FBJimmy

joined 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Yelp still exists!?

Who is finding a McDonalds location on their phone's map app and then thinking "I'd better cross-check this against Yelp first"!?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (9 children)

1440p for the win!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Single GPU with scripts that run before and after the VM is active to unload the GPU driver modules from the kernel.

I think this was my starting point and I had to do just a few small tweaks to get it right for my setup - i.e. unload and reload the precise set of kernel modules that block GPU passthrough on my machine.

https://gitlab.com/Karuri/vfio

At this point from a user experience p.o.v it's not much different to dual booting, just with a different boot sequence. The main advantage though is that I can have the Windows OS on a small virtual harddrive for ease of backup/clone/restore and have game installs on a dedicated NVME that doesn't need backing up

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (15 children)

I've been 100% linux for my daily home computing for over a year now... With one exception... To be honest I didn't even try particularly hard to make gaming work under Linux.

Instead I have a Windows VM - setup with full passthrough access to my GPU and it's own NVME - just for Windows gaming. To my mind now it's in the same category as running console emulation.

As soon as I click shutdown in windows, it pops me straight back into my Linux desktop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I had some hard to track down intermittent network issues when I upgraded from LMDE5 to LMDE6 - the solution was to get a newer kernel from backports - its fairly painless...

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=413995#:~:text=You%20get%20the%20kernel%20updates,using%20with%20command%20uname%20%2Dv.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No experience myself, but one of the fitness YouTubers I like posted this recently: https://youtu.be/_ro-YvnLF-4

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The real question is why did they install a system based on 5.25" floppy disks in 1998 in the first place!?

The 5.25" floppy was surpassed by the 3.5" floppy by 1988 - ten years prior to this systems installation - and by 1998 most new software was being distributed on CD-ROM. So by my reckoning, in 1998 they installed a 'new' system based on hardware that was 1.5 generations out-of-date and haven't updated it in the 26 years since.

 
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

At Kuala Lumpa International Airport half the signs were like this near our gate a couple weeks ago...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yep, especially surface mount lithium batteries - they're very sensitive to the solder reflow profile being juuuust right

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've found all of the tabs on Google have a tendency to go AWOL these days - like the other day I was searching for camera lenses and Google took away the 'Products' (formerly kmown as 'Shopping') tab, even though what I was searching for couldn't have been more obviously a product. Instead, all I could get were super low quality copy-paste blogs vaguely related to the product.

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