Well y'all, after a couple of false starts, I have successfully blown away the prior Ubuntu/Windows 10 dual boot setup on my ancient PC laptop, and replaced it with Bazzite. Bazzite is apparently a gaming-friendly flavor of Linux, and looks a lot like the Linux flavor on my Steam Deck.
It took some patience and tweaking, but now the system is successfully booting into the OS. Steam and Lutris are confirmed present. And I'm installing Skyrim as we speak.
The big hilarious question to answer here will be, will I actually be able to run Skyrim? And if so, will I get the same hilariously bad FPS I got without mods? We're talking 8-15fps right around Whiterun, LOL.
@kyonshi Neither had I until I saw it mentioned in a recent toot containing some modern flavors of Linux that folks can consider if they wanna switch off of Windows.
My money's on OpenAI not revealing the name of the actor who voiced their "Sky" product because the actor does not fucking exist, and they just trained their damned product on a sample set of Scarlett Johansson anyway to get around the whole thorny problem of, y'know, paying her.
Money quote: "An AI’s difficult relationship with the truth is called “hallucinating.” In extremely simple terms: these machines are great at discovering patterns of information, but in their attempt to extrapolate and create, they occasionally get it wrong. They effectively “hallucinate” a new reality, and that new reality is often wrong."
STG you guys, if a real actual physical person was regularly hallucinating, you wouldn't trust them to do their job, would you? So why on EARTH is it somehow "better" when it's a computer doing it?!
I'll take "Things I Absolutely Do Not Want My Phone to Do EVER" for $200, Ken.
(And just to be clear, the part I don't want my phone to do is "AI listens to my calls" because PRIVACY IS STILL A THING and I don't need Google or anybody else monitoring every single goddamn phone call I might happen to make. FUCK THAT.)
@RobynGoodfellow just wondered if there was anyone who was all "Eh, who wants to see that sci-fi crap, let's go see Kingdom of the Spiders, that's gotta be a better movie."
My Fallout 3 character is now out of the vault, which means I was able to take some screenshots! And now Kimberly has a playthrough page up.
As noted before, while my site IS primarily an Elder Scrolls playthrough blog (the name of the site IS after all Anna Plays Skyrim), Fallout is going to get its own section just because hey, Bethesda game.
Interested parties can follow Kimberly's playthrough here:
In which Kimberly, child of James and Catherine, grows up in Vault 101; and in which she receives an unpleasant surprise when her father mysteriously disappears.
(This being the first post of my Fallout 3 playthrough, which I will document on my blog even though it's mostly an Elder Scrolls blog!)
Hey Mastodon gamers! My household has been watching the new Fallout show, and I've had Fallout 3 and New Vegas for a while parked on my Steam Deck... but haven't gotten around to actively playing them. The show is making me want to! And I want to start with 3.
However, given the age of the game, I'm wondering if I should set it up for mods on the Deck similar to my Skyrim. Are there critical bugfix patches I should get as mods right out of the gate? I'm thinking of trying to play as close to vanilla as possible, for my first attempt at playing the game. Recommendations for critical mods welcome!