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Re: Far Cry 6
Heheh... some crazy shit happened tonight in this game. A treasure hunt, with a supply drop on the top of mountain, because this fool radioed in the wrong coordinates. Fearing retribution for his screw up, he tried to climb. I found his body, with a note that he broke his arms and legs trying. He co...
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
- Replies: 17
- Views: 143
Re: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
I remember the good old days, when all you needed to rent a place was a wad of cash (if you had first and last month's rent in cash, they wouldn't want to let you leave lol). I remember when I was a 16 year old kid, I got kicked out of one place (at the end of the month) but I just went the next day...
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Universal Software
- Topic: More GUI traps
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6
More GUI traps
Holy Hell, just how is an octogenarian supposed to function in this day and age? Muggins here had to do some secretarial work (involved manual scanning of receipts and adjusting contrast so they show up etc. and making a PDF for attachment rather than their automated, multi-page PDF, sheet feed sett...
- Wed May 08, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: Arch Linux 2024
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13644
Re: Arch Linux 2024
So yesterday, I noticed Arch was starting to override package names with git revision using the pkgver() function. I noticed this while merging my changes into the latest glibc PKGBUILD (new yesterday). That's ugly, but it solves the problem I've been complaining about where all they do is bump the ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: Arch Linux 2024
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13644
Re: Arch Linux 2024
Hah... I upgraded to gcc 14.1.0 today (ahead of Arch). I noted some more new things that used to be warnings are errors now (and some new warnings that are errors). I'm thinking I don't build much old code these days and I can work around it if I do. -Werror=int-conversion -Werror=implicit-function-...
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
- Replies: 17
- Views: 143
Re: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
That was all I could get out last night (had to head to the big chair lol) but I was also thinking this is the first time I've heard of a house flipping vulture cutting the homeowner a cheque with a percentage of the profits. Usually they just prey on people who need real estate taken off their hand...
- Tue May 07, 2024 7:44 am
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
- Replies: 17
- Views: 143
Re: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
Wow, that's moving fast. They must really want to flip houses.
- Mon May 06, 2024 6:34 am
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: "I Am This Old"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 15
Re: "I Am This Old"
Yeah, before that was a blinking DOS prompt where it was safe to physically turn off your computer.
I remember that, and the AT power connectors... they'd happily let you connect them the wrong way and pop both your power supply and your motherboard
"black to black"
I remember that, and the AT power connectors... they'd happily let you connect them the wrong way and pop both your power supply and your motherboard
"black to black"
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:47 am
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Proton and Wine
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4786
Re: Proton and Wine
I tried Serious Sam Fusion for a bit tonight. The native Vulkan one, that's been beta since 2017 lol The last time I tried that was about a year ago, I'd not tested it on the new box yet. It worked OK, I turned off vsync and set the framerate limit to 120 FPS (Vsync isn't really useful if my display...
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Weird issues last night
- Replies: 2
- Views: 42
Re: Weird issues last night
After all that I played Far Cry 6 (my most motherfuckinest game... using DXR and Ultra everything) without any trouble. I then watched youtube videos until I fell asleep and woke up and shut down. I started up without any incident when I got up today. I also switched back to the beta Steam client. I...
- Sun May 05, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Weird issues last night
- Replies: 2
- Views: 42
Weird issues last night
I came home last night, powered up my computer, started Steam and when the UI appeared, some corrupted lines appeared on the desktop behind it. (My crimson night wallpaper). I figured a redraw of the screen would correct that as usual if something like that ever happens. The reason would be because ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Proton and Wine
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4786
Re: Proton and Wine
Sometimes when you suddenly get a stupid achievement, it's because they've added new ones to the game since you last played it. When they do that, it throws off the stats too, like "3% of players have this achievement". Yeah, because it's a 5 year old game that nobody is playing, that you ...
- Sun May 05, 2024 4:16 am
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: Slow Steam downloads?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 29
Slow Steam downloads?
I've had somewhat shitty downloads in Steam for some time now, often not getting it at my full speed (which isn't exactly breakneck by today's standards... I have a 100 Mbit connection, that's about 120'ish so I get 14 to 15 Mb/s downloads at most). However, nothing like my nephew had. We noticed it...
- Sun May 05, 2024 3:36 am
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
- Replies: 17
- Views: 143
Re: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
Why yes, The Government Is There To Help (themselves)
The problem with rural areas is shitty communications infrastructure though.
The problem with rural areas is shitty communications infrastructure though.
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:42 am
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
- Replies: 17
- Views: 143
Re: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
That's where I'm at too, this was always home base where most of my stuff could stay. Eventually this house is going to go up for sale (even if my parents don't, I wouldn't be able afford to keep it... the property taxes etc. would dwindle money right quick without more constantly coming in from inv...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:08 am
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
- Replies: 17
- Views: 143
Re: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
Yeah, I doubt your work will be too understanding of disruptions. (or are you going to have to quit that because they insist on having you report to an office etc.?)
It's a big ordeal though, moving. I always feel kind of lost, packing shit up to move. Your life, in a fucking box.
It's a big ordeal though, moving. I always feel kind of lost, packing shit up to move. Your life, in a fucking box.
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: heh... my qemu still runs
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5074
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
I didn't want to blow away the whole machine, having to reconfigure it is more significant than blowing away a Windows installation itself :lol: The only way that could work would be a different TPM string every time. Otherwise Microsoft would just blacklist them, I'm certain. (what else could they ...
Re: Starfield
So this "New Game+" is kind of cool. I skipped the story part and got right to getting artifacts and finding temples to acquire powers. I thought I had all the Starborn powers, but when you acquire the same power again, it upgrades it to version II (currently). Also the new playthrough ope...
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: New Kernel
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6737
Re: New Kernel
It's Linux 6.8.9 time
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... eLog-6.8.9
Bluetooth fixes
network PHI fixes
dmaengine fixes
graphics fixes
etc.
I was going to skip it until I got to:
drm/amdgpu: Fix leak when GPU memory allocation fails
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... eLog-6.8.9
Bluetooth fixes
network PHI fixes
dmaengine fixes
graphics fixes
etc.
I was going to skip it until I got to:
drm/amdgpu: Fix leak when GPU memory allocation fails
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: heh... my qemu still runs
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5074
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
Ahh fuck, the one time I wouldn't want this, Windows automatically activated itself based on my fake TPM. I completely blew it away (repartitioned and everything) and said "I don't have a product key" during setup and it did this anyway the instant I installed network drivers in Windows :l...
- Thu May 02, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: heh... my qemu still runs
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5074
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
I decided that I'm just not going to do it at this time. Why do I even care... it's just that I can't stand it when I could have something better and I don't lol The Windows 11 VM is just to get some screenshots for the article I could be working on instead of fighting with this poo. I don't need 3D...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:17 am
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
- Replies: 17
- Views: 143
Re: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
California is probably one of the most expensive places in the world to live, so yeah, if you can stomach relocating, you could have a much better existence.
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Asking AI to Create all countries as Super Villains
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3339
Re: Asking AI to Create all countries as Super Villains
Yeah, that's one of the "stereotypical" ones I had in mind
- Wed May 01, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
- Replies: 17
- Views: 143
Re: Looks Like I'll Have To Sell The House
That's sad to hear. You work your fucking ass off and still can't have nice things. It's a mean, cut throat society. If you already have nice things, they'll fix that. I hope you can work something out to avoid it, you've put so much into it. Too bad we couldn't like found the next biggest Internet ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: heh... my qemu still runs
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5074
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
So that Looking Glass does use libvirt and Spice for some of it. What's kind of promising about this is that it will plug into virt-manager (have to edit some XML etc.) but it's libvirt. It's only for Windows guests, but also would just be used for Windows guests.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: heh... my qemu still runs
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5074
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
I'm looking at that other software though. Maybe another front end would be better now, or just bite the bullet and configure qemu by hand in the command line. I have all the functionality and external stuff now, unlike before in my LFS. I do think my problem with the clipboard is because virt-manag...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: Linux and Unix
- Topic: heh... my qemu still runs
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5074
Re: heh... my qemu still runs
I would actually like to attach another monitor to the Intel graphics ports for this. The one on the other desk. I think I could even do it with normal cable length just by moving the desk, and the monitor on it a bit closer but up to 10 feet cable length seems like it would be practical for Display...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: The submitted form is invalid...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 34
The submitted form is invalid...
Sometimes I'll go to submit a post and it doesn't submit, it comes right back to the composition. It'll display a red error (in this style, anyway) above, "The submitted form is invalid. Try submitting again". No text is lost, and it goes through when clicking Submit again. I think I figur...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Discussion Forum
- Topic: Random Stuff, Seen on the net that made me LoL
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10119
Re: Random Stuff, Seen on the net that made me LoL
It sounds counter-intuitive, but that makes sense. When the wheels aren't spinning, or not spinning very fast, there's no need to waste energy powering a drive shaft that's not engaged, or inhibited by gearing and braking. You can be charging the batteries with the unused current being generated whe...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Universal Software
- Topic: Firefox and Librewolf
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9991
Re: Firefox and Librewolf
So I was right about it being specifically SSE 4.2 causing it to bomb out with anything higher than -march=core2 used.
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-march=alderlake -mno-sse4.2