sgibson5150

joined 2 years ago
[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago

Meanwhile, at the bank:

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

I picked this up during the Steam summer sale and it was a hoot. I've become aware of some good games that I never would have played otherwise because of this community! ❤️

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Understandable. It is, after all, a vital ingredient in cole slaw.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh buddy, I have whipped. Why mayo, btw? Kind of random. I approve.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huh. I didn't know you could access that from Battle.Net. I had a pirate copy on CD at release, but eventually bought a legit copy. I thought I downloaded it from their website. Battle.Net was only for WoW.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

But what if the quality of writing in modern mayonnaise is so bad and inconsistent with mayonnaise of yore that you have developed mayonnaise intolerance? Also, this mayonnaise vendor has done a lot of scummy practices over the years, from not paying the mayonnaise makers a living wage to covering up sexual harassment and abuse of said mayonnaise makers. I guess what I'm saying is "fuck mayonnaise".

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Geez. I seed until I upload twice what I downloaded. Am I a stingy bastard?

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago

There were always three topics that would start a fight on Reddit:

  1. Nuclear power
  2. The care and feeding of a cat
  3. Any mention of driving less than 500 mph in the fast lane

I feel like this one goes in the third bucket. Be better than Reddit, Lemmy.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Will the recent performance gains they found in Windows be realized in Linux as well? I read somewhere they found like 9% in a recent Windows driver.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 32 points 2 months ago

Unknown Worlds saying "no loot boxes" is like a cereal company saying "we don't plan to add any mice to this batch of corn flakes". I, uh, never thought you were going to?

As usual, money ruins everything.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've been using Aurora which is an immutable distro based on Fedora. It's from the same guys who do Bazzite. I use it on my work laptop with a discrete Nvidia card. I've had zero issues with the video driver. (I use Bazzite on two desktop and a laptop at home, all with Nvidia cards).

I really like these universal blue distro because on the odd occasion that I have an issue after an update, I can reboot into a pinned working version of the system. There are only a couple of CLI commands to learn to pin and unpin the different systems. All currently available systems appear on the grub menu. It's kind of brilliant IMO.

Only downside is that installing RPM packages isn't recommended, but I've found pretty much everything I need through flathub. I have one RPM package installed for VeraCrypt (no flatpak and it doesn't work right in a container) but it hasn't caused any issues for me.

Edit: I should say I can't speak to the ongoing driver issues on the 50 series cards. The newest card I own is an RTX 3080 LHR 12 GB.

8
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by sgibson5150@slrpnk.net to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
 

As glitches go, I thought this was pretty cool. Let's just say that I was in the right headspace for psychedelic colors. This happened to me last night on Bazzite Nvidia. It lasted for a few minutes, but before I could think to take a picture, it corrected itself. Must be a game issue if it is also happening on PS5. The only reference I could find online was this reddit post. May be HDR related. https://old.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/1kbqqn4/weird_color_issue_on_ps5_since_dleding_patch_8/

 

You'd think we'd have come up with a better system in the last twenty years. 😆

 

We know now that you can't turn "base metals" into gold through chemical processes, but if you could, gold would no longer be scarce and therefore no more valuable than the base metals.

1
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by sgibson5150@slrpnk.net to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
 

I was looking at the RTX 5090 listings on NewEgg and the last picture (7/7) on this MSI card is a thing I don't recognize. Anyone know what it is?

 

"You are receiving this email because this is an important message regarding your account and products you are using. You are not allowed to unsubscribe from this type of message."

Edit: To all the concern trolls who think the contents of the email is important context as to whether I'm allowed to be annoyed or not, understand that I am not Atlassian's customer. We have zero active licenses for any Atlassian products.

12
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by sgibson5150@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Final edit: I got all the Linux stuff right but made a dumb mistake generating the image on the Windows side. Watching the VM boot right now. Thanks to all for your support!

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15860280

Contemplating Fedora Kinoite for work daily driver. Need to prove that I can virtualize an existing physical Windows 11 machine. Using Bazzite on a personal laptop as a host test bed.

Test host seems to be set up correctly. I layered the packages in the virtualization group, layered virtio-win (from downloaded rpm package), added my user to the libvert group, and enabled libvirtd. After a reboot or two, I can connect with the Virtual Machine Manager and define my VM.

On physical machine I used Disk2vhd to generate a vhdx. Moved that file to the test host and converted to qcow2. Copied disk image to /var/lib/libvert/images and added it as my drive image when I defined the VM.

VM starts but will not boot. Stupid question: Should I have installed virt-win-gt-x64.msi from the virtio-win ISO on the source Windows install before I created the vhdx?

Edit: Since I posted, I installed a Debian guest from scratch in this environment and it runs like a champ. 👍

7
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by sgibson5150@slrpnk.net to c/linux@programming.dev
 

Final edit: I got all the Linux stuff right but made a dumb mistake generating the image on the Windows side. Watching the VM boot right now. Thanks to all for your support!

Contemplating Fedora Kinoite for work daily driver. Need to prove that I can virtualize an existing physical Windows 11 machine. Using Bazzite on a personal laptop as a host test bed.

Test host seems to be set up correctly. I layered the packages in the virtualization group, layered virtio-win (from downloaded rpm package), added my user to the libvert group, and enabled libvirtd. After a reboot or two, I can connect with the Virtual Machine Manager and define my VM.

On physical machine I used Disk2vhd to generate a vhdx. Moved that file to the test host and converted to qcow2. Copied disk image to /var/lib/libvert/images and added it as my drive image when I defined the VM.

VM starts but will not boot. Stupid question: Should I have installed virt-win-gt-x64.msi from the virtio-win ISO on the source Windows install before I created the vhdx?

Edit: Since I posted, I installed a Debian guest from scratch in this environment and it runs like a champ. 👍

 

Now watch the stuff not show up until Tuesday. 😆

Edit: It did arrive today (11/22). Woohoo! Still a weird email. This was NewEgg. Amazon has done this to me as well, but they usually say it's coming early then the shit arrives on the original day (at that point "late") haha. Anyway, have a nice weekend. Hail Satan!

 

Checkmate, Chuck. 👑

Edit: Given the number of downvotes I'm getting, I'm guessing a lot of people have just learned that they've been pronouncing St. John wrong. Don't beat yourselves up. It's not like it's a terribly common name.

 

Had to install this app which then made me sign in (using my work PC) to update the firmware on my damn controller. Wish there was a way to do this in Linux. I'm so over Microsoft's crap.

16
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sgibson5150@slrpnk.net to c/linux@programming.dev
 

Guest OS is Debian 12.7, no desktop environment. VM was created with Powershell so that I could specify the Configuration Version (9.0). This VM is intended to be migrated to a Server 2019 host.

I have a series of checkpoints so I can observe the behavior at each. After installing (rootfull) docker, VM memory demand idles around 526 MB. Starting a session and running top doesn't change the memory demand at all.

When I start with the checkpoint where I've made docker rootless, memory demand idles slightly higher before login, maybe 870 MB. When I start a session and run top, though, memory demand skyrockets and assigned memory quickly reaches max dynamic memory, 4096 MB. The output in top barely changes. For giggles I bumped the max to 6 GB and demand still continued to rise.

There are no containers defined in either case. Any ideas about what I'm seeing?

 

MAITLAND: Doctor, is there no way you can get into your ship?

DOCTOR: No, not unless they return what they stole from my ship.

RICHMOND: But will they'll never give it back to you!

DOCTOR: Oh my dear, they're not invincible, no-no-no. Did any of you notice the peculiarity in their eyes?

MAITLAND: No I can't say I did.

DOCTOR: It's a fallacy of course that cats can see in the dark, they can't; but they can see better than we humans because the iris of their eyes dilates at night. Yes...huh! Haha!

view more: next ›