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And here I was thinking I was still decent at math. I got bamboozled...

I mean, it is tempting to buy a replica Amulet of Mara and go to bars with it proudly on. Anyone that understood the meaning would possibly be within compatibility range.

You can get away with it while having some downtime in a village. The bard is making coin in the tavern and the barbarian is drinking in the same place, the priest visits the local chapel, the warlock looks to spend some coin on magic baubles, etc. This also increases the creativity in which you can give your players their next quest.

But once you're out adventuring on that quest, you're a goddamn party. If you don't want to be a party, then go home and play a single player game.

Edit: I have had good DMs separate the party themselves though, but we always spend it trying to find each other again.

Sleep/hibernate has been a pretty big problem for a while. As for the gpu, have you checked out NixOS? There's ways to enforce your integrated card to handle everything and change states for certain apps to the discreet card.

It takes a bit to learn, but nixlang is pretty simple. I've heard it referred to as "JSON with functions". It also has the largest package repository of any OS and is atomic, so its hard as hell to break. You can even make separate, containerized dev environments with flakes.

I have heard about the IoT version. I'd have to look more into it, but I doubt I'm going back now that I've learned so much about Linux. I can troubleshoot most of Arch without touching the docs or asking online now, so it really defeats the purpose of switching back.

I also enjoy putting in a little effort to get things working. That's the thing about Linux. Most people that daily drive it get a dopamine release from tinkering with it and fixing things, and I'm one of those people.

I know there has been a big "its for everyone" push these days, but its really not. So I'm glad the IoT version exists for those that want or need it.

Rufus is great and I still keep a copy around, but I haven't gone back since I found Ventoy. You just run Ventoy on your stick, and then drag and drop any and all bootable ISOs into it. When you boot it, you get a list of all the ISOs to work with.

The only caveat is that you absolutely have to eject the USB, or else Ventoy probably will corrupt. That's a small price to pay to have Arch, Mint, Fedora, NixOS, and Win11 all on one OS ISO toolkit drive, plus I always eject my drives as a rule of thumb. Then all I have to do is update them every couple months.

Takes a lot more to fully deshittify it, though. I've been down that road. So much registry diving, so many third party apps, strongarming uninstallations of bloatware through brute force, and just all around weeks of work.

When the screenshot shit was announced the first time, I just got tired of looking for workarounds to disable or remove Microsoft's active attempts of policing, spying, and triple-dip profiting off it's paying customers.

There's no easy solution to this, because people who aren't doing stupid shit like that are still getting caught in the crossfire.

I don't envy your position. Its the main reason I haven't started a community, even though I've had the itch to make a proper modded minecraft and kratom communities.

I do get it. You have to protect your community first and foremost... I just wish there was a better solution. I've been thinking and thinking about it and coming up empty, tbh.

Yeah, it just seems like an all around bad idea that had good initial intentions of transparency. I've thought about this a lot, honestly. Something like "views" won't really work. I sort of started thinking that a pair of glasses might do. That's it, nothing else.

The glasses symbol would count as a "Read this!" which can be construed as "I read this" or "you should read this", preceeded by the number of people that read it. Heck, just getting rid of downvotes would work. I usually save my downvotes for extremely hateful or prejudiced posts/comments, not comments I disagree with.

In the end, downvotes are the most abused. At least a "# read this" tag would denote the most useful or contributing comments. Sure, people will abuse it for their own benefit, but at least it can't be used to shit on people or communities.

Its not the best solution, but I agree that downvotes and upvotes are becoming archaic relics of a bygone era. There must be a better and more modern solution.

After that point it becomes harassment, yes. What I'm talking about here is that not everyone is mass downvoting and they still get banned. Some people are scrolling through sometimes completely separate communities, downvoting a couple things, and getting banned from totally different, unrelated communities. That's the part that shouldn't be okay.

And I agree with you. I think the whole voting system is literally a dopamine chase for most and honestly not really relevant to a constructive debate. It seems Lemmy overcomplicates this by letting people see votes, though like I said, I haven't gone about finding out how. The only thing I like about voting is that it lets me know that people have read what I've written.

Its good that you have that view of being banned, but others can be genuinely hurt, which starts shit like this (this whole fiasco isn't just about AI), and then the whole instance gets dragged into it. Back when I was on reddit, I asked a simple question in a sub. A mod came in and started being completely rude to me for no reason, no matter how much I tried to discuss things with them. It got heated on both sides. The mod changed all his replies to nice, friendly ones and banned me so I got left looking like a clown.

People like that mod are people that do get too passionate about things like reddit and lemmy, and they can be hurtful to others. I'm not just saying that its db0; its mostly power-crazy mods, no matter which instance.

It's going to take a while to do that now. People are all riled up right now and really should cool off a bit. I know what you mean, though, because this instance's stance on AI is basically my stance on it.

There are great applications for it, but the government and big corp are pushing it into a disgusting direction, as they do with everything they get their hands on that could give them power or money.

However, it doesn't feel good to have it happen. Especially since db0 is an instance against the abuse of power. You go about your day and see a comment you disagree with. You downvote it. The commenter winds up being a mod somewhere else and bans you from their communities.

That doesn't seem fair, does it? And using the excuse of "preemptively banning an AI downvote troll" is not a very good one. If they had been banned after they had gone in to just downvote everyone talking about AI in a community, okay. But you shouldn't be able to "Minority Report" people.

Som of the bans were used as a form of disrespect. You can't tell me some of the bans weren't done just to piss the other person off because they were pissed off, no matter which way you sugar coat it. If you don't like being downvoted, you probably just shouldn't comment or post on any platform with that mechanic.

I have never even looked into how to see who's downvoted me. I don't want to. That person had an opinion that didn't align with mine. That's it and that's all it should be. The act of viewing and banning who's downvoted who should really only be used when there's an obvious troll in the community who's already mass downvoted everything in the community.