FBJimmy

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[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 37 points 2 days ago (9 children)

1440p for the win!

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Note that New Scientist was acquired by the Daily Mail in 2021...

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 17 points 2 months ago

Single GPU with scripts that run before and after the VM is active to unload the GPU driver modules from the kernel.

I think this was my starting point and I had to do just a few small tweaks to get it right for my setup - i.e. unload and reload the precise set of kernel modules that block GPU passthrough on my machine.

https://gitlab.com/Karuri/vfio

At this point from a user experience p.o.v it's not much different to dual booting, just with a different boot sequence. The main advantage though is that I can have the Windows OS on a small virtual harddrive for ease of backup/clone/restore and have game installs on a dedicated NVME that doesn't need backing up

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 40 points 2 months ago (15 children)

I've been 100% linux for my daily home computing for over a year now... With one exception... To be honest I didn't even try particularly hard to make gaming work under Linux.

Instead I have a Windows VM - setup with full passthrough access to my GPU and it's own NVME - just for Windows gaming. To my mind now it's in the same category as running console emulation.

As soon as I click shutdown in windows, it pops me straight back into my Linux desktop.

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 8 points 2 months ago

"Mr Edwards left the BBC in April."

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

len(string) passes the object 'string' to a function 'len' that returns its length.

sting.len() (edit: hypothetically if it existed) calls the method 'len' which is an inherent part of any object of string type.

In practice the result is the same, but the latter is the more object-oriented approach.

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 3 points 3 months ago

I had some hard to track down intermittent network issues when I upgraded from LMDE5 to LMDE6 - the solution was to get a newer kernel from backports - its fairly painless...

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=413995#:~:text=You%20get%20the%20kernel%20updates,using%20with%20command%20uname%20%2Dv.

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Obviously the one that's in better condition 😅

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No experience myself, but one of the fitness YouTubers I like posted this recently: https://youtu.be/_ro-YvnLF-4

[–] FBJimmy@lemmus.org 1 points 4 months ago

There are a LOT of waterfalls in Iceland, that much is true, there just wasn't any point on that trip where I had the slightest inclination to go camping - a lot of it is very exposed with very little in the way of natural shelter or facilities. Our typical day when we went was four or more hours of driving with maybe two or three amazing points of interest en route. The vast open space in between was stunning in it's own way too, but there's a lot of it.

There may well be some part of Iceland that's ideal for backpacking, the West Fjords maybe now I think about it, but then you'd be missing out on what the rest of that incredible place has to offer if you hop in a car.

Most of my camping experience is in the UK. If you're lucky with the weather, wild camping in the west of Scotland is extraordinary. After a two day drive and a ferry crossing we once had the most magical night camping at a white sand beach on Vatersay in the Outer Hebrides on what was supposed to be the first night of an epic bikepacking adventure... The next day the rain was so bad we aborted the trip. Back on the mainland the NC500 is legendary.

Alternatively, we had a great backpacking trip once interailing around Europe. No camping, just cheap accommodation in towns/cities en route. If you're young an interail ticket is quite economical. We did Paris, Zurich, Milan, Nice/Monaco, Barcelona and Toulouse among other smaller towns on a 10 day trip.

On my bucket list is to bikepack mainland Europe. There are some quite famous routes and the vycle paths in countries like Netherlands and Germany are very good quality.

Boat hopping and wild camping around the Croatian islands is another one a friend of mine has done and enjoyed.

So many options, not enough time - even for us based closer!

 
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