ProfessorProteus

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[–] ProfessorProteus 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You think they won't simply abandon their children at home anyway? Look at how careless they are about securing their firearms around kids.

[–] ProfessorProteus 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Not every bit, assuming we survive him.

[–] ProfessorProteus 5 points 9 hours ago

I fear that this will lead to so much Intel leaking that it will put War Thunder players to shame.

[–] ProfessorProteus 4 points 1 day ago

It would be great if the entire GOP would be forced to wear it as well, but this is honestly much better than nothing at all, which is what I would have predicted. It's a good start.

[–] ProfessorProteus 4 points 1 day ago

Yes!! And you could kind of cheese the game by pressing both fire buttons in rapid succession (down arrow and 'd' I think). I loved making passes around an enemy's planet and staying just ahead of their defenses, and becoming basically an A-10 Warthog in space. It was kind of difficult since your bullets inherited your velocity so you had to shoot at weird angles 😁

[–] ProfessorProteus 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I spent so many hours as a kid on my dad's Thinkpad playing Gravity Well. It came on one of those "50 Great Games" CDs or something like that. The goal is to claim all the planets in the system, which you do by simply landing on them, then building defenses against your opponents. It's so much fun because your ship has pretty realistic inertia and the planets have actual gravity wells. The AI opponents can be quite difficult and aggressive. Challenging and fun, with great sound effects for the time!

This screenshot is from an Internet Archive page for the game, but I'm pretty sure it's only the shareware version. I gotta check again when I get off work!

Edit: I'm 99% certain it's from this exact CD for anyone interested. I've never been able to find a full version unfortunately...

[–] ProfessorProteus 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Republicans LOVE drinking poop. Pass it on.

[–] ProfessorProteus 12 points 2 days ago

It's time only when it affects their pockets. Fucking leeches.

[–] ProfessorProteus 0 points 6 days ago

I was very confused for a second because of the acronym. It doesn't run well for me, also on a 2070, but it's light years ahead of the open beta, in my experience.

Hopefully they fix all the bullshit that's slowing our machines down. I believe World also had a pretty bad launch, but I didn't play it until Iceborne released. And yeah, World runs beautifully on my hardware as well.

[–] ProfessorProteus 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Please! It would be such a nice improvement!

I want to get out of here :(

[–] ProfessorProteus 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I haven't seen anyone else ask, but I have to know: what's your Linux distro of choice?

[–] ProfessorProteus 3 points 6 days ago

I agree generally, but I have to offer a counterpoint with Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I only just got back into it after bouncing off in 2019, and I wish I hadn't stopped playing. I have a decent-ish PC and it still blows my entire mind when I go roaming around the countryside.

Like Picard said above, in due time this too will look aged, but even 7 years on, it looks and plays incredible even at less-than-highest settings. IMHO the most visually impressive game ever created (disclaimer: I haven't seen or played Horizon). Can't wait to play KC:D 2!

 

Let's assume we're not stopped at a traffic signal.

This is only anecdotal, but I heard once that you're not supposed to stop altogether, rather drive at a slower pace so as to let it pass quickly. The person said what was more important is that drivers don't make sudden changes to their behavior. An EMT driver can more safely maneuver if they don't have to predict what any one knucklehead will do the moment they get close.

If this is wrong or needs clarification, please enlighten me!

 

TL;DR: Have a very expensive laptop and want to make sure I can create a partition on two SSDs in RAID 0 without messing up everything.

Hi everyone!

I'm pretty new to Linux and I'd like to get Mint running on my Windows machine. I used Ubuntu way back in maybe 2010 and I didn't really get why it was so great, except for "holy shit look at the kickass desktop cube!" I also use Arch By The Way with my Steam Deck, but that barely counts as "using" Linux.

These days I'm much more privacy- and FOSS-minded (not to mention more tech-savvy and comfortable with the CLI since becoming a web dev) so I'm ready and excited to take it more seriously. I definitely want to keep Windows on here to keep a more reliable option for playing games.

Now to the meat and potatoes: my laptop came with this storage configuration (capture from the product page): From my limited understanding of RAID 0, the two m.2 drives are used as if they're one, with the data being "striped" across them. Would that lead to any issues when I create a primary partition for Mint? Maybe I'm just paranoid, but the last thing I want to do is ruin my laptop.

Here's what Disk Management shows, in case the additional info. is needed:

I would really appreciate any advice y'all can offer!

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