sgibson5150

sgibson5150 , 1 day ago to technology in What's with all the hate for Chinese phones?

I just learned this myself. Motorola Mobility is owned by Lenovo.

sgibson5150 , 3 days ago to programmer_humor in rm -rf /

Hey, sometimes you need to hose out the cruft.

Why yes, I do maintain a legacy application that still stores user files in Program Files in blatent violation of 15 years of Windows best practices and continues to be done contrary to my repeated advice, why do you ask?

sgibson5150 , 8 days ago to linux in NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules. Keep in mind that the drivers are still proprietary.

Forgive the stupid question, but what does this mean, exactly? Does it mean Nvidia support on par with that for AMD? Will this enable a release of Bazzite that supports Steam Gaming Mode for Nvidia cards?

sgibson5150 , 11 days ago to cat in A portrait of Unsinkable Sam. A cat who survived the sinking of three navy ships during WW2.

I’ll try my best to endure said ducking like the idiot man child that I am.

sgibson5150 , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to cat in A portrait of Unsinkable Sam. A cat who survived the sinking of three navy ships during WW2.

There’s a quest chain in Divinity Original Sin (2014) that involves a cat named Unsinkable Sam, original name Oscar, that I literally played for the first time over the weekend. I had no idea there was a possible historical basis for the character. Crazy coincidence that this was posted today.

Edit: Damn autocorrect

sgibson5150 , 14 days ago to asklemmy in What are you hoping to see happen in the future?

At this point, every day above ground is a good day.

sgibson5150 , 14 days ago to linux in New release Thunderbird 128 "Nebula"

Did they find a way to cram even more stuff into the title bar?

sgibson5150 , 15 days ago to technology in DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

Aye, looks like that’s where we be heading, maytee.

sgibson5150 , 15 days ago to technology in DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

The trap closes.

sgibson5150 , 16 days ago to news in Actor George Clooney, a high-profile Biden supporter and fundraiser, asks president to leave race

Agreed. Also, about the West Wing episode. Used to really love that show.

sgibson5150 , 16 days ago to news in Actor George Clooney, a high-profile Biden supporter and fundraiser, asks president to leave race

2018, right? But there hasn’t been a contested convention since the rule change. Could be quite the circus, for good or ill. Multiple ballots more likely? Guess we’ll see.

sgibson5150 , 16 days ago to news in Actor George Clooney, a high-profile Biden supporter and fundraiser, asks president to leave race

It’s not entirely democratic at the convention, even in a typical election cycle. Recall that 15% of the delegates are “unpledged party leaders and elected officials” (superdelegates).

That aside, I don’t think there’s a constitutional issue here with respect to replacing Biden. If Dems decided to select the candidate via musical chairs or Parcheesi, to my knowledge that’s a party matter (though voters would undoubtedly take a dim view of such antics).

sgibson5150 , 23 days ago to linux in [Bazzite] Important announcement regarding system updates [Action needed] - FYI

Finally got updated 😄👍

Logout still hangs on both X and Wayland sessions (KDE) 😫👎

sgibson5150 , 1 month ago to programmerhumor in Basically the extent of my IPv6 knowledge

I made an effort to learn it. In 2000. Again in 2012 or whenever the last big push was. If past is prologue, I may need to learn it again soon. 😆

sgibson5150 , 1 month ago to linux_gaming in Sorry I can't do it.

When I replaced Windows, I had two other disks with NTFS volumes, one of which was full of Steam games, the other with assorted crap. I built this box in 2017. The SSD where Windows was installed is only 256 GB.