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I really don’t like killing players, and when I am a player, I really don’t like having my pc killed. That being said, I like the idea of player killing, because then it ups the stakes (theoretically. I’ve never played in a permadeath campaign). Parties would have to think twice about taking on a more powerful foe, or consider running away as a very real option to avoid death, or reconsider doing absolutely stupid shit that will get them arrested and executed. It (again, theoretically) makes the game more realistic in a sense?

But then you’re playing it, and your character you wrote a 3 page backstory for dies because of bad rolls or shitty combat balancing, and now you’re pissed because you really liked playing that character, but the dm isn’t going to rewind time and the party has no way to resurrect the character or at least preserve the body until they do have the means. Or you’re on the other side of this as a DM, and watching a good player get pissed off and quit the table because of it.

wha… but… why?

ooh boy, and I was going to do pop!OS on my main rig thinking mint wasn’t good for gaming.

Been using Mint for about a month now on my daily laptop. It’s nice, not having to deal with windows’ bullshit, but on the other hand I’ve had a number of issues with it; most recently, it sort of reboots itself every so often randomly. That, and issues with not being able to hear high fidelity audio on a bluetooth headset while also using the headset’s mic (there’s a codec that let’s me use both mic and audio, but the audio is low quality).

Usually though issues get fixed with an update, just gotta check the update manager often.

The specific laptop model is HP Laptop 15-fc0025dx. It’s an AMD Radeon graphics card; lspci lists the vga compatible controller as a Mendocino (rev c1), which this link seems to tell me is used in the AMD Radeon 610M. Unsure how to dedicate additional memory to the gpu from the BIOS (still a linux scrub lol), but checking on some dmesg errors reveals there seems to be a recent bug with a link encoder assignment (whatever that means). More details in this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/10811232

I checked the logs. I really don’t know how to use journalctl -e at all, so I’m just going to mention what I found on dmesg. It reported a number of errors, though they were mostly the same. This one came up pretty often:

[drm:link_enc_cfg_validate [amdgpu]] *ERROR* link_enc_cfg_validate: Invalid link encoder assignments - 0x1c

and these two come up a number of times, always together:

[drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring sdma0 timeout, signaled seq=13767, emitted seq=13769 [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process pid 0 thread pid 0

I got an error for the bluetooth a couple times too: Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read codec capabilities (-22), and this other one only came up once iirc: hub 6-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any ports! (err -19)

I don’t think the hub or the bluetooth errors have anything to do with the crashes, so I looked up the first error, the invalid encoder assignment one, and found this thread from a few days ago, though it doesn’t seem to have any solid answers other than rolling back to an older linux. Most recent post seems to be from 2 hours ago lol, I guess this is a really new issue?

yeah you’re correct, it is the login screen and not the lock screen. it just happened again while I was leaving my laptop running and playing music. I’ll run those commands in a little bit, otherwise occupied atm

oh, Europe, yeah that makes sense. see I live in bumfuck America where they’ll tell you to get fucked and then shoot your kid

right, but some people do, and by encouraging this, you’re fucking over your fellow humans.

edit: There are also situations where you don’t have a choice but to buy water bottles. maybe you’re out of your home, your personal bottle is empty, and it’s hot out. maybe you’re at the airport. sure you could drink from water fountains, but what if they’re nowhere near you? or what if they don’t work?

how much of this still applies when the debt is as big as the United State’s current debt? (genuine question)

wrong guy lol. I’m on your side

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)

c5

iirc nitrogen is the best gas for this, as your body doesn’t realize it’s not getting Oxygen and you just kinda fall asleep and stop existing. or maybe I’m thinking it backwards idfk.

obvs don’t test it.

I only just realized my previous comment formatted like total ass, I’m so sorry. I’ll check it out, but it seems like I fucked up the Linux install somehow, to the point where it says “something went seriously wrong” in the BIOS before shutting my PC off. I have no idea what I did wrong since I didn’t even touch the flash drive it was on.

Currently have windows booted to partition my drive and make space for a full Linux install, so I can’t do that command right away. here’s an inxi -Fxz command though from before, does this help any?

inxi -Fxz System: Kernel: 6.5.0-14-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: Cinnamon 6.0.4 Distro: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy Machine: Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-fc0xxx v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Mobo: HP model: 8B2F v: 52.42 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.10 date: 12/21/2023 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 40.8/40.8 Wh (100.0%) volts: 13.0 min: 11.2 model: HP Primary status: Full CPU: Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 5 7520U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen note: check rev: 0 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 4 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 1318 high: 2302 min/max: 400/4384 cores: 1: 1709 2: 400 3: 1428 4: 2302 5: 1510 6: 400 7: 1397 8: 1405 bogomips: 44716 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm Graphics: Device-1: AMD vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 Device-2: Chicony HP True Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 5-1:2 Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1366x768~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: GFX1036 (gfx1036 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.54 6.5.0-14-generic) v: 4.6 Mesa 23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 direct render: Yes Audio: Device-1: AMD vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1 Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_pci_acp6x v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.5 Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.5.0-14-generic running: yes Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes Network: Device-1: Realtek vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-2:2 Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.2 Drives: Local Storage: total: 491.96 GiB used: 6.2 MiB (0.0%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVL4512HBLU-00BH1 size: 476.94 GiB temp: 28.9 C ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB model: General USB Flash Disk size: 15.02 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 3.5 GiB used: 305.5 MiB (8.5%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102 ID-2: /var/log size: 11.82 GiB used: 6.2 MiB (0.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 Swap: Alert: No swap data was found. Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: 20.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 48.0 C Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0 Info: Processes: 300 Uptime: 34m Memory: 7 GiB used: 2.9 GiB (41.5%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.4.0 Packages: 2121 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13

That sounds very reasonable actually. I’ll give that a shot. Thanks!

holy shit that might actually work

edit: I love y’all for helping me so much but I somehow broke tf out of my mint install on the flash drive. I have no idea how. it literally says “something went seriously wrong” in the BIOS and then shuts the PC off when I try to launch the mint OS. gonna do a clean install… again…

oh boy

ok so I’m running a mint cinnamon edge install on my laptop, booted off a flash drive for now. currently, my biggest issue is the mic. Presently, whenever I try to use my mic, it instead takes whatever audio output my system is currently producing (be that music from YouTube or system sounds) and thinks that that is the input. it does not however, pick up anything with my voice. this happens both with my built in laptop speaker and when I connect my Bluetooth headphones and try to use the mic on those.

I’ve fiddled with pavucontrol settings for a while and wasn’t able to fix it. it seems like it’s not detecting my built in mic, saying it’s unplugged or something, but that doesn’t explain why I have the same issue with my headphones.

I’m thinking it has something to do with the fact that it’s a live session from a flash drive instead of a full install on my PC, but I’m hesitant to do a full install without finding fixes for issues I might run into first.

if you can figure something out, that’d be incredible and I would thank you sincerely and owe you one; if not that’s fine, I really don’t know what I’m gonna do other than take the plunge and full install, hoping that’ll fix it