I know it’s a bit more niche here, so I try to chime in when I see airplane stuff. An account I had on a now-defunct instance had a bunch of airplane memes and comments.

I was thinking of summarizing all of those activities under “chaos”

Absolutely on the delamination. Paint on metal can go for a minute and be okay as long as there’s primer still protecting the metal; but on composite the flaking will just lead to more flaking. Plus, the water intrusion damage and wicking you can get with carbon fiber. Gotta check that stuff often.

Hi, aircraft mechanic here. I don’t have a lot of experience with the 787, but here’s what I know based on composites, working PAX service, and general airplane BS.
787’s are new-ish, but not THAT new. An airplane even a year old can start to show wear and tear depending on the carrier.
787’s have composite wings, which flex a LOT. Great for performance, no so great for rigid bits like paint.
Aircraft paint is typically a two-part mixture with an epoxy resin base. It’s pretty tough stuff designed to handle temperature changes, UV, abrasion, etc. That being said, paint mixed later in service for repairs might not quite match in color and texture. If the airline buys cheap paint to cut costs, well, it’s going to flake off quicker.
Typically, your brushed-on paint done during overnight maintenance isn’t going to last as long as the paint sprayed on in a clean, well prepared environment with even application. It’s likely you will have to repaint that area.
When I worked PAX, we took extra care to keep the top of the wing painted in good condition and avoid using speed tape to temporarily cover missing paint patches unless absolutely necessary. It’s well known this is a high visibility area for customers. From what I recall, the airline would respray entire areas of the aircraft as needed during heavy checks to keep the paint in good condition. Cargo service? Who cares! As long as it meets airworthiness requirements per the manufacturer, send it! Most of the time, the paint is such a poor match it sticks out like a sore thumb. I recall seeing a 747 freighter at one point that looked like it had a green, receding hairline from all the exposed primer it had running down the hump.

So, all things considered, yes, that paint job looks terrible. However, it’s not going to affect the performance of the aircraft. Any exposed composite is going to get covered or painted as soon as it’s spotted to help protect it and prevent further paint erosion. If anything, all those paint patches might cost the airline a few extra drops (and I do mean drops) of fuel by the end of the flight from parasitic drag.

I agree. The transition has been fairly smooth, and cinnamon edition looks great.

That was my first thought when I saw OPs screenshot. I still hear “check 6” in my head every time I get zoom and boomed in War Thunder

As a homeowner, sure. However, if I had a landscaping business, I would need something that can run all day.

I heard a pretty compelling case for it recently. In the cyberpunk books, Johnny kills several people and blames it on his arm. There were some other points, but I can’t recall them right now.

Got addicted to swapping meat for chrome. Went cyberpsycho yet remained “high functioning”. Silverhand could also be considered a high functioning cyberpsycho.

I’m pretty sure this was a Spy vs Spy comic

Can you provide more details? What you’ve described so far sums up most RTS games. Was it real time? Turn based? Were the units modern day? Historical? Sci-fi?

Your CPU is close to the age of mine. I have an Intel 9900KF. A Radeon 6900XT or 6950XT would be very compatible and a large jump without bottlenecking.

AI artifacts are going to usually come from frame generation, while blurring and ghosting tend to come from TAA. AMD doesn’t have any AI-speciqfic Chipsets built into their cards, as far as I know.

You either have to hammer the main neck joint, or you expose a weak point with anti tank (wings, engine rings) and then heavy pen can follow up. Keep hitting the exposed area, and they’ll drop within 6 recoilless rounds, 4 spears, ~10-14 anti tank shells, or 2 recoilless and whatever you follow up with.

They aren’t really worth the fight, but we’ll see what the future holds.

Those cities were completely destroyed. I’m sure we’ll find out how that will effect things I the near future. For now, we’re standing by for the next Major Order. I wouldn’t be surprised if the first order of business is to harvest E-710 to fuel reconstruction, or to push out the predator strain planets that have gotten closer to Super Earth. I haven’t seen a lot of activity in terms of movement on the bot front while the defense campaign was ongoing.

What CPU do you have? Chances are, the age of your CPU will limit how much newer you can go for a gfx card. I’ve been using a Radeon 6950XT for about a year now, and it’s been excellent without breaking the bank. Right now, the 9070XT is the new hotness, matching the performance of the RTX 5070 TI / 4080 super at a lower price.

Unfortunately, it looks like gamescope just isn’t going to work for my system.

It didn’t seem to have an effect, unfortunately.

I’ll take a look into that. This laptop is using one of those hybrid Nvidia GPUs, so it took me a bit to work out the performance issues at first.

I’ll give that a shot tonight and let you know

It does not seem to work for me. After inputting

wmctrl -a helldivers -b toggle,fullscreen

I just get a quick black flicker and it goes back to minimized. I also tried changing the win argument to :SELECT: from the documentation you linked, but it still doesn’t pull up the window and keep it there.

The command does work for other windows, for clarification.