Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

The name:

* Keh (kind of a kyeh sound, from the throat, with a low chest rumble backing it)
* Dry (deh-rai, upper-middle chest inflection)
* See (see or sh-ee sound are interchangeable here, upper inflection with almost a purr or growl backing the sound)

Breaking down the word: the keh sound is "look, see, I see it, there, over there" contextually, dry is "feels like, seems like (to any or all senses), observed like", see (the ground, soil, dirt, towards the ground).

Anyway, I rambled about this before, but to do so again:

We used spoken language somewhere between where a human and bird would speak. There's the phoneme (I guess "mouth sound" is easier to think about there), pitch (what you'd normally feel in your throat and windpipe), but also a third part: grackle or growl from the chest that humans do not use as part of speech. Though singing a word is a close-ish approximation.

Which is why dragon speech is difficult to romanize.

Also it's frustrating to have to use the tools of conlang to have to piece together a language I half remember, with no verifiable sources other than others who may have spoken it, and the supreme lack of certainty I'm getting any of it right.

I already had respect for paleontologists and their attempts to reconstruct what qualified as culture, and that respect has only grown for me over time.

(Also pedantic, color and complexion of soil, since that wasn't earth. But you get what I mean)

Okay so, to their credit, trying to name me "the color and complexion of the earth" is kind of charming, even if it means dirt.

It's funny that the more I learn about language, even ones not sourced from humanity, the more I discover words are generally phonetic mishearings one or two layers separate from an embarrassingly literal meaning. Sort of like how rhino in Norwegian is just "nose horn".

I think that's neat.

How it started: I was a dragon (as best as I can tell), and still have those memories rattling around. Clearly, it was some epic fantasy where I was mighty and all powerful!!

How it's going: I figured out some of the language we spoke, and discovered my name literally means dirt. Also I was brownish-green, not gold. Whoops.

@Aether Also SAI should work with Proton or Wine, so that shouldn't be an issue

@Aether Tbh, I would try a live distribution of the Linux Zen kernel (Garuda is a decent choice) and see what all works. That said, the disclaimers on the surface kernel you posted are notable.

VR is less adventurous than it was a year or two ago. For your hardware, I'd expect it might work out of the box on the Zen kernel.

I will literally sit on call with you sometime if you need to build a custom kernel btw. It's not too scary, but it has knobs to know about.

@Metaph YMMV, but when I found a good creature form via VRC, the dysphoria feels stopped and moved towards wanting to be that comfy shape and be creature around people all the time.

So at least for me, the yearning was accurate and not a grass-is-greener thing.

@mawr If it's one of the x86 MacBooks, fairly easily on the standard build. But might be some special instructions for its peripherals.

ARM MacBooks should work too, though will require a bit more fiddling because of the whole endianness thing. Should work fine with Wine and Proton and whatnot though!