sgibson5150

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[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

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

Not that this is the final word on the matter, but it is perhaps hopeful that a plurality of voters are strongly opposed at present.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

And not with anyone at Hasbro that Larian worked with, because Hasbro fired them all.

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

Wow. This takes me back. I've got a copy of this on floppy somewhere.

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

I'm sure this will be along any day now. 💀

I was super cranky with 3DMark on NYD 2025 and left them a nasty review:

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

Played the Steam demo this weekend on Bazzite with RTX 3080 LHR (12 GB). Performance started off fine but started hitching over time.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

The title of this post hit my aging, 2025-addled brain and for a brief moment I thought it was a remake of Food Fight that I used to play on WWIV BBSes. Alas.

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

Huh. First time I saw this post, I figured it was bait. I'm pretty sure I was subbed to a couple communities on hexbear. Occurred to me today when I encountered this post again that I'd not seen any hexbear content for a while. Turns out my instance has it blocked. Not sure if it's for technical reasons or moderation reasons. Does that go in the mod log or somewhere?

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

It happened again tonight.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah! For a few glorious moments, the Shadow-Cursed Lands were alive with color. :D

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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/

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

Fantastic development. I got the "last year's" model of a Lenovo Legion gaming laptop for work a few years ago bc it was one of the few affordable models that I could find at the time with a second m.2 slot. Expandable memory was a nice bonus. Love the keyboard, too. Been really happy with it. I run Kinoite on it.

[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One of the lovely things about Bazzite is that you can generally access the last working system when something breaks just by rebooting. This future sucks but it ain't all bad.

 

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.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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. 👍

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

 

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!

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