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I firmly believe that a “crustless ice mantle” meets the definition of an ocean.
- Comment on Gender 1 month ago:
No factory default due to data corruption, so I uninstalled it as bloat. Then I wrote a few of my own to play with, but instead of dynamically assigning at boot I set up hotswapping.
- Comment on Mafs innit 1 month ago:
Is that what they call an upside-down cake?
- Comment on Hey nerd 1 month ago:
That word is especially disgusting because we all know Bill Gates chose it so he could name his company after his penis.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
I searched “gtx 1660 vs amd” and saw that your card is usually compared to the rx 590 from amd on speed tests, with similar results. Price is also similar.
One example that includes the prices I was comparing. I have used neither card. I’m not familiar with that website. Do your own research before making a purchase,
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
What motivated you to switch branches? Did it solve another issue? Why were you not on the latest branch yesterday, ie, why did you roll back originally? Does one driver work better for some games, and another driver works better for others?
Nvidia drivers are jank. I honestly haven’t touched them since 2017. I remember having to reboot and switch drivers to switch games I was playing with friends and finding the whole experience annoying as hell. I realized that Linus Torvalds was right, fuck nvidia, AMD is the way to go. Have not had to touch anything with my drivers since switching. All of my interactions with nvidia since have confirmed that they are not a company deserving of my patronage.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
Please try versions 535 and 470.
See if either fixes your issues.
You need to reboot after switching. It’ll take you 30 mins max, even if neither works and you have to switch back.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
There’s usually only like 5 tracks. “What’s recommended” is nouveau, which works but not for gaming. It’s recommended because it’s open source and can do most things that the proprietary nvidia drivers can do. Nvidia is really bad at maintaining their drivers, and different drivers work better for different cards.
Nvidia sucks. Switch to AMD and never have a problem again. Or spend an hour testing each of the proprietary options maintained in the debian repos, and most likely find that at least one of them works. Until an update to the drivers or kernel comes along, and breaks it again, so you have to play around with driver versions and kernel versions to find a combo that works. That’s less likely to happen if you stick with a debian-based distro vs a bleeding-edge distro like arch.
And buy AMD for your next machine to send a message to nvidia that their driver support sucks!
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
Each nvidia card works better or worse with different version releases of nvidia drivers. Older cards usually need smaller version numbers. Since you are running mint, all versions you need to test should be in the default repos. Try different drivers and see if you can find the right one for your card.
apt-cache search nvidiashould give you a list of options, which you can install with
apt-get install. - Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 2 months ago:
Star Trek really was overly optimistic.
Star Trek future now!
- Comment on Shart, not fart 2 months ago:
Just keep waiting.
- Comment on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation 2 months ago:
s/Fire/Nationalize/
- Comment on Olympic anime 3 months ago:
How is America the worst at shooting?
It’s almost as if the gun culture here is obsessed with something other than sportsmanship.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 4 months ago:
Potato plants absolutely have flowers. Have you ever grown one? Be careful with the potato flowers and fruits. They are poisonous nightshade.
- Comment on Wood smells like we should be able to eat it, but we can't. 4 months ago:
It only gets boiled down to pure sugar. You boil off or break down a lot of the aromatics and volatiles in the original sap to make syrup. It gets processed by boiling to concentrate the sugar and reduce the presence of the rest of what the tree was living on. Maple sap does not become “pure sugar” (maple syrup) until after it gets the good stuff processed out.
- Comment on Space Alert 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Space Alert 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
I love organic maps and openstreetmaps. The biggest thing missing is satellite view. I like to wander around and explore an area on maps before visiting. OSM has more interesting/relevant details and better visual color coding than the vector street map on google. Google has a satellite map, which is non-negotiable for me especially if I need to quickly orient myself while driving in a new place. I use three layers loaded into qgis for planning trips: OSM, google maps satellite, and a topographic map from USGS. I sometimes use organic maps on my phone if I don’t have access to a computer with qgis. I rely on Google while on location because organic maps lacks a satellite feed.
Having that satellite feed get bogged down with ads is suddenly a distraction that I don’t want while driving and might get me off of google entirely. I just wish organic maps had a satellite base layer so my path off of google for nav would be clear.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 6 months ago:
It’s a thermostat.
I’m coming from a field where supporting software written in the 70s is the norm.
Your argument is horribly short-sighted and wasteful.
Only 16 years old is extremely recent software that ought to be easily maintained in any sane world.
- Comment on xkcd #2889: Greenhouse Effect 9 months ago:
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 10 months ago:
Fallout: New Vegas.
I spent many hours wandering the desert, being a completionist 100%ing all of the side quests I could find, finding all the stables, comparing lore and storylines with FoE, exploring, meeting people and comparing the geology to maps I looked up. Fabulous game, and I had a great time. I just never went into Vegas. I’ve honestly been considering another play through, but I will probably skip Vegas again out of principle.