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metal·Metalbyraptir

Who are your favorite independent metal artists?

While even the artists signed to the major label imprints aren't as popular as some other genres, today's ease of distribution means we have some great independent artists to listen to. What are some you'd like more people to know about?

  • Cauldron Born a cool solo project that puts out some consistently solid US Power Metal. He currently has a new album on indiegogo. Some of his earlier stuff can be a bit rough around the edges so try his newer albums if you're interested.
  • Osyron is a very cool progressive metal group. At least one of the members is active on Reddit.
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framework·Framework Laptop Communitybyraptir

Any quirks to be aware of with Linux on the AMD Framework 13?

My laptop is arriving on Monday and I haven't picked a distro yet. I currently use Debian but that is on older hardware. I'm experienced with a lot of distros so I'm a bit flexible here. I was thinking openSUSE for the sake of the latest and greatest AMD drivers, but I do see that Fedora is officially supported while openSUSE is not. Are there any hardware compatibility issues I could expect?

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arpg·ARPG's: Diablo/PoE/Last Epochbyraptir

FATE is on sale until November 28th

If you aren't familiar, it was Travis Baldtree's ARPG before he worked on Torchlight. You can recognize some of the concepts there like utility pets. It also has a cool loop that you "retire" your character to pass on bonuses to your new character - increased fame and being able to hand down an item that gets upgraded every time you do so.

I'm not saying it beats out Last Epoch or Grim Dawn, but it's a solid old-school dungeon romp.

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linux·Linuxbyraptir

Am I going off the deep end by considering Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite?

I recently switched my server over to running Plex and Home Assistant in Docker. I like the ease of transfer (just move my compose file and one directory where I have stored all the configs and I'm set) as well as the simple permissions management to give access to directories.

I have only used Fedora briefly, but I am considering it instead of my usual openSUSE because it is "officially supported" for the Framework 13 I have on order. I saw the immutable versions and the idea seems cool though I don't really understand what new I would need to learn or really what benefits it would have.

Is the concept overkill for a single-user laptop?

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geforcenow·GeForceNowbyraptir

Taking to a developer about a game that is stuck in maintenance...

Made me realize they don't understand GFN at all.

This is Neocore who developed Warhammer 40k Inquisitor and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing. Van Helsing has been offline for almost a year and the Inquisitor Prophecy launcher is offline (you can still play all the content through the Martyr launcher). I reached out to their support on Discord.

They first responded with "you can't play unsupported games on GeForce Now." Well, yeah, it's supported. Then they said "because it no longer supports the online mode you won't have it on GFN." Obviously BS. Then they went to "well it used to be supported but isn't anymore. We'll see if we can get them to update the listing to make this clearer." I explained that it's supported because they opted in - it's just broken. Then they finally said they won't be able to get anyone to look at it because the game is not supported anymore.

It's baffling that this is the response from a company that has opted all their games into the service.

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diablo·Diablobyraptir

Is blocking broken in Hellfire?

I played a ton of Diablo when it first came out, but never really got into Hellfire. I set it up on devilutionx on my phone and I've been playing a warrior. I keep getting "block locked." I remember that being an issue in Diablo, but not at all to the extent I'm seeing here. As few as three enemies can keep me locked up to where I can't fight back.

Am I misremembering Diablo, or are things worse in Hellfire for Warriors?

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