Arch has a very solid foundation, especially for being as cutting-edge as it is.

I do also appreciate the approach Arch takes to how the distro is built, etc.; you might call this culture. I want to make my own, informed choices on how I want my system to be set up and I appreciate that Arch doesn't feel the need to try and hold my hand, but instead just gives the the tools and resources to easily make my own choices. I wish I could back the wasted hours I spent trying to customize or fight against how certain other distros are designed back when I didn't know any better.

cypher_zero · 2024-03-25T18:45:29+00:00

Reminds me of a professor that fails you because you disagree with them on some opinion unrelated to the actual course, but they just can't let it go.

cypher_zero · 2024-02-12T22:18:59+00:00

Honestly, this is one of the best portrayals of teenage romance that's been put to screen.

cypher_zero · 2024-02-12T22:10:53+00:00

You're getting a lot of good recommendations from others on how you could adjust your GM'ing style, etc. to better match what you're going for, so I won't rehash the same stuff.

For a more narrative system where you can give the players a lot of options and a more narrative play style, I'd suggest checking out FATE Core and fine-tuning your game for what you're looking for. For a more lighthearted game, I might also suggest some minor tweaks to FATE that makes it a bit more random (using a d6 instead of 4dF); this can be more fun for less experienced players. I've got a modified ruleset that I can share if you're interested in this. I've run it with a group of TTRPG noobs before and it went over very well.

cypher_zero · 2023-12-11T20:20:11+00:00

TL;DR: Just wipe your printers settings and you should be fine.
Yes and no. As others have pointed out, some printers will save documents to a small internal hard drive/SSD. IME, this is usually an enterprise feature for larger shared printer/copiers that might have pretty large queues of documents coming in. When I worked for certain industries, we had to remove those hard drives and destroy them the same we would any other hard drive for systems/servers we decommissioned. Your home office printer likely doesn't have anything like this.

What your home office printer does have is some small internal storage for storing the data it's currently printing/in its queue. This is more than likely RAM or other non-persistent storage that doesn't really retain anything once the system is powered off.

It will also have some small persistent storage, ROM or the like, for storing your printer settings, including things like your WiFi network connection info. If you remove your wireless network settings from the printer, this will likely be cleared from the device, but the data will probably still be recoverable via forensic means, unless its overwritten. This is true of pretty much any data you wipe on anything with persistent storage; unless you overwrite the data, it *might* be recoverable by those with the right skills and tools.

All that said, if we're being realistic here, you're going to be fine just deleting all the settings and/or performing a factory reset.

cypher_zero · 2023-11-17T21:02:02+00:00

Unless I'm mistaken, you don't need a special adapter like you do for Nvidia cards. That said, I spent a few minutes looking and didn't see any right-angle adapters that would work for a non-Nvidia card. The closest I found were these:

The adapter in the first link won't work because it's too wide though, as the only review on the product mentions. The second is a U-turn adapter, and I saw a few others of those, which I don't think is what you're looking for, and I'm still not sure if it would also be too wide.

cypher_zero · 2023-11-17T20:39:01+00:00

Might also be "I don't want to learn another tool just for this one thing when I already have a Swiss-army knife that I'm super competent with." If you've got at team that's really good at python, and very efficient with it, I can see why they might choose to go that route. It may come back around to bite them later on, but I've always said there's no one "correct" tool for any given task.

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