flubba86 @ flubba86 @lemmy.world

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He is also a staunch Republican, and a Trump supporter. I like some of his videos, but most of them are cringe if you're actually knowledgeable about the topic he is covering. He researches a topic just enough to come across as the smartest person in the room, while dumbing down concepts and talking down to the audience like we're infants. You can tell his target audience are poorly educated and easily impressed people from rural America.

Did you work out where the drier puts them? Every load, two matching socks go in, but when I unload them there's either; just one sock, or two different socks.

Have you tried patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time?

game is too big to fit on my SSD 😭

game loads too slowly on HDD 😴

YOLO. store the game in RAM. 🤘

I've seen this bug in the outlook web app too. Like it suddenly thinks I'm holding ctrl or something, then every keystroke in middle of typing an email become commands to mess up my inbox and delete my drafts.

Man, that actually sounds really good.

I get how this could be interpreted as offensive, but I think it is just poorly worded.

This option is for if you are using a legacy version of Linux such as 2.6.x (eg, on an old RedHat distro that your business systems are designed to be run on).

This enables a compatibility mode so the old kernels don't complain.

Stargate universe.

The big bang theory intro theme song started playing in my head instantly when I saw this, well done.

Kind of. Think of the RAM allowance as a "maximum" limit, not a reserved allocation. The VM host might have 64 GB RAM, and perhaps allows 20 VMS running in it at once. Each VM can allocate up to a max of 8GB from that host. Not everyone is running their VM at the same time, even if they are, not everyone would be running at their limit of 8GB of memory. If it does happen that 20 users are trying to use 8GB at the same time on one host, then it's the same as anytime an OS runs low on RAM, it would start paging out to disk, everything would slow down for everyone. If that happens too many times, they could shuffle some users' VMs around to balance the loads across hosts.

Can someone explain to me why it always seems like everyone on lemmy are in one of these two categories:

1: "I remember my first computer used ferro-magnetic beads that we glued to lengths of string. We could store nearly 10 bytes in one string".

2: "My first computer was an old iPad that only had 64GB storage, couldn't even store my photo album."

It's like everyone is aged either 89 or 19, nobody in between.

Probably because the RAM was pooled, but storage was not. So your RAM allocation is part of a larger pool that is shared between all currently logged in users. But your storage is allocated/reserved up front, and is used only by you.

Ah yes, who stood up in a meeting at Microsoft and said "What if the desktop background was a webpage! And what if the web engine behind it was just internet explorer 6 but worse."

Kind of right. Windows ME was the final version of windows (you probably forgot about that one).

After that, XP, vista, windows 7, were all based on NT.

This particular bug (from the OP) only affects games that use a lot of rapid mouse and keyboard inputs over the period of an hour or two.

And it only happens (weirdly) when you launch from steam, but have Steam Overlay turned off.

When launching from Steam, there is a layer that captures all keyboard and mouse inputs before they get to the game (for example, for capturing hotkeys to show the steam overlay). A separate layer called vulkan-steam-overlay (that is responsible for rendering the overlay over the game) periodically clears the input buffer so it doesn't get too big. If steam overlay is disabled in settings, the input-capture layer is still used, but the vulkan-steam-overlay layer is not used. So the input buffer captures all inputs and never gets cleared, it gets so big it needs to start paging to disk. That is what introduces the lag spikes after an hour or two.

Launching from Lutris doesn't use that input-capture layer, so that's why it's not affected.

Transport Fever 2

OpenTTD

Factorio

Factorio

Factorio

Such a weird take dude. Someone's ability to enjoy nature is not at all tied to their operating system choice. And many people actually gain friends and achieve more social interaction as a result of starting a new hobby or special interest, and using a Linux-based operating system can be the same.

I think what you are trying to say is that switching to a new operating system comes with a learning curve, and depending on how much free time you have, you may end up spending the time leaning the OS, when you'd rather be doing something else.

The same can be said for anything. Learning Tae Kwon Do has a learning curve. When I'm spending time on that, it eats into the time I would rather be customising my OS.

Nice.

I've read recounts of dreams like this before (or perhaps it was iterations of yourself telling it in each case).

And there is the famous Reddit story about the guy to saw the glitching lamp that is very similar.

I too have had this experience myself. When I was around 20, I had a dream where I packed up my stuff and got in my car and moved from my hometown to the nearby larger city. I was living out of my car or staying with friends initially, but after a few months I found a job and started renting my own place. While working part time I started studying for a qualification at the technical college. At that college I met an amazing girl and we started dating. A few months later she moved into my place. I saved enough money to buy a better car, and I sold my old car. I would go driving on the weekends along scenic rural roads. My girlfriend and I got engaged. I got a new job, but it meant we had to move to a different city where we didn't know anyone. We got married, we had two children (a boy and a girl). My wife disappeared one day, without a trace. Nobody ever worked out what happened to her. Just vanished. So I was raising my children as a single parent. We went on a trip back to my hometown to visit my parents. I went into my old room, layed on my old bed and went to sleep. That night I had a dream where I really needed to pee, but couldn't find a toilet. I know how those dreams sometimes end, so I forced myself to wake up, I ran to the bathroom and used the toilet. When I got back to bed I felt weirdly empty. My memories of my kids, of my wife, my job, were fading fast. I couldn't remember their faces. I couldn't remember where I work. It was like a dream. And then I realised it actually was all a dream. I'd lived around 6 years of my life in the dream, but in reality it was just a couple of hours sleep.

For the next week I was trying to disentangle memories of my life that were real from those from the dream. It hasn't had any lasting effects on me. I don't remember much of it anymore, only the parts I recounted above.

"Oh, he's gonna get it now..."

"Whats he gonna face?"

"Yeah, he's gonna face questions."