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threelonmusketeers, do esa w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Fairing jettison confirmed!

threelonmusketeers, do esa w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

MECO, stage separation, and stage 2 ignition confirmed!

ricdeh, do esa w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)
@ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar
threelonmusketeers,

That was one of the more cinematic stage separations I’ve seen in a while. Beautiful shot from the upper stage camera.

Buzztiger,

Yes beautiful!

clothes,

I’m impressed by the quality of their onboard cameras, without the help of starlink.

threelonmusketeers,

Seems like they might be between ground stations right now. Haven’t seen live video from the upper stage for a few minutes. Telemetry still looks good though.

threelonmusketeers, (edited ) do esa w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Looks like we have SECO-1 and nominal orbit insertion!

Edit: Webcast commentary scheduled to resume T+52 minutes for a circularization burn and the first set of payload deployments.

threelonmusketeers, (edited ) do esa w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Webcast commentary is back!

Edit: SES-2 confirmed!

Edit2: SECO-2. Nominal orbit confirmed. First payload deployments scheduled for T+1:05.

Edit3: Confirmation of cubesat deployments confirmed! Next up will be SES-3 at T+2:37.

threelonmusketeers, do esa w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

x.com/esa/status/1810792159295180959

The tech-demo phase of Ariane 6 is still in progress but has shown an unexpected result which will only affect the end of the mission.

On the webcast, they stated that the Auxiliary Propulsion Unit (APU) switched off shortly after it it powered up after SECO-2. Without the APU, they have no way to settle the propellants in the tanks, and thus can’t reignite the upper stage for the final burn.

From the live camera feed, it looks as though the upper stage was spinning, so there may have been some loss of control as well.

millie, do gaming w Everspace 2: Why am I not considered a Pirate?

Are you maybe a privateer?

Privateers tended to obey a sovereign government and do all the pirate things, but directed it against the enemies of the country they were under the flag of rather than just at whoever. Privateers would sometimes become pirates, though. Basically, they’d just keep doing the same job, but for themselves.

The distinction is largely one of who gets to make the rules and do the finger pointing.

deaf_fish,

I don’t think so, seems like I am a part of a rag-tag group of people who are doing “jobs” to get rich. I don’t think we have any formal government or organization backing.

I guess I don’t know the full story of everyone I am working with yet. So there could be a twist I am unaware of.

millie,

It could also just be propaganda. They’re pirates, not us!

MaggiWuerze,
@MaggiWuerze@feddit.org avatar

HellPirates is other people?

Echo5, do games w Getting the Skyrim itch again... Any mod recommendations to freshen it up?

Pitching in for Interesting NPCs. Adds a ton of characters/followers and several quests. If I picked no other mod (outside of unofficial patch) it’d be this one.

edgemaster72, do gaming w Alien Isolation: Why does Ripley suddenly start coughing and die sometimes?
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like the kind of thing they’d put in games as an anti-piracy measure to get people to tell on themselves

FarraigePlaisteach,

I bought this copy :) But I do remember listening to a live podcast segment about gaming where an audience member had their hand up in response to some question. When the microphone got to them, they said that one thing they didn’t like about old games was trying to figure out the controls. The presenter pointed out that for people who paid for their games, the instructions were included. I was embarrassed just listening.

imPastaSyndrome, do gaming w 98% compatibility

These metrics mean nothing to me

megopie, (edited )

Proton is steam’s compatibility tool, these “medals” basically indicate how well a game works through it. Platnium and gold mean work without troubleshooting. Silver means a little tinkering with settings. Bronze means it can work with effort, and borked means it just doesn’t work.

So, 84% working with 0 effort, and 11% working with light tinkering.

The post is kind of incomprehensible if you’re not already familiar with proton and the troubleshooting website proton DB.

imPastaSyndrome,

It’s also not a great metric if you don’t know what games the dude regularly buys especially if they’re already a*nix user

megopie,

i mean, basically everything works so long as it doesn’t use certain anti cheat systems. But knowing what they play would have been more useful for the sake of discussion.

fushuan,

Given that league is widely played, that addendum you did is sadly a huge blocker for a lot of people, but because of league and valorant.

megopie, (edited )

yah, it’s a bummer, but most people who play games on PC aren’t playing such tittles. The current online player count for league is about 2.5 million as supposed to the total steam active player count of 25 million. A lot of people play league, but, like, it’s hardly a problem that everyone has.

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

I dunno, I haven’t been able to get Subnautica to work for some reason. It’s likely due to the games own spaghetti code barely being functional on the intended OS’s as is…

But it’s a bummer nontheless.

Same goes for XCOM.

RandomLegend, do gaming w 98% compatibility
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

And around 70% of all online players are on those missing 2% :D

ReverseModule,
@ReverseModule@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I mean we have tons of anticheat games working on Linux. More than people realize. Elden Ring, The Finals, Overwatch 2, CS2, Apex Legends, xDefiant and more that I can’t remember right now. It’s not that bad even as a multiplayer gamer. The ones that don’t work R6S, Val, LoL, Fortnite, CoD and Destiny pretty much.

RandomLegend,
@RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Oh i know we do, i’m on linux since years, but still the biggest titles are not enabled for linux.

Have been playing LoL for an eternity and can’t play it anymore. (couldn’t be happier but that’s not the thing we’re talking about lol)

kittenzrulz123,

Basically all the popular multiplayer games, meanwhile Linux gets the scraps.

DarkThoughts,

No, just the competitive ones. I've played plenty of multiplayer games on Linux without issues.

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

apex legends is pretty competitive and works great.

its the asshole multiplayer games that wont work.

Evil_Shrubbery,

Which is a really positive thing.

:D

Prandom_returns,

Yeah, quantity over quality right here. If my favourite game doesn’t run on Linux, Linux is dead to me. Even if I had 5 favourite games and 1 doesn’t work, it’s still dead.

So for a lot of people it’s either 100% or it might as well not exist.

erwan,

If a game doesn’t run on Linux I can’t even try it. No risk of it becoming my favorite game!

Quill7513, do gaming w 98% compatibility

What is this info graphic even saying, I don’t understand

hemko,

Those “medals” are how well the game works on proton. Platinum is comparable to Windows or better, gold is still pretty damn good, and so on.

DarkThoughts,

Even Gold can be comparable to Windows. Even silver, since a lot of games don't actually work well or at all on Windows anymore. At the same time, Platinum can still mean issues. It's not that black & white comparable when there's so many factors going into it (regardless of the OS).

hemko,

Yeah of course it’s more nuanced than that, but enough of an explanation for someone who doesn’t know what there’s actually displayed

RiQuY, do gaming w 98% compatibility

Context: www.protondb.com

MudMan, do gaming w 98% compatibility

Ah, the hallmark of mainstream usability: a four bar chart with multi-segmented portions based on different independent ratings of compatibility that don't agree with each other.

JokeDeity, do gaming w 98% compatibility

I don’t know what this means but I couldn’t get any shit to run on Ubuntu as recent as two days ago.

Lemjukes,

Skill issue

Kichae,

Ah, the dichotomy of Linux users:

“wHy DoEsN’t EvErYbOdY uSe LiNuX???”

and

“gEt On My LeVeL nOoB”

DarkThoughts,

If setting a simple setting is too much for you, which is also a 5 second search away if you're struggling that hard, then yeah, Linux is too much for you. But so is Windows.

stephen01king,

And yet, people of that level use windows to game everyday. Shows you how much ready Linux is for mainstream if comments like yours still pop up regularly.

t3rmit3, (edited )

There’s a totally fair criticism that Windows is no more or less comprehensible or usable than e.g. Ubuntu, but familiarity is the differentiator. If someone is opposed to changing settings in a .conf file but not a .ini file, or fine with making registry changes but not service changes, it’s not an issue of usability or accessibility, it’s just familiarity.

UngodlyAudrey,
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Just so you know, you’re commenting in a Beehaw community, and we expect that people be(e) nice here. Being gatekeepy isn’t nice.

Lemjukes,

You bet

majestictechie,

If your using steam, you can go into game properties and set Proton as the compatibility tool. Depending on the age of the game, you might have to switch versions of Proton.

You can use www.protondb.com to check the compatibility issues and suggested versions by the community for specific games too.

s12,

Great comment.

Not sure why Steam Play isn’t on by default.

majestictechie,

You can change that as a default in steam settings for all Games. Would be cool if they detected the OS and enabled it automatically based on that

megopie,

Are you using steam and proton, or Lutris and wine? I’d suggest trying the other if one isn’t working. That’s helped me in the past

JokeDeity,

I was trying both, everything was just really bad frame rates and stuttering, and a few things wouldn’t run after installing specifically Linux marked games on Steam. Back on Win10 everything is running like butter.

t3rmit3,

I’d guess your graphics drivers are the issue in that case. Sounds like it was probably kicking all the games over to the integrated GPU.

JokeDeity,

Certainly possible, I really wasn’t sure what drivers to use, tried the default and the first option from Nvidia and had about the same results.

t3rmit3,

I got a laptop recently with an AMD GPU, and installed Ubuntu on it, and the first time round I got the AMD drivers working, but every boot the discrete GPU and the integrated GPU would change their device IDs (e.g. gpu1/ gpu2), so Steam would end up launching games on the integrated GPU half the time. I got frustrated and installed Windows, but found out that you can’t buy Win10 anymore, so got Win11 and hated it so much I went back to Ubuntu. Second time around, I found a thing for setting the GPU in the launch options by GPU name, and that has fixed it.

Linux is not ready for average consumers if they have to install it themselves, but neither is Windows; most people buy a computer with the OS preinstalled, and never have to deal with driver setup; the Win11 install had a bunch of driver issues too.

SteamDeck is such a huge revolution because it’s really the first time that a company has made preinstalled Linux machines available in a way that average consumers don’t have to go looking for or pay through the nose (cough System76 cough).

If someone like Dell or Lenovo (or hey, even System76 or Framework) could get their laptops in-store at BestBuy, with everything pre-configured and ready-to-use, that would be Linux being “ready” for the average consumer.

JokeDeity,

Couldn’t have put it better myself. Like, installing it it asked if I wanted extra helpful software and drivers, but I still had to spend a ton of time setting up basic programs. Default video player sucked, default file browser sucked. Having both the dock and the system toolbar is unnecessary, annoying, and confusing for new users. Most of the default apps feel like an Apple OS to me also, like you have NO configuration options, it’s just you get what you get. The Ubuntu software store is a fraction of a fraction of what it should be. Snaps SUCK.

Vodulas,

If you are still interest (100% understand if not) Bazzite and Pop_OS both have nvidia specific distros with the drivers baked in. Makes things a lot easier. Pop is Ubuntu and Bazzite in Debian. Pop has been my daily driver for 2 months and have not missed windows.

JokeDeity,

So Pop is just like a customized Ubuntu with things preconfigured for gaming?

megopie, (edited )

Essentially. It is often held up as a good “gaming” distribution because it has AMD and Nvidia graphics card drivers built in, I suspect there is more to it than that but I’ve never used it personally.

Vodulas,

Yes indeed! There are some custom tweaks specifically for nvidia on the specific distros. Supposedly it does with well switching from integrated graphics to discrete graphics, but I have not tried it. That is mostly for laptops.

ReverseModule,
@ReverseModule@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Ubuntu sucks ass. Use Bazzite.

JokeDeity,

Pitch it to me, I don’t know shit about fuck. I only use Ubuntu because I have for years.

megopie,

Not the person you’re replying to, and I don’t have personal experience with Bazzite but, essentially, it is gaming oriented distribution built on fedora.

It has a lot of stuff built in to help it run games well, including the right graphics drivers. Fedora is one of the major Linux distributions along side Arch, Debian (which Ubuntu is derived from), and others.

There are a few other distributions that do much of the same regarding graphic card drivers, but built on one of the other major distributions. For instance PoP_OS! (Based on Ubuntu and thus Debian).

So bazzite is good for running games, that’s what it is built to do, but other distros do that as well, it depends what flavor of Linux you want it to be built on.

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