Russ @ russjr08 @bitforged.space

Formerly @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net

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It's like my science used to say in grade school, "100% of people who consume dihydrogen monoxide end up dead".

Water has quite a few side effects, the evidence is clear!

I mean, a lot of people have a tendency to do "stupid" things, and maybe even say stupid things - but I wouldn't classify 90% of the population as stupid. First problem is that "stupid" isn't a very quantifiable quality - and "smarter" really depends on the perspective of the way you're looking at it. I'll use what someone else mentioned here as an example: I would like to say that I'm at least a decent software developer (or so I hope), but I know absolutely nothing about cars (I don't even have one). While I'm pretty well rounded on the software side of computers, I'm terrible at the hardware side. I am also terrible at math aside from the very basics (and even then... eh) - hence, I'd never have a good shot at even getting into game development if that were something I wanted to pursue.

So not only can I not comment on whether other people are "stupid", I can't even account for myself, because there's no metric for it. Are we going off of IQ (I have zero clue what my IQ is, nor do I really have an interest in finding out what it might be)? Are we going off of being able to answer Jeopardy questions?

I don't have many words of comfort, but I will say this: Even if when you look around you, it seems empty - that does not mean you are alone!

Conversely the same applies for me in my case, I'm supposed to have some family members around me for Christmas... and yet I feel much more disconnected and alone now than I ever have.

Logically, I know that my brain is just playing tricks on me. I have friends who truly care about me, and a few family members who do. But my siblings who are coming to visit us? They pretend to care (at least from my perspective), yet I doubt they do. I've heard from others the thoughts they have about me, and it's really sad to hear.

Unfortunately, the heart often does not follow logic. I can't help but feel how I do. The only thing I can do is just as I have, which is continuing to push on as hard as I can - some days I don't make any progress and it feels like I'm frozen in a single frame of the timeline... But I live for the days where the bad fades away, even if only briefly.

So it's not much, I know, but I will be thinking of you and the rest of my friends here at the Fediverse (and my personal friends of course) throughout the holidays! Some days the road is dark, but you'll never have to walk it alone.

I'm pretty sure this has already happened in the past, I swear there was a "Bad instances" list that someone was passing around, which someone else then disputed that the list was bad due to there not being valid reasons for why an instance was marked "bad" - but people had taken the list as 100% fact and blocked said instances.

That is the double-edged sword of the Fediverse, the freedom to choose who you allow and don't allow in regards to federation. There's always going to be the "cliques" so to speak where if you upset (for lack of a better word) the wrong people, the size of that instance can claim that you're bad, and if other instances take their word at face value without verifying this then all of a sudden you can't communicate with other instances/people (ie, if you get defederated by lemmy.world or mastodon.social - then good luck). Obviously, the good part about how the Fediverse works is the power for each instance admin to make their own determinations of who they want to federate with, but this is the "bad" side of it which is further amplified by the fact that there are always going to be instances that hold a very larger position of power. In a way, fracturing of the Fediverse is a bit inevitable because of this. I suspect what you say will happen (as I've already seen this mentioned).

It is what it is, I'm not saying whether that double-edged nature is good or bad, because at the end of the day that determination comes down to every person who chooses to participate, and is a decision they have to make on their own volition.

Thank you for the breakdown! I've pretty much always been on Nvidia GPUs since I had a computer with an actual dedicated GPU, so this is all quite new to me.

I did end up following your guide though shortly after I mentioned my questions here, since I figured they both fell under the "If they're not needed, it won't cause any harm" - I did definitely notice that during the upgrade I got a ton of notices about missing firmware for the amdgpu module, whereas after I pulled the firmware files and added them, the notices were gone after a reboot when I went to go install Liquorix so it seems to have been for the best either way.

I haven't had a chance to try out too many games yet, but I did give Halo Infinite a quick go which I did notice had a lot of stuttering previously, and it does seem to be better in that regards now! It'll also be nice to be able to use the native version of Steam, not that I have any qualms with Flatpak but as silly as it is, MangoHud can't read the media status of Spotify while under Flatpak whereas it can when running natively. I like having the media info present, and it kind of continues to light my issues with Flatpak sometimes (in which most things work, but there are always those small things that don't due to the sandboxing), but I digress haha.

Really appreciate the guide again! It all went smoothly and all the steps were laid out very concisely! I love that the steps had an explanation rather than just effectively being a list of commands to run without any context leaving me with the question of "Why should I run this", even down to the comments that you added to the various apt configuration files.

This is fantastic! I recently installed Debian after not having tried it for years, and was wondering what the best way to get things such as newer versions of Mesa is.

In your article you brought up alternative Kernel options, from what I've always been told these kernels don't really make a massive difference than the regular kernel. Do you have any experience with the ones you mentioned, and if so did either have an actual impact for you?

Additionally, since I've only recently started using AMD cards (took me a bit to scrape up the money to move over from Nvidia, but it has been done thankfully) are there any details on what the additional firmware components add on? I have a 6700 XT so I'm not sure if that counts as being new enough to need them (I suspect it doesn't but figured I'd check).

Just as a heads up, while they did drop the Linux client, unless it's been changed very recently you can just use the Windows version through Proton/WINE and play that way.

Which isn't an excuse for what they've done, I only mention it in case you or someone else didn't already know.

~$70 for a 500/30 plan on Spectrum over on the east coast for me.

Also no data cap, thankfully...

Interesting, I'll definitely be giving it a rewatch and looking into the continuations - thanks again!

WHAT! No, I hadn't seen this before! I'll have a look, thank you!!

I can't say that I watch a lot of disaster movies all that often, however in terms of TV shows I had a good time watching Jericho. Honestly it's probably about time for me to re-watch it again.

For me it was the leading questions at the end, LLMs often end with leading questions so that you have a way to continue the conversation from what I've found.

Mastodon, and Matrix - Also another "Not sure if Matrix counts", but I believe its still considered to be part of the Fediverse, even if it doesn't speak ActivityPub!

Hopefully some more platforms soon as well.

Can confirm, I made an instance around the time that the blackout started - unfortunately the hardware it was running on was starting to experience some issues. It's still up and running, but for now I've made a fresh new instance on way better hardware - and this time without a subdomain 😅

Yep, it's a test instance. There's a couple of other ones as well, https://voyager.lemmy.ml and https://ds9.lemmy.ml

🤫 I was thinking of that actually! But I couldn't remember the term, just the general meme of "If you're unsure of whether you're correct, post it on the Internet and you'll be corrected" ha!

Ah, I stand corrected - thank you! Lemmy truly is the pinnacle of "You learn something new everyday"

That would be highly unlikely. Most infotainment systems either run Android Auto or CarPlay if they're very new "fancy" (for lack of a technical term) models, or custom embedded firmware for everything else.

That frame issue is because of the fact that Nvidia uses "explicit sync" and AMD/Intel use "implicit sync" - XWayland is built to only support implicit syncing for now (Nvidia is trying to get it changed), and since most games right now run under XWayland... Along with a ton of apps of course.

Until then, that issue won't be resolved sadly. It's what finally pushed me to get an AMD card since the issue has been open for over a year with a ton of back and forth.