[admonition]I am no where near a expert in Linux and this guide should be taken with a grain of salt. This guide is meant to be a jumping off point where I point you more in the places of where you should research information about Linux and Arch (I personally recommend the arch wiki), and I am in no way promoting Arch over other distros as I do not want to open that can of worms.[/admonition]   Linux has been becoming a more and more viable operating system for those who spend a lot of their computer time playing computers or doing things you might believe is Windows specific. With the pioneering of Valve's Proton and the improvements made to Wine, you can run almost everything from Windows on Linux. In this guide I am going to go over what you need to do to get into Linux and some advise related to Linux based off my experiences.   Choosing the Right Linux Distribution Linux has a bunch of different options for what you want…

ChatGPT has been really popular lately. After it came out many have worried that it may replace a lot of jobs (like writing articles like this one) but luckily there have been a lot of AI detection services going around and generally, ChatGPT writes really stiffly. That does not mean that you can't use ChatGPT to help you in your next creative project.   What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an AI text generator that is trained to understand and respond using human-like text. This uses data across the internet so it has references and knowledge of almost everything before 2021. This is due to the fact that ChatGPT has read through the entirety of Wikipedia and a lot of other major sources like stack exchange. Coming up with topics ChatGPT is pretty smart and you can ask it to come up with topics for you. You can also give it previous information like other things you have written. While not all of these ideas might not be in your interest, there might be a few…

Some ideas randomly filter in and out of my head. One of them that would not go away was the procedural generation of materials. I wanted to create a way that a computer would consistently generate the same material, with a random name, toughness, sharpness, and some fantasy stats like magic conductivity. The Beginning Starting out I had to define all of the variables I wanted to use. These changed over time, but this is what I have currently: Code snippet of all defined variables. Created in Carbon. I needed a lot of variables that are static. These are all of the lists from prefix to sentenceAddatives.These allowed me to choose random phrases and mash them together for the description generation. Or mash syllables together for name generation.From top to bottom, the variables do: tier alters values to become bigger, basically if something a higher-tier material, it will be better num is currently not in use due to its use being moved to another file (I need to grab the information from the other file)…

With Elon Musk's recent tirade of banning almost every person on the platform has left a lot of people turning to mastodon. Mastodon is not the same as Twitter though. Created as a safe-haven for those who were pushed out of Twitter, Mastodon has a lot more accessibility options and requires knowing more etiquette. Starting with features, Mastodon has a lot of features that help those who might be disabled in some way or otherwise. For example, for each image you upload, you can add descriptive text to explain what the image is showing for those who are visually-impaired. It is considered very important to do so as those people will not understand your posts if you do not do so. Another feature that Mastodon boasts is the content warning. Content warnings allow you to tag posts with certain warnings for those who might be disturbed by them. Generally most every post should have one, because even if you are not posting anything that is disturbing to you, it may be to others. Some examples…