[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Desktop: Cerberus (triple monitors)
Media server: Alexandria
Firewall: Hadrian

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

You can see that the hose enters the center of a centrifugal blower, which is the inlet, so the hoses are sucking.

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Man, I hate that BlueTooth doesn't have an equivalent of "line-out" that isn't affected by the host devices' volume settings. It's so annoying when I can barely hear my music because I turned the volume way down on my phone while watching a video late last night.

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's a ceramic. Not exactly what people mean when they say "aluminum." I mean, if that's considered aluminum, then so is sapphire.

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago

Consider two potential creditors:

  • Person A has no credit history at all.
  • Person B has had a credit card with a $20k limit for ten years, generally has a balance of less than $2k, and has never missed a payment.

Can you see how B is a less risky client than A? A is essentially an unknown risk, but B has demonstrated the ability to manage their debt. A could still get, for instance, a car loan, but likely not a mortgage. And B will get a lower interest rate.

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Michael Clayton

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

I've got an older 3900X that's Zen 2, but I'm otherwise clear, too.

It's kind of hard to figure out which Zen # a CPU falls under, so here's the Wiki page listing all Zen 2 CPUs.

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I'm a month or so into switching from Windows 10 to Ubuntu. I've never lasted this long in prior attempts to switch over.

Gaming has been quite good. Steam just works for 99% of the games I've tried, with the 1% being one or two minor bugs in games that otherwise worked fine. Lutris, on the other hand, did not work at all. 0% success rate installing or running games.

Linux does still seem brittle and/or unnecessarily complicated, though. For example, I have a super common nvidia card, and my first post-install experience was having to boot into safe mode to fix the drivers. Then Ubuntu updated the drivers and my screens didn't come back up. I had to hard-reset to get them back. And I have yet to get NUT installed and configured correctly so I can have the PC power down gracefully when the UPS runs low, something which is trivial in Windows.

Is all the frustration worth it to have an OS that isn't selling me ads and trying to move me to a cloud account? Probably.

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

For me it's Fusion 360. The launcher for it opens your browser to log you in via the Web. Wine doesn't seem to support that.

DCS has some sort of time/zone issue preventing me from logging in.

My MX Master scroll wheel behaves oddly.

Other than that it's been not awful since I switched to Linux last month.

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This feels like a comment from 1997. Aside from occasionally updating video drivers for a new video game, I can't remember the last time I had to maintain--much less fix--a driver.

[-] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Taking regular walks around my neighborhood has really soured me on dogs. Every other house has dogs barking at me from the back yard or front windows. Almost every dog that's being walked will lunge and bark at me. There are only a handful of well-behaved dogs that I enjoy seeing on my walks. Frankly, it seems like 95% of dog owners aren't doing the work to properly socialize their pets.

Hell, I can't even grill out in my backyard without getting barked at from three different directions.

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