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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • You never really said what you like about linux or why you even want to use it. You want an ‘easy-to-use’ distro, but I’ve never really run into a ‘difficult-to-use’ distro, and that’s going back to the Slackware/RedHat 4.2 days. PopOS!, Ubuntu, EndeavourOS, Slack, Debian, they’re all ‘easy-to-use’ when you don’t specify a use case.

    Personally I love the challenge, and that nothing is forced on me. It took me a good 30 minutes yesterday researching and trying to figure out how to get spell checking working in qutebrowser, and I got a little dopamine hit when I was finished.

    Windows doesn’t make me excited to use a computer. Linux does, because it’s challenging.




  • I was running a LLM earlier this evening and my 3090 started to make a ticking noise everytime a token was generated. Panicing, I look for the first time in years at AMD’s lineup. A 7900 XTX goes for $1400 CDN, but a 4090 is almost $2500.

    I also use Daz Studio/Iray to render characters before feeding them to Stable Diffusion, because it’s a lot easier to get exactly what you want without spending hours tweaking prompts and seeds and hoping for the best.

    An extra grand isn’t really that bad when you factor in the lifetime of the card.




  • BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlIt either runs on Linux or refund
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    10 months ago

    Really? My arch install is idling at 2.8gb. Picom (310mb), XOrg (160mb) and pipewire (140mb) are big chunks, and kitty isn’t cheap either but the rest is mainly sub 50mb services that all add up. I’m not running anything heavy like Gnome or KDE either, just bspwm and 2 polybar instances (one for each monitor).





  • It wasn’t the rules/signs portion of the test. They litereally had questions like:

    Which is more dangerous when riding beside a row of parked cars?

    A) A car pulling out.

    B) Someone opening a car door.

    C) A child running into the street from between two parked cars.

    It’s not an opinion question, personally I’d rather hit the car and the door over the child, but they want to know the answer that the study material gave.