Please stop making gifs at all. It's a terrible format that creates massive files that look like shit.

Webm is supported almost everywhere now and manages better quality at higher framerates and smaller file sizes.

From PLMs GitHub:

Plasma Login is in a prototype state and is not considered ready for real-world usage.

I just tried it out anyway, because SDDM sucks. PLM no longer uses the lowest common resolution for all displays and HDR works about as well as it does in plasma (sometimes I get a black screen and have to turn the display off and on). Still better than SDDM. It also integrates with KDEs system settings so it's easy to setup.

Auto-login does not work however, so I'll be sticking with SDDM for now, but I'm looking forward to the stable release.

Not sure about Lenovo, but I would never consider an ASUS laptop after they have been found trying to scam people on warranty issues repeatedly.

Current summary of the Gamers Nexus investigation with links to related videos

I keep seeing this sentiment and I just don't get it. From the perspective of someone who has never played a TTRPG and whose only experience with 5e is BG3, it is an incredible system compared to other CRPGs I've played.

It is simple enough to get into quickly and complex enough to remain interesting for hundreds of hours. Small numbers + simple math + transparent formulas make it very easy to understand what is happening why and how build decisions influence combat.

Meanwhile in Rogue Trader, I barely understand what any of the stats actually do or how damage is calculated. How much more damage am I going to do by putting point into offensive stats? How do defensive stats influence the damage received? On top of that every levelup presents you with dozens of options for traits for every single character in your party. How am i supposed to make an informed decision here? Just reading through them all would probably take an hour. I ended up just using build guides and getting bored because just picking the options someone else tells you to is not very exciting. The Pathfinder games are much the same in complexity from what I've seen.

If someone has some tips to get into those systems I'd appreciate it. I'd like to get into Pathfinder/Rogue Trader, but it just looks like way to much work until you get to the fun part.

Tuxedo (based in Germany) are Clevos. Slimbook (based in Spain) sells Clevo and maybe Tongfang, not sure.

StarLabs assembles their own laptops in the UK, but I think their parts are still Chinese/Taiwanese because where else are you going to buy laptop parts?

Personally I would not rule out buying Tuxedo/Slimbook just because the manufacturing is in Asia. Ultimately the components for any laptop will be sourced from there anyway and at least you get support from a European company.

Steam and Heroic already block sleep while a game is running. For everything else gamemoderun can be used, which also blocks sleep. It's a nice fix but it's not as big of a deal was it may seem.

Or you could buy a Starlabs Starfighter with a slightly worse CPU in the base config, double the RAM and a far better display for $1000 less. Also comes with coreboot.

No offense intended, you do you and you don't owe me any explanations, but I always find these types of post hilarious.

I want to do X. I don't want to use thing that does exactly X and is used by most people trying to do X. Refuses to elaborate.

It is for their target audience. They're not talking to you, they're talking to their customers.

I've never used bcachefs so no help from me there.

/boot/efi is no longer considered an appropriate mount point

It's not typical, but it should still work. systemd-boot even looks for the ESP there by default among /boot and /efi
Personally I use /efi.

just create a EFI partition and mount it /efi and let the OS put /boot inside the root partition if it needs it., then throw a UKI on /boot/efi/EFI/Linux

If I'm reading this correctly you mounted the ESP to /efi and then put the UKI in /boot/efi anyway. It needs to be on the ESP.
My /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset looks like this, if it helps. If you were to use /boot/efi for the ESP you would have to change the paths here.

# mkinitcpio preset file for the 'linux' package

#ALL_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
ALL_kver="/boot/vmlinuz-linux"

PRESETS=('default' 'fallback')

#default_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
#default_image="/boot/initramfs-linux.img"
default_uki="/efi/EFI/Linux/arch-linux.efi"
#default_options="--splash /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/splash-arch.bmp"

#fallback_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
#fallback_image="/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img"
fallback_uki="/efi/EFI/Linux/arch-linux-fallback.efi"
fallback_options="-S autodetect"

its possible that UKI, systemd-boot, bcachefs, and the /efi mountpoint are not a great mix

I don't see the point of systemd-boot with UKIs. All it does is chain-load the EFI boot stub in the UKI anyway. I just used efibootmgr to create an entry in the UEFI which boots the UKI directly.

Go to Settings -> About Firefox/Fennec

Tap the logo until it says "Debug settings enabled"

Go back and enter the new "Secret Settings" menu. There you can turn off Nimbus and Labs permanently. Also toggle "Keep Debug Menu revealed" so you don't have to enable it every time you want to change something.

I appreciate the detailed response.

I agree that individual classes in BG3 could offer more options. A lot of levelups are just "you have this passive now, period", but I found multiclassing to fix that, by offering more interesting choices. Finding the right breakpoints for how much to invest into each class to get the most benefit was fun for me. I generally enjoy the min-maxing aspect of RPGs more than the roleplaying.

Most of your criticism seems to come from comparing it to other TTRPGs and I get that not enjoying DnD in TT will affect your enjoyment of a game like BG3, but I'm looking at this from a CRPG players perspective.

My comparisons are classic Fallout, Divinity, Rogue Trader, VtM - Bloodlines, Cyberpunk, etc. Compared to those games I enjoyed DnD as a system the most, but I will probably give Owlcats Pathfinder games a chance.

For my work PC I followed the advice of an article someone posted on here and turned off transparency and animations in the accessibility settings. It really makes a difference.

I'm not sure whether i like the rounded corners on everything, but KDE implemented it properly. Clicking/scrolling while hovering the cursor over the panel gap will interact with the closest thing on the panel.

Yes? I don't really understand the question.

I'm guessing you're referring to Starfinder: Afterlight. I'll look into it once it's released.

As for the action point system, DnD's action system was one of my favorite parts about it. Most action point based systems I've seen so far have balancing issues that seem difficult to get rid of.

For example in Fallout going from 9 AP to 10 AP effectively doubles your damage output, because it lets you attack twice per turn, so anything less than 10 agility is just bad. In Divinity I always felt bad about having to waste AP on movement on melee characters, whereas ranged characters can spend almost all their AP on attacking.

DnD's system on the other hand is less flexible, but more consistent in that I rarely get into a situation where I can't do anything meaningful on my turn, because I had to spend all my AP on movement.

I wasn't even aware of APNG or AVIF before this thread. Webm was just the first alternative for GIFs that came to mind.

Looking at this APNG also seems to result in pretty large files whereas AVIF appears to have by far the best compression.

AVIF looks like the best alternative for sending short meme clips to people, which I assume is most peoples use case for GIFs.

Maybe I overestimated how widespread support for alternatives is. The problem seems to be to be that while most apps will support an alternative, no single format is supported everywhere (xkcd). According to another comment US messaging apps don't support any alternatives, which is enough to keep GIF alive on its own.

That's the way I see it as well. Some distros are going to want to or be forced to comply with the laws, so offering the option seems sensible on systemd's part.
Systemd is not forcing distros that don't want to comply to use the field.

https://codeberg.org/...

Aa far as I can tell The category files contain lists of European sites and the site files below contain either a single alternative or refer to one of the category files.