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Arch has decided to change the default vm.max_map_count to 1048576 (which is far lower than my value lol) If you have already set one, make sure it overrides the default in /usr/lib/sysctl.d. One would think that simply putting files in /etc/sysctl.d would do that, since it's the one that's processe...

Well, somethings things do go right. I got away with putting the RX 570 back in the old computer without taking it off the desk or laying it down or disconnecting anything (power supply switch off and capacitance drained though) with no difficulty. Other than previously getting tools etc. I didn't e...

So the other night I played Odyssey because I couldn't play the games I'm currently most interested in. I found, oddly, that Odyssey ran shittier on this computer with the RX 570 card, vs. the old computer. I hadn't even changed any of the settings because I only briefly tested it on the new rig (I ...

Ray Tracing tested in the game Control. I chose that one to test it first because it's one where I'll notice it (one that needs it). That game has bugged me for a long time, the lighting and dithering and particles. Also, it's not that DXR ray tracing. I have the Ray Tracing settings on High, with a...

Well... no hesitation in either of those games now I tell you (Starfield and Far Cry 6) with maxed out settings. Though I haven't tried enabling the DXR settings... not sure how well our drivers can actually do the ray tracing on RDNA3 at this time, though my card has accelerators for it and they sa...

Fuck... nothing ever goes right. First of all, the card didn't seat right the first time (dropped right in, seemed good but evidently wasn't). It's a monster of a card, big metal support bracket supporting the weight of the card so it won't sag being held by the tang. It's not going to move now. The...

Card arrived as promised. Too late to install right now (have to leave) but that's about as good as it could get around here. Ordered 12:30 AM Friday, here 3:30 PM Saturday (and nobody else delivers on Saturday, Sunday and holidays but Amazon contracted couriers here)

That was caught fast, considering there was no actual payload until very recently. Also, only silly distros would have upgraded xz that quickly, nothing "enterprise" or even mainstream like Ubuntu. It's also just one library, with a specific backdoor, yet I saw sensational headlines like &...

I think the 7700 card should be fine, it's probably 8 months old since release. RDNA3 should be fine on Linux 6.4+ and current stable mesa, so I'll be fine with current kernels and certainly my mesa builds. I just worry about glitchy behaviour on newer hardware series'. By the way, I took that locki...

Yes, with a name like Jia Tan he has to be a Chinese spy

(No, I mean he was playing the long game, a simple miscreant hacker isn't going to do that)

That's good to hear, I'm glad you're some relief and some rest. Yep, you have to judge drug side effects and balance whether its worth it or not. We actually only need a bit of stomach acid (HCl), it's an acidic environment so the digestive enzymes can work. With your overproduction, it's probably s...

Yes, that's significant if something isn't going to fail in 30 days. I'm going to make sure I use the shit out of this new video card in the first 30 days lol Reading that language on Asrock's website, I'd have never bought anything had I seen it before. We'll see how they do after I actually contac...

I spoke too soon on the keyboard light ESD thing. While I haven't had the behaviour while sitting at it typing (pretty sure that's not going to happen anymore, it would have by now), when I came back from being out, I walked up and discharged underneath the keyboard and the 3 lock status lights blin...

Guess what the ESD/EMI problem was all along? That's right, the video card. Something on it must have been shorting to ground. I know it's fixed for real now, I can shuffle my feet on the carpet, walk up on the vinyl mat, touch the computer with both hands... snap. Nothing happens and I tried it sev...

It seems Newegg is a circle jerk too. The "chat" is a bot that tells me "I'm sorry, I can't locate the information you requested" and "chat with a representative" leads to "we're sorry, live chat is unavailable" and it directs me to self help. Also, I notice t...

Asrock's website seems very unhelpful, all I'm seeing are reasons they aren't going to help me. RMA's are only for "Authorized Dealers in the U.S." and I'm to contact my seller. It's like "if you're an end user, you can email support if you want, but...". Then they go on to tell ...

Sonofabitch... neither of those games will even run on this card. Neither Starfield nor Far Cry 6. In both cases I tried renaming their config files but neither game will launch. The card is way below system requirements, but that doesn't usually mean the game won't launch at all. Jeeze. Ahh well, I...

I'm thinking about this: https://www.amazon.ca/GIGABYTE-Graphics-WINDFORCE-GV-R77XTGAMING-OC-12GD/dp/B0CGC5P7H3/ Originally I wanted something in the RX 6700 series because I wanted to stay a series behind for the drivers. This is a RX 7700 XT. I've given up on sub-$500 lol Fuck those stupid, cheape...

... and just guess what the actual problem is. The Assrock RX 6700 XT card beshat itself and died. Last night was a warning. I didn't have any more trouble until tonight, playing Far Cry 6. Well, it died in the same way, only this time for good. Those page faults were a symptom, not the cause. I pul...

Linux 6.8.4 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.8.4 All reverts to backported workqueue patches that caused regressions. P.S. I found a bugzilla report for this, it can cause the kernel to be unable to unhook things to hibernate and stuff. Stuck work queues etc. That could be wh...

Heh... blacklist ahci blacklist kvm_intel blacklist fuse blacklist dm_mod (in /etc/modprobe.d/whatever.conf) That takes care of all unnecessary modules (and their dependencies). I'll load those manually (in whatever scripts I use to initiate things that would use them anyway) if I need them. Using t...

Something else. This is the first time I've even had to look at logs in 4+ years. I got poxxed off with the way journald was usurping the socket, making it difficult to use syslogd without piping from journald first, and shut logging off altogether. I never once, missed not having logs on Manjaroo/A...

Unrecoverable, ended up in a hard boot and me fscking filesystem errors from my other OS (probably the stupid fucking journald databases) which is what I do when I have a bad shutdown so it won't be mounted and I can fix serious errors if they exist. These weren't, just journal rollback and inconsis...

That's because you're using the fat distro config lol We need to get you sorted out on how to build a modern kernel for yourself (when you get time and are feeling better etc.) I thought 5 megs was big, but a lot of that code is monolithic to support a lot of different hardware and conditions. Not o...

For today's kernel build, I took the opportunity to remove some legacy cruft that I'm just never going to use anymore. Removed PS/2 port, keyboard and mouse support (my keyboard doesn't expose any PS/2 logic to the OS anymore, it's the USB converter device now) and the ps/2 driver library. Removed s...

Heh... I went to install xpdf today and noticed that Arch links theirs against QT6. I don't want any of my software dependent on that (I don't have it installed) so I went to grab the PKGBUILD. There, I noticed they are applying part of a debianal patchset. Just the patch that wraps enforcement of d...

It's kernel time... Linux 6.8.3. We're not worthy (it's been a while) https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.8.3 drm/sched: fix null-ptr-deref in init entity commit f34e8bb7d6c6626933fe993e03ed59ae85e16abb upstream. The bug can be triggered by sending an amdgpu_cs_wait_ioctl to the...

By the way, no, the game doesn't let you do what you want. I didn't get into any trouble for popping that CEO (because of no witnesses I presume, the shot was only heard) but I got in to manufactured trouble (I think it was scripted) and got arrested by the UC (corporate authority that think they ru...

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/124.0.2/releasenotes/ Fixed an issue where users with a large amount of bookmarks would be unable to restore a bookmarks backup. (Bug 1884308) Fixed an issue that would cause open Firefox windows to go blank or crash during video playback on sites such as Netfli...

You'd think "I can't sleep like that!" but when it's the only way, your body will take what it can get (after a few days).