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Oooohh... fear the AI lol (not even close... what they call "AI" is just machine learning, it's not really intelligence and makes ridiculously bad decisions much of the time. I'm sick of them crowing about it) A lot happens in 40 years though, in 1984 I was a more primitive savage and we h...

Yeah I don't watch much of that shit either, but it caught my curiosity in the feed. (curious what he was going say, not that I was going to learn anything new... but I didn't expect this level of banality)

Now, not to completely ridicule this. The target audience, people who built their PC and don't know their low end graphics card is the reason they are getting 17 FPS, is bollocks. That's not his audience, just Cletus the PC builder types etc. HOWEVER, if his audience were people who buy Dell gaming ...

Wait for it... it's not having a good enough graphics card :lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6zGlk8y1Ks A big long video, with theatrics and graphs (and sponsors) to tell gamers that the biggest bottleneck to their gaming is not having a good enough graphics card. I was interested at first, but...

Yes, my red Fractal case has the alignment post.

Thanks for all that info, it actually needs not be Intel hardware. I wouldn't risk an AMD system for myself (very unforgiving, fussier on RAM etc.) but she's not any kind of a power user and we'd save a shit tonne of money.

It's enabled by default in XFCE, I had disabled it. It's a real compositor now I think, in my old XFCE 4.12.0 (on my LFS) I think it's just software rendering for some transparency effects and menu animations etc.

Zema, what boards have you used in those Fractal Focus cases that fit perfectly (i/o shield mates up correctly with back of case) I'm thinking that my sister needs a new computer. She's got an old Nehalem Corei5 with 8 Gb of RAM running Windows 7 and she can't do much with it anymore for reasons obv...

I've found myself wanting to use a compositor for desktop use now. I hate to do it, but ever since I changed the BIOS to enable UEFI and Resizable BAR, I've been having things like jerky window dragging (especially over top of the composited Firefox window... it's a compositor itself), jerky side sc...

I got mine done, all 1:26 of it, for both OSes

Yeah, that's a nasty bug... I've seen videos of that before. Hitches a ride on bananas a lot.

(Can cause priapisms )

Linux 6.8.6
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... eLog-6.8.6

Oops, I noticed a bit too late to do it now (have to leave) but we've got a new kernel. There's some stuff in there (e.g. amdgpu) that should be had.

You can just write that in, the engine takes any arbitrary values. Unlike Quake engine, you don't have to unlock it with another setting (can't remember but it's -1) In UT2004.ini [WinDrv.WindowsClient] WindowedViewportX=640 WindowedViewportY=480 FullscreenViewportX=1920 FullscreenViewportY=1080 (On...

I had power outage all night and after about 6 hours, my Internet went out (They have some sort of switches in boxes around neighbourhoods that have backup batteries... seems to be getting weaker here. They will come and put portable generators on the street, but not in the middle of the night in 95...

I got around to getting my Trinity stuff working today. I had already copied it over (and the configs from grogan) but just had to set some environment variables and ldconfig paths (I have it in a non system location, /opt/trinity and /opt/tqt3 for its qt). It's one of those things where every time ...

Actually wrong, the audio does work in Arch. It must work just fine through alsa emulation. I transferred my ut2004 game directory (already self contained with libraries in its System directory) and /home/grogan/.ut2004 (which is of the utmost importance not so much because of any game data (the map...

I haven't copied that over, I'll bet it still works :lol: (audio might not work on Arch, I've never tried it there. My Bollux is a pure Alsa system, and that's where I'd play this game anyway) I still have the original directory from 2004, with icculus' patches with 64 bit build. I've dropped in com...

I don't think it would have been the mesa point release that helped. a/upower-1.90.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Maybe that. It falls inline with constant polling causing problems. It's dbus machinery for polling power stats and battery sensors and something in your DE could be using the daemon. I actua...

They say you shouldn't say bad things about the dead, only good. Well, O.J. Simpson is dead. Good.

Rest in pieces... saturated with urine.

Don't try another card unless it's happening again, but that's almost current stable (24.0.5 is) It could also be an issue with your display compositor. Sync issues can have severe consequences with video. Most of the time it's not a fault for you, just the video playback freezes if I finally unders...

[ 0.000000] x86/split lock detection: #AC: crashing the kernel on kernel split_locks and warning on user-space split_locks Ohh fuck, that's just an informational message because split_lock_detect is enabled. You didn't actually show a split_lock_detect happening. It's simply informing you that it w...

OK, now... the reason your message is different (and possibly more hurty) than mine. Well, two reasons actually, but related here. Modern Intel CPUs issue a debug exception trap that assists this split_lock_detection. It's not using that for you, as it's using the #AC method rather than #DB. They ar...

Actually I'll refresh my fucking memory too, I just covered this a month ago (I forgot I made this thread). I knew it happened to me recently. It was Far Cry 6 that triggered it. Kernel split lock detection Huh... that "open link in new window" addon doesn't seem to treat the board's own U...

It has everything to do with it. Take a look at my kernel stanzas in my grub.cfg menuentry 'Arch Linux' { insmod gzio insmod part_gpt insmod fat search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 69A1-4857 linux /vmlinuz-6.8.5 root=/dev/nvme1n1p2 ro mitigations=off split_lock_detect=off loglevel=3 quiet } See ...

Bloody Hell... know what just occurred to me? With both kernels going to the same EFI "/boot" directory now, and me mounting it in Arch anyway, I don't need to build two separate kernels at all anymore, or even keep two trees. The only difference now between the two configs on the new rig ...

Yes, and the BIOS update evidently didn't fix that. efibootmgr still fails to write to NVRAM on this board. I don't care though, this will always work. There will be no more bios updates for me on this board though, MSI gives me the creeps and I doubt they are going to do anything with that now, if ...

Linux 6.8.5 https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.8.5 This one revolves around another CPU mitigation, BHI (Branch History Injection). Another one to make sure to disable :-) x86/bhi: Add support for clearing branch history at syscall entry commit 7390db8aea0d64e9deb28b8e1ce716f50...

So, to use the default/fallback it's just this (with it mounted at /boot but it wouldn't have to be that) grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --removable That will generate EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI which a UEFI bios will just go for, bypassing EFI boot vars in NVRAM (the switch seems ...

Now, the real question is, did going through all that conversion process to UEFI so I could enable "ReSize Bar" (direct quote, including case, from my bios lol) actually help? I think it did, and I thought this might be a prime candidate to show it. After some long load screens (shader com...

Know why this works for me? Because it doesn't actually write to NVRAM. I wouldn't even need to run grub-install for this if I knew what I was doing (and I think I do now), I could manually copy the contents of the EFI partition and the bios would find EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (case insensitive filesyst...

So, this changes how grub.cfg operates. I now have to stick my LFS kernel in the EFI partition (I'm using the EXTRAVERSION var in the Makefile to keep them separate) and now paths are relative to that because it's a mount, not a directory. Also, it's the UUID of the FAT32 EFI partition now, not the ...