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Yes, that's significant if something isn't going to fail in 30 days. I'm going to make sure I use the shit out of this new video card in the first 30 days lol Reading that language on Asrock's website, I'd have never bought anything had I seen it before. We'll see how they do after I actually contac...

I spoke too soon on the keyboard light ESD thing. While I haven't had the behaviour while sitting at it typing (pretty sure that's not going to happen anymore, it would have by now), when I came back from being out, I walked up and discharged underneath the keyboard and the 3 lock status lights blin...

Guess what the ESD/EMI problem was all along? That's right, the video card. Something on it must have been shorting to ground. I know it's fixed for real now, I can shuffle my feet on the carpet, walk up on the vinyl mat, touch the computer with both hands... snap. Nothing happens and I tried it sev...

It seems Newegg is a circle jerk too. The "chat" is a bot that tells me "I'm sorry, I can't locate the information you requested" and "chat with a representative" leads to "we're sorry, live chat is unavailable" and it directs me to self help. Also, I notice t...

Asrock's website seems very unhelpful, all I'm seeing are reasons they aren't going to help me. RMA's are only for "Authorized Dealers in the U.S." and I'm to contact my seller. It's like "if you're an end user, you can email support if you want, but...". Then they go on to tell ...

Sonofabitch... neither of those games will even run on this card. Neither Starfield nor Far Cry 6. In both cases I tried renaming their config files but neither game will launch. The card is way below system requirements, but that doesn't usually mean the game won't launch at all. Jeeze. Ahh well, I...

I'm thinking about this: https://www.amazon.ca/GIGABYTE-Graphics-WINDFORCE-GV-R77XTGAMING-OC-12GD/dp/B0CGC5P7H3/ Originally I wanted something in the RX 6700 series because I wanted to stay a series behind for the drivers. This is a RX 7700 XT. I've given up on sub-$500 lol Fuck those stupid, cheape...

... and just guess what the actual problem is. The Assrock RX 6700 XT card beshat itself and died. Last night was a warning. I didn't have any more trouble until tonight, playing Far Cry 6. Well, it died in the same way, only this time for good. Those page faults were a symptom, not the cause. I pul...

Linux 6.8.4 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.8.4 All reverts to backported workqueue patches that caused regressions. P.S. I found a bugzilla report for this, it can cause the kernel to be unable to unhook things to hibernate and stuff. Stuck work queues etc. That could be wh...

Heh... blacklist ahci blacklist kvm_intel blacklist fuse blacklist dm_mod (in /etc/modprobe.d/whatever.conf) That takes care of all unnecessary modules (and their dependencies). I'll load those manually (in whatever scripts I use to initiate things that would use them anyway) if I need them. Using t...

Something else. This is the first time I've even had to look at logs in 4+ years. I got poxxed off with the way journald was usurping the socket, making it difficult to use syslogd without piping from journald first, and shut logging off altogether. I never once, missed not having logs on Manjaroo/A...

Unrecoverable, ended up in a hard boot and me fscking filesystem errors from my other OS (probably the stupid fucking journald databases) which is what I do when I have a bad shutdown so it won't be mounted and I can fix serious errors if they exist. These weren't, just journal rollback and inconsis...

That's because you're using the fat distro config lol We need to get you sorted out on how to build a modern kernel for yourself (when you get time and are feeling better etc.) I thought 5 megs was big, but a lot of that code is monolithic to support a lot of different hardware and conditions. Not o...

For today's kernel build, I took the opportunity to remove some legacy cruft that I'm just never going to use anymore. Removed PS/2 port, keyboard and mouse support (my keyboard doesn't expose any PS/2 logic to the OS anymore, it's the USB converter device now) and the ps/2 driver library. Removed s...

Heh... I went to install xpdf today and noticed that Arch links theirs against QT6. I don't want any of my software dependent on that (I don't have it installed) so I went to grab the PKGBUILD. There, I noticed they are applying part of a debianal patchset. Just the patch that wraps enforcement of d...

It's kernel time... Linux 6.8.3. We're not worthy (it's been a while) https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.8.3 drm/sched: fix null-ptr-deref in init entity commit f34e8bb7d6c6626933fe993e03ed59ae85e16abb upstream. The bug can be triggered by sending an amdgpu_cs_wait_ioctl to the...

By the way, no, the game doesn't let you do what you want. I didn't get into any trouble for popping that CEO (because of no witnesses I presume, the shot was only heard) but I got in to manufactured trouble (I think it was scripted) and got arrested by the UC (corporate authority that think they ru...

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/124.0.2/releasenotes/ Fixed an issue where users with a large amount of bookmarks would be unable to restore a bookmarks backup. (Bug 1884308) Fixed an issue that would cause open Firefox windows to go blank or crash during video playback on sites such as Netfli...

You'd think "I can't sleep like that!" but when it's the only way, your body will take what it can get (after a few days).

Sorry to hear it's gotten so bad. That sounds awful to have to wait that long to get anything done for something so debilitating.

Hope the PPI meds help tonight.

We seem to have a Firefox 124.0.2, but no release notes https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/124.0.2/ Maybe it's related to embedded liblzma compression in some codec or something. P.S. Got mine done in half an hour, while I was upstairs snacking and stuff. It doesn't even interfere with gam...

Interesting article at The Reg. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/30/furygpu_xilinx_fpga_graphics/ The 'most painful' part? Coding the Windows drivers :lol: He has to pretty much port OpenGL to his creation. OK, it's just a hobbyist project. It would only ever be capable of running 2000 era games ...

I'll post this here because it's somewhat related. I went in to update my credit card info at Amazon Prime, so they wouldn't miss a payment. They automatically updated to my new expiry date (and won't actually let me in there to see the settings, I'd have to add a new card and remove that one). I do...

I'll be fine in a day or two (feeling a bit better now even) but that's a good idea, a wireless keyboard/mouse combo (just takes one receiver then). It's one thing to play with a controller sitting in the chair where I can still access keyboard if I don't know how to activate something with the cont...

My Xbox 360 controller cord reaches to the recliner, but unless it's a game I'm highly familiar with (e.g. Mass Effect) it's not really practical. I tried to play Starfield like that and there's no way I'd figure out those controls blindly lol At least I can watch old shows I've been meaning to get ...

I feel like I've been hit by one of those. I've been fucked... I pulled a muscle right around my kidney and I've been in sickening pain where all I want to do is huddle with a blanket in my recliner or brief periods in bed (worse). I can't even make the end of that video, I can't sit in this chair a...

That's essentially the command I used for Arch. It's the efibootmgr back end that caused me the problem. I only had one bootloader too, so there was no confusion.

That's pretty bad when you can't trust a project's developer. Maybe he was compromised. Arch has this fixed with 5.6.1-2 pkgrels. P.S. In looking at the PKGBUILD, they switched to an upstream git repo, because the compromised github one is locked. They also removed the malcious dev's keys so they ca...

This game seems to let you do whatever the Hell you want. I'm with my organization's benefactor (Walter Stroud, CEO of Stroud-Eckland, a ship manufacturing company). We're in this mining colony town built on a platform, Neon, meeting a clandestine buyer to obtain a stolen artifact. I have to find th...

Shit... I thought I answered this but must not have finished composing it. I've been blacking right out at my computer at the end of the night/morning, and waking up so stunned I have trouble replying to posts and then even shutting down my computer (root password fumble, shutdown -h fumble lol). It...