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  • I have an Ayn Thor, which has a Elite 8 Gen 2. While playing x64 games on it does work, you’re pretty much limited to indie games and some older 3D games (assuming you can get them to run due to a lot of compatibility issues). Even if you can get some bigger games to run, you’ll be struggling to get 30 fps on the lowest settings.

    Its still really cool to do. You can get some smaller/more portable form factors to play games on the go. However, I still use my Steam Deck a far amount for better compatibility and for larger games (if the steam deck can even handle them).




  • The difference everyone always ignores is that most of Chinese infrastructure is new. For the US they’d need to buy people out of their land, build new tunnels and bridges, and disrupt so many things to implement high speed rail.

    You can’t just leverage the existing rail network because they have curves and grades that are incompatible with high speed rail (northeast corridor has 30-40mph limits on some curves).

    In addition you’re competing with airplanes which are already proven and support current travel demands. And even if you could get the rail implemented there isn’t any guarantee it’ll be any cheaper than flight (meaning low usage). As it stands today going from major hub on Amtrak can be more expensive and takes an equal amount of time (when accounting for security/etc.)


  • I feel like people forget how much infrastructure is required to keep high speed rail running. Not only do you need the stations, but the tracks (bridges, tunnels, etc.) all need to be maintained. Additionally, when doing maintenance you can’t run the line, so you either need extra capacity so you don’t disrupt service or you end up with times you have to shut lines down.

    In comparison, planes just need a strip of flat land at takeoff and landing (you technically don’t even need an airport). You’re primary bottleneck is how fast you can get planes on/off the tarmac.

    One of the other big issues in rail vs plane is that high speed rail only works at certain grade levels and turn radiuses. So for example, I believe you couldn’t convert the existing northeast corridor in the US to 300mph rail from end to end simply due to the geography. You’d need to create a new route. Looking it up there are speed limits around 30-40mph for Amtrak around Baltimore and Wilmington.




  • But chrome, edge, and safari aren’t open source to my knowledge and they make up almost the entire market. Sure chromium is open source, but that’s not the entire browser. Not to mention, it’s basically Internet Explorer all over again, but with Google behind the reigns.

    Looking at android, we get a glimpse of what Google is willing to do to “open source” to keep control.