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kbal

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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades

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  • For me the X11 era continues for now (until the next version of xfce I expect) and the era of GNOME ended 23 years ago.

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    What are your thoughts on mandatory military service?

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  • It's not the same thing as slavery I think. But it's in the same moral category as slavery. It would be impossible for me to participate in such a thing in any way.

  • Looking for GPU recommendation for Linux compatibility, gaming, and programming

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  • Linux loads the "firmware" into the GPU on boot. It does need to be updated from time to time, separately from the driver and everything else. On my system it's kept in /usr/lib/firmware/amdgpu. And bios updates can often fix weird bugs, usually worth doing.

  • Looking for GPU recommendation for Linux compatibility, gaming, and programming

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  • I don't know, but one possibility to consider is that running amdgpu-pro (or its non-pro counterpart) might've done something that stops mesa from working if you didn't completely undo everything it did.

  • Looking for GPU recommendation for Linux compatibility, gaming, and programming

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  • amdgpu fails to load

    If you're referring to the old "amdgpu pro" software, you probably don't want to be using that. It isn't necessary for the stuff you want to do, and I'm surprised to learn that it still exists at all — it's still talked about as if it's current on the arch wiki. Get rid of that, update the firmware package, run a recent kernel, and then figure out whatever specific thing you actually need for the AI stuff you're trying to do such as rocm-related things.

  • What's a genre of music you're waiting to have a resurgence?

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  • Dubstep. Like, the kind that was super popular in 2010. It'll probably be another 15 or 20 years before it's sufficiently forgotten that the kids can properly rediscover it.

  • Dictionary.com reveals '67' is its 2025 Word of the Year

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  • No surprise, I always thought 2025 was at sixes and sevens.

  • What the most memorable moment from any video game?

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  • Did you really manage to haul an ice box all the way up there? That's impressive.

  • What the most memorable moment from any video game?

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  • Arriving at the astral plane with the Amulet of Yendor.

  • Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon

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  • Look out! He's got a whole bag full of ninja throwing triangles!

  • Ubuntu 25.10 Unattended Upgrades Broken Due To Rust Coreutils Bug

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  • date -r reports current date instead of date specified by reference file

    Seems like it was not simply a "difference compared to GNU coreutils" — it was just giving completely the wrong date.

  • Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change

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  • Reading more carefully I see that the real reason is "the /run directory is created as a tmpfs filesystem specifically for run-time files by systemd-tmpfiles.

    I forgot that systemd had been allowed to take over /tmp and /run.

  • Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change

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  • Why on earth would the permissions on /var/lock be something for systemd to decide?

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  • Generate Random Numbers

    I prefer to generate random words (mostly for generating passwords):

     
            alias randword='head -$[$SRANDOM % `wc -l /usr/share/dict/words | cut -f1 -d" "`] /usr/share/dict/words | tail -1'

  • Do you have self empathy?

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  • Me and myself get empathetic with each other all the time.

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  • Nah, I went to college as a Pirate.

  • TIL the bible is copyrighted

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  • Is this a joke or are you serious?

    Both. I realize it's not for everyone, but I like it the best. When I got into it, what I was looking for in a religious text was not that it be "the easiest" but I didn't want to learn Latin or Hebrew either.

  • TIL the bible is copyrighted

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  • Pretty sure the copyright on the KJV, which is obviously the best version, has expired by now.

  • TIL Bologna was a city full of towers between the 12th and the 13th century

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  • Another hypothesis is that the city was taken over by wizards.