California is adding a requirement for age verification for operating systems (or something like that) so each one of these violates that law by booting into linux.

Great argument, except Meta and several other companies have willingly shared data with ICE to help with arrests.

But I agree, these things should be taken care of with a warrant (or similar) with a defined scope.

Ukranian athlete has a helmet with the names of his fellow athletes that were killed in the war. IOC is telling him he is not allowed to wear it. He said he will wear it anyway.

I had high hopes for soundux but it just doesn’t compare to SoundPad (windows only). It’s a very finicky piece of software

TF = (what) the fuck

Sometimes people drop the “what” part

I have my update stuff put into a simple bash script that includes flatpak so that gets taken care of.

It still restarts and does the whole “Updating, please do not turn off your computer” screen. Does dnf take care of that all? Is it even necessary to restart?

Yeah it’s a shame the path Garmin is going :(

Also: Garmin recently enshittified by simultaneously adding an AI slop component that works by taking all of your recorded fitness and location data and doing gods know what with it, as well as a paid subscription tier to their obligatory smartphone app – the latter after explicitly promising for many years that they wouldn’t. So not only is their hardware expensive (and their owners are now rightly pissed), they’re also liars. I would not give them any money until they shape up, if I were you. Assuming they ever do…

Gadgetbridge works with most Garmin models. I have the Instinct 2 Solar and have never created a Garmin account or downloader the app.

“This update reinforces our culture that fosters discipline — and discipline equals readiness,” Michael R. Weimer, the sergeant major of the Army, said in the statement

Threatening to kick out 40,000 people doesn’t equal readiness.

A 2021 study in the journal Military Medicine said that grooming techniques and topical medications could be effective in treating mild-to-moderate cases of pseudofolliculitis barbae, but more severe cases responded best to laser therapy. Long-term shaving exemptions “may be needed for treatment-resistant cases,” the study said.

I saw many cases first-hand that did not resolve with topical treatments and would have led to scarring unless a permanent waiver was granted. Laser treatment is a terrible compromise on this issue - would you permanently alter yourself to conform to the standards or would you say “Fuck that” and get out when your contract ends?

With how bad the military as a whole is hurting for people, I’m surprised they’re threatening more bullshit like this.

I just bought a Sony BRAVIA 8 and it’s close to this. Never connected to WiFi. It goes directly to my HTPC input and I never see the home screen unless I want to.

Well god damn, that fixed it. What an odd issue.

Thanks a ton.

I have only the discrete GPU - no integrated GPU or anything. Wouldn’t any process with a GUI need to utilize the GPU?

I’ll give the discord a try

Is that not normal?

But that’s the thing - it’s been a persistent issue over the past 4 drivers. Just a permanent stutter no matter what I’m doing.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.04             Driver Version: 570.124.04     CUDA Version: 12.8     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti     Off |   00000000:07:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   59C    P0            116W /  350W |    1160MiB /  12288MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A            2966      G   /usr/bin/kwalletd6                        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3065      G   /usr/bin/kwin_wayland                    55MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3180      G   /usr/bin/maliit-keyboard                102MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3198      G   /usr/bin/Xwayland                         4MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3303      G   /usr/bin/ksmserver                        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3309      G   /usr/bin/kded6                            3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3353      G   /usr/bin/plasmashell                    198MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3438      G   /usr/bin/kaccess                          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3439      G   ...it-kde-authentication-agent-1          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3441      G   ...ibexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde          3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            3637      G   /usr/bin/kdeconnectd                      3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4108      G   /usr/bin/xwaylandvideobridge              3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4158      G   /usr/libexec/DiscoverNotifier             3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4292      G   keepassxc                                 3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4515    C+G   /usr/bin/sunshine                       253MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            5924      G   /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox              172MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A           56842      G   /usr/bin/konsole                          3MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Does it happen with all games or GL engagement, or just the heavier ones?

It’s just constant - the video I provided shows the UFO test. The stuttering is on the desktop.

What’s your memory util?

I don’t know what that is

Does your machine use swap when gaming?

No, 32 GB RAM. I rarely go above 40%.

Are you overclocking your memory or CPU freq?

No, using XMP settings

“Chat, which rock should I test first?”

The movie was really well done. It’s a simpler animation style so don’t expect Pixar level stuff, but the story and art direction are great.