Chaotic Entropy

The owner and proprietor of what is now a Nazi bar can’t decouple themselves from what it is they are operating. Which is the local Nazi bar.

If your bar is where all the Nazis go to hang out, I’m afraid you have a Nazi bar.

It feels like watching Trump burn the middle east to the ground instead of Harris would be cold comfort for anyone proud of not actively voting for a different genocide abetting candidate. There is no anti-genocide candidate, sadly, but one party has at least the shadow of a conscience that can be pressured later.

You’ve reminded me that I have premium from like a decade ago. I should have another go with it.

£70 premium version is a little rich for my blood. O_O

Templar Battleforce is a great little turn based strategy game with a squad of persistent troops fighting across missions.

Pho Ga (using chicken thighs), with various toppings and vermicelli rice noodles. Takes about 45 all in, if you’re efficient, whilst being delicious and healthy.

I’ve asked one question, one time in those comments and it just got buried in people spitting venom at each other about their file system preferences.

Isn’t that just spyware with extra steps?

“Never” seems a little excessive, it’s more contextually sensitive though obviously.

“In IT” could mean anything from first line support worker to software project manager to network engineer. Can you be more specific…?

While there are gamers hooked on gambling machines, the industry will continue to produce more and more blatant gambling machines… instead of actual balanced games.

It feels like the crypto mining goldrush really changed the way GPU manufacturers view the market.

Presumably they wanted something a bit more thorough and clear than a table of numbers with no information besides:

These tests were done on various hardware running games, both old and new, with and without the new driver being active.

Did you remember to wish upon a star during install?

Did you remember to clear your cookies and cache?

It’s okay to not start in your ideal job on day one and to take sideways shifts to get closer to it. I went from phone monkey in a call centre, to a letter monkey, to a software tester, to a software business analyst (all at the same company), to a software product owner, to a software product manager. I gravitated back towards my stronger IT oriented passions over time.

I’m going to try to take this in the spirit that it was provided, but you’re using a lot of "…"s, and a lot of implications that what I’m saying is obvious, for a person trying to provide earnest assistance. I wasn’t requesting technical support or expressing surprise at these things, I was merely expressing that these were the things I was generally encountering difficulty with my transition to Linux as a daily driver.

The DisplayLink driver for instance is running, and basically functional, but ends up running slowly, with distortions, and instability. It also isn’t signed, so my plan to still run Secure Boot with the distro I’m using alongside Windows is out (without a lot of faff), but that largely won’t matter excusing some specific work setups that I don’t currently have to worry about. Having useful AMD specific driver level tools on Windows that don’t exist in Linux isn’t a surprise, it is a discouragement.

Forum content and non-Reddit content are a pain to locate, especially when you don’t know how to frame your problem in Linux syntax, as you say. Communities are either open but in specific places that I will never find without already knowing about it, or happening in places that aren’t accessible without having already joined, like the Discord of the specific software I need guidance on. My experience has been that there is basic info and there is advanced info out there, but intermediate info that lets you bridge the gap is a challenge to locate, especially with subtle differences in certain steps that are distro/package manager specific. Yet I press on.

I’ll say it. Cats have bad work ethic.

I’m not having a great time with DisplayLink driver support, personally. Various applications I use with mixed levels of support too, along with missing out on Windows specific GPU features.

This has been my most successful round of Linux adoption, but there are still niggling issues and confusion. The biggest difficulty is that my accumulated support knowledge of like 20 years is useless and I am relearning basic issue identification and resolution processes.

The internet being a raging dumpster fire, support is kind of patchy on more niche topics. All the good, useful discussions are largely happening behind closed doors at this point on everyone’s Discords and whatnot.