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  • bam13302@ttrpg.networktoRPGMemes @ttrpg.networkHave you considered?
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    3 days ago

    I have issue with almost all of your points.

    • Dex & wisdom would be the important stats for sailors IMO (i am not saying strength and con are useless, but just not as important, they would be 3rd and 4th IMO).
    • Darkvision wouldn’t do a damn thing, its range would barely get off the side of the boat.
    • Poison resistance is not disease resistance.
    • Some spoiled food would be poison, but some would also be disease (depends on how it spoiled and the food).
    • In order for short stature to be relevant to ship design, they would need a completely custom designed ship tailor made for them, which would have benifits but sounds unlikely for what pirates would be sailing. (That being said, a dwarven merchant ship designed speciifcally for their stature would be a massive pain for normal height characters to battle on)
    • lower speed means they swim slower too which means going overboard is even worse.

    EDIT: dwarven submarines!

    • short stature actually hugely relevant as submarines are notoriously cramped
    • darkvision means no need for lights in the sub, beneficial for multiple (admittedly somewhat minor) reasons.
    • honestly no clue what stats would be important for a sub, no argument here
    • toxic gasses less of a problem thanks to poison resistance
    • Dont even need to go to the surface, a fully underwater submarine port could be connected to existing dwarven settlements near the ocean with the correct design and planning.
    • Also benefits from legendary dwarven engineering.





  • bam13302@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux gaming hardware/software
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    4 months ago

    Do you have any preferences (distro, cpu/gpu manufacturer, etc) and a budget? Most of the games on your list I am familiar with and will run on damn near anything remotely modern.

    Lacing direction, with the fairly low requirements (from what i recognize), and assuming you are price conscious id suggest you poke around the used gaming PC market (either gamer friends, or failing that online), which will also completely bypass the tariff issue too.

    PopOS is pretty solid for linux gaming and has a distribution specifically for Nvidia too which handles most of the headache with Nvidia if you go that route.

    EDIT: Poked around the requirement pages of the ones i wasn’t familiar with, i didn’t see a single game that had a requirement of anything newer than 10 year old hardware, depending on your friend network, you could get a computer that could play those games well for a song. Civ 7, your ‘evenutally’ game, is the only thing listed that has strongish requirements, and would be what i would pay attention to if you are aiming higher.




  • bam13302@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    6 months ago

    Whats your use case?

    Was somewhat recently considering a linux laptop myself and ended up deciding the steamdeck fit my needs well.

    A dock + portable keyboard & mouse for when i need to do typing or w/e, and a fun handheld console for when i want fun.

    That being said, depending on what your “older” laptop is, it might not actually be much stronger, or it might be wildly overpowered for what you need.


  • So they both store data in a table like structure, but that’s about where the similarities end. Excel is useful for handling smaller more flexible data sets, but has performance, scalibility, storage, and structural deficiencies compared to SQL, it’s also harder for computer languages to communicate with a shared excel dataset and modify it vs SQL.

    One of the major issues with excel as a database is data limits, excel only allows for ~1 million rows. Considering there are ~1 billion possible SSNs, excel would not be a great medium for them for that reason alone.

    One big advantage of SQL is you need to structure your data on the creation of the table and it’s designed with the expectation that all data will fit a structure, including unique keys, format, and other limits and structures. This allows you to enforce database rules easily and massively reduce storage size and query times.

    There are a bunch of other reasons for using SQL but most of it boils down to either it’s faster, easier for multiple computers to access and read/modify simultaneously, or better for enforcing rules and structures when modifying it.






  • I wonder if the steam deck will work for you. Its sacrifice of physical keyboard for portability will probably be the deal breaking issue if I were to guess, but not sure. I’ve seen plenty of people use them as computers for various field projects not game related. It’s cheapest is 350 if you don’t need a lot storage on the device and the storage is upgradeable. It’s compatible with normal USB c hubs for if you do need a physical keyboard or w/e. There are definitely some hangups that may make it undesirable and from what you described some of them are definitely possible, ie if you want to pull it out in the field and do a lot of typing without setting up a dock and whatnot, it won’t work for your needs. But if the fieldwork with it is mostly just start a program and connect a USB data source, and most typing will be somewhere with a desk (home office or w/e) then it may work.

    I was personally looking for a Linux compatible laptop a while back (admittedly I asked the wrong community), and eventually came to the conclusion that my wife’s steam deck was actually a great solution for my needs, the main times I needed a keyboard I could just setup a simple dock and plug one it (though if you get a USBC or Bluetooth keyboard the only use for the dock is for holding it upright or additional peripherals), and most of my on the go use of it doesn’t need a lot of typing.


  • bam13302@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    Very similar here, windows 11 being shittier and forced further pissing me off as windows 10 was supposed to be their last release shifting to a service model.

    I’ve still yet to see a convincing reason windows 11 is an improvement in any way over 10.

    Then steam decks came out with a solid proton version, and my only reason to stay on windows evaporated. I didn’t even try dual booting windows.