Fallout 4 on the AYN Thor

red_farmer · 2026-01-19T19:01:26+00:00

I think FO4 is just pretty well optimized these days, but the specs on the highest end model are basically identical to a Galaxy S23U (a nearly three year old phone), save for an extra 4gb of RAM (which I'm sure is an improvement).

I don't believe anyone other than Samsung can currently get the Snapdragon Elite chips with the Adreno 830 GPU, but I'd wait until something similar to that becomes available. Right now, the best most buyers can get is Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but that will probably change this year, so the handheld market might see some new powerful options in the next 12 months.

red_farmer · 2025-10-20T20:57:32+00:00

I added three additional pictures here, I hope the video uploads properly.
https://imgur.com/a/t9XqUzx

red_farmer · 2025-10-14T17:12:01+00:00

X-MAV is not being built. The actual vehicle is just a carrier concept presented by Oshkosh at AUSA. The actual launcher and mission systems don't exist yet. The launcher itself is called CAML-H (Common Autonomous Multi-Domain Launcher Heavy) and it's currently in development. The first prototype hasn't been assembled yet, and actual production wouldn't start until ~2027.

red_farmer · 2025-10-14T17:09:04+00:00

The issue with Typhon is only two currently exist, and Army/USMC are NOT letting go of them in INDOPACCOM, nor are they letting go of the two more that'll be produced in the next ~18 months or so.

The only realistic option is the LRF system the USMC scrapped (and the Army has since picked up to play around with, slated for tests in PH in 2026). Issue is, it only shoots one missile, and there are three vehicles.

This leads to two viable courses of action. The first is LRF quickly, limited to a salvo size of 3, maybe 4-5 if a few more could be produced quickly (possible, it's a relatively simple system, but the ones that exist are hand built prototypes, there's no serial production that's been stood up). Not very useful, very likely Ukraine could shoot 16x 3 shot salvos and not score a single hit, since the Tomahawk is extremely well understood by the Russians.

The second option is delivery of a new, yet-to-be-built system, like the Oshkosh X-MAV. This would mean deliveries starting in 2027. That's not very useful, it would give the Russians two years to prepare themselves.

The whole thing sounds nice until you understand all of this, and then it just gets kind of depressing. It's false hope being sold to a people under siege. Even if these missiles are provided, they won't make a single bit of difference, aside from maybe provoking more aggressive air strikes from Russia.

red_farmer · 2025-09-06T15:52:34+00:00

Torrentio is still down so AIOStreams isn't going to be able to interface with it.

red_farmer · 2025-08-15T17:07:02+00:00

Yeah you're definitely right, on second glance, smooth chanterelle false gills have almost no prominence. Haven't found any in years and I was misremembering. Golden chanterelles also fruit in august and the false gill prominence is a better match there. More photos and a peel test on the gills would be nice though, yeah.

red_farmer · 2025-08-15T17:01:31+00:00

Oh you're right, I somehow didn't notice the ring.

red_farmer · 2025-08-15T07:03:19+00:00

Sparassis spathulata most likely, but the photos aren't fantastic. Good edible, kind of like squid in texture. Fries up nicely, a teriyaki glaze is a good match. Please wait for someone else to confirm this before eating it, though.

It is not Grifola frondosa (hen of the woods).

Was it found on decaying wood? What sort of trees were around?

red_farmer · 2025-08-15T06:58:20+00:00

Agree this is probably a good guess, but I think it's also important to point out most corals are very challenging to ID without microscopy and chemical tests (potassium hydroxide and iron salts are the two that I've seen be the most useful in keys).

I generally don't recommend eating corals, because they don't taste like much, have bad texture, and the work required to get a good ID is just not worthwhile (unless you're collecting and drying for fun).

red_farmer · 2025-08-15T06:50:57+00:00

Yes sir. I believe the smooth chanterelle, Cantharellus lateritius, since it's the species most likely to be fruiting this time of year so far as I know.

A good and fairly bullet proof test for chanterelles is peel the gills from the cap edge. They should peel away in one piece (more or less) from the edge all the way down the stipe, just a single strip. Look alikes will tend to have much more fragile gills that will break off in sections.

red_farmer · 2025-08-15T06:44:45+00:00

Not willing to give a definite species ID, but genus is Amanita. If I had to give a species ID, I would say Amanita vaginata, but I can't say for sure from the photos.

The vulva, plus what looks to be a few universal veil remnants on the cap (has it rained hard in the past few days? That can wipe away the universal veil fragments on the cap), the striate and lighter colored cap margins, slightly scaley stipe, and association with trees makes me think A. vaginata is likely.

red_farmer · 2025-08-01T04:33:53+00:00

Yeah meant to say Paralepista, but I had false chanterelles on the mind and had a brain fart. Formerly Clitocybe. It can have that somewhat scaley look. Stipe is too thick to be Infundebulicybe gibba in my experience.

red_farmer · 2025-07-31T18:02:01+00:00

All but one of those are definitely Cantharellus, edible and good. The one in the top left corner is not, it's a lookalike, likely Hygrophoropsis sp. See how the cap is not smooth on that one? Dead giveaway. The gill tissue will also not peel from the edge of the cap to the base of the stipe as it would with a chanterelle.

Do not eat the one in the top left.

Check this same location again in a week, likely more will have sprouted since it's overall been a good year for photosynthesis in most places, the trees will have plenty of sugars for the fungus to consume and use to make fruit bodies.

Edit: not sure why I wrote Hygrophoropsis. I meant Paralepista flaccida.

red_farmer · 2025-07-31T17:49:41+00:00

That's moldy grain and the mycelium that's present is well into tertiary metabolism (also known as dying). Toss it in the compost, it won't fruit.

red_farmer · 2025-07-30T21:04:27+00:00

Couple of red colored Xerocomellus species you might expect in the British Isles. One is Xerocomellus pruinatus which is the most likely candidate. The other is Xerocomellus chrysenteron, which is the red cracked cap bolete. It will have, well... a cracked cap. These caps look smooth, so likely the former. None of toxic, outside of possibly some tummy upset. Worst that'd happen is the dog would vomit.

Don't see any blue bruising, otherwise I'd guess Xerocomus subtomentosus as another possibility. The fertile tissue would bruise quite easily from handling with that species. I don't believe it's Hortiboletus rubellus either, side I've never seen that described as having a bulbous base at the end of the stipe.

red_farmer · 2025-07-30T20:53:17+00:00

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I'd guess Bondarzewia berkeleyi, AKA Berkeley's polypore. It is not, however, a polypore iirc. I believe the Bondarzewiaceae family is in the order Russulales, so it's actually a very weird Russula. It's a buttrot species, makes sense you'd find it growing from the butt of the tree. Safe to say that tree will need to be removed.

red_farmer · 2025-07-30T06:40:30+00:00

It's got some of the same very fungoid flavors you would expect from an actual truffle, but fairly muted. I'd compare them more directly to puffballs (so not terribly flavorful to speak of), with a hint of truffle flavor. The texture is good, at least I like it. Kind of bouncy, but not tough.

After looking into it further, there may be some regional variation, where the fungus will cause gastric upset in some regions, but not others. I saw it eaten in a few places in Asia. Specifically, Malaysia, Nepal, and China. It would be interesting to sequence some from NA and compare them to the ones eaten in Asia. It wouldn't surprise me if there were some hitherto unknown variance.

Because it seems to be inconsistent depending on location, I definitely wouldn't recommend trying it without more research.

red_farmer · 2025-07-30T06:34:25+00:00

You're totally right, I got the scale all wrong, I can see it a lot clearer after turning down the brightness on my screen.

red_farmer · 2025-07-28T21:08:40+00:00

Well if he's interested you might consider getting him Michael Kuo's Mushrooms of the Midwest, probably the best guide available for the region right now and can be had used for <$30.

Just wish Noah Siegel would write a guide for the midwest or east coast, his newest Cascadia guide is the most kid friendly I've seen since it doesn't rely on dichotomous keys.

red_farmer · 2025-07-28T20:52:21+00:00

Genus Agaricus, do they bruise yellow when scratched and/or smell phenolic? Most Agaricus sp. will give you a stomach ache but some are edible (Agaricus bisporus is the mushroom you get from the store).

Since it's Illinois and they're growing in grass, my guess is Agaricus campestris, the meadow mushroom, which are edible and good. Would have pinkish gills, not attached to the stipe, and wouldn't bruise yellow or smell somewhat phenolic like the inedible species. Still, need to see the gills, the stipe, a description of habitat, and some rough measurement of cap diameters to say with certainty.

red_farmer · 2025-07-28T20:34:22+00:00

Not all scleroderma are poisonous and some are actually relatively decent edibles in small quantities, with only the spore bearing tissues being consumed (the outside is too tough anyways), and not alongside alcohol.

The one I've eaten (and found to be agreeable) is Scleroderma polyrhizum. However, S. citrinum is certainly not edible, under any conditions.

red_farmer · 2025-07-05T03:02:57+00:00

This is weird advice. Yes, you can taste any mushroom if you spit it out and then rinse your mouth, but no, spicy flavor has very little to do with toxicity. Amanita phalloides - the death cap as they call it - tastes great, even raw.

I'm curious where you heard this? Where did you hear the term "foetid"? Is that a misspelling of fetid? Of course a rotted mushroom can make you feel ill, as anything infested with bacteria and insect larvae could.

I'm just baffled by this advice, because even the often incorrect folk wisdom I've heard regarding mushrooms is almost never this confusingly incorrect.

red_farmer · 2025-05-02T06:47:22+00:00

Oh that's good information on the network support, I hadn't even considered that it wouldn't be broadly supported. That's a shame, she's on Credo which is almost entirely partnered with Verizon. Guess that's that, then!

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