Botzo

joined 3 years ago
[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago

Kids are dumb. "Moolania" was right there!

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

Google will ignore this if you use their built in search, but it works everywhere else.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Evo VI TME needs a word.

Source: I am old.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Available as of 13/Trixie last year (gnome 48/kde 6)!

https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-13-release/

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Should be available OOTB as of 26.04 ... At least with kde!

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

If you're not playing the fancy games with all the ray tracing, and you aren't playing at 4k, the 2070 is still just fine in terms of power. I definitely didn't need the 9070 XT. I would have been just fine with a 9060xt, 9070gre or 9070. I did want to bump to 12 or 16gb of memory. And I scored a good enough deal combined with credit card points to jump all the way to the 9070xt. This one will follow me for another 6 years at least unless some paradigm shift happens.

I will say that you'll enjoy more frames at a lower power draw if you don't crank up your settings on the new cards.

But it was really all of the polish that finally wore me down. Spent a year playing with the outermost 10% of the screen flickering sometimes in some games. I never could figure it out. Got tired seeing the HDR box in games knowing I had monitors that supported it but a card that broke font rendering with it enabled. Tired of some games randomly crashing because suddenly the drivers broke again. And the 20xx series is the next one to lose support entirely.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Truly happy for you!

I was originally multi booting LTS Ubuntu to meet reqs for work with Arch for gaming and everything except sleep worked pretty well. The Wayland cutover sucked for years as they fixed one thing and broke another. HDR never worked correctly.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Yes and no. Objectively $650 plus tax is a lot of money. I intended to go with the non XT for $80 less. And I probably would have been pleased with a 9060 or 9070 GRE.

But I paid $540 plus tax for the 2700 super just before the pandemic. So with inflation, this felt like the same kind of hit. And I wasn't planning to replace the rest of the underpinnings either. 3900x, 64gb ddr4 3600, x570 motherboard).

I really just wanted shit to work (again). The frame rates are a bonus. It feels like coming home. And this coming from someone who remembers gaming on Linux before proton.

 

I finally gave up my Nvidia 2070 Super and rejoined Team red with a 9070 XT. And it's like this is the way everything was always meant to be.

HDR works without breaking font rendering. Sleep states just work. No more random border flickering in fullscreen or borderless windows. And the fans never even spin up.

I did have to unwind a couple Nvidia workarounds to swap over successfully (like /etc/environment needed cleaning up for sddm-greeter-qt to not core dump).

No ragrets.

No regerts.

Team red 4lyfe (again).

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

For sure. Reversing the percentages here makes this far more difficult. I just felt we needed to shittify this post a little.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Great for calculating tips!

Let's see: the bill was $138.72, so I just need 138.72% of 20. And we can subtract 100% and just add the 20 back at the end, then convert the percentage to a decimal so (.3872 * 20) + 20 = 7.744 + 20 or $27.74.

Easy!

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)
 

I took the toaster apart and cleaned the contacts for the lever that signal the hold down while toasting. Now we don't have to stand there and hold it (that was 3 morning routines slightly out of order).

I had to buy a set of special bits because someone decided they needed to use security torx bolts in the corners hidden under the feet. This was of course in addition to the 14 regular old #2 Phillips screws. But it's always nice to have a reason to get new tools.

In other news, the clean signal started flashing on on the espresso machine today, so I have another little project for tomorrow too.

 

I don't really have anyone else to shout at about this, but it's an amazing way to host services in rootless containers entirely in user space using systemd (systemctl --user).

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

 

I applied some paste wax to the table saw and was pleasantly surprised that it made a difference.

I think I'll have to use this on the wood runners on the old dresser I have too.

In case you're concerned, it's just a little DeWalt contractor's table saw. No sawstop or powermatic here. That's for the cool guys on youtube.

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