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He/Him. Formerly [email protected].

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FWIW, I've got an i7-8700k with an RTX 3080. I initially had two major issues when I replaced Windows with Bazzite:

  1. Steam doesn't do great with libraries on NTFS partitions. Supposedly there are workarounds, but I couldn't get them to work for me. I had to reformat a couple drives as ext4 (and do a bunch of file management in the process) before things would play nice.

  2. I had my CPU overclocked to 4.8 GHz in Windows. BG3 kept crashing on me on Bazzite. Finally occurred to me to drop the overclock and I've played 40+ hours since, solid as a rock. Performance is comparable to Windows with OC. GPU temps are consistently better than Windows. Only thing I'm missing is HDR.

Bonus: GreenWithEnvy (for GPU fan curve) won't run in a Wayland session yet, apparently, so I've been running under X11 instead.

Hope this helps. YMMV. Happy gaming, whatever OS you use!

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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.

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Maybe it just caught me on a good day but I enjoyed this one despite the lame Tom Marvalo Riddle/I am Lord Voldemort Rowling retread reveal.

Edit: Mrs. Flood is definitely The Master, though, right? 😆

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Eric's wife became co-chair of the RNC in March. It's MAGA all the way down.

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It's so bad. 🙈

Wild Blue Yonder is the only watchable RTD2 episode so far IMO. Haven't seen Boom. May not bother.

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I was already sick of all the freaking Taylor Swift ads but Roku announcing that video ads are coming to the home screen was the last straw for me. Finally set up a Pi-hole and Roku ads are gone. I know it's an ongoing war and this is just one battle, but damn it's nice right now. I even became a supporter on Patreon. ❤️

I still run uBlock Origin on all my browsers, though.

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My dodgy friend, I have appealed to my wife not once or twice but three times that we should drop all our subs and return to those placid waters that I sailed in my younger days. She has yet to relent in her view that we should stay on the right side of the law. I look for any opportunity to press my advantage. Do you have a suggestion as to the perfect argument that will sway her?

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Solid suggestions! I'll keep at it.

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Interesting! I didn't know this was a thing.

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LMAO are you trying to get me divorced

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I've had this happen to me. I suspect it's one sad MRA type with a pile of accounts bringing the downvotes. He can sense when I post anything remotely respectful of women because his pee pee hurts. 😆

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We don't keep bread in the house anymore but occasionally I want cinnamon toast. Nuke a little butter, mix in sugar & cinnamon, enjoy on saltines. It's a little messy because the sugar and butter won't completely emulsify but it scratches that itch when I'm baked.

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I feel this. Depression can be like a comfy blanket.

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I wonder if they ever did the Anne Rice Sleeping Beauty series as audiobooks, because that would probably get you where you want to go. 😆

Edit: They did, because of course they did. From Wikipedia:

In 1994, the abridged audio versions of the first three books were published in cassette form. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty was read by actress Amy Brenneman. Beauty's Punishment was read by Elizabeth Montgomery (known for her role in the ABC situation comedy Bewitched) as Beauty with Michael Diamond as Tristan, and Beauty's Release was read by Montgomery with actor Christian Keiber reading as Laurent.[2] A compact disc version of the audiobooks was read by Genviere Bevier and Winthrop Eliot.[3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleeping_Beauty_Quartet

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Please clarify if you would. What is a "hipster vibe"?

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Is using Linux a trend? Microsoft must be pissing themselves in fear atop their giant pile of money. 😄

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I use Photon on Android Firefox in light mode. Shocked the hell out of me, too! I use dark mode for everything else.

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I think Frankensteinian would work based off second definition of Frankenstein from m-w dot com.

2: a monstrous creation
especially : a work or agency that ruins its originator

Frankensteinian is the adjective form.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Frankenstein

Testing if VRR is active and working

I recently updated to fedora 40 and enabled the experimental setting to get VRR running. But I am an idiot who has been playing at frames rates between 30-60 on screens without VRR for almost all of my life so I can't even know if VRR is actually working or not. Is there some rest I can run to see if VRR is functional¿? If not,...

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Will your display device or associated equipment tell you? My home theater receiver has a signal info button that will display the refresh rate or VRR, if enabled. Also has HDR mode if any, as well as audio input & output formats.

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Alas. Hope you find a way to verify your set up!

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    I could live in this world. I'd happily tolerate the RPN to end capitalism.

    When relaying the Swatch time, do you have to say "n dot beats" or it just "n beats"?

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    My bad. I misread it as AnCom. I wouldn't have said that if I'd read AnCap. Thanks for the lecture.

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    GTFO! TIL.

    sgibson5150 OP ,
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    LMAO have an upvote. Happy Friday!

    sgibson5150 OP ,
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    We are asking the tough questions today. I'm proud of us and I think we should take the rest of the day off.

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    To paraphrase Professor Farnsworth, "That would require tiny hadrons. Do you know how much those things cost? I'm not made of money."

    (This comment was edited.)

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    Is that what the kids call it these days? 🤭

    sgibson5150 OP ,
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    I took their comment as a joke. Please be nice to @Thorny_Insight. ✌️

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    Yay!

    sgibson5150 OP ,
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    It's raining Bens! Hallelujah! It's raining Bens!

    sgibson5150 OP ,
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    I appreciate your definitiveness. Happy Friday my friend. ✌️

    sgibson5150 OP ,
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    "It's five o'clock and all is well, you cunts." 😄

    sgibson5150 OP ,
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    Ahh I'd never seen that! How adorable.

    sgibson5150 OP ,
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    There's no need for insults! 😄

    sgibson5150 ,
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    I've threatened more than once that I was going to quit and take up potato farming. Potatoes are good. 👍

    sgibson5150 ,
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    I can't remember exactly when I stopped installing mIRC when I built a new PC, but it's been a while. Is DALnet still around?

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    Ah, far out. Thank you for the info. Maybe I'll load up an IRC client and check them out!

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    I came here to say Cannibal Holocaust. That movie fucking traumatized me.

    Some honorable mentions:
    Under the Skin 2013
    The Witch 2015
    The Neon Demon 2016

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    Doesn't seem to have impacted Wireguard.

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    I don't like it when I encounter them in the source material, like the council scene in Fellowship "One does not simply ______". It creates a sort of dissonance that takes me out of what I'm watching. They're sort of like malware for the brain from that perspective.

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    Biden's original pick got jammed up in the Senate and finally withdrew their name from consideration. This wasn't resolved until last September.

    https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/09-7-2023/fcc-deadlock-vote-senate/

    What is the name of the actor from Breaking Bad who had the A- tattoo on his arm?

    I have been searching for this person’s name for years, after people have pointed out my own blood type tattoo. Mine is for medical reasons. Anyway, after having people jokingly reference the scene where Jesse says, “A minus? Why not an A plus?” I haven’t been able to find the scene online, or the actor’s name on any...

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    Out of curiosity I did some searching yesterday and the only thing I turned up was this post. I didn't realize search engines crawled the Fediverse!

    Hope you find what you're looking for. ✌️

    Android app dependency? ( slrpnk.net )

    I have found the translation from camera source feature useful in Google Translate and I use it from time to time. Last night was one such occasion, yet when I attempted to enable camera mode, I received the message shown in the screenshot, "Please install the latest Google app in order to use camera translation". I currently...

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    I haven't had the opportunity to test on another brand phone but atm I'm assuming from the developer statement that this will be true of Google Translate on all Android phones. Thanks for your contribution, though.

    Edit: If the Google app is disabled on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, the same behavior occurs.

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    I'm fascinated that at the time of this writing, this post has 17 upvotes and 41 downvotes. The article is consistent with other reporting I've seen recently on this topic and it would seem to fit the community. Why all the downvotes?

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