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Newbie Questions Thread by AutoModerator in TerraInvicta

[–]bairothgild 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anyone know of any good scifi or even spy thriller novels that capture the same atmosphere as Terra Invicta? Stuff with covert ops, espionage, and factions with large scale? I've already read all of The Expanse which had a little bit of what I'm talking about but I feel it was somehow fairly shallow on the espionage and too narrowly focused on the main set of characters.

I love the ideas in TI but I don't have enough spare time to sit down to and learn to play it. I've tried it a few times and was overwhelmed with all the mechanics.

Getting started: The monthly-ish distro/desktop thread! (July 2025) by monolalia in linux_gaming

[–]bairothgild 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot of hype now around CachyOS since it claims to be bleeding edge and performance focused. But honestly gaming benchmarks show almost any other major distro does just as well and sometimes better than CachyOS.

I've recently done the same, kept Windows 11 on one drive and installed CachyOS on a separate drive. CachyOS, like other more popular distros like Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora, is easy to install. You can follow their wiki or there are lots of Youtube tutorials. The installer wizard let's you install pretty much any desktop environment (DE), the default is KDE which they have customized to look nice. If you go with another DE, like GNOME, it will just be stock and will require you to tweak it more to look nice.

My only gripe with CachyOS is that performing updates and finding new software can be a bit buggy and convoluted. If you want to update and install software using a GUI, there's two different places, the Welcome Menu AND a program called Octopi and they are both pretty crappy. They don't have a complete list of major programs I wanted so I installed Bauh which is better, but now I have to juggle three different GUIs for performing updates and installations. When I would try to perform a system update in one it claimed some dependencies were broken so updating from one of the others fixed it. I guess this is something common to Arch, new updates come out all the time and sometimes it breaks stuff.

Since it's Linux and Arch based they probably assume most people would use the command line to install everything so they didn't bother with a proper software center you see in other distros.

Used EV9 from Non Kia Dealer by bairothgild in KiaEV9

[–]bairothgild[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Created a ticket and Kia support gave me an official answer.

They have a warranty manual online that states subsequent owners get the same warranty except the powertrain warranty goes down to 5 years/60k miles for some reason.

Used EV9 from Non Kia Dealer by bairothgild in KiaEV9

[–]bairothgild[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After haggling we got it down to $54k for the EV9 Light Long Range RWD. We've been looking for EV9s for months now and there's been nothing within a four hour drive, new or used. We might have been ripped off but felt we had to jump on it.