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and yes, that's another thing. These desktop environments step on each others' configuration these days. That's because they dump shit to ~/.config and friends messily rather than self contained in their own directories. Back in the old days all of KDE's configuration was stored in ~/.kde which coul...

The cooler I was going to buy is "mechanically incompatible" with my motherboard. Good thing Noctua has specific motherboard compatibility listings, I almost ordered that today. That means the bolt holes won't jibe. There's no backing plate on the model I was going to buy, it just bolts on...

It looks like the video card is bust for now. I'm not paying $600 for a mid range card that won't be that much better than my RX 570 that cost $250'ish. They can ALL fuck off. We're talking $1200 CAD (or $1000 if I buy an off brand like "power color") for anything that would be a serious u...

What about Panels in the KDE Control Center, if no desktop right click? You could probably add a new panel in there. Good that they fixed the add shortcut behaviour though. That would have been a UI disconnect. I don't think I'll install Plasma again though, I hate the mess it makes and it's really ...

It doesn't matter for anything, but it is interesting.

I've never gone and looked up my ancestors. I know nothing before great grandparents on both sides of the family.

So it's looking like the Corsair cases are impractical. What I didn't realize was that there are no places to access optical drives. Nothing but fan bays in the front panel. I assumed that would open up or something, but he said no. He couldn't have an optical drive if he wanted to. I'm looking at c...

Good. Well, not good that it had you chasing your tail, but good that it wasn't something current. I've never set up Arch on EFI before, I would imagine I'll create a FAT32 partition along with my Linux ones. I'll use Grub, installed to the EFI partition and then the kernels will just go in /boot li...

Linux 6.7.8 now https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.7.8 ONE change, in a driver I use, but wouldn't affect me because I wouldn't hit that config scenario (no build failure) fs/ntfs3: fix build without CONFIG_NTFS3_LZX_XPRESS commit c8e314624a1666ed2eec28549713021a8ec801e9 upstre...

I have access to a printer if I really need it. It's on the network if I could be bothered to configure a printer. I used to print a few pages at income tax time, but I don't even need to do that anymore. I keep (and back up) text files for information. Touchscreens aren't for greasy hands (or greas...

Yeah, I need a place to bitch about Arch

What kind of drive... don't tell me it was a NVME that failed again. (just when I'm starting to have confidence in the technology lol). Well, I think the problems you had were faulty firmware that had fault triggers.

Yeah, I had various "associations" that put me at odds with the police in the past. That's all gone now though, I've nothing to be adversarial about. Also, the cops in this town are very nice, I think it's a requirement now. Our Provincial police (OPP) are very professional, you wouldn't l...

Ahh good idea, we need an ongoing thread for stuff like this. So true about USB. Unless it's got a raised dot on the connector to indicate the up side, I always seem to get it wrong the first time. Yeah, it's been a long time for Fing. I hope he's OK. It is the internet though, a lot of the time you...

I don't use a printer at all (I hate them and don't want one) personally but we stopped buying colour lasers. We had a Samsung that was nice, but the colour toner was expensive. It didn't prevent us from printing black, or from printing with that colour missing from the blend, but it wasn't practica...

You have to install archlinux-keyring first

Yeah, I've been surprised at how long I go without booting up that Arch VM and it survives the updates. That's pure distro packages only though (for a dev box). I forget what it was, but I did have to manually do something once. I'm going to be installing Arch on brand new hardware for the first tim...

Wow, that's bad. I didn't know you had cops like that there too. We generally don't (they wouldn't be for long... they'd be in prison if they fired through a doorway like that). Most police here have University degrees. It's not a requirement, but most do before they go off to police academies. I wa...

Yeah, the whole device stops working if even one of your cartridges is detected as empty. That makes me very angry.

Well, in the U.S. ex military are a shoe-in for policing. Perfect for remorselessly treating the population as the enemy. Soldier vs. police are (should be) different mindsets.

I heard about their antics, first ink subscriptions and now this. The CEO actually said that if customers aren't buying their ink, they are a bad investment. (In other words they don't want you as a customer) This house is HP free, there is not one thing here that bears their name. I hate their kit,...

The courier did come just as I was about to pull out of the driveway today, with a very small box. I didn't even open it, it felt like just the box of screws I ordered. So when I got home tonight, I found that it had the CPU (very small packaging when there's no stock cooler), the 2 RAM kits, the NV...

I'm sorry it was so short, but that's good to hear that you met him while you could. I'll bet it made his passing more peaceful.

Thanks for posting this stuff, I'm the only guy not on Facebook. I just can't stomach that platform. (had bad experiences)

It's kind of hard to predict what a human may do with a gun. You hear about crazy shootings, like someone got their order wrong at McDonalds.

Well, we don't have a Proton/Wine thread yet. I just went to do a new build of my proton-tkg and noticed that Valve Bleeding Edge is now Wine 9.0 based! I got as far as building the vr_client and it bombed out on inapplicable patches. I looked at the source file and see they aren't needed anymore so...

Everything is shipped. I should have the first 5 items tomorrow (CPU, screws, RAM, NVME) but the motherboard is shipping from dog knows where and I have a shipping date of March 7 - March 13. That doesn't make a lot of sense, it's Purolator courier and it wouldn't take that long from anywhere in the...

Linux 6.7.7 today https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.7.7 Anyone using zswap (swap file with compressed pages in RAM) would want this kernel. There are a few fixes for zswap but this one is serious mm/zswap: invalidate duplicate entry when !zswap_enabled commit 678e54d4bb9a4822f...

I also see my NVME drive is sold by a third party, but "fulfilled" by Amazon. That sounds like they initiate cross shipping, rather than "shipped by Amazon" or letting the seller handle it. I really have to pay more attention to that instead of being all gimme gimme when ordering...

Oops, I fucked up... motherboard not shipping from Amazon. Oh well, I guess I'll just see what happens instead of trying to go back and cancel and re-order that one thing. Damn, I wondered why it was a few bucks cheaper than the item I looked at the other day. (but who looks a gift horse in the mout...

Well, I'm a master of procrastination (doesn't help that I still love my current computer) but there's no turning back now :mrgreen: One stop shopping: amazonpartsbuy.jpg Next is going to be the video card, as that's also potentially volatile. (anything with memory and especially video cards for GPU...

Cable management to me means having them loose, so they are easy to get at without having to remove hardware from the case. When I hooked everything up in this one, I took a picture of it so you all could laugh at me. Ugly floppy ribbon cable draped from top to bottom too. I have a plexi side pane, ...

It wasn't in too bad a state when I got poking/cleaning/disabling. It had actual McCrappy Antivirus and the web shield installed though, I was surprised to see. I promptly removed that. It also had Microsoft Office 365 both English and French editions fully installed. Not having that. We're not goin...