cybersandwich

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Alright, I'm gonna "take one for the team" -- what is with the "downvote-happy" users lately?

Title. “lmao internet points” and all, but what is the point of participating in a community that sees assumptions and other commonly non-harmful commentaries/posts as “bad” this easily? Do folks in here are really that needy of self-validation, even if it means seeking such from something completely insignificant like...

cybersandwich,

Wasn’t the rule for one of the more popular Usenet groups: rule 1. Don’t be annoying 2. Don’t be easily annoyed

Tbh, that’s a pretty great foundation for any interactions on the web.

cybersandwich,

My mom is a professor and the shit she tells me about her students is insane. I overheard a call she was having with a student and basically the student was offended that simply scheduling a call wasnt enough to unfail her paper. Basically "I called you to talk about it so I didn’t fail, right?

Or the fact that they expect to be able to just turn in things whenever they want irrespective of a deadline…and then get offended when told their paper either won’t be accepted at all or docked for each day late it was.

cybersandwich,

I’ve heard the argument that we don’t really have a good definition of thinking or intelligence and if it can complete a task or do things…what does it matter if it’s “thinking” or not if the outcome is the same.

cybersandwich,

system76.com/laptops/lemur

14 hours of battery life. Linux out of the box and even has coreboot if you care about that sort of thing.

cybersandwich, (edited )

Wired has a good review on it:

Where the Lemur Pro really shines is battery life. System76 claims 14 hours, and I managed 11 hours in our battery drain test (looping a 1080p video). In real-world use, I frequently eked out over 13 hours. That’s off the charts better than any other Linux laptop I’ve tested recently.

www.wired.com/review/system-76-lemur-pro-laptop/

If you aren’t interested in MacBooks, this imo is one of the best alternatives–especially if battery life is a high priority.

cybersandwich,

I have an old drive with it in there. The drive is going bad so I haven’t messed with it too much. I never knew at the time why the development and shine faded so quickly.

cybersandwich,

Cobol devs that we had (while we spent insane money to retire their systems) we’re getting 300-500k/year.

I’m sure companies are trying to rip off any young new entrants but 90k seems super low.

I use linux for the same reason I wear fuzzy socks and sweaters

My understanding of the history of fashion is that back in the 1950s America it was expected that you wore a suit/dress at work unless you had a different uniform. There were a bunch of very boring people who thought that we should be wearing office job garb all the time, because they wore suits so much it was their default...

cybersandwich,

I ended up briefing some very senior leadership…in a hoody.

I brief that specific group on a regular basis and it’s usually fairly laid back but this particular meeting a new, very high profile person was attending to get up to speed. Apparently everyone knew but me because they were suited up and all of the ladies were wearing makeup and had their hair all nice. And there I was, the lead brief, in my hoody and jeans and scruffy beard.

After the meeting I realized that it probably worked in my favor. Some sort of psychological “this guy must be really good because he dgaf about dressing to impress”.

Plus I think their is exactly as you said a stereotype that the better you are at your IT stuff the less put together you have to be.

cybersandwich,

My dad passed away two years ago and I wish I had followed through with doing video interviews of him. Asking him questions about life, having him tell the same stories he’d already told 100x. I wish I had those.

I am already starting to do that for my daughter who is only 9 months old.

cybersandwich,

And it has vim motions!?

cybersandwich,

That’s exactly how you should respond. I’ve been on the requester for some of these and if my team gave me that as a response I’d just say “let me know what you find out or when you know more.”

cybersandwich,

How many widgets have we transferred to acme this year?

Simple enough question right?

But then when you look at the data, each region works with acme’s local offices differently. Some transfer using one method, some offices mark the transfer in the system as “other firm”. Oh, and we don’t even get a data feed from the north west region because they still haven’t upgraded their shit so I can request a spreadsheet but it’s in a different format than everything else.

Then inevitably Acme has a different number of widgets that have been transfered. Because if a transfer gets kicked back or cancelled, it’s easier to just create a new transfer rather than go fix an old one because that process is laborious and requires tons of approvals so they just create a new transfer and send it over.

But yea, 20 minutes should be enough time to get you that before your meeting with Acme.

cybersandwich,

Kinda just seems like arguing because you have nothing better to do.

You don’t seem confused at all. You summed it up nicely.

cybersandwich, (edited )

Seriously. I’d be interested in the benchmarks

Edit. I should have looked closer. They have the benchmarks on the GitHub.

cybersandwich,

Sometimes that’s reasonable. If the stuff you need doesn’t work, fighting it or pushing that boulder up hill is not worth it.

You may not realize certain things are deal breakers until they are stating you in the face.

cybersandwich,

I would count myself among the people who dont have a huge attachment to x11 and am excited by the modern approach provided by wayland.

Ultimately, I just want my stuff to work. I am running pop and I tried booting into wayland, since they provide that as an option, but I was getting hardlocks. Something I haven’t had on a PC in over a decade. According to the log files it appeared to be related to wayland, so I switched back to x11 and haven’t had any issues since.

I am happy to switch to wayland, but I’ll be waiting on the pop devs to make it a focus–presumably after cosmic DE is out.

cybersandwich,

A special shout out to the people who do it with Bluetooth speakers on hiking trails.

cybersandwich,

You know. I was just thinking my window management hasn’t been as performant as I’d like. I really need my windows to move a bit faster.

cybersandwich,

Thats kept me from blogging really. It seems…conceited ?

But I’ve reframed it in my head and blog about things just so I remember them or post recipes so they are easier to find and pull up. My site is like my “scratch notes”. If someone else finds it helpful, cool. Its more for me to have a place where I can go look up things I did with my homelab or send a link to my wife so she can make the beef stew we like.

cybersandwich,

We all know more than 8 cores is bloat.

cybersandwich,

This make me actually spit coffee out. I don’t know why but it caught me off guard and I found it hilarious.

cybersandwich,

Wait, you guys are getting laid??

cybersandwich,

Can you use the AMF encoder on Radeon cards with this?

cybersandwich,

I should have said with the mesa drivers. :(

cybersandwich,

Does it really? I know when I looked into it a bit ago the main dev for nobara had a video about how to install it and use it but it didn’t let you split that out. You could quickly change back and forth between mesa and amdgpu but if you tried to run amf with mesa it would hard lock and crash

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