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How’s this for an over simplification: we should find the guy who got the big bag of money that started the whole thing open that bag.

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-b gets all logs for the current boot, -k shows kernel messages (what dmesg gives).

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I got ROCm to work on a 7800XT after fixing some Python errors. It was quite unstable though.

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Hyprland is surprisingly easy to build/install from source.

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I guess I could have taken solving the depencies for granted. I’ve built and installed it on both Arch and Fedora but obviously those repos would be more up to date.

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Fedora has an official package of it as well.

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People are gonna be pissed when they find out about plastic water bottles.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says ‘US credibility is at stake’ when asked about Trump’s NATO comments (www.cnn.com)

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown said Monday that “US credibility is at stake” in the wake of comments from former President Donald Trump that he would encourage Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO partners that don’t meet spending guidelines on defense....

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I think they actively want WW3 so they can play out their end-times-left-behind fantasies they’ve been nursing for the last 20 years. What are all their ammo hoards for if they don’t get to use them?

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Same fucking guy who in Obama’s last year said “we Republicans are setting a precedent for not confirming new Justices in a president’s last year of office.” Then they bring in Barrett right before Trump exits.

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    Also Garuda :(

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    I love the smell of chemistry sets in the morning

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    When Google Reader shut down, Feedly had an “import from Google” feature on their sign up page. Been using it for free ever since.

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    This meme brought to you by people who get all their news from memes

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    Keep an eye out for Cosmic Desktop release news.

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    It also uses the Red Hat RPM package format and a different package manager. But it just amounts to a few different commands to learn if you manage packages on the command line.

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    Does the article mention the stability problems with the 7000 series? community.amd.com/t5/graphics-cards/…/650861

    No. Wishing these journo ding dongs would help us make noise about this issue. I should have heeded my friend’s warnings about AMD product stability.

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    I am having this issue on Linux. :( Currently running Windows for a few days to rule out the OS.

    "Must Try" distros and DEs?

    Hey folks! I’m getting a fresh laptop for the first time in about a decade (Framework 16) in a couple of months and am looking forward to doing some low-level tinkering both on the OS and hardware. I’m planning to convert into a “cyberdeck” with quick-release hinges for the screen since I usually use an HMD, built-in...

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    Hyprland DE is the new hotness

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    Recently there supposedly have been nVidia improvements and success stories. Check the Hyprland wiki to see if it makes sense for you to try. Or is it only the 2000 series and above that have benefitted from Wayland driver improvements?

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    Agreed, it really makes me excited to use my PC.

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    NASA already killed god in 2011

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    I don’t know the difference between a terminal and a terminal emulator, and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

    Lately using Foot since that’s what my distro shipped with.

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    Garuda

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    Hyprland

    Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0 (www.phoronix.com)

    With testing many different shaders over dozens of games, the generated instruction count was down by about 2.5%, the code size around 2% lower, etc. Some users report this quantifying in some games like Cyberpunk 2077 yielding 4~14% better performance.

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    Very cool that Valve has developers contributing to Mesa.

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    1. The only other things that stick out to me are distro philosophy and release schedule. Like, do you want a completely community oriented distro, a corporate one, one with LTS-style releases, or rolling releases? These things may or may not make a difference.
    2. The best way imo is to install Ventoy to a USB drive, then load it up with ISOs from distros you are interested in. Then you can boot into their live sessions and test drive them. But ultimately, you can almost always get Linux software running on any distro. The differences are whether a distro comes with something out of the box, or if it even has your desired apps in its official repos.
    3. btop, Steam, Discord, Firefox. These are all available on all distros. Things like the file system browser - I don’t care as much and just use what the distro provides by default.
    4. Run a package update then install whatever other apps you want. For me, also set up auto mount of a couple network drives provided by my NAS.
    5. You should not be concerned about this unless you are building things from source.
    6. Probably… I used and gamed on Kubuntu for 2 years and had an excellent experience.
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    How tf do you have one of the most successful commercial game engines and still can’t support your own staff?

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    You still wipe, just once or twice instead of 14 or 15 times.

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    I have no knowledge about or experience with immutable distros, but I’ve been maining the Fedora KDE spin on my laptop for several major releases now and so far have found no reason to switch away from it. The Plasma Wayland session has been solid from the beginning and everything has just worked.

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    barges just haven’t been ported to railways yet

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    Jacob Collier as another serious answer.

    The United States is producing more oil than any country in history (www.cnn.com)

    As the world grapples with the existential crisis of climate change, environmental activists want President Joe Biden to phase out the oil industry, and Republicans argue he’s already doing that. Meanwhile, the surprising reality is the United States is pumping oil at a blistering pace and is on track to produce more oil than...

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    Who is saying he’s supposed to be the most progressive president? From what I remember before the election he very openly took middle of the road positions and declared intentions to reach across the aisle as much as possible.

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    How do I get involved in this?

    Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

    In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...

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    Great idea, Marv.

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    Agreed

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    Based low caffeine tolerance

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    Fuck yea, here we go

    Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts (www.reuters.com)

    Tesla Cybertruck’s stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts::The angular design of Tesla’s Cybertruck has safety experts concerned that the electric pickup truck’s stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt pedestrians and cyclists.

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    People are going to be pissed when they find out cyclists lose in collisions against any vehicle, not just prototype electric trucks.

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    Bro I’m the cyclist in this thought experiment

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    I have found that every extra “community” server I join ends up getting muted and forgotten until I eventually leave it. I think Discord having a really low barrier to entry (free, insta-hosted servers) is why it is chosen nowadays.

    But yes, I find it works best as a sort of advanced IRC replacement for my gaming group.

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    I’ve been using it the last couple days on a 7800xt. It works but has been fairly unstable. Hopefully that’s just new hardware driver problems that will get sorted out eventually.

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    In general, unfortunately. I’ve had a couple instances of my machine hard locking up, game crashes causing the entire desktop session to restart, and have had to try many different kernels.

    The CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord will testify before the US Senate on child safety (www.theverge.com)

    The CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord will testify before the US Senate on child safety::On January 31st, 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, X CEO Linda Yaccarino, and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify before the US Senate during a hearing on child safety.

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    Cringe. But yes, let’s please continue migrating responsibility for child safety from parents to the government and megacorps.

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    Try cycling through other proton versions as well. I don’t really understand why some games will work on older versions and not newer ones, but it happens.

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    Just had to find the right magic spell 🙂

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    <3 Hyprland

    Spending a few days with Hyprland made me realize how awesome Gnome is

    Don’t get me wrong. Hyprland is great. I like it a lot. It looks fresh, it’s easy to configure and the keybindings are super easy to implement, but it’s also very barebones. Most of the functionality expected from a DE come from external software. Be it a top bar, an app launcher, a notification daemon or anything else....

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    A full Hyprland DE with top bar, quick settings and app launcher, with unified looks and centralized setings would actually be awesome and might make me switch

    Not trying to immediately change your mind, but Garuda added a Hyprland spin with their latest release. Boot into the live ISO and see what you think.

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