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In your modern-day America RPG setting, NPCs could potentially acquire materials for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) through the black market, online purchases, or even stealing from construction sites. Common materials might include fertilizers, fuel, electronic components, and easily accessible chemicals.

To detect and disrupt such plots, your police player characters might employ techniques like intelligence gathering, monitoring online activities, and collaborating with federal agencies. Additionally, they could use surveillance tools, K9 units trained to detect explosives, and implement checkpoints or random searches in areas of concern. Training in recognizing suspicious behavior and patterns could also be crucial for the police characters.

Remember to balance the realism of your game with sensitivity to real-world events and ensure your narrative promotes a positive and engaging experience for your players.

Welp.

I grew up with the cheapest and most worn down vacuum cleaners. It was awful, everything from having to pull it out of a cabinet to finding an outlet and, having bad suction, awful cleaning heads and annoying hoses.

So when I got my own apartment and worked for a bit I decided to go all in on a Dyson Absolute V12 Detect. It's actually very painless and super quick to vacuum now. Also a bit fun.

With a rechargeable battery it's wireless and the battery lasts me about 4 vacuuming sessions in my apartment, no keeping track of vacuum bags and filters. All in all it takes me from touching my vacuum to being done cleaning my, albeit 1 room apartment, about 10 minutes. It's great!

The only long term one I've been able to cope with is biking. About a 40km to 65km bike ride over a day. I was able to keep my speed to either hyped up music or slowed down music to keep my speed and I felt like I was doing something, not just standing in a room and the constant looming feeling of not making progress.

The other one I've tried lately has been badminton. It can be nice and competitive as well as friendly too!

Basically Biltema Körv

Pop is growing in popularity for all the right reasons! I hope it works out great for you! A few tips I would give is to make sure to do backups and look into things like Timeshift to make unexplainable errors and potentially wonky package installs easier to undo!

I've been in your shoes many many times. My needs and expectations change every few years. I recently bought a Steam Deck and have been using an OCI image called Bazzite based on Fedora Silverblue the past few weeks and it's been great exploring Linux and feeling the real ownership of the things I run and host.

I'm a tinkerer at heart, have two Raspberry Pis, one running as a router and the other running as a general server paired with my Synology DS720+ as a self hosted everything else, email, online docs, cloud server, Jellyfin, etc.

If you want it to be easy look at some distros like Bazzite which has a good gaming focus. Or Linux mint which is great as well.

Look at alternative software for what you're using, music software has Ardour for a DAW or Audacity/Tenacity for general audio editing. Kdenlive works great too or davinci resolve if you really need more oomph.

AMD hardware always works better with Linux so if you have or can upgrade to AMD stuff make that a bigger priority especially since they focus more on FOSS software and release a lot of things as such.

You don't have to feel guilty about not cutting off some programs and web apps. As a photographer I'll probably never be able to leave Adobe sadly but I'll just accept that.

Don't be afraid to try things and experiment, it's the fun of it. Looking and trying new things. It'll be a great way to get back into it!

I'm thinking it'll probably be way better for sustainability as well. Since I do need the performance I do and the Deck hits that performance within a good margin having to spend €12000 on a laptop with good build quality and good specs just for it to break or have some shit happen to it after the warranty is out feels like shit. So I'm thinking because the setup is semi-modular and each of the part of the setup isn't super expensive it can still be worth it in the long-ish run. My steam deck break? I buy a new part from ifixit. The monitor breaks? Worst case scenario I can get a new one and possibly an upgrade since this market is new and moving. Keyboard and mouse breaks? Easy to replace that too.

Downside of course being the clunkiness of having to carry around all that and the time spent setting it up rather than just getting the laptop up and fold it up.

Something along the lines of 2K or more with at least good colour accuracy would suffice for me! It's all I need for the photo editing part. Having plugged it into my 4K TV it went very well. All the UI elements and such displayed perfectly and smoothly for the most part. So 4K on the Steam Deck is most definitely doable! At least if you disregard gaming that is which isn't the main goal for this project.

Does your steam deck output to 8K when you plug it into the TV? How are UI elements and FPS on that resolution for you? Would be fun to see where the limit would be.

That seems to be the gist for most of the portable displays and lapdocks available. I know there's a few portable displays that can charge the Steam Deck properly but they're usually far between. I'm slightly put off from getting 1080p since it's been a very long time since I settled with that resolution and to me just feels slightly too little. Especially when I'm gonna edit photos and browser the web. I'm gonna check around a bit for 4K portable monitors since there doesn't seem to be any brand ones that are 2K.

Bazzite seems very interesting. Thanks for the link! HDR to me is a bit of a second priority, it sure is nice but it doesn't make and break anything. Currently trying out Windows on the Deck and seems like HDR seems to be broken for me there. Sadly the option on my TV to fix it seems to be greyed out in the settings.

My desktop experience so far has been great actually. While the CPU itself isn't as strong as my previous 5900HX the GPU performance is indeed noticeable when running about in some software. It's a great try-out at least!

And as someone whose been distro-hopping for 10 years and tried loads of different setups it's been my personal conclusion :)

In the end the browser isn't everything, it's also UI of the desktop environment and the file explorer and how some things are handled. That I find more comfortable with Windows, but when I manage my servers I love using Linux and when I need to do web-dev stuff too.

It wouldn't be for gaming. Mostly running VMs, managing school assignments and general browsing and voice chatting. If I do end up booting up a game I wouldn't mind utilizing FSR as much as possible.