yeah it’s goofy, you can embed grub in coreboot cbfs and load straight into it, skipping the bios/uefi stage. it’s a bit difficult to set up (and you need coreboot supported hardware) but when you get it working the boot times become really quick

i just realised though that you can embed Linux into cbfs as well, does that then mean that Linux could be my kernel and firmware at the same time?

that is one of the articles of all time lmao

so these 2 rockets (starship/new glenn) are both using liquid oxygen+methane for their propellant, which the article mentions in two paragraphs :

Now there is a race on to develop alternatives to existing fuels like RP-1 and UDMH, and liquid methane appears to be in the lead. Several new rocket engines, including SpaceX’s Raptor and the European Space Agency’s Prometheus engine, have been designed to use this gas as a fuel because it has a higher performance than other fuels, meaning the rocket can be smaller and produce less soot when it’s launched. Its lower cost means the price of a rocket launch can be reduced, too.

Methane, however, is controversial because it is one of the worst gases as far as global warming is concerned. It is around 80 times more warming than carbon dioxide over its lifetime.

in the second paragraph Piesing implies that the methane is released raw into the atmosphere in a rocket launch, you can hopefully see that’s not true right? the fuel in a rocket is burnt with the oxidiser, in this case forming water vapour and co2. I think water vapour is a pretty potent greenhouse gas in the upper atmosphere but i mean it’s water and not all of it is deposited in the upper atmosphere

it is true that the fuel+oxidiser isn’t exactly burnt in the perfect stoichiometric ratio and in this case there is a slight surplus of methane, but that methane is likely burned with the oxygen in the air (given that it’s next to a stream of hot rocket exhaust) and turned into co2+water.

also it’s very untrue that methane+oxygen has better performance than other fuels, hydrogen+oxygen stages are usually more efficient (but less dense) and rp1+oxygen stages are usually less efficient but more dense, and it’s all a tradeoff. if methane was just superior there wouldn’t be any reason to use any other fuel.

anyway the statement made in this article about the soot is also extremely misleading, the soot produced from the engines are mostly based on the engine cycle, e.g. in a open cycle (like the spacex merlin, rocketdyne f-1) there’s a lot of soot produced from the turbopump (a little rocket engine used to spin a turbine to pump the fuel) due to it being fuel rich rp-1, but there’s other rp-1 engines like the rd170 (soviet design) that uses a closed cycle and a oxygen rich turbopump, which don’t produce the same soot.

also iirc most pollution from rockets come from the ammonium percolate solid rocket boosters, used by things like the space launch system, bosters on the vulkan, most chinese rockets, some indian rockets and some japanese rockets. these boosters aren’t used (and aren’t going to be used in the foreseeable future) for these 2 rockets

i think you can see how I feel about this article when there’s this much misinformation in 2 paragraphs

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even if my grub is in the system eeprom?

yeah im not gonna argue with you because your argument is so fucking wild and goofy, and I’m not a photographer so I’d never know if they’d want night lights or not

uefi is cringe anyway, reject uefi and return to grub in the system firmware

a satirical linuxsucks would be so funny, like making fun of Linux for not having enough LLM integrations and ads

yeah .world has some weird vibes, I don’t think it’s exactly centrist but I don’t like how the vocal ones there seem to have a superiority complex against ml, hexbear and lemmygrad.

I don’t like many of the communities on these instances either but I don’t think that .world users should be the ones to hold the power and cry to the wider fediverse when we don’t do exactly what they do

damn your eyes must be so good if you can see that level of detail on the moon

i mean there’s the pinephone and stuff but the pixel 3a seems good rn for postmarketos

holy shit that’s horrifying

I think that side is white, and just looks golden from the mud

if they got lineageos on the device it’s already unlocked right?

anyway it seems supported decently enough by postmarketos, which is currently the best distro (imo) for Linux mobile

their site has install instructions (on the OnePlus 5 page that is linked)

anyway I wouldn’t use docker or anything, using nginx on bare metal to host a website is easy and extremely lightweight

All the kernel access in the world won’t stop someone from having a secondary device hooked into the monitor output and faking a dumb keyboard and mouse.

I guess that’s true, but that’d be a lot difficult to program and expensive to use compared to a simple program that can read data straight from the game’s memory in machine readable format and send inputs straight into the system’s input framework. by raising the entry bar you’re effectively decreasing the amount of people that will cheat in the game

it’s ultimately the user’s decision if they want to sacrifice the purity of their kernel for a game like this, and I think it’s their problem if their kernel panics for them wanting to play slop made by AAA studios

as much as I love not running windows on my machines, this is 100% pure copium

also this post sounds really petty and it’s really sad if this is what the broader Linux gaming community really thinks, can they seriously not just ignore AAA games given how shit they are?

how do you actually tell in server side if a client is e.g. actually good at a game vs playing recorded moves with a bit of randomisation when you don’t have access to into on what’s actually happening on the client device?

as much as I love Linux this sounds like purposeful partial blindness from hopium/copium

not to disparage your opinion but i think one of the problems is that people in this community have heard this opinion at least a thousand times

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fucking defund the military and put it into humanitarian shit then, they get 35x the budget of NASA

in a world controlled by capitalism such an ideal thing will not happen anyway, sooner or later we’ll find some inherent incentive for mars/moon colonialism and when that happens we’ll go there and explore with the cheapest possible equipment, contaminate the land with earth based life and ruin future scientific outcomes.

so even if your proposal is ideal it’s in my opinion better to colonize while we still can with science money, not corporate or military money