I watch a lot of CNN (I am a progressive), because I like to yell at the TV. You can’t convince me that CNN (and all corporate media really) is not just blatant controlled opposition

America is wild! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_divisionism Texas maybe legally has the right to choose to just divide itself into 5 states at any time

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LSGOSOqaRZc

No disrespect, miss

Omg absolutely, what a workhorse. I ended up slapping on a custom vBIOS, aggressive overclock, and swapped the AIB’s air cooler for a little closed loop 120mm water cooler. I ran it until it died in 2020, and if it was still functional today, I’d still be using it. RIP what a loss. The 6GB of VRAM were starting to get tight and DX12 was starting to age it, though, but it was still totally holding up for what I use a GPU for.

Now I am on a 6900XT with the navi21 XTXH chip in it. I bet I’ll skip at least as many generations with this as I did with the 980Ti. It’s so fast and efficient. In some games, the fans don’t even spin, and it just passively cools with the heatsink.

I play on a CRT in either 1600x1200@85Hz or 1024x768@120Hz capping it at 170fps in 85Hz or 360fps in 120Hz, and it holds those solid and stable in the games that I play. I’m not interested in 4k gaming or anything silly like that (but I’m sure others would say that I’m the silly one lol). The biggest factor that was holding me to the 980Ti was the flawless onboard DAC and native analog output. In order to use the 6900XT, I dropped a bunch of money on a DAC with a VMM2322 for it

I remind myself “it’s just life” and that “no one makes it out of life alive”

A tiny bit of nihilism goes a long way

Wait for real??? You make an NVIDIA account now? I haven’t had an NVIDIA card since my 980Ti… Is this account insanity true for the proprietary Linux driver too?

#1 still first-past-the-post, but support the Nation Popular Vote Interstate Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

#2 support ranked-choice initiatives

#3 support abolishing the Senate

Pretty sure it’s still just twitter

Downvoters need to read some peer reviewed studies and not lap up whatever BS comes from OpenAI who are selling you a bogus product lmao. I too was excited for summarization use-case of AI when LLMs were the new shiny toy, until people actually started testing it and got a big reality check

LLMs are especially bad for summarization for the use case of presenting search results. The source is just as critical of information for search as the information itself, and LLMs obfuscate this critical source information and combine results from multiple sources together…

LLMs are TERRIBLE at summarization

Ha, had no idea it was pronounced like that. I’ve always said MATE like “date”/“rate”/“fate”

It is not only more Rubles than currently exists, but more money than currently exists in any currency 😂

FYI the green party is now openly admitting that their goal is to prevent Kamala Harris from winning the presidency.

The election has already started. Absentee ballots have been sent. We need to catch up rapidly. We need everyone here to get active. We need to be clear about what our goals are. We are not in a position to win the White House, but we do have a real opportunity to win something historic, we could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan. And the polls show that most likely Harris cannot win the election without Michigan.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/10/harris-vs-trump-spoiler-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud.html

GREEN = Getting Republicans Elected Every November

KDE Plasma. I like having a familiar start menu and keyboard shortcuts

We have outer space pretty well mapped

An estimate from before this satellite broke up was that 97% of space debris is not tracked and that there are 131 million pieces of untracked debris in space.

Now that said, I think your point is valid because most of this untracked debris is much smaller than a satellite

• Penny = $0.01
• Nickel = $0.05
• Dime = $0.10
• Quarter = $0.25
• Half dollar = $0.50
• Dollar coin = $1.00

Heat and time on the stove.

I definitely understand where you’re coming from, but at this point I’ve had so many JustWorks™️ Linux systems, including set up on my parents’ PC for well over 5 years without one single problem or breaking update, and they certainly are never opening up the terminal.

I’ll stick with my suggestion that Linux is not for anyone with a strong aversion to terminals.

My experience tells me that this is just objectively wrong, or I’d be getting calls from my parents, HOWEVER, I will concede that maybe this is only wrong if you just want a bulletproof system that works without messing around much.

If OP wants to mess around and get dirty in settings, then I’ll give it to you that they might need to be a bit more open minded about the terminal. I haven’t really tried much GUI configs or settings besides really common, typical stuff, like network config or power saving modes/settings, because I just go right to the terminal regardless.

But its just wrong to claim that someone who doesn’t want to use a terminal will have a problem on Linux, it just depends heavily on what you are trying to do. For the tasks that most people use a personal computer for, there won’t be anything holding you back.

In no way am I trying to defend the GOP, Musk, Trump, or dissuade voting for Harris, because Democrats are obviously the lesser of the 2 evils, and we are like days out from the election so nothing we can do about that now besides get energized for the next round of primaries.

BUT I’d say there are still plenty of valid arguments that the Democrats are a party of rich elites. It isn’t mutually exclusive, both the GOP and Democrats can be this at the same time, and I’m not saying “BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE” because literal fascists are worse than neoliberals or however you want to characterize Democrats.

Am I out of my mind?