RickRussell_CA

I am so, so, SO glad I’m now in a home with access to fiber Internet. Real, 2 gigabit symmetric fiber.

The cable company keeps sending me glossy ads in the mail - several per week - trying to get me to go back to 1/4 the bandwidth at the same price. Uhhhh… no.

Anything that complements your career as a Cheese Greeter

Do what you enjoy. Half-ass all the things.

FYI, the new official Office default is Aptos. I’ve been making work docs with it for a few weeks and I have to admit, it looks really clean and technical.

https://medium.com/microsoft-design/a-change-of-typeface-microsofts-new-default-font-has-arrived-f200eb16718d

“Prove you’re human by chopping off a finger.”

I was banned from /r/food for pointing out that someone’s “homemade” breakfast consisted of a toaster waffle and a frozen hash brown.

The moderator who banned me went through my post history, combing it for things they disapproved of, and made sure to highlight various deficiencies of my character in their ban explanation.

The differences between victim survey statistics and crime reporting statistics are not easy to explain. In the US, trends in victim reporting tend to lead law enforcement statistics by a year or two, which makes one wonder whether law enforcement is padding the numbers – either to make themselves look good (when crime is increasing according to victim reports and it would reflect badly on them if LE statistics followed suit), or to make themselves look necessary (when victim-reported crime is going down and LE statistics might make LE look redundant).

RC cars. I was into local club racing in the 90s, dropped out of it when my kids were born, now I’m getting back into it.

The technology improvements in power, battery capacity, and radios have been frankly astonishing. Setups that would have cost $1000+ back in the 90s come as ready-to-run kits for $200 now, and perform better.

IMO, I think the world is going to transition to using they/them for gender unspecified folks. I’ve been practicing using they/them in written and spoken communications, and it comes off a lot less strange than you’d think.

I’m just here to play some regulation softball

It turned you into a fruity vampire?

The post they are responding to claims that female is “never” used as a noun. The claim was not restricted to the posted context.

Or using the term to refer to a genetic female, for example in a medical context.

Male and female are definitely nouns also.

Like all humans, I consume organic matter and I am covered in skin.

My own skin, that I grow, from my body.

Obligatory hardware details:

root@pop-os:/home/rickr# for dmi_file in /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/*_{name,version}; do echo $dmi_file; echo -n ’ '; cat $dmi_file done

    /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name    878A
    /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name    OMEN Laptop 15-ek0xxx
    /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/bios_version    F.14
    /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_version    17.29
    /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/chassis_version    Chassis Version
    /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_version

My laptop (HP Omen Intel i7 + Nvidia 2060) lost the discrete graphics after the PopOS updater installed Nvidia driver 535.

I was able to fix it by re-installing driver 470. However, I’m still having problems with the discrete graphics going dark after screen blank or suspend.

The above info is interesting, and I’d love to use it to fix my issues, but even as something of a UNIX/Linux power user, I have trouble parsing the jargon.

What does this do?

sudo apt purge ~nnvidia

I don’t understand the use of the tilde and double-n notation. I know that tilde is used as a home directory shortcut, but that’s not how it’s used here? I haven’t been able to Google anything on it either, none of the other apt purge examples I found are using this notation.

I definitely have issues with the graphics failing to wake up after suspend. What do the hybrid graphics commands do? With respect to GC6 and Suspend S3, how would I know whether I need to do anything about those? I understand that they are some kind of power saving modes, but how would I know whether they are causing problems?

I’d love to be able to use the latest drivers & for suspend to work right, but I have to admit I’m out of my depth.

Originally it was “Reddit Gold” – you could pay $30 a year to get all the benefits of Gold membership, without waiting for somebody to award you Gold.

At some point they renamed it to Premium, but they didn’t raise the price for existing subscribers. I’ve got 13 years on Reddit & I’ve been paying for Gold/Premium since nearly the moment it was announced.

I guess. I only go back for a couple of niche subreddits that will never make reddit any money. And I canceled my Premium subscription.

So… they won, good for them I guess.

Hosting & recoding video is very expensive. Hosting social media postings is relatively inexpensive.

I think it’s as simple as that. Not many people can afford to host peertube instances.