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Upgrading an old system to an SSD
  • A SATA 3 drive will work with a SATA 2 device but you will be lacking the performance bonuses you'd get from 3 to the extent I'm not sure you'd even notice enough of a difference for the upgrade to be worthwhile.

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    Red Dead Redemption released on Steam
  • It'll be interesting to see the sales numbers on this. Surely it's been long enough that it'll only be the extra few stragglers and the few looking for a hit of nostalgia, right?

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    Wet It Before Riding
  • Wouldn't mind knowing this too but it kinda looks like someone's trying to get people to join a potentially dodgy Discord server

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    How to remotely access a Raspberry Pi?
  • Since fin has already provided a decent answer, I'll just say never underestimate how much some people do with CLI. For those who've memorised every command they need CLI is quicker than a high DPI setting and a twitchy wrist on a mouse.

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    Activision spent a movie blockbuster's budget on Black Ops 6 marketing.
  • What's the point? Anyone who's vaguely interested in it is going to know about it, and there's never going to be anything particularly game changing in a 20th iteration of a franchise. It's still CoD at the end of the day.

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    Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST)
  • There's nothing stopping you from making a boot key and messing with Linux or making a partition of your storage. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

    That said, as someone who is also very visually inclined, I've tried a couple of different distros over the years and always bounced off. I kept encountering the dumbest little issues that most people didn't get, and it always required Terminal to fix. It's those moments when you get to learn how obtuse and unwelcoming some of the Linux community can be.

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  • As hinted at in the title, assuming the technology/means existed that could absorb energy fast enough, would it be possible to stop a star from going supernova, effectively "calming" it?

    This is for a novel (not exactly a sci-fi one) but I'd like to keep in the realms of "technically possible".

    Edit. Thank you to everyone for providing answers and specific thanks to @Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com @radix@lemmy.world and @Deestan@lemmy.world for the for the further reading/watching materials that have inspired a narrative solution that is kinda hand-wave-y but should be good enough to hold up to scrutiny until the moment someone with a PhD (or good enough knowledge) takes a closer look at a fictional word with a soft magic system and smashes the big ol' BS button which I think is about as much as fantasy novel writer can ask for.

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