I was reading about Ingenuity's flight time recently. It's a trial flight only and expected to last only 90 seconds before crashing back to the planet surface.

From the solar panels, I kind of naively assumed that it was intended to stay airborne... forever! Perhaps docking back with Perseverance in the event of a storm, before buzzing back into the skies to provide aerial support for Perseverance's next foray around the crater.

Nope. 90 seconds, a bunch of data collected, crashing far, far away from Perseverance where it has no risk of damaging the main star of the show!!

Still an amazing accomplishment if they get it airborne though, given the atmosphere - the helicopter blades need to spin insanely fast in order to generate any lift! If it gets 10 seconds of airtime, I imagine the engineers will be delighted!

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That video... I watched 60 seconds, but couldn't get over how much it reminded me of studying computer science in the mid-90's on my university's Unix mainframes. Holy shit, what DE is that? Why... why does it look 30 years old??? The file picker! The chrome!

At least the editor had a window fade. The wine windows don't, fair enough. It's all so ugly!

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It takes around 8 hours to get to/kill the first boss. I played another couple of hours after that, exploring into the Black Forest, but I've stopped for the moment in the hopes that we might consider streaming it multiplayer throughout March and beyond. It's well worth the purchase already, imo, and I'm reasonably anti-EA generally.

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Quoting: dejaimeI wonder if the developers built other games and what happened between Rochard's release and this sad announcement.

I already looked into this - see my comment (two above yours). They were seeded in 2008 by a VC company, produced Rochard in 2011, did a Ridge Racer port in 2012, produced Rochard DLC in 2013, then went dark. Really sad.

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I loved Rochard and played it to death back in the early HiB days. I'm surprised to see that Recoil Games haven't produced anything since the 2013 DLC follow up though.

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Quoting: Grimfist

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Grimfist

Quoting: CatKillerYou don't need to run Kate with sudo. If you really must, you can do the sensible thing and use sudoedit, but Kate will prompt for authorisation when saving a privileged file when run as a normal user anyway.

Not having an easy solution for privileged use of Dolphin is a pain: some file management tasks, particularly as a new user, are much less error-prone when done in a graphical file browser. But you wouldn't have been using sudo with Dolphin in the old days anyway: it would have been kdesu.

Finally someone with a brain, thank you!
Instead of complaining that KDE forbids running some apps as root, read up why and how to do privileged actions in those apps...

I'm well read on why they did it, and I still believe it to be a monumentally poor decision. Indeed, if you have to "read up on why" or research "how to do privileged actions in those apps", the KDE devs have failed.

Indeed, I don't use KDE because of it. The only way I could feasibly set up my computers in KDE is to install replacements for Kate and Dolphin - two of the more core applications to the whole KDE experience. So, nah.

Now I am curious, what is it why you need to run Kate as root? To edit restricted files? Or is pressing save and then entering your password to complex?

Last I used Kate (to edit /etc/autofs entries for mapped drives) was about 18 months ago and there was no such facility of prompting for a password when saving to a protected area. But then, that's irrelevant in my use case, because I was editing files that area, not creating them... but I couldn't run Dolphin as root either, and since those files are 600 permissioned, nothing except root can read them.

So yeah, I needed to run those apps as root. However, now that they've added root detection, instead of running, they simply say "This cannot be run as root", and exit. Maybe they've improved the situation by now? Who knows. All I know is that it was (and probably still is) a poorly designed restriction that pissed me off, and still does whenever I bother to try KDE again.

I mean, how stupid a decision is it really? That I had to install Thunar AND geany, just so I could make a single line edit to my file, the way I've done so for years, and the way that I can do so on every other desktop environment available? That's... pretty stupid, I reckon.

But you seem to think this is cool - that's fine. Use KDE, and enjoy its dubious protections. I just can't be bothered with security through obscurity. This accomplishes very little and just gets in the way (of my workflow, at least). I own my machine - I have "sovereignty" of it. But when I run KDE... apparently not. Apparently it knows better?

Nah. That's not for me. That's not a mindset I agree with.

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Quoting: Grimfist

Quoting: CatKillerYou don't need to run Kate with sudo. If you really must, you can do the sensible thing and use sudoedit, but Kate will prompt for authorisation when saving a privileged file when run as a normal user anyway.

Not having an easy solution for privileged use of Dolphin is a pain: some file management tasks, particularly as a new user, are much less error-prone when done in a graphical file browser. But you wouldn't have been using sudo with Dolphin in the old days anyway: it would have been kdesu.

Finally someone with a brain, thank you!
Instead of complaining that KDE forbids running some apps as root, read up why and how to do privileged actions in those apps...

I'm well read on why they did it, and I still believe it to be a monumentally poor decision. Indeed, if you have to "read up on why" or research "how to do privileged actions in those apps", the KDE devs have failed.

Indeed, I don't use KDE because of it. The only way I could feasibly set up my computers in KDE is to install replacements for Kate and Dolphin - two of the more core applications to the whole KDE experience. So, nah.

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Quoting: scaine2. Dolphin and Kate can't be run as sudo. I get the reasons why they did this, but absolutely screw any DE or app which takes the law into its own hands.

Executing Dolphin with sudo is not possible due to unfixable security vulnerabilities.

Good enough reason for me

Yeah, that was their "little joke" at the time - the user is an unfixable security vulnerability. Why are devs? Just... why? They can absolutely get in the bin with that attitude.

This has annoyed me all over again, so I'll spitefully not bother trying KDE after all. :grin:

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I might have to give this another shot. Two things put me off last time:

1. The shoe-horning of the letter K into just about everything. On the few occasions Gnome devs do the same with G (e.g. gThumb), it annoys me there too. But in KDE, it's like a game of "every app is a bad pun". Thank goodness for Dolphin. Maybe others will help buck the trend.

2. Dolphin and Kate can't be run as sudo. I get the reasons why they did this, but absolutely screw any DE or app which takes the law into its own hands.

In the grand scheme of things, neither are show stoppers, but there were enough other paper cuts 18 months ago to put me off overall (one of which was that I used an Nvidia GPU). So yeah, ding ding, round 2, hopefully.

But I'll probably try Budgie too which might be a better fit for me.

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Quoting: ArdjeI hope this means I am finally going to be able to use my Oculus DK2.

I think that's the hope, assuming that Monado will support the DK2, then it will then become available as a device through SteamVR?

I need to read up more on Monado, honestly.

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