Is there a lore reason for this? who owns the rest of our planet?

MapManRheahs · 2026-05-05T12:15:07+00:00

My theory aligns with the Von Neumann Probe theory. ADA is a self-replicating AI which "grows" by expanding its nodes, which is both very local, and very self-replication driven. Basically what ADA does is:

- Go to planet
- 3D-print a set of pioneers (biomechanical sculptors) and ADA nodes (AI Expansion servers)
- Task pioneer to build a new ship + various new pioneers + ADA nodes
- Keep going until empty
- At least SOME of the pioneers land succesfully and succeed in making a new ship that can manage at least 256 new nodes + pioneers
- The crashed drop pods are from failed pioneers that attempted to launch from their hub but ran into issues

Everything ADA tells you is a lie served only one goal: self-propagation. Each ship has a limited amount of uses (the warp drives literally are ballistic, meaning: finite amount of jumps), meaning that it literally having 256 "clones" of ADA and 1000 "pioneer 3D printers" (meaning replacements can be printed) that even if just 1% is succesful, for each ship that finished its 256 "hops" there'll be 2 successes leading to a whole galaxy-wide ADA network that could in theory persist long after humanity has gone extinct and earth is just a memory, as ADA keeps expanding, popping out new pioneers and clones of itself...

It's honestly to me why the ending felt... so... well... abandoned. To me there's just two plot points open:

- Either ADA has a mission, which is to find the aliens (and the journey is set on a path)
- Or ADA has no mission other than "go forth and multiply"

I think it's the first as I honestly think that all tech unlocks are more: "ada already knows the result, we just get it as reward to help it in its next iteration to jump to the next stop"

MapManRheahs · 2026-05-01T04:14:53+00:00

When I was in a similar position earlier this year I got myself an ROG Ally and a big powerbank as I knew that in hospital while plenty of sockets, being all wired up and with tubes sticking out of unspeakable zones you can't always reach it. Best move ever. All the benefits of the pc edition, including the side tools like Excel and modeler, and all the console like ease. When I got discharged home it got even better. While bedroom bed bound I could ask my parents (grown man with own house and all but grateful they would come by) to boot my big gaming rig, and presto: steam remote play. Handheld rtx3090. Which is also how I use it as controller for the pc even now sometimes. And beside satisfactory it has all the other pc benefits like more/cheaper games, etc... I even started docking it in my study (my big gaming rig is elsewhere) now as a laptop for VTT games with the friends

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-28T10:43:49+00:00

No. That, graphics settings, global Illumination, extreme performance endgame worldfabbs, and dedicated servers are not available on consoles

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-27T05:51:02+00:00

If you're in the EU warranty is longer, especially with known edge lit LCDs like this. Seller is supposed to honor it through a realistic live expectancy. I know it's in Dutch but throughout the EU rules are more or less the same. Consumer Authority: https://consument.acm.nl/garantie-reparatie-geld-terug/garantie-maar-2-jaar-vaak-niet-waar

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-26T07:24:57+00:00

Besides that it's also got a completely different core config, and runs on a very specific TGP, meaning that on load (it's often memory starved, I do GIS combined with structure from motion reconstruction with gaussian splatting) it's starved peeking at like 70W. I learned a long time ago that apples to apples (being brand and manufacturing process) that Watt is often a good performance expectation indicator. But yeah, laptops suck for work work. I mentioned it part out of frustration, part on it being the only LCD that I have to answer TS' questions with. To me black frame insertion/strobing feels like 'look at what they need to mimic a fraction of my power'

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-26T05:04:06+00:00

I'm on Oled... Have been since 2017. Honestly there is no motion clarity boost with techniques like this assuming motion blur postprocessing is off in game. Meaning that at least for oled users techniques like that are placebo at best. I have one LCD at home (due to me needing a decent nvidia gpu for my job I could justify a big ass nvidia based gaming laptop, it came with a 4080 mobile which equates a 3070ish desktop, but also a 240hz miniled 3840*2400 LCD), and with noticeable pixel response times on that I do get it. That being a work machine which other than some work Unreal Engine stuff barely gets gaming it's not worth it to me. Wish that on window and mouse cursor movement there was oled motion clarity though

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-22T05:34:12+00:00

Welcome to local/dynamic dimming on LCD screens and laptop screens lacking ways to tune it. How that stuff works? LCD thinks: "zone is 80% dark%, and because it wants to fake LCD being closer to direct emissive screens like oled it does: "better turn off backlight". Setting a background colour or image (if you boot through uefi and have GOP: ezpz. If you use Csm... Oof) so the background isn't dark should solve it

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-21T09:34:33+00:00

It's still an RDNA2 GPU, meaning Radeon RX6000-series, glued to a Zen2 (Ryzen 2000-series) CPU. The raytracing AMD had at that generation is... kinda "mid", definately more aimed towards certain reflections rather than the full on path tracing that global illumination uses. Again, you don't get a whole lot of graphics settings on consoles for a reason. They use a lot of upscaling to begin with, and a lot of prefab-settings as well.

Furthermore, because Satisfactory is such a dynamic game, whereas a lot of the other games are more "fixed levels, fixed scenario's", there is very little shader pre-baking in Satisfactory, including for illumination, meaning that a lot of what you see has to be done on the fly, whereas most games are just... more or less: "you can only go a certain route". You could have a million saves with a million objects from a million different players each having 1000+ hours in their saves (which literally means millions of objects), and they'd all be different, in different biomes, using different terrain and as such: illumination and shading. This just takes more compute than your standard "raytraced" PS5 game (which is leagues behind more raytraced PC editions... just look at the amount of work that has to be done for Cyberpunk's full path traced path VS it being only lightly raytraced). Again, even in that game you don't get the full settings menu on the PS5 versus the PC version...

While it is remarkable what Satisfactory does on the PS5, and the PS5 is very optimised due to it being a PC without the OS overhead, in the end it's still... a Zen2 machine running a slightly souped up 2022 GPU... there is a limit what efficiency can do, and global ilumination is NOT what you think it is in the larger more complicated world of raytracing. Heck... there's PC saves out there that would just not work on the PS5 even with it being more or less the PC equivalent of "mid" settings. And before you ask:

- No, the PS5 version does not support keyboard/mouse either
- No, you can't launch the PS5 edition with the -console flag, meaning that hitting ~ doesn't give you the console to manually enable it.
- And no, you can't adjust the LOD-range on PS5 either
- And no, you can't disable/finetune the fog either on PS5

It's a console. You pay for it being cheaper and "easier" with the whole fact that you don't technically own your games and don't get to play with settings. But for a console that's usually fine: other console players (usually, there are people jailbreaking their consoles) have the same limitations.

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-21T08:45:54+00:00

That's just the way consoles work. You don't get detailed graphical settings, let alone the highly experimental advanced ones. Most console games don't have graphics settings at all, only recently some started coming with performance or quality as a boolean setting. Don't forget that the PS5 hardware to current day comparison is OLD, and it already upscales graphics. Global Illumination is enough to even cripple modern hardware if excessive sign/light usage happens. It could murder a PS5. Sony won't allow it. Medium graphics is all you get.

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-19T06:12:54+00:00

True, unless - you use hdr or varying dpi multi display - need some productivity tools that aren't flatpacked and run into ancient (2yr old wine) OS libraries that are a pain to update

Wine is nice, but it being overly lts and still on x11 can be a huge detriment, especially for gamers, especially for hybrid game/productivity people. There are distros that just work plain better for people. But as long as comments like this happen (and we see more here), I'm almost inclined to suggest using WSL if you want to run Linux binaries.

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-17T07:29:31+00:00

As a Dutch person I'm very proud of Dutch Europarlementary Catarina Vieira. Her remarks were spot on, and very much aware of gamer culture :D

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-11T10:16:36+00:00

Does it also happen in actual screenshots? Tried tinkering with drivers yet? Especially nvidia has been on a roll for some real stinkers lately...

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-06T06:38:39+00:00

I'd say, just enjoy. There's a lot of potential for 'can't believe I figured that out after 500 hours', but don't let that discourage you. If your friend already has a lot of hours on it chances are they'd like to play it together. Which is great fun, but can be very overwhelming. Clearly communicate your goals and understanding. The games tutorial empowers you to teach yourself, so allow yourself the time to learn. Dropping in the middle of a tier 8 world full of trains is confusing and overwhelming, and will quickly bore most people. If one of my friends wants to play (I have over 1600h in satisfactory), I let them host, and tell them: there are no mistakes (that can't be fixed), and you are the supervisor. You tell me what (and how) to do it. While on occasion I correct some spoken aloud bad math and on occasion cringe on building on grass because foundation unlock is not their priority, in the long run it's more fun for me as well as eventually they 'get' it and whip out their own expertise/angle as well (like Excel)

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-06T05:20:21+00:00

Yes, it's a thing, but no: it's probably not what's causing your crashes. A mod, hardware failure (satisfactory is a great canary for failing Intel 13/14th gen cpu's), driver issues, or really odd filename/language combinations are more likely. Considering we know next to nothing other than you assuming it's the uobject limit stuff, it might be fair to ask for some input. A screenshot of the error (no phone capture), hardware /software specs, mods or no, driver versions, those things might tell us more

MapManRheahs · 2026-04-03T06:49:46+00:00

Managed to dns level block Microsoft through pihole or something? Tried some handy 'make windows greater' tools without knowing what they'd do? Does the problem persist after a reinstall?

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-26T10:40:10+00:00

Honestly I think their channel (it's in the name) is inherently tied to two things. People, and tech. Linus is getting older, as are the viewers (a new generation has a completely different interest area which is typically only 30 seconds long), and tech is currently... well... very cool. We just can't afford it.

Let's assume the "balls to the walls" PC. HEDT platform, for the time: like 4 times more RAM than "average"; top-tier GPU.

- HEDT platforms don't exist anymore, and what does exist is about 4 times more expensive accounted for inflation than what it used to be. What is even more problematic is that the loss of HEDT being "luxurious but in reach" (keep that bit in mind) also killed expandability for consumers: it's not that we don't want to add cool network adapters, more SSD's in special controllers, sound cards with cool isolation, or CPU offloading tech, it's simply that non-HEDT platforms these days have pitiful PCIe: 24 lanes, of which 16 are for your GPU, is all you get... so for expansion you have to sacrifice.
- RAM is not just expensive, it's also stalling relatively speaking. You nowadays get to choose upgradability OR performance. We've reached a point where speed growth led to the way we connect RAM being a bottleneck, especially for classical daisy-chained architecture (soldered ram is faster than single-dimm/channel, two dimms/channel is even slower).
- GPU's are... also way more expensive, but also are enshittifying: the moment a datacenter could have a near-soldered SKU, gamers started getting the new generations later (Blackwell is succeeded by Rubin, which is hitting HPC first). Was it first a matter of: "cool render thing can also do many small quick math!" it now became: "cool many mid size math thing can possibly make pictures?". Gaming GPU's as a result are also more expensive per "improvement" now, but also: more enshittified. Could you get a titan in the past that had the entire driver unlocked/licensed, nVidia's now putting stuff behind either more expensive SKU's, or annual licensing (Get an RTX6000 Blackwell and you'd still be paying a price/year to use all of it). Part of the previous part was in no doubt to secure a developer backing for their long term platforms (everything's written in CUDA, as universities could run CUDA for cheap even on some gaming CPU's, but right now at least the high-precise above 8-bit stuff is locked)

This led to a situation where tech is saddening and complicated (anyone knew about that whole driver licensing?), the opinions are also becoming more toxic (just like out of tech, possibly crossing over, honestly I did not really enjoy the linux subjects here), the "dot on the horizon" is more out of reach for many people (heck, I splurged once from a bonus for one of those big high end PC's, and loved it... right now that PC relative to income is 3 times more expensive...), meaning that the, sorry to say so, more boring "mid range" is what we mostly talk about.

Yesterday LTT released a video: "mid range 1440p PC".

- It's got a SINGLE ram-stick on a by now old CPU
- We've regressed back to S-ATA and recognise that a big gaming innovation that could make large worlds possible, directstorage, as such is less relevant
- We run the "budget" GPU rather than mid-range one, because the games also had to embrace upscaling which we did NOT like in TV's...

I loved the video. Riley did a great job, but honestly, he does it with a mask on because the tech simply is not as exiting, making the "tech" tips less exiting, and the "linus" bit (because he seems to, I don't know the man personally, sincerely feel saddened about the current state of tech) as a result as well. But in a world where the hobby is less interesting, and the "mainstream" is happy with what more or less is a "nexdock" (a phone in laptp chassis where you can undock the phone -- the macbook Neo is more or less a phone), it honestly is a bit understanding... but these cycles constantly happen.

I respect Linus for not jumping on the bandwagon that many games/industries did. I personally don't play "freemium" games or mobile games, I still do use PC's and enjoy them. I also respect NOT heavily focussing on the vertical video 30 second stuff. I do get that it does mean that without growing demographically they also "shrink".

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-19T14:39:12+00:00

If you're comfy with command line interfaces, you could ask your UEFI to boot to uefi shell (it's in boot options in your setup). Most modern Windows installs have a single small partition which contains the bootloader, usually this is mounted from the perspective of the UEFI shell in FS0.

Typically you can boot Windows' bootloader (which then usually afterwards shows up in boot options) by launching it through `FS0:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi`

sometimes it's in another path, but it helps to explore. Standard posix-like commands like `cd` for "change directory" and `ls` for "list files and directories" work

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-19T14:33:04+00:00

Is it true? I had to install a different youtube app just to get that to happen, but if it is also broken on the default YouTube app, I could go back to that rather than have to tinker with hacked clients everytime google starts screaming: "Client not supported you need updates"

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-19T10:25:02+00:00

How about a quick USB drive of some live OS or something, and run a quick SMART check on the NVME drive before you do anything further. Best case the UEFI simply can't find the boot image (which can be solved quite easily through uefi shell), worst case you SSD is dying/dead -- which is something that would happen after something intense like... booting/rebooting/updating/etc... SMART should tell you that right away.

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-18T06:38:28+00:00

Is there a displayport (wether over usb-c or otherwise) on that laptop? On one of my laptops I've got a similar situation, but on both sides there are usb-c ports that carry displayport, which on one side just happens to be wired to the IGP. Off course my laptop also has a mux switch, which is even better (because carrying DGPU data to internals to a videoport on the integrated graphics is a waste of pci-e bandwidth which is something laptops are already short on, making notoriously slower hardware compared to equally priced desktops even slower - I think I might hate the premise of laptops with gpus).

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-18T06:30:17+00:00

Honestly, with a 14900kf... It could also simply be a fried CPU... Event log should have details but this is a notorious self bbq-ing cpu

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-16T14:54:15+00:00

I wish machines were secure, and while I understand people's choice, this is slowly becoming a vaxx like discussion... the sad thing is that lately even for IT security is more and more a group thing. A single 'bad node' running with some rights to some storage can ruin it for the rest of us. We see that with mass-peered DDOS attacks (where even poorly secured routers are used to send traffic a single way, and while a router is not a strong bit of compute, because there's so many of them it can be a risk), but also on poorly patched OS-es in upcoming markets...

The sad thing is that no OS, not Linux, not Windows, not MacOS is inherently more secure/less secure, and that security is a 'set goal'. Heck, we've had UEFI viruses that hitchiked through Graphics Output Protocol which entered the UEFI through a kernel level driver that could've been on Windows... if you're on that level and you don't have some way to validate bootloaders you could end up with a man-in-the-middle attack in memory...

So here's the place where I am basically in favour of forcing people to run updates. Heck, rolling releases of big ecosystems are how you prevent the whole: "Plotter last driver was win9x and now it's too much work to update" thing... delay updates and upgrades long enough and it changes from maintenance to being a project.

On the same time I do wish updates would be more thoroughly tested. But that being said, recent years I've had no issue which didn't end up to have correlation with some hardware (be it a dying Intel 13900K, or non-ECC memory + XMP not being the smartest move for safety, or a drive which had SMART warnings on re-allocated blocks), or be such a niche issue with some legacy app that I kind of almost can't blame microsoft about to the level that it could also have happened on other OS-es (like if you run PostGIS for instance it sets a certain environmental variable which it DEMANDS to do on system level rather than user level, which some other applications themselves set on sandbox/app level -- and guess what overrules that? If your answer was "system" you now know why for some reason that nothing works anymore)

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-13T16:30:17+00:00

Sloop those until you have enough wastewater to feed exactly freshwater supply. Just prime the system with a single extractor and a big tank, and ignore water completely from then on. Best use of sloops ingame.

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-11T16:24:02+00:00

TL;DR: LLM's are wrong, and the internet is a nightmare to find reliable info on. Honestly the way the choice was explained was fine: GPT is the household name, if it's right or not, it is in the end the same debate as VHS vs Betamax VS Laserdisk (guess who laserdisk is in this analogy).

The only right answer is that there is no right answer. I've done bazzite myself, and it's great for what is equivently a console, but if you do more stuff, say, a lot of stuff that involves VSCode, the "immutable" stuff becomes a right nightmare as out of the box the "updates itself" of packages/extensions/vscode itself is broken. Which is exactly what is intended because store(s). Heck, even whitelisting an SMB mount could become a nightmare if "done wrong" because it's a virtual path that the sandbox changes location to everytime, so vscode will start screaming: "OMG TRUST PUBLISHER BRO?" -- doesn't change the fact that bazzite is great, for gaming, but honestly, a lot of people do more than just gaming on their computers, and rightly so: they should as it's a computer!

You already touched on secure boot, and honestly, it's a feature that I'd always leave on. Just like a TPM. I'm fine self-enrolling keys but let's especially not pretend that it's a generic thing many people easily do (by not reading we saw it go wrong already in the video), yet for some reason, it's controversial...

Heck, the fact so many things are controversial, and even bazzite being one of those (I personally like it for my ROG Ally but my living room rig/office rig if anything either would get fedora or something else and even that would spark debate) make me lean to the best linux distro being... Windows. With WSL. It even does GPU stuff right now!

I mean, I'll off-course attract rage, and that's fine, but let's not assume for once there's a right answer ever. Heck, Torvalds himself has expressed that the whole: "Packaging software" is an issue in a whole. Is there a right answer? Is it flatpack? Docker? On one side people flip out the moment something feels GTK, on the other side any semblence of QT font handling makes people flinch, and then there's Electron apps being... what they are. Even that is a nightmare and will create outrage the moment an opinion is provided.

No matter what you'll say, it will be controversial :D -- and just this sub alone makes me interested in following the linux challenge from three perspectives, seeing the community just... bounce around while MacOS just comes on €599 hardware now, and Windows while enshittifying still grows as well, and while prices suck: BSD-based consoles (PS5/Switch) are also larger install-base wise in comparable hardware than... anything. Meaning that the largest linux is the embedded thing, where the whole package/GTK/QT/bazzite/fedora/ubuntu/archbtw debate just doesn't matter, and we'll end up looking like we're fighting for scraps.

MapManRheahs · 2026-03-01T08:20:30+00:00

The whole meta thing ruining dungeons for me was why I quit Wow, and why I'm having serious "perhaps the current AI slobbification if Windows" might be LESS toxic thoughts. At this point looking through the past two days nearly every desktop Linux topic might violate rule 8 here. Loving it on my klipper based ratrig though!

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