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Yeah I don't recall it giving me any trouble I haven't seen before, I do remember the i/o shield was a tight fit but a lot of them are - the ones with the older style separate i/o shield. It can be a struggle to get all four corners to snap into place, and if one corner isn't in quite all the way it...

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Being that it's that channel I can't say I'm surprised lol! I rarely watch his stuff, especially after all the scummy stuff they've done.

I saw this posted on FB:

In 1984, Sarah Connor told Kyle Reese “They cannot make things like that yet.”
Kyle Reese said “Not yet. Not for about 40 years.”
That would be now. In 2024.

I have three of those cases, I've mostly used AMD based MSI boards in them - my primary gaming machine is in one and it has an MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge board (got it in 2019). One has an old Supermicro board, and the other one currently has the same Intel based MSI board as you have (I'm now using t...

Mate's compositor (Marco I think) works really well in that DE, prior to using Mate on some machines I had been disabling compositing everywhere for years, aside from occasionally testing Wayland where it can't be disabled. In Plasma it still significantly hurts stability, especially in Plasma 6, I'...

This is one spider that makes it easy to see why we have an instinctive fear of spiders.

I'm on it

Thanks Grogan.

That happens here too, during prolonged outages like the 24 hour+ outages I had to go through, the Internet connection goes out. Before solar the only way I'd know about it was via a text message on my phone from the ISP. It's running well for me in the Steam version, all I had to do was turn up the...

I'm going to spend some time in this game over the weekend. At some point I re-bought it on Steam.

After updating/rebooting I played a video and no freezes this time.

LGR did a look back at Unreal Tournament 2004 (as well as UT 2003) now that the game is 20 years old. UT 2003 is one UT release I never saw, and now I see I didn't miss much. I still like to go back and play UT 2004 once in a while.

He had prostate cancer so that may have been what did it.

And now a picture of expired OJ

Thanks, I see Mesa was updated in Slackware today: mesa-24.0.5-x86_64-1.txz I'll see how that does for now. The compositor occurred to me as a possible culprit since I did still have it enabled so I disabled it. I still had freezing videos though. This does seem to be limited to Slackware, and Slack...

Thanks Grogan. I'm pretty sure I was in kernel 6.8.4 at the time that happened, but on reboot, before I ran dmesg, it booted into the old LTS kernel despite my grub settings to boot the last booted kernel. It's a Radeon RX 6750 card that was trouble free in another machine for a long time and used f...

I noticed the last couple days in Slackware that YT videos would occasionally freeze while the audio continued. Then tonight both screens suddenly shutoff. I couldn't drop to a TTY, it wasn't responsive and ended up having to force a reboot. I didn't see anything obvious on running dmesg, except for...

I hadn't thought of that, guess that's one of the upsides to UEFI

That's good to hear

I think that MSI board has the worst implementation of UEFI I've ever worked with, it's much better on my Gigabyte board. But UEFI in general isn't that great. I remember the first time I encountered it during a distro install, I found it disgusting to be forced to have a Microsoft file system on my...

One way to find out while leaving your current Arch install intact would be a second Arch install on a second drive, it could just be some small cheap drive just for testing purposes. Then you could see first hand if it makes enough of a difference to bother with. If the difference isn't that signif...

This weekend I replaced the machine I use alongside the company laptop, replacing it with the Fractal box and MSI board I was trying to use as my main machine, I put the 12th gen i7 previously in it before I got the i9 back in it (the i9 is now in my Corsair box & Gigabyte board). I installed va...

Imagine trying to install one of those high end monster 4 slot cards (I think they're all Nvidia)

Glad to hear this one is working well

Some of the Windows fanboys are gloating over this now, claiming this as proof that open source is "inherently insecure". But they're ignoring the fact that it could just as easily happen to Windows via a rouge MS employee who hired on for the sole purpose of doing the same thing, building...

The backstory for this backdoor finally came out. I've been hearing suspicion that the developer who took control of the project is working on the behalf of a government. The story of the XZ backdoor’s discovery starts in the early morning of March 29th, as San Francisco-based Microsoft developer An...

It is weird. I've often had monitors briefly shutoff without even coming into contact with them or the table they were on, just by coming within a few feet of them.

After close to a week of taking a PPI everyday I feel a lot better, I'm not having any trouble sitting for extended periods now, and sleep is much better too. It's too bad this is a med I can only use short term because my daily reflux has been almost not noticeable. It's still there, but the acid l...

Besides checking the ratings for hardware guess we should also be looking at their RMA policies and what other buyers have reported about their RMA experiences. I got lucky with the XFX Radeon 7 card that died, XFX's RMA process worked well and I got a full refund. Maybe give their chat one more try...