cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/117605

Got bored and made a custom /etc/issue file for my Void Linux machines. It displays a colour Void Linux logo along with kernel version, tty number and date on login. The file is here just copy it to /etc/issue or you can preview it using agetty. Feel free to change it to suit.

Anyone going to Beerfest in Belgrade?

This looks like rather good advice, and I like the comparison to brutalist architecture. It feels like it fits, because so many seem to think brutalist architecture is ugly.

Personally, I like how functional it is; and similarly, functional (if plain) adventures make for good sessions.

It's been some months, and kdenlive is still listed as orphaned. Anyone know how packages become un-orphaned?

Also, if anyone else is having the same problems, this fork worked for me (the missing dependency is glaxnimate.

https://github.com/classabbyamp/void-packages.git new/glaxnimate

Well, it's not new - I've just ported it from Gemini, so it's new to the web.

Hugo compiles the website from Markdown documents. It runs on a raspberry pi, which spends most of its day telling robots that admin.php is not available.

Download the spreadsheet, type in your name, and you'll find a randomly generated spreadsheet.

• Your name becomes a seed for a hash.
• The hash creates a random numbers through modulos.
• The modulos become D6 rolls.

It's taken a few days to make, and the results are interesting - having to put every rule in the game gives a new perspective on the rules.

I'm not a big fan of spreadsheets - TTRPGs feel like a little haven away from the screen. But sometimes in-person play isn't on the cards.

I think a heavily-automated spreadsheet makes a good introduction to a game's rules. You just click on all the yellow-coloured squares, and fill in what you can until you don't have any XP left.

I like how the midnight pub allows people to leave comments at the bottom of articles.

Are there any other gem servers which allow replies don't depend upon coding knowledge? I just do basic hosting on Arch.

I'm hopingt to allow general replies, like geddit.

Looks snazzy AF, but no Linux version yet.

I'm not a big fan off some of the Void Distro-reviews which just show the installer, so I've made a review of how it looks after a few years of daily use.

I've missed out a load of nice features, because it's already a fairly waffly review.

Given the price of art, I've been playing a whole heck of a lot with Machine Learning (ML) images (along with ever other indie RPG designer out there), and the results are bad. This one is Midjourney, which seems to be one of the better generators.

If the problem is just my lack of skill, that still sounds like a problem. If I have to hire a professional, I'd rather just hire an artist.

I'm writing a campaign about Vampires in Belgrade (Hungary) in the year 1230.

Starting with something without too many parts, a young Tzimisce vampire in the story (well, he was embraced young), has a ghouled raven he speaks with.

dark ages boy speaks to raven in the moonlit rain

Oh dear... it doesn't know that human boys are bigger than ravens. So it's beatuful, and enchanting, but doesn't convey information, and the kid looks like 'the little prince', not like a sinister flesh-crafting vampire.

Makin

The artist Vladar's putting together (mostly) generic fantasy map-pieces.

It's CC-BY, so it's open for commercial use. I've commissioned it for my own RPG, but all the pieces should work for anything faintly related to Gygax.

There are more pieces to come, and of course it's open, so if anyone out there can do drawing, feel free to add a wall/ mace/ dead goblin in a new file.

If anyone's into the Classic World of Darkness, I'm translating the Dark Ages core rules into LaTeX so anyone can hack about with them.

Plans (in various stages of completion):

• Include a 'Dark Ages' option, which makes things look like the Dark Ages books, and changes rules, like replacing 'driving' with 'riding', and switching examples.
• Include a 'Vampire' toggle, so that Vampire-specific rules, like Disciplines, or lists of clans, get included just when that toggle's on.
• Add Contest rules instead of Combat rules (mostly done) because I don't like how WoD does combat.

I've always found it weird that WoD repeated the rules for each game. This way, there's no repetition in the writing (just the output).

No idea if I'll have time to finish the project, but if anyone else lives in the small Venn intersection of LaTeX and old WW books, PRs are very welcome.

Dice rolling programs take too long.

Some demand syntax like /roll 2d6+2, and I think 'you should know that 2d6 is a roll without my typing /roll, and also everything I roll has been d6's, so obviously if I type just 3, I mean '3d6'.

So I wrote one with defaults. This is my second python project, so the code isn't pretty, but it does the job.

You write:

""

 undefined

         2d6
    Result: 5


  

d8

 undefined

        2d8
    Result: 12


  

3+1

 undefined

        3d8+1
    Result: 8


  

If you give it a target number (TN), all rolls will tell you whether or not you've reached that TN.

If you give it a difficulty, it'll tell you how many dice have landed on that number or above.

You can input these things in any reasonable format:

tn=18

TN 12

difficulty = 4

dif 9

I set up a new machine with Void, and it took an embarrassing amount of time. I wanted a script to install Void with 1 line of bash from a live iso, so I could look cool next time. Here it is:

xbps-install -S curl

curl https://malinfreeborn.com/autovoid.sh | sh

The idea is to place the script on a public site, execute it, then get the following:

• a full WM
• all dotfiles set up
• all home files

...basically, a full setup.

Results

It's 2 lines of bash, rather than 1, which is less cool.

I remove the need for a password by making the system auto-login to a user in the wheel group. I've tried adding the option to set a variable, password="mypassword123, which would then automatically add that variable as the main user's password, but something's gone wrong there.

The user gets ssh keys pulled from gitlab as a kind of backup.

To Do

And if I sign them after, with git commit --amend -S, will that cause problems for later pulls or pushes with subtree?

I have files marked with a line like this:

date: 2021-01-01

I've been usinng Solderpunk's RSS feed generator so far.

=> https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/gemfeed.git Link

But it only does date by file creation date, which doesn't work for me.

Any gemini RSS feed generators where the date can be drawn from a variable?

Just wanted to share my workflow.

I got a Markdown to Gemini translator at idiomdrottning. A script then uses git subtree to pull those commits in from repos which just have writing.

The main bonus is that the Markdown can have a paragraph split into different lines, which works easier with git.

The end result is I can write in plain markdow, and it'll automatically be presented both in the Gemini capsule, and then on the website, which uses Hugo to render markdown into html.

Since Hugo already uses tags for topics, I got Gemini to recognize those tags. It's made the capsule a little cleaner, since the posts are no longer jumping between Ayer's Logical Positivism and Terminal APIs.

I've ended up adding writing pieces Gemini that I wouldn't put on the web. I'm not entirely sure why - I guess it just feels like it's public, but not too public.

=> Bash script

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Sorry about the last post - I pasted from the wrong clipboard.

Anyway - RPG mechanics for exploration, is that a thing?