Actually, the G in GPU stands for Giraffe. Hardware has gotten quite sophisticated over the years, and are no longer optimized for rendering triangles. If you can render a giraffe you can render anything.

Good safety glasses are awesome. When heading home after a field-job, I always bring a pair.

I go through a lot of these, as I tend to forget them all over, but the gist of my strategy is this:

• As dark as possible
• I prefer non-polarized, as polarized sunglasses tend to interfere with plane cockpits and car HUDs
• Big enough to cover most of my sight angles
• I never liked those thick nose bridges, as I find them too hipster-y
• Other than the above, IDGAF about how they look. I wear them for me, not for others.

Brand sunglasses (raybans, Oakley, etc) are OK, but I generally find that they’re not very durable. The glasses resist scratching very well, but the frames could be a lot stronger.

Yup. Any impacted component that survives means that the force was transferred to the driver instead.

Modern cars look worse after a collision for a reason: If it collapses/crumples, it means that it absorbed some of the forces applied to it rather than transferring it on.

It said 1~2 originally

Still more plausible than 1W

Yeah, it sounds more plausible like it’s amperes

A raspy W is like 20 bucks each, and has a tiny footprint. Cheaper than the screen itself probably, and simpler than having to reconfigure the amount of displays based on available flavors in the setup.

Plus, I hear the systemd flavor is pretty good.

You’ve never had to bike over to a friend’s house 8km away to download a modem driver and copy it onto a floppy and bike back home only to realize that the floppy had bad sectors and you had to do it all over again, and it shows.

That’s just the way network hardware has always been, regardless of OS.

Yes, but it’s easy to work around.

Source: I bought a brand new Lenovo Legion autumn 2024, and the GPU needed a very recent nvidia driver, which in turn needed a newer kernel than what was available by default. I had to install a mainline kernel, and download nvidia driver from their site. Took maybe 30 minutes to get it up and running properly.

After 30 years of playing whack-a-mole with piracy sites, this time it will surely help.

One can argue that Linux Mint isn’t that up to date. But in my opinion, it’s up to date enough.

It’s new enough that you’re not living in the digital medieval era, and at the same time, any software installed is for the most part mature, well tested, and stable. And I find that more important than bleeding edge versioning.

And on the few occasions where I need something newer than what can be found in the standard repos, there’s always the option of building from git or adding additional sources.

I’ve been a linux user off and on in varying capacity since the 90s, combined with some FreeBSD, but linux was only a secondary OS on my desktop until I made the complete switch once I saw the trajectory of Windows 8.

Mint reminds me of how Windows 7 was designed: Simply a good OS.

Depending on the breed, males are often fluffier too.

The famous Lassie is actually played by a male dog due to the thicker coat

If I was a mod here I’d lock this post with “duplicate” as a parody.

SO was good 10-15 years ago, but it has gotten bogged down in a combination of user elitism, mod incentives to do anything, and outdated answers remaining canonical.

• User elitism: You see this anywhere else too. Older users hold power on the site, and this tends to result in walling out those with actual refreshing ideas.

• Mod incentives: The system rewards mod actions, even if those actions aren’t the correct one. For example, closing a question as duplicate, even if it’s not, rewards the closer.

• Due to the above, the “correct” answer to a question never gets updated, and it doesn’t take later versions into account. As such the site becomes a collection of outdated answers to questions that may or may not still be relevant.

Source: Formerly prolific user of multiple stackexchange sites

No, my granny promised that he was just putting the stamp on the eggs!

Yes. One of the reasons why piefed is so popular is because of improved mod tools.

It works when money can purchase what is actually needed in detail, and the people on the receiving end are competent.

I heard it’s a Mastodon thing

Two days ago via discord. I don’t live anywhere near the few friends we have, so Mondays and Wednesdays are two days per week where we have the evenings schedules cleared of anything related to spouses, work, offspring, and general adulting.

Those hours are usually spent gaming together, or just general chitchat. These days it’s usually Project Zomboid, and the dedicated server I’ve set up only runs on those days with a fixed set of hours (thanks, cron!), To ensure that we play together rather than someone soloing during the off-hours. Though getting PZ to play nicely with systemd was a PITA.

And if someone were to miss the times lot, then they only missed a few hours total - Yhings will mostly remain as they were last time they played.

I remember buying a CD set of FreeBSD 3.3 back in the day. Partially to support the project, and partially because the alternative was to download it over 33.6baud where I paid per minute.