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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I feel with you but I think it also brought some benefits. Finding time to meet up with my friends has become harder and harder with everyone growing up, studying, getting jobs.

    The influx of people during covid catapulted the virtual tabletop solutions ahead and now we regularly play again using foundry vtt since everyone can just sit at home.

    But yeah, online everyone just talks about DnD or Critical Roll it feels like and unless you’re on reddit there’s very few communities left.


  • I’ve played Deus Ex (and the revision mod) and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on Linux without issue. If you’re playing steam games it’s basically just install and play. Especially for old games.

    There’s a website called protondb.com you can check for compatibility. Gaming on Linux is so good now though, I don’t even check anymore before buying games.

    Word of warning though. While modding games running through wine/proton is possible, mod managers don’t usually work or are tedious to set up. I don’t mod too much so I usually just manually install or stick with steam workshop mods.



  • The problem is really down to finding places where you can actually build something like a hydroelectric power plant.

    You need a large area you can safely flood. (No villages in the area or only villages you can buy out the owners of) or a high up lake.

    The area to flood needs to have the geology required to construct a dam safely.

    And finally, the area needs to be pretty high up and have an area below you can direct the outgoing water to.



  • I was actually offered a Bachelor thesis topic by a company to write a test bench for a product in LabView.

    From what they told me and my other engineering experience I’d suggest going with an approach similar to what’s used with HDLs. For unit tests create test benches in the language itself which call the functions you want to test with a predefined input (e.g. from a file) and then analyse and save the output.

    You can extend this to obtaining other information as well, but tbh I’ll bet it’s still gonna be a pain.

    Hope that helps at least a little.





  • Melvor Idle is a great call. The base game is a solid idle game and there’s a load of mods too.

    I did a HCCO12B (Hardcore combat only, 12 bank slots only) run when the game first released.

    Reinstalled the game yesterday and started another HCCO run using the new mod, it adds some QoL and tweaks.

    My only negative about it is that when playing normally, I always feel like there’s a perfect/optimal strategy and I should figure it out before playing.












  • Thanks for the input! The A750 is 254€, the A770 (8GB) is 278€. The extra 24€ won’t break the bank so I thought I’d got with the stronger card.

    I just managed to find a few reputable sites with the 16GB version starting at 385€. Not sure if the extra 8GB RAM are worth it though. I have no real concept of the power difference. It would make the choice a bit more future proof though. I tend to keep my cards for quite a while.

    Do you have any good sources on benchmarks between the 8GB and 16GB versions? I’m not really sure which benchmarks to trust nowadays. I heard some of them skew results heavily in favor of certain vendors.