I have one of those minisforum amd hx 370 (the x1 ai pro). Those are very powerful awesome hardware. I use the mini pc as a work computer for 3D and dev on OpenSuse and lightweight low power gaming machine (like long haul Xplane12 flight during the night).

Everything is well made and beautifully built.

As for this NAS version, if money is not an issue I wouldn’t hesitate. 10Gbs, tons of ram, Amd hx 370. It sure is overkill for a NAS, it’s more tailored for a very beefy docker server and/or virtualization station while being a multimedia NAS at the same time.

I built my own synology replacement with second hand itx parts in a jonsbo n3 case, but if I hadn’t or just had plenty of cash to spare, I would definitely go for a server like this one (my use case is NAS + docker + virtualization + eventual game server all in one).

As a side note, the “AI” part is just communication for now, those chips are not yet supported for local LLM on Linux (Windows only atm), they need ROCm support for iGPU RDNA 3.5 and the new AMD NPU integration into those local frameworks (llama.ccp etc).

https://github.com/amd/gaia

It will come for sure, it’s just not ready yet.

Wow wow calm down mister Mérovingien.

Nous ne sommes pas si vulgaire que ça bordel de merde, putain ça me troue le cul cette réputation.

Quitting my job for the end the year, a job that is making depressed and tired.

Opening my own business with blackjack and hookers (for real tho, opening a shop in my city).

Not really, it’s better to check according to situations as the rear view mirror is small and you need to move your head a little to “scan” the area, as well as looking in the bottom left corner of the glasses which is not natural at first.

It is not as instant as a real and bigger rear view mirror so you might still want to look over your shoulder when not sure or in a rush.

But on a long straight line with plenty of time it works great. I’m still not 100% used to it tho as I had a bike accident shortly after buying them that took me off bike for 2 months (unrelated accident, I just got stuck on the tramway rails because I’m too used to city cycling and so, too confident…)

I got a pair of Tri Eye View Sport Photochromatic, that’s probably one of the best equipment I have for biking (with the soft shell for rainy days).

It takes a little time to get used to the rear view mirror but then it’s perfect, and it’s from Europe.

I did a few exploration and chromatic bosses during the story but not going far away the main path.

I didn’t want to be overpowered for the story boss as you can’t enjoy the battle and music when you almost ont shot things. You can even miss lore with some bosses.

So exploring is done now, with Esquie flying and the story done. I can build the cheesiest team I want now without having regrets.

You can easily feel right at home on a Mac with console, homebrew, tiling WM etc. You can find scripts for plenty of things on GitHub.

Before I switched to framework 13, my old MacBook looked and felt like old gnome (with the two taskbars) mixed with i3.

The hardware is good, specially those M* chips, one downside is that with certain languages the keyboard shortcuts are not the same, specially for coding, characters like {[|}] are sometimes annoying to find compared to Linux/Windows keyboard.

Ah the chromatic pink fluffy thing done at level 16. GG

The game systems, graphics, feel, etc are a bit dated. It feels like something from 10-15 years ago.

Graphics??

You can dislike the gameplay and stuff, but the graphics? It’s peak UE5 and well optimized, 99% of the players I’ve seen were making “wow” sounds at the prologue visuals and details, the underwater level and many more.

I haven’t tried low settings tho, I’m playing 4K epic, but graphics are definitely 2025.

The feeling bro! It’s better than touching grass.

Kudos to the players using the swimsuit skin during the Dualiste fight.

It’s a hard one, both are very good and I will do both (first playthrough in French, new game+ in English).

We don’t really know which language is the original one. Plenty would think it is French but the main writer doesn’t speak French and the motion capture for the lip sync was apparently made for English.

But the creator won’t answer on that question, when asked on a French livestream he said “I’ll let you decide which language is the OG one 🤷🏻‍♂️”

So, 🤷🏻‍♂️

Insert why not both meme here

Lumière, Alicia, déchirer la toile, une vie à s’aimer… I have so much little green hearts 💚 next to Clair Obcur titles on my Spotify.

I agree that it is very refreshing to see French inspiration, we are not very used to that in video games and they embraced it to the joke level. The baguette outfit were, quote from Guillaume Broche (CEO & Art director, creator of the project): “A joke we had on our internal discord and it went too far”.

Clair Obscur is an art style, the game takes place in the Belle époque (late 1800s early 1900s) and you can see plenty of references to that time, for example the pattern on the robe of the first flower seller in Lumière, just after the red and white tree.

This time period is never explored in games so that is also very cool to see.

Esquie is the best friend indeed, and he has a perfect French as the voice actor for English and French is the same. But all voice actors are amazing, English and French, it’s funny that you can hear the English ones struggling a bit with the French swearing (they tend to say “poutain” instead of “putain”).

And no, no Tabarnak, this is exclusive from Quebec and very much not a thing in France (or any European French speaking country). It doesn’t really have an equivalent as they use it for various emotions. I’d say it’s the Quebec F word, so the French P word (putain).

The game was made by French from France, so no Belgian or Swiss specific French language, only the one from continental France.

It shows after you meet François, in both languages Esquie says:

• Ahahah François you got smashed
• Ahahah François qu’est-ce que tu as pris cher.

“Prendre cher” is very very French street language and means something like “pay dearly” but always in a bad way. You got hurt doing something stupid? Tu as pris cher.

It started from the city of Lyon I think and like plenty of French slang has Arabic influence, this one being the word “Cheh”.

Cheh is a Moroccan (and probably Algerian) onomatopoeia for “serves you right”, so if I hurt myself being silly, I will hear a little and discreet “cheh” from my Moroccan wife in the other room. One magical onomatopoeia to say “I told you so, that serves you well”.

For French language differences, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Monaco and Switzerland are very close and we can understand each other without strong complications. Same goes with Northern Africa and most of Africa. It’s mostly an accent change and most vocabulary stays the same.

It gets a little bit difficult with the Caribbean French and other far away islands as they often use their own local language mixed with French.

Then you have the final boss, the endgame, Québécois. Oh Canada… You have strong accent + different vocabulary + slang. Dudes from Quebec HAS to make efforts to be understood in France (or Switzerland or whatever) cause we won’t understand them if they don’t 😁

Maybe we could with a little training, but as a famous languages school said in an add: “Time to learn French, because they won’t learn English”

What about it ?

The writing, the characters, the dialogues, the story, everything is new and perfectly done. It is pure art and something like 98% of the 3+ millions players would disagree with you.

But you must be part of that 2%, meh to each their own 🤷🏻‍♂️

Same here, I am in love with that game and I can’t stop listening to the 8h soundtrack or watch YouTube reactions videos of streamers crying in front of it.

Being French probably doesn’t help me from loving it… I finished the story 4 days ago and instantly reloaded my save to explore everything in the end game, unlocking every picto, every skills and Steam achievements.

Those Gestral beach mini games are annoying on purpose as they are a reference to final fantasy mini games. The platform parts are hopefully not very present, and I feel lucky to have killed that chromatic boss you’re talking about on the third try with full parry/counter.

Some few/nice advices, spoiler free but I’ll tag them anyway:

2025: Clair Obscur Expedition 33.

Even if the year is not finished, this game is such a perfect work of art on so many levels that it became the new favorite to me, and to plenty other players.

Yes to all. Programs are run from whatever launcher you want to use, default KDE or another one.

Default Key Bindings

Well that was my main motivation to try KDE, everything is working fine out of the box and is highly configurable/rice-able.

It just needed that tiling wm love. So far I have nothing really bad to say about this configuration. You can have a very i3 feeling by adding gaps, rounded corners, removing title bars, have transparency or blur etc. Or you can do a mix of both worlds to make it easier for the rest of your household (example, having title bars makes the windows movable by mouse. I kept them for my significant other, she hates not being able to choose the windows size but it makes it easier for her to watch YouTube…)

Keyboard shortcuts are configured in kde settings, so there will be conflicts at first between “normal kde” binds and tilling plugin binds, but nothing impossible to change.

I haven’t seen any bugs, my dual screen is working great. I have yet to finish my personalization but I’m at about 80% and it as become my daily driver for working.

I am not certain about your different config by localhost as I now sync the dotfiles and packages across the two pc (laptop + mini pc) which are the same hardware and so, exact same look and feels. When not in laptop mode they share the same dual screens so it makes sense to me.

The only downside I see is that it relies on a community GitHub. The one I linked is the only one I found to be updated. There are plenty of forks or similar projects not updated since 2022.

So unless KDE officially does it one day (and does it well), we have to use community plugins and hope that they stay updated.

Mandatory over compressed screenshot (in night theme and night light cause, well it’s still night… It will transition everything to day at sunrise)

All four, I took those four pills off alcohol abuse.

I was an i3 and sway user but I lapsed to the dark side.

I tried KDE with Krohnkite tilling extension on a new laptop and liked it way too much. It’s slowly becoming my main DE.

It’s configured with i3 shortcuts of course, so there’s that.

I’m surprised your main gripe with places like LA or NY are that they’re too big and sprawling and not that they’re dirty and full of unseemly things like homelessness and drug use

Oh it is as well but I was trying to be somewhat positive.

I think my real main gripe with LA is the immense social fracture between rich and poor. You can see an homeless man with his feet turned black for not having shoes and right next to him a fucker trying to impress girls with his Lamborghini.

Getting to the country side to see normal life and normal people was exactly my goal, just getting to a bar in a small town and making friends because of my obvious French accent. I was there for the social part and the nature sighting (and it was very nice!)