This is the way!

Way simpler than using any GUI tool or somehow recreating the partition and manually copying the files.

Yup, that appears to have fixed the problem. Derp.

I’ve observed this in VRising too. It’s been nearly consistent since I upgraded to a better graphics card.

Why should it be enough? We already have multiple Linux communities across different instances, decentralized and with alternative modteams, should we just merge them all into one conglamorate community with a single point of failure?

Right, my bad. I thought you were explaining turbines in relation to the post, which would indeed have one attempt to run sand through it if not used with either liquid or steam.

I also wrote turbine and generator separately, as, as you stated, turbines and generators are not the same. I, in turn, hope I didn’t give the impression that they were.

I fully agree about the system as a whole better being described as a battery, which usually includes generators of some sort to convert the stored energy back into electricity.

And yes, this is a rather precarious article, which also is why I wrote the half-question half-joke about unnecessary conversion steps using turbines.

And that’s my confusion, why use a turbine (connected to a lift) to turn the heavy weight into a flow of steam or liquid, presumably to convert this flow to electricity using another turbine with a generator connected to it, instead of simply converting the heavy weight to electricity using a lift (or corkscrew) to turn the generator?

This is, of course, assuming that a turbine only is a turbine when it is driven by steam or liquid.

I guess the publishers of the article either got the definition wrong, or there’s a less used definition of turbine which I am not aware of.

But isn’t the definition of a turbine “a type of machine through which liquid or gas flows and turns a special wheel with blades in order to produce power” with the “power” (aka. rotational energy) going to a generator?

Where does the liquid or gas come from? Isn’t this battery supposed to lift heavy, solid objects?

It doesn’t outright state that it uses solid weights, but their illustration looks more like they’d use a lift with sand or weights, and not a turbine with liquid or steam:

Very interesting, and good to hear.

Though, I’m not sure why they would drive a turbine to drive a generator, instead of just driving the generator directly. Their illustration doesn’t show any turbines either.

I use a Verbatim DPAA to access old DVD’s. Cheap and simple, works just fine with both Windows and Linux and didn’t even have to install any drivers on either.

Connector is USB-B mini (disk drive) to USB-A (computer).

Sadly doesn’t support blu-ray.

They didn’t even use pictures of the cases, they just write about gardening with a picture of proper gardening tools.

+1

I personally started by playing around with Ubuntu, but it just didn’t feel intuitive coming from windows.

Went over to Mint, and was very happy,especially with drivers and gaming. I even fully removed my windows installation during this period. Having gained a better understanding of Linux, I have now moved on again.

The only real drawback of Mint is not natively supporting KDE Plasma (as they did before). And yes, you can just install it yourself, but I wouldn’t recommend a beginner who barely knows how to install Linux to attempt such an endevour.

One word of advice to OP: don’t wait till you can’t use Windows anymore. Start by dual booting and getting a hang of Linux, but with windows at the ready for any tasks you cannot yet do/feel comfortable doing on Linux. As you get a better hold of Linux, you should naturally begin to use Windows less.

The worst thing someone can do, is to jump OS without any backup or safety net. Learning to use Windows took a long time, getting a hang of new concepts and getting used to an alien environment. Now, already having a hang of “computers” (Windows), we have digital needs and expectations (E-Mail, gaming, etc.) which will need fulfilling, but many seem to forget that a different OS means different ways of doing our daily tasks and different challenges to handle.

And yes, “different”, because Windows definitely also comes with it’s own unique challenges, you just don’t see them as much when having gotten used to them.

The current DnD system does definitely have a combat system and enough rules to get you started, though it’s way less rule-heavy than most Warhammer, Shadowrunner, and even previous DnD PnP systems I’ve played. It feels more like starting guidelines than a proper system.

I’ve considered playing stars without numbers and Fate Core, which should apparently be a very rule-light PnP system, though haven’t gotten around to them yet.

There’s always been the balance between war gamers and role players (not limited to DnD). War gaming can be fun, but I don’t think DnD is especially geared toward it. Likewise, role playing is nice, but those hardcore no-meta (at all, there is no way to have a laugh ooc) aren’t my thing either.

When starting a new campaign, I like to ask whether the players prefer role-playing or roll-playing. This also serves as a nice ice breaker for discussing meta.

If you have problems finding a proper DnD group with little role playing, you might want to check out other game systems which focus less on it. Warhammer (including the Pen and Paper systems) seems to focus more on the numbers and strategy aspect.

Not that you can’t roll-play in DnD, you just need to find the right group and campaign. A friend of mine once made a campaign where we started in the room we were currently sitting in, but with the stats on our papers, where our world was being invaded by demons. So it’s definite possible to be yourself.

Haven’t tried to use the printer for curing. I built my own curing box using a decommissioned microwave, some spare wood and mirrors, and a rather powerful UV source.

I guess you could build yourself a mirror box to hold the object and place it on the printer instead of using a separate UV source.

The printer should be able to handle the generated heat, so I don’t think you’ll see increased wear.

Would you be surprised if I told you I use Android too?

Sadly my Samsung TV doesn’t use Linux, and the Steam Link app just got discontinued. :(

I might have been very lucky. I’ve barely seen anything negative than when people post factually incorrect or potentially dangerous/bricking stuff.

Though, I do keep a healthy distance from the Ubuntu and Arch forums.

Yea, Ryzen Is awesome! No plans on going back to Intel.

While Intel might have better IPC, AMD having twice as many cores easily makes up for this.

Might come with an argument in regard to single-threaded games, but that should not be relevant with pretty much everything having moved to multi-thread by now.

Nvidia 1070 here. Haven’t run into problems using Mint or Endevour. Had to choose propriety drivers on Mint, but that was it.

Might buy an AMD card next, but that’s more to see if there are any features I’m missing out on. I’m also excited to see whether AMD has grown better hardware, as it was a constant hassle when I last used one 10+ years ago.

Last I used it, it seemed to lack a lot of more advanced features. I think I especially stumbled over the bibliography, though I did not use any add-ons.