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Bimfred

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  • Intel Arc Xe3 Celestial GPU enters pre-validation stage

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  • Fuck yes. I don't have first-hand experience, but by most accounts, the Battlemage GPUs were a huge improvement over Alchemist. If Celestial follows a similar path without jacking up the price, it could be amazing for the average PC gamer.

    How's their driver support on Linux?

  • inspired to find a man to take you for a ride to space

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  • Suppose we'll see. Not unusual to have a long gap between the early launches, lots of data to analyze for the first time. Was 8 months between the first and second launch of Ariane 6, for example.

  • inspired to find a man to take you for a ride to space

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  • Their first orbital rocket, New Glenn, had its inaugural flight earlier this year. IIRC, it performed rather well in the "launch to orbit" aspect, but they lost the booster as it was coming back to land on a drone ship. It'll take them time to iron out the kinks, but as long as they don't scrap the project, I don't see why it couldn't become a contender in heavy lift.

  • 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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  • The basics (getting the OS installed, some initial settings to your liking etc) is quick. Managed to go from "completely untouched build" to "we gaming on Linux now boys" in a couple hours and most of that was waiting for BG3 to download on my 100Mbit connection. Pretty much everything I needed worked right on the first boot. Then again, I didn't have much data to transfer over.

  • Bazzite & wireless peripherals

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  • I found a reddit post from a year or so ago, reportedly Bazzite has drivers for the dongle out of the box. I'm a little more concerned about the keyboard+touchpad combo, since I'd imagine that's not quite a standard device. Fortunately, I give negative fucks about any RGB, so I really don't care if any RGB the components happen to have don't even light up.

  • I think the Krokodil has expired, these demands are literally impossible

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  • Sure, buddy.

  • Trump thinks he humiliated Zelensky. He really humiliated the United States

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  • NATO not expanding eastward was never put to paper. No one ever officially signed off on it, nor was it ever an official decree. It was never anything more than words of appeasement. Russia "agreed to democracy on its doorstep" because they were going through a regime collapse and were a tad preoccupied with preventing the collapse from going further. Even if they had kicked up a storm about it, what were they gonna do? The breakaway nations weren't going to just unpack their bags and stay with the abusive ex cause the ex said they can't leave. Russia would've had to suppress them militarily once again, and they didn't have the resources to do that.

    NATO expanding eastward was because the former Soviet bloc countries wanted it. Because if you've regained your independence (for some of them it wasn't even the first time) from an aggressive neighboring nation, would you not wish to protect it with the means available to you? If Poland and the Baltics believed that, for the first time in centuries, Russia would stop doing Russia things, would they have sought to join? Because the only reason they've been spared Ukraine's fate is that Russia was in no position to execute militarily when those countries were accepted into NATO. And look at us now, thirty some years later, Russia is doing Russia things.

  • Russia Claims New Plasma-Based Engine Could Cut Mars Travel to Just 30 Days

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  • The average velocity across the entire trip would have to be several hundred km/s. Average. Peak velocity would have to be a lot higher, to account for acceleration and deceleration. They're claiming to have built a torch drive that beats the thrust power of all other (currently existing or in early development) propulsion methods by an order of magnitude. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  • Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun?

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  • Because if you launch something from Earth, you inherit the Earth's orbital speed around the Sun. At that point, whatever you launched will just continue to orbit the Sun. It takes less energy to accelerate to a solar system exit trajectory than it does to scrub off all of the excess velocity and end up on a trajectory that intersects the Sun.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief calls out Ubisoft's 'broken strategy': If gamers need to get used to not owning games, 'developers must get used to not having jobs'

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  • Even the Stream version doesn't require Steam. You can just run the executable. A few folks over on Reddit claim they've given the game to their friends just by copying the files from an external drive.

  • SpaceX Triples Number of Rocket Launches in Two Years.

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  • Most of the Falcon 9 launches are for Starlink and are paid for by SpaceX themselves. How is that "the government subsidizing them"? If you want to argue that they're using money they got from NASA to fund those launches, is your plumber feeding their family from you subsidizing their life?

  • PlayStation’s ‘Concord’ Did Not Break 700 Players On Steam On Launch Day

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  • Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

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  • Fingers crossed this woman doesn't end up with a Zydrate addiction. It comes in a little glass vial, you know.

  • It’s official: NASA calls on Crew Dragon to rescue the Starliner astronauts

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  • NASA has the measurements of all their astronauts and Dragon flight suits for Butch and Suni are already made.

  • NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft

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  • It's stronger than aluminium, as well as easier to manufacture and work in less-than-ideal conditions than carbon fiber. Useful traits when your end goal is to build a whole fuckton of the biggest, most capable, fully reusable rockets in history.

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    NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft

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  • Crew Dragon has been solely responsible for the US side of ISS rotations for four years, without incident. 8 successful missions, not counting the privately funded trips. Cargo Dragon has been doing resupply missions since 2012.

  • BioWare spent more than 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC: 'Getting the PC experience just right was crucial to us'

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  • Yep. And if they fail to deliver on the lofty expectations they've created here, the backlash is going to be epic. I don't want to root for their downfall, but.... Imma stock up on popcorn.

  • BioWare spent more than 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC: 'Getting the PC experience just right was crucial to us'

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  • A lot of that time, if not the vast majority, is likely performance testing. That's trivial to automate and can be run across 100+ systems simultaneously.

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  • Because now it's practically a necessity. Before that, you could easily not put a case on your phone, exercise some basic care with it and you would've been fine. None of my previous phones had a case on them. Not a one. Because I don't drop them, I don't throw them and I don't use them for hammering in bolts or whatever. But the camera bump finally got me to put a case on my phone, because the damn thing not sitting flat on a flat surface annoyed me too much.