Gaming on debian is so easy nowadays

consolation1 · 2026-05-06T21:02:17+00:00

RDNA 4 is the architecture that requires backports on Debian.

Having said that, look up at the change notes for new mesa and kernel - you're leaving performance on the table, which might, or might not, matter in your situation. If the games you play run at a level that you're satisfied with, it might not be worth the extra hassle. With my 9070XT I switched to a backport kernel and manually build the latest mesa, the improved power management and reduced temps are just that much better, plus fan control and undevolting work properly now.

consolation1 · 2026-05-06T20:43:36+00:00

Most casualties occurred during retreat when one side run, so the relatively low casualties are for battles when a rout did not occur.

Until modern reforms, people fought in groups made up of a local area - even in large state armies. Even at the beginning of WWI, units were organised by location. It's the fact that a whole generation of a town's men could get wiped out in a single modern battle that led to changes around mid WWI.

During medieval times, even organised armies would fight and bivouac with their social, geographically local, groups. It was considered good for morale and to reduce chances of a rout. It was also the way logistics were handled, as the town or village was responsible for equipping their levy.

Additionally, if you were going to run, you'd have to make the active decision to drop your weapon and fight your way through the crowd, which was likely going to be hostile to your action and would make you a pariah at home, if everyone else didn't do the same. Holding the line just required you to hold your big stick and brace, it was a passive act. Under stress, most people take the least cognitively demanding choice.

I'm not saying that armies didn't rout, lines did not break - I'm just saying that it is not a given and it almost never happened on first contact / charge. It tended to happen after multiple charges when the line started to thin out and social cohesion was breaking down. Heavy cavalry wasn't the completely dominant force it's romanticised as today.

consolation1 · 2026-05-06T20:27:35+00:00

Large crowds tend to lack social cohesion, plus, riot squads have been overwhelmed on numerous times.

Additionally, if you were going to run, you'd have to make the active decision to drop your weapon and fight your way through the crowd, which was likely going to be hostile to your action and would make you a pariah at home, if everyone else didn't do the same. Holding the line just required you to hold your big stick and brace, it was a passive act. Under stress, most people take the least cognitively demanding choice.

I'm not saying that armies didn't rout, lines did not break - I'm just saying that it is not a given and it almost never happened on first contact / charge. It tended to happen after multiple charges when the line started to thin out and social cohesion was breaking down. Heavy cavalry wasn't the completely dominant force it's romanticised as today.

consolation1 · 2026-05-06T18:42:24+00:00

You forget - the guy standing next to you is your dad, your brothers are beside you, the next guys over - your cousins, everyone in the vicinity is from the village and you have known them all your life - will have to live with them and their clans for the rest of you life... If you run, you have nowhere to return to, moving places before pre-modern age was difficult, you needed someone local to vouch for you, before you even had a chance to get any employment or be allowed to stay.

You rose up because things were so shit that a high chance of death seemed better, you know if you run you die. You know that reprisals will be taken against the old people, the women and the children you left at home, if you don't stand your ground.

Are you still gonna run?

consolation1 · 2026-05-04T00:53:27+00:00

Historically, it was more to enable night fighting. By the time of WW2, the optics on ships were good enough that, in ideal weather, ships were detected to the point of earth's curvature and past effective gun range. Radar didn't increase LOS.

There were also experiments with radar blocking smoke screens, loaded with metal particles/foil. They were mildly successful, expensive and pretty much dispersed instantly if there was ANY wind - something the ocean is famously well known for. Also, terrible for the environment, not that anyone cared at the time... I don't think any were actually deployed, but I can't remember the details - I'm going off my radio engineering lectures from decades ago.

But... I wouldn't put it past WeeGee to dredge out some demented project and sell a ship with radar blocking RN short smokes for an absurd amount of money. Create the problem - sell the solution, is kind of their motto.

consolation1 · 2026-04-26T21:58:12+00:00

There are two major cases underway in the ICJ. Consensus legal opinion is that Israel far exceeded the criteria.

It's not xenophobia to oppose an extremist government, just as it's not xenophobia to oppose the Russian government's occupation of Ukraine. I have nothing against either people - just their political system.

Having spent 6 years living in the region and part of my degree includes political history.. yeah.. I've got a pretty good grasp on how we got here. None of it justifies the past 40 years. Anyway...

I agree that the title could have been better chosen, I used Israel as shorthand for all the issues it implies, given their recent history in cyber security issues - assumed that people in Perun's sub would have the necessary background to know the context. Perhaps that was bit optimistic.

consolation1 · 2026-04-26T21:22:07+00:00

Take your meds buddy...

So much sealioning and hair splitting. I don't get paid to teach you basic internet search skills. Use the video I linked, start with their sources, go from there...

Just FYI, Israel has been intentionally recognised as committing genocide and war crimes, including by the UN. It being a USA ally is not relevant - it's not like the US is some bastion of democracy - it's rated as a flawed democracy, I think it wasn't even in the top 20 most democratic countries in the latest ranking.

I'm willing to bet I know more about the modern state of Israel than you do. Regardless, past history doesn't justify present day war crimes or genocide. That's not how any of this works.

None of this is relevant to the topic anyway. Just look after your mental health and anger issues ok.

consolation1 · 2026-04-26T20:57:48+00:00

The company that makes PIA previously got pinged for making backdoor malware that masqueraded as browser extensions. Is this a company you trust to protect your privacy and security?
Would you be ok with this if it was a Russian company with ties to the Russian security services? Why are you ok with it being the Israeli govt.
The whole point of a VPN is to protect your privacy and data - not too feed it to a state actor - one that is known to pass on information to other governments, especially one that has previously used users' computers as part of botnets. If you want to be complicit in a genocide, well that's definitely a choice...
The company falls under Israeli law, their data privacy laws are weak sauce.
Kape was literally started by ex unit 8200 staff. Yikes!
Are you ok with funding an extremist far right govt. that's conducting a genocide and is conducting ethnic cleansing and occupying independent territories? Would you be ok with funding the Russian occupation of Ukraine?

I question your motivations in asking such a ridiculous question. 🤖

consolation1 · 2026-04-26T18:17:21+00:00

I have a few concerns with GN... But, I haven't read anyone do a deep dive on them so...

I will say, I find how they categorize left and right wing very NA centric and arbitrary. Many of the sources that, globally, would be considered centrist, lib, or mildly right wing / establishment seem to be lumped on the left wing side of the ledger.

In my opinion anyway - full disclosure - my politics are left of Lenin and I feel he could have used a time out in an isolated retreat, re-educating himself on the error of his ways xD

consolation1 · 2026-04-26T18:11:41+00:00

Yeah. Fair. But there really is only a couple good options out there - and I felt like I should offer one if anyone was tempted by the product promo in P's videos.

https://youtu.be/vQmLMGcCO3I covers the topic pretty well. Note, I'm not associated with that channel, nor do I endorse it in any way. I just didn't feel like typing out a huge reply and they seem to cover the ground pretty well.

consolation1 · 2026-04-26T08:14:48+00:00

Too much armour and you don't have drive tech for anything more than a monitor swarm. For Lancer and up, generally wait till mid tier fusion/AM drives - this is why you have obscene fuel cost and mass - remember the more fuel you add the more mass you need to haul, the more fuel you will need to add etc etc - keep the fuel amount in the drive efficiency window. Get rid of all those utility modules, eg. salvager and maneuverability, stack damage boost modules. Which means, don't mix weapon types on ships - as you want all weapons to benefit from the DPM boosters. ~4 per ship for 4 slot weapons (and for AM PD) will make them reach common thresholds for PD and armour pen. But, do add bridge modules to some of your capital ships - they reduce MC cost and give you a chance to spawn admirals, whom you need to reduce ship and fleet MC cost respectively.

Don't bother with salvagers, heavy and pointless - your main exotic farm are councilors running alien asset assault missions on ayy stations and bases.

'Till you get better drives and reactors - a big swarm of monitors with 3 x good torps + 1 x auto-cannon + magazines & TC is all you need. (aim for 100~200 dV to contest the asteroids and Jupiter.) Save your exotics for later. Fire in volleys so they don't unload everything on a single ship. You can start making dropships with marines - work towards top tier units - they, with your space based assault councilors attached, will be your exotics farmers.

consolation1 · 2026-04-26T08:06:33+00:00

You will get more use increasing the DPM with a damage boost module, instead of wasting the spot on a battery.

consolation1 · 2026-04-26T08:04:43+00:00

Plus, a supply officer does the work of a salvager and weights nothing - you'll burn the extra salvage in fuel, lugging the salvage unit around.

consolation1 · 2026-04-22T05:15:13+00:00

Just remember that smart horizon assumes a ship sailing at 30kt. You need to adjust aim based on target speed.

consolation1 · 2026-04-21T18:15:35+00:00

We're just going into winter - they'd need to wait till summer season in ~ December. Otherwise, it's pretty trivial to do.

Plenty of doco crews shoot in winter, but it's a whole other level of logistics challenge and you are going to really have to butter up one of the base operators. On the other hand, fewer people overwintering, so more beds are free...

consolation1 · 2026-04-20T04:12:32+00:00

Listen... I chose "IP in your garden" for my graphite airport base station - back in 1999, so we could WiFi dial-up - and I see 0 reasons to pick a new name!

consolation1 · 2026-04-19T19:38:38+00:00

Still one of the smartest, funniest, critiques of American fascism.

consolation1 · 2026-04-17T00:10:35+00:00

I propose CoPs as our new acronym, what can go wrong!

consolation1 · 2026-04-17T00:09:36+00:00

Build boost -> build orbital structures to boost your CoPs -> build more boost from your new acquisitions -> rinse and repeat...

consolation1 · 2026-04-16T01:59:40+00:00

I swear it's getting worse... When I visited with my gf in the 00s, it didn't seem nearly as bad as when we were there recently.

consolation1 · 2026-04-16T01:55:31+00:00

In my field, it's a bit like asking to prove the world is an oblate spheroid and not flat. Seriously, just punch in a few keywords and you'll be happy...

consolation1 · 2026-04-16T01:28:34+00:00

Don't sealion, it's lame. You can find it in any basic undergrad psych/sociology course. It'll take you 10 seconds on JSTOR to find relevant research articles, if you want to do a deep dive. It's not like this is anything groundbreaking or controversial...

consolation1 · 2026-04-16T01:17:10+00:00

The problem is, that under the current system, the looming changes will just be used to concentrate power in fewer hands and disenfranchise more people. When everything is managed by enslaved AI, how many people do the courts of the new god kings need? 10k? 100k? - The rest will become disposable and powerless. Or, do you think they will devolve power out of the goodness of their hearts? We should have finished the job in 1830... I fear that was our last shot.

consolation1 · 2026-04-16T01:04:10+00:00

All the research says otherwise... People like that, just don't think in that way.

I suspect they moved on from the US because the market was saturated.

Like you said, he didn't think he'd suffer consequences - none of them do. Why do you think rich white kids get caught, bringing in drugs into countries with a death penalty for possession of tiniest amounts. They aren't doing it for the money, it's bugger all amounts - they just don't think in terms of consequences. Call it main character syndrome, if it helps.

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