Not sure if Discovery has ever been on the ground in Texas but I'm pretty sure its flown over the state at some point.

I had a dual boot Win 7 Pro, Devuan 3 system for awhile. Each OS had it's own harddisk and both were bare bone minimal installs. I had manually shutdown every background Windows processes I could to eek out the best performance I could when running Windows. I didn't even have any active antivirus running on it as I only used it for FF XIV. I'd run an offline scan of the partition every week and would reset the partition to a clean image every couple months when FF XIV got an update. The Linux boot was just a base OS install and no thrill's desktop GUI (was and still use TDE) and no special effort to optimize it for my games, it didn't need it.

At the time I used Linux for about 99 percent of my application and games that either had a Linux native or I could get working with WINE. I was at the point I only kept the Win 7 install around so I could play Final Fantasy XIV. At the time I just could not get FF XIV to work on my Linux system, Turned out it was partly a driver issue

Once I upgraded my GPU and managed to find some updated and usable instructions on setting FF up on WINE I was able to get FFXIV running on Linux. I noticed that FFXIV ran smoother and had higher FPS when I was running Linux/Wine than when I ran the game on Windows.

I stopped using the Windows install completely shortly after noticing that. I still have the old Win 7 HD on a shelf. Considering the FF XIV doesn't run on Win 7 anymore I'll probably install Linux on the HD when I get the motivation.

I still play FF XIV and even with the updated game engine and graphics update I still get great performance on my Linux desktop.

Of course this is only based on my casual observation and not some serious benchmark testing so take the above as you will.

So lets see ...

Less than a week ago MS made a big announcement about how Windows was going to be the #1 gaming platform

And now they are trying to Embrace Steam's users. Soon they will start Extending the Windows Xbox app to make Steam unnecessary and Windows/Xbox app essential.

Then Steam will start to have mysterious issues on Windows systems that will make the Xbox App the preferred choice among Windows shee, uh, Users.

Gates may be long gone but the corporate culture that he created in Microsoft still thrives, and is still upholds his values, or lack thereof.

Thank Goddess for Lutris, WINE, and Glorious Eggroll for his customized WINE/Proton builds that let me play my favorite games on Linux. Steams Proton is great too :)

which device?

A quick search of the default Debian/Devuan repositories turned up;

ares - Accurate multi-system emulator
cen64 - Cycle-Accurate Nintendo 64 Simulator
desmume - Nintendo DS emulator
dolphin-emu - Gamecube and Wii emulator
fceux - all-in-one NES/Famicom Emulator
libmgba-dev - Game Boy Advance emulator (development files)
nestopia - Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom emulator
yuzu - Nintendo Switch Emulator
zsnes - Emulator of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Might not be 100% the case but still make a good point.

https://xkcd.com/2347/

You know that The Mouse will try and put this down as hard as they can.

Everytime I read about how GM is now trying to jump on the EV car market after they and the oil companies spent so much money and effort in the mid 1990's to kill the electric car.

GM had an electic car sure it only had a range of 80-175 miles with batteries available at the time but given that there was a demand for it and for most drivers even 40-60miles a charge would be enough.

Add to that that Li-ion batteries were just becoming available, those got waylaid by the oil/car companies too, GM could have been a leader in the EV market but instead they did everything they could to shoot the entire concept down. And ended up giving Toyota and Honda an advantage by removing US domestic EV competition when the Prius was introduced.

Now when I read stories like this one I just laugh it up at GM's expense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You will not be missed.

Only time I've ever opened Pocket was by accident.

seriously.

Note to editors/submitters: please try and remember that not everyone knows everything you do. If we did there would be no point to posting the articles in the first place.

Thank you.

What sort of burden of proof does Nintendo have to meet to brick your gear?

A vulnerability from 2018 that is still unpatched? ROTFLMAO

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so actual fusion events for 22 minutes?

The article isn't really clear about that small detail. Actual fusion events for 22 minutes, even if the net energy was still less than Q is an impressive feat. Just holding temperature is nice but mostly "meh"

Could someone who knows more about the details chime in on this please?

If my 18 year old niece can manage to successfully install and configure Debian with a Cinnamon desktop on her Lenovo laptop it is probably safe to say that more people than you think would be able to manage it now. She downloaded the iso, imaged a USB thumb drive and installed it on her own, including the proprietary firmware needed for her laptop's WiFi chip set. The install scripts for most of the well know distros make it all so easy you don't really need to be very tech savy to get it done now. All the instructions needed to install GNU/Linux on any hardware capable of running it are on the respective distro's web sites. Anyone who can't manage it should probably not be using a computer in the first place.

Only help I gave her was a quick overview of the *NIX directory structure and how every device is treated as a "file" by the OS. And some pointers about some command line stuff she might find helpful, simple stuff like lsblk, ps, pstree, and a few other basic utils. Total of about 20 minutes effort on my part.

She also installed WINE and has most of her music editing software running already too.

As to the learning curve from Win 10/11 to one of the various desktops available for Linux or BSD it is about the same as going from Win 7 to Win 8. Anyone who managed the Win 7 => 8 transition probably won't have any problem with it.

So how will travelers prove they are not actually the wanted terrorist that the face id scans claim them to be without some other piece of internationally recognized id?

Automated facial recognition has it's place but until they are 100.00000% accurate I'll keep my paper passport thank you.

No to mention I like to look back at all the entry stamps/visas I've collected in my passports over the years from time to time.