What's your LEAST favorite song
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Apparently it's an AMD firmware issue.
It does work like that a little bit, like with sprites they've often hard-coded the frames of animation, so when you push a button it loads the correct image, like Mario's jumping frame with his hand in the air. But there are such things as tilesets, and sprite positions, and all that good stuff.
Okay, so the Linux ecosystem is more modular than Windows. Windows is synonymous with its Graphical User Interface (GUI) for reasons I'll get into later.
With Linux, there are several GUIs available to choose from. These tend to fall into two main categories: Tiling Window Managers, and Desktop Environments.
Tiling Window Managers have minimal on-screen UI elements, usually they're meant to be used with keyboard combos with little usage of the mouse. A major feature is everything that is running is visible on the screen, when you open a new window, another window divides in half to give it room, "tiling" the screen. Some examples of TWMs include i3 and Awesome.
Desktop Environments are going to be more familiar to newcomers from Windows or MacOS. They're made more for mouse control, several have what you would recognize as a taskbar, start menu and system tray. Windows can be stacked on top of each other like papers on a desktop, exactly like MS Windows does. Some more closely resemble MacOS though none behave exactly the same way. Some examples of DEs include Gnome, KDE, MATE, and Cinnamon.
Cinnamon is a DE made by the Linux Mint development community, and the default/flagship DE for Linux Mint. It is designed to be familiar and easy to use for Windows users. KDE's Plasma DE is similar in many ways to Mint although it's based on different tech; KDE is based on qt, Cinnamon is a distant fork of Gnome and based on GTK. Some are designed to be more minimal so they take up less system resources, like xfce and LXDE, others are trying mostly to resemble MacOS, like ElementaryOS' Pantheon DE. Then there's Gnome, which I goddamn hate.
For a beginner, the choice of DE is going to present most of the differences you'll notice when trying out distros. It can be instructive to try, say, Kubuntu and Fedora KDE. Both ship with the KDE Plasma desktop, but the underlying OSes are different. Then try out, say, Fedora Workstation (with the Gnome desktop) and Fedora KDE. That exercise will give you a good understanding of distro vs DE.
Edit to add: It's kind of like launchers on Android. You can go in the Google Play store and install a different launcher on your phone, you can make a Samsung Galaxy look like a Google Pixel. Linux DEs work the same way, you can install KDE or Cinnamon the same way you'd install a normal app, you can have multiple and switch between them. It's not a great idea but you can.
Okay, it's not the power supply. Found this on the Fedora forums: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/weird-cursor-issues-on-fedora-kde/156413/8
Apparently the power failure just happened to coincide with a kernel update that causes a bug with AMD firmware; people are reporting the issue with higher end Radeon 7000 series cards using high refresh monitors attached via DP with kernel 6.15.
My uname -r output: 6.15.3-200.fc42.x86_64
So I can either learn how to revert to kernel 6.14 on Fedora, I've never messed with it before, or live with 100Hz like a bronze age slum rat until they push a fix.
The further mystery is why a momentary power loss took down a PC plugged into a UPS. It has one job, that it apparently didn't do.
That's something like mach 4.8 at sea level?
Hi there and welcome back to another episode of Bitch Slap Kitchen, where we cook food like it owes us money. Today we're making some delicious backhand chicken.
Suspend a whole chicken in midair form some string or something, haul back, and swing at about mach 5, a little less. You're probably not going to have any intact glass anywhere in your house and you'll probably set off some car alarms in the shopping district but you'll have a table ready main course in milliseconds.
Back before covid, like June of 2019, I bought a whole bunch of soap, shampoo etc. figuring that stuff has a very long shelf life. I'm actually still working through the stocks I bought, I've probably got enough bath soap to last into the 2030s.
I decided not to buy a bulk lot of toilet paper, not knowing I live in the dumbest timeline.
Landing gear.
I'm still skeptical that it would cause problems that minor, prior experience tells me it would do something like work fine at low resolution and show no picture or boot loop or something at higher resolution, but for the sake of troubleshooting when there's less convective activity on the radar I'll try plugging it straight into the wall.
Right now, if I set KDE's settings to 100 Hz, everything looks fine. If I set it to 144 Hz, sometimes I see a double mouse cursor. I get a second cursor about an inch to the right of what seems to be the actual cursor.
Explain how a problem with the UPS will cause that symptom.
Switched the socket on the GPU the DP cable is plugged into, I think I see the same problem. It's only been a few seconds, I haven't seen the "lower portion of the screen from about the mouse down goes one color" thing yet but I have been seeing a double mouse cursor. This goes away completely when setting the frame rate down to 100 (says 99.98 in the KDE settings menu).
Not sure what I'm looking for in package manager logs or dmesg.
This is about maintaining the compromise that is intellectual property law.
IP law has been so perverted that I see a lot of the takietarians around here wanting to abolish it completely. That's not a good idea. The US constitution empowers Congress to make laws that for a limited time give creators exclusive rights to their creations. FOR A LIMITED TIME. That's the key feature. I know this is an EU petition, I imagine they have a similar concept of IP. That it belongs to the creator for awhile, and then enters the public domain as the heritage of all mankind.
Do away with copyright protection entirely, and you kill a lot of people's jobs. The rate at which things will be created will drastically decrease. Throughout the 1980s, how many decade defining or genre defining video games came out of the United States? The nation known for a video game industry crash that decade? How many came out of the UK? How many out of Japan? How many out of the Soviet Union?
Okay so let's make copyright permanent! Well no, because then you get Disney, a collection of stuffed suits who have MBAs instead of souls holding as much western culture hostage as they can in perpetuity.
So, we compromise. You create something, you get an amount of time of exclusive right of way, then it becomes public domain.
That length of time has gotten longer and longer to the point now that it's more than 2 human lifetimes long. To an individual human, that's as good as forever, so it has the problems of permanent copyright.
Especially in the realm of computer software and video games, where the life of a platform averages 10 years. There's a whole body of software and games written for OLD systems that are still protected under copyright, but finding the copyright holder is damn near impossible. I'll make up a game: Turtle Adventure for the Commodore 64, copyright 1985 by Bedsoft Inc. Bedsoft Inc was a sole proprietorship operated by Bartholomew Teethwick in Bristol, England. Mr. Teethwick published Turtle Adventure, a typing tutor game that didn't really work right, and an advertisement for a Pacman clone to release in 1987 was circulated but that game was never made. The "company" was shut down in 1988 and Mr. Teethwick died of AIDS in 1991, unmarried, no children. Who's going to sue me for posting Turtle Adventure on Github? Whose rights is copyright law protecting here?
Then you get into this model where video games don't work at all without a central server somewhere. That's just an end around of the deal. This software is supposed to end up in the public domain eventually. By copyrighting it, that's the deal you made.
To patent something, you're required to submit a technical description of your invention in sufficient detail for it to be replicated, because patent law is a similar compromise. You invent something, it's yours for awhile then it belongs to humanity. You cannot have a patented trade secret. Why do we allow closed source software to be copyrighted?
The rules for software weren't created for software, they were created for human readable works of literature, and they've been misused in ways that benefit large greed-based organizations like Microsoft.
Requiring game developers to publish their server side code when the game goes defunct is holding them to the deal they made when they installed that copyright notice. It is what they owe humanity.
Everything is attached to the UPS, both the computer and the main monitor are on the battery side. Why the computer was shut off on this UPS, I don't know. I might be switching brands of UPS.
If I switch it down to 60 or 100 Hz, the problem goes away entirely, so I don't think it's a hardware damage issue at this point. Like, I did a software update, I wonder if it's booted up with a slightly newer version of mesa or wayland or something that isn't playing nice.
No, they handle the mouse.
I got into the Battletech universe from the Mechwarrior PC games. Which...long story short, MW2: 31st Century Combat and MW4: Vengeance were really bad at indicating there was a whole franchise behind them. I learned it was a whole big thing from guys I met on MW4's online multiplayer. Who here remembers MSN Gaming Zone?
I tried to pick up the BATTLETECH game on Steam not too long ago, on the understanding that it's a computerized version of the tabletop game's rules...and bounced right off it. First of all, it has like, a Campaign mode and a Career mode? How are those different? Then both launching the game and starting a career play an intro cinematic longer than the Lord of the Rings franchise. I mean fuck, Tex of the Black Pants Legion doesn't talk this much about mechs. The story is, to me, the least interesting thing Battletech can do: You're some nothing fuck mercenary working for some nothing fuck duchess on some nothing fuck periphery planet.
Three and a half months after the Steam return window passes, I finally get into the game to play the tutorial mission. It's popping up text on the screen to teach how to control the game, meanwhile there's a voiceover saying different things trying to tell the story of the Nothing Fuck Roughriders and their quest to avenge Lady Nothing Fuck of Nothing Fuckersville. It hit me with both simultaneously.
Software I hate does not stay installed on my computer.
My cat does that to wake me up because she's hungry.
#Gaming
On the machine I used Nvidia on, I ran Linux Mint and used that distro's driver manager. It was fairly straightforward. I found an appropriate time to build a new machine and I'm now a Ryzen/Radeon kind of guy.
In broad strokes, what Valve has done for Linux gaming is build a compatibility layer that translates the game's calls for Windows systems into those that Linux can understand, especially translating DirectX API calls to Vulkan. So, for the most part, Windows games now "just run." You do not need to wait for a game to be ported to Linux, and in fact many just simply aren't anymore; Valve's instructions are to target Windows and let Proton handle Linux gamers. The one place you'll find issues are some games that use kernel level anti-cheat, a technology that can work on Linux, but many studios choose not to let it.
#Excel/macros
I don't know if a conversion to a FOSS office suite (I would recommend LibreOffice or possibly OnlyOffice) will be 100% seamless, the most trouble I had with LibreOffice was collaborating with others. An MLA formatted essay made in LOWriter may translate fine, powerpoint presentations and spreadsheets might be a little wonky.
The cool thing about FOSS apps is you don't have to have Linux to give them a try. You can install LibreOffice in Windows and try it out yourself.
#Outlook
I don't know a damn thing about Outlook. There are several email clients available for Linux, which I don't use, so, I can't really help you here.
#Programming IDEs
I don't think VisualStudio is available for Linux; their text editor VSCode and a "we built the parts they opened" called VSCodium are.
Linux is an extremely programmer friendly environment; you'll find a lot of IDEs available. Your typical Linux distro ships with Python and Perl interpreters among others just built right in, along with GCC of course. I've messed around with the Godot game engine, along with Arduino, though these days if I'm going to do much programming I'm going to do it in Python, including for microcontrollers. These days I've somewhat standardized on ESP32s running MicroPython.
If you're going through multiple condensers a decade you need a new air conditioner. From a different manufacturer operating on a different continent.
There are two songs that I will verbally abuse a movie for having on its soundtrack.
"What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, and "Fly Me To The Moon" by Frank Sinatra.
If you put those songs in...anything, you're a fucking hack.
WAWW has been used both straight and ironically TO DEATH. It has been played over beautiful and horrific scenes. There's nothing you can use it to say that hasn't already been said by someone more clever than you.
FMTTM is the song completely uncreative people put in movies that have something to do with the moon. "We have an establishing shot of the moon and we need some licensed music for the soundtrack. Gee, now what's the hackiest laziest most cliched pissbabyest lack of a brain stemiest thing we could put here?" "You're not going to believe this, but I found a Sinatra song that might just be a lazy enough choice. It's already been used in all the other movies, is that lazy enough?"