JustARegularNerd

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[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 9 points 3 hours ago

For devices I need to be productive on, I have LMDE 6. It is rock solid being based on stable Debian, but with the niceties you expect from Mint.

For my gaming PC, I've got Bazzite on it and so far so good. Just used it for entertainment and gaming but if I were doing coding or app development I'd either have to adjust how I do that to suit an atomic distro, or I'd just use LMDE as I feel I have easier control of what I'm doing on there

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its pedantic and distracts from the real conversation happening. I've always considered "stock" to mean how the device ships from the factory (that's how the term is used in the automobile world), whereas I would think it fair to consider AOSP a standard, it's something you can compare other ROMs against.

Regardless of mine or anyone else's opinion, we're just ultimately wanting to talk about how GrapheneOS is much closer to the clean and uncluttered experience AOSP offers

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

This might be for the better, but Discord was so infuriating about updates and forcing you to download them what felt like 50% of the time I opened it, I gave up and just use it in Ungoogled Chromium now. I'm pretty sure within a few months I ended up having 15+ debs of Discord in my Downloads folder.

For anyone else trying to use the native Discord app on Debian, I think they'll find this a major treat.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It truly baffles me how teachers could morally justify that. I would immediately think "Wait, if I make my students buy my textbook for the unit, I'm just fleecing them and they have no choice in the matter." and you would naively hope that anyone else would also feel the same way.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Here I was thinking a new revision of Power over Ethernet was announced and I was thoroughly confused

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

The digital sign the local university has is powered by a Raspberry Pi - I caught it rebooting while driving past

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

For me, my default browser is LibreWolf with several privacy hardening extensions, but if I do come across a website that fails, my usual route goes LibreWolf > Firefox > Ungoogled Chromium

If it doesn't work beyond that then I just won't use the website.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

God I can only imagine spoonkid reading this sponsor out and it wouldn't even sound off

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

While I'm far from being a sysadmin I'm in the same boat. Main study laptop is Linux but I just end up using Windows on my gaming PC for the same reasons.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I think this is a bad take, and one that assumes one is superior for using Linux over proprietary alternatives

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago

If there's a package conflict that requires the user's choice, it shall be called an emergency meeting

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago

Looking up the specs of a D270, looks like the memory is upgradable.

It also looks like the Intel Atom N2600 it has (from my reading) is actually a 64-bit processor

I'd probably say you shouldn't have much trouble finding a bigger DDR3 memory stick for it for dirt cheap or free from an e-wasted notebook

Ultimately it depends if the performance loss you're finding is memory limited or CPU limited right now, but I would think that giving it 2 or 4GB + giving it 64-bit would go a long way

 

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A portion of a prime number checker written in the Rust programming language, where the first few lines are written correctly including the first if statement in the program. However, the following if statements are written using Python syntax instead of Rust, as the author slipped back into his native tongue.

 

I actually intended to post this to Reddit but I thought I would contribute content to here instead to get the ball rolling here and do my part.

Anyway, this is a Windows XP-era machine I have at work for testing, and I had just this monitor plugged into it and saw the CPU fan trying to spin. I spun it a bit myself and it just kept going. I disconnected the HDMI cable and it stopped.

The monitor is actually DisplayPort, with a passive adapter to HDMI which then goes to the HDMI cable connected to this PC. The GPU is just PCI-E. The computer has some old ~2007 AMD CPU in it. The GPU actually doesn't seem to work anyway, the PC posts normally but there's no image from either the GPU or onboard, but when putting either another GPU or no GPU, there's an image from the appropriate output.

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