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Besides checking the ratings for hardware guess we should also be looking at their RMA policies and what other buyers have reported about their RMA experiences. I got lucky with the XFX Radeon 7 card that died, XFX's RMA process worked well and I got a full refund. Maybe give their chat one more try...

Damn, sorry to hear that, and what awful timing. Hope you're able to get somewhere with Newegg.

Glad that's all it was.

I should have waited one more night lol! Well I got 6.8.4 done now.

I just got 6.8.3 done, and updated Slackware.

Here's the size of my big fat kernel lol! 14213632 Apr 4 01:28 vmlinuz-6.8.3

Wish I had half his skill to fabricate a video card

Thanks Grogan. I finally got some sleep last night by simply sitting upright in a non-reclined recliner. I have two recliners, I usually sleep in one that's more adjustable but less padded, while the other one is much more padded, but reclines too much for my reflux. If I'm not using the recline fun...

I have an appointment with an ENT first of May, I should be able to have a transnasal endoscopy done at that time to finally see what's going on. I went with an ENT because that's the quickest and easiest way to get an endoscopy done, no sedatives or anesthesia needed when done transnasal since it a...

Sorry to hear that, hope you start feeling better soon. I know how frustrating it is when something prevents you from sitting for very long. My heartburn (I think it's an esophagus ulcer) was forcing me to stand at my kitchen counter in order to play games and watch videos. Maybe some USB extension ...

This has been all over the news here today. Reminds me of some games I've played, Serious Sam I think

Previously my new Arch install wasn't seen by the motherboard's UEFI, so the only way I could boot into it was via another distro's bootloader. Here's how I fixed EFI boot for both Arch and for Slackware, with the efi-directory adjusted to where the efi partition is mounted (/boot in Arch), and the ...

I read that they're now reviewing the other commits that developer made in other projects.

Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions, including those from Red Hat and Debian. The compression utility, known as xz Utils, introduced the malicious code in versions ​​5.6.0 and 5.6.1, according to Andres Freund, the...

Thanks Grogan.

I'm all too familiar with being sleep deprived lately, waking up multiple times with heartburn and quenching it with Gaviscon and slipper elm while watching youtube videos

In this case it was the first gen processor for this socket with the board introduced around the same time, but when I'm not sure I'll look up the specs for a board I'm considering to see what processor series it supports.

War ambiance, for a restful sleep

This one is just a black screen but it has good audio:

Can you fly into the atmosphere of a gas giant? :) One thing that bothered me about No Man's Sky was the lack of gas giants, it's likely that most star systems have at least one. I'll have to pick up this one. Would you say it's worth the $100 US for the Premium Edition if I don't want to wait for t...

I've had to have older CPU's installed on boards just long enough to flash the BIOS so that it supported the newer one I wanted to use. It helps when you have something lying around to do that with (AMD tends to stick with the same socket for multiple generations) but it's a problem when you don't. ...

Yeah I read about LogoFail a while back.

Looks like Pat is planning to move to Grub for Slackware 15.1:
From Linuxquestions.org

I have Slackware back! The installer kept selecting the wrong EFI partition, the one from Arch, and I didn't want it touching that so I did not let it install elilo. At the end of the installation I dropped back out to the console chrooted into /mnt (the new install root still mounted by the install...

lol!

Just got it installed and running on both machines.

Here's one I recently rediscovered, I hadn't heard it in probably decades:

Not bad

I returned something to Amazon not long ago for a cross shipment replacement, they shipped the replacement almost right away, well before my return arrived there (here returns go to Las Vegas).

Thanks Grogan. Here's what I have running after closing a Plasma application under Mate: [zema@Apophis ~]$ ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 22488 13232 ? Ss Mar23 0:02 /sbin/init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar23 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar23 0:0...

On my Arch gaming machine I've been running Mate, I use Dolphin for some things but it has always been tough to read file names because the alternating color pattern had poor contrast. It's been that way for a long time. But tonight when I opened it it looked completely different, it actually looks ...

Yeah it's interesting how it alters the color of other things. It kind of reminds me of the "black light" I had as a kid (I had a bunch of UV sensitive stickers everywhere in my room that looked really cool when the black light was on). The default setting for the hub was pulsating light s...

This is a Linux youtuber I often watch. He's setting up a laptop for a friend.

It's pretty much done. I have case fans connected to a magnetic RGB hub behind the back side panel that allows changing the colors via a little wireless controller. side.jpg I put the HD activity light in the upper front corner. With the dust filter and front cover in place it's dimmed but still vis...