Ah the ol Murphy’s law

Every electric heater is 100% efficient. In fact heaters are the only things that can be that efficient

For CPUs it’s pretty bad. It says the Intel i3-9100f (4 core, 4 thread 3.6GHz) is just as good as the AMD Ryzen 7 3700x (8 core, 16 thread 3.6GHz) even though the actual difference is massive.

They are very cool indeed. And the fact that you can have a century old watch on your wrist and it’s just as useful as a modern one. In fact I’m wearing a watch from the 50s right now!

A bit different than others, but every time I ride my bike, I have the equipment to patch a tire with me.

I study in a technical university in the west. Apart from my own laptop, I’ve only spotted one Linux computer, which was an IT student’s laptop. Though I don’t study IT myself

I have an E7 still, and it feels still very modern with its aluminium frame and oled screen. And of course a qwerty keyboard

That old oil will turn into pretty much sand. Sand in place of oil does some fun things to the brass pivots.

They just did. What are you gonna do about it?

Alsa is the very base of the Linux audio system. Pipewire and pulseaudio run on top of it. Back before pulseaudio it was directly used by software

Sir, it’s 2024, not 2006.

Pipewire is a more modern replacement for pulseaudio.

Ventoy with every ISO I’ve needed to install, and Snappy Driver Installer Origin with its full set of drivers.

I get a 500 server error straight away

Lutris with wine-ge has made some things work for me that didn’t work with plain wine. So definitely worth it to try.

--no-preserve-root is only required if you try to remove /. For /* I don’t think it’s needed.

Nvidia has become pretty painless in the last few years. A year ago a guy told me to try wayland so I did and surprisingly I’ve been on wayland ever since on my desktop. The last time I don’t think I was even able to see my desktop. Now the 555 drivers made things even better.

Hi everyone, I’m not even a year old!

The first rule of this community litetally says “be nice”

They’re not very locked down. Even the apple silicon stuff allows other operating systems, apple just doesn’t tell how to make them work.

Been usinsg kde wayland for about a year now with Nvidia and my only problems have been xwayland flickering in some games and even that got fixed with the 555 drivers.