They can do that, but the next update they actually decide to apply… will rewrite all/most of those changes.

Bazzite is so user friendly that I could, and did, set it up on a Steam Deck…

…without a mouse or keyboard, with just the Steam Deck as a controller!

Then I figured out how to set up containers, and built a Debian environment, that can and did successfully compile different game engines from source.

Again, without a mouse or keyboard.

… Did I mention I’m currently crippled in the right wrist and shoulder and arm?

Bazzite on a Deck is extremely usable.

Just had to tweak the base Steam Control mapoing thingy a bit to be able to use common shortcuts, figure out how to do a kind of half southpaw layout for the mouse -> trackpad stuff.

Correct.

If you can’t figure a modern linux distro, that is specifically geared towards being n00b friendly (there are a good number) …

… its time to retire from thinking you are tech savvy, its time to hang up that hat, time to humble yourself a bit, realize you overspecialized in the wrong direction.

Checks out.

Presuming this is occuring in or near Seattle, yep, yep, the “Seattle Chill” has these days basically become ‘Permaonline / hikkikomori / over exposed to fear inducing media / paranoid main character myopia to the point of delusional antisociality.’

And then you have other people who have like, basic social skills, who do not become infuriated by a bit of small talk with a rando at the same bus stop.

… You don’t know what to do with 250 swearing birds?

You start a comedy act, or show, is what you do.

Do a mockumentary.

… what do they mean ‘don’t know what to do’?

Hah! Yep, you’re right.

I had been talking about martial arts earlier, had the wrong ‘feinting’ in my brain =P

… I once saw a guy rip a page out of a Bible, to use as rolling paper for a rollie, rolled cigarette.

Called him ‘Holy Roller’, he thought it was funny.

I’m now imagining something similar but like, with an American Flag… nylon would make for like, the worst fucking rolling paper possible, both for the manual process of trying to make the rollie, and it would just be… complete fucking poison to smoke… but… I’ve seen worse… uhhhhggghhh…

In defense of real fish:

They are actually very silly.

… also, you probably can’t make a.Swedish fish without water, so, no, it does need water.

Port hole for petting a very needy kitty with attachment anxiety.

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Fuck, wait! I meant an actual cat!

Yeah pretty much, they’re basically, at their core, private contractors, whose nearly sole customer is governments.

Governments outsourced the management and operations of the Torment Nexus, not because they were forced to or didn’t want or didn’t have the resources…

… They were just too incompotent to do it themselves.

So… yeah, now they’re now functionally part of the government, of multiple governments actually.

This is how we … get to? Or have arrived at? … just actual cyberpunk dystopia, where the Corps just are, in every meaningful way, on top.

I mean, Thiel is part of the ‘basically an actual vampire irl’ club, right?

Gets infusions?

Fentanyl.

Fentanyl laced urine.

That’s what he said.

Its basically a modern update on how the CIA would just dose their coworkers with LSD, but much more overtly weaponized.

… I am fairly sure that that would count as a war crime, if done on a battlefield.

Ehhhhh… I have met a number of people who just naturally are that skinny, and not by way of anorexia or bulimia.

Not saying there’s no possibility of that here.

But I am saying that some people actually just are that skinny or thin, or of waifish frame, and they aren’t all feinting fainting from headrushes or anemia or iron deficiency all the time.

This is about on the borderline, by my eye at least, of being able to definitively say one way or the other.

You wanna see really serious weight retention issues?

Look up Eugenia Cooney.

Uh, depending on your constitution, NSFW/NSFL tag on the above suggestion, I guess.

Yeah, I’m not even gonna post an image here, many pictures of her, that she publishes herself… yeah… thats what really serious anorexia looks like.

Prada, 2023:

Prada, 2022:

Prada, 2018:

I might have switched up 23 and 22.

But uh… what?

Like, I’ll give you that Prada seems to consistently go for models that kinda look like aliens, with pretty big eyes and generally chiseled or striking features, they try to emphasize triangular faces and chins, strong cheekbones…

But… are these not generally attractive women?

… I was going to ask what this person is smoking, but I’m guessing its meth.

This is such a good comment that I have been trying to think of something useful to add for days, and I can’t.

So I’m just gonna star/bookmark it for future reference =D

Right, I meant that the experience of trying to game using musl c is broken, by way of incompatibilty, not by way of musl c being itself broken per se.

If you wanted to get… musl c gaming on linux to work… presumably you would have to create some kind mapping / translation layer from … standard c to musl c?

I don’t really know.

I think you mean fetch updates.

(EDIT: I guess ‘fetch’ is indeed never going to happen =C)

Hah, yeah, I figured the muscl (sp?) variant would still be… basically impossibly broken, haha!

Neat! I did not know that!

Maybe I’ll give it another spin sometime =D

Well hey, ok, that’s what I asked for, its a detailed outline of the process!

What that whole process ultimately is, is pumping a bunch or energy into a machine, a process, that outputs hydrocarbons, which are basically energy in another form.

(Or maybe more accurately, precursors to being able to form more typical HC energy, or useful inputs to some other chemical sysnthesis process)

So, for this to even conceptually make sense, overall, you’d need to have your … fusion reactor be able produce an over unity surplus of energy, at a constant rate, that is equal in $$$ value to… basically, the sellable price of the hydrocarbon fuel you are producing, at that same rate.

And that’s simplifying out, assuming that you don’t need to further refine or otherwise transform the hydrocarbons produced by this process, which you probably would.

They do outline output volumes and concentrations, as well as… enough info that you could work backward and figure out how much energy they’re actually pumping in to this process, to achieve said yields.

So, from that, you could figure out what the required… ratio of over unity-ness of the fusion generator would have to be.

But, also, note that prices of various forms of energy, input energy, output hydrocarbon, they’re a major factor in whether or not this whole idea is viable or not, and prices can and will fluctuate.

It seems to me that this particular process … the authors seem to be describing it as not producing very high amounts of the most useful kinds of precursors for general fuel production, but is producing potentially useful amounts of precursors for other kinds of processes:

The low DME concentration and high H2: DME molar ratio in the CO2-to-HC reactions in this study may facilitate hydrogen transfer for the chain growth termination step and therefore limit the C chain length of the products, leading to formation of isobutane and isopentane as dominant products instead of isobutane and triptane, as observed at greater DME concentration. These light branched paraffins (isobutane and isopentane), which are not ideal blendstocks for high-octane gasoline, are in fact versatile precursors for SAF synthesis via commercially available alkane dehydrogenation and alkene oligomerization processes.[29], [34], [35].

They also seem to reference other attempts at modifying something like an FT process, that are more productive at producing precurors for, general fuel:

Other research groups have investigated CO2 hydrogenation over similar composite catalyst systems…

Hydrophobic modification of HBEA to improve water tolerance substantially increased C4+ HC yield and selectivity to 6.1% and 22.3%, respectively. [19] Using a 2-stage reactor system provided flexibility to control temperature of the reactors independently to achieve high CO yield in the first reactor which facilitated MeOH and MTH synthesis at the second reactor at 300 °C. The inter-stage water removal improved the activity of HBEA for MTH, resulting in C4+ HC yield and selectivity of 6.8% and 14.9%, respectively. [16]

This is genuinely novel and interesting, so I do thank you for actually informing me of this, and rescind my earlier claim of ‘bullshit’, modifying it to ‘needs further research’, specifically in the realms of how you’d scale this up, and what surrounding infrastrucure and economic parameters you’d need for this to be economically viable.

It is neat to learn that this is a thing that we can actually do… but you’d still have to work out the math of the conditions under which it would make sense to do, and be overall productive and useful… figure out how much over-unity-ness you’d need from a theoretical fusion generator for doing this to make sense.

Also:

We have termed this approach the high-octane-gasoline (HOG) pathway.

I just want to take a moment and laugh at that, lol.