No, I don’t use any ML stuff or really anything that uses GPU compute at all. I just use it for gaming and other 3D applications.

I’ve been very happy with my Arc A770, it works great on Linux and performs well for what I paid for it.

NVK is changing things for the better on NVIDIA. I tested it out the other day on my RTX3070 laptop and a lot of games are already playable. Performance has a ways to go to match the proprietary driver but it’s incredibly refreshing to see modern games running playably on an open source driver stack on an NVIDIA GPU.

Yeah, email was the social media before social media especially in the 90’s and early 2000’s. I got into Linux in 2005 and that’s also around the time Digg and Reddit started growing. I was never into social media like Myspace and Facebook but I spent a ton of my high school days on Digg.

That said I realize most millenials didn’t get into FOSS or Linux but we did use computers a ton regardless, and smartphones were available by high school/college for most of us.

I’m generally pro-automation if it can increase efficiency, but McDonalds’ ordering AI is terrible. It had issues understanding their buy one get one for $1 deal and then one time I ordered a “bacon McCrispy” which was an item right there on the menu but what I got was a plain McCrispy and a side order of bacon in a breakfast container. They need to send their AI back to training. I’d really just prefer kiosks at the drive thru like they have inside. Voice is the worst way to interact with a computer IMO, but maybe that’s just because most implementations suck. Voice is too open ended though, a kiosk can provide exactly what options are available and as long as it has full set of customization options I don’t think that open endedness benefits anyone.

Also, over 30? Millenials grew up on the Internet for the most part. I’m 34 and grew up with computers and Internet. It was our parents’ generation that fails to understand tech.

For those of us who use Discord primarily on desktop though, this UI is atrocious. I expect Discord to work like Discord, not . I like the consistent experience between platforms.

Ultimately though, why can this not just be a freaking OPTION? Just put a toggle in the menu [DMs in Server List] [DMs in Separate Tab]. Bad user experience is forcing all users to conform to the One True Vision ™. Especially when that vision is now horribly disjointed between platforms.

I hate the new layout. Why are DMs separate from servers? It makes no sense, and it means extra back button presses/swipes to change between them. Why not just have everything in one sidebar which I feel is way more logically consistent and convenient? This update is trash and Discord should feel bad.

Why do you enjoy having them separate? I much prefer the old layout, it makes a lot more sense to keep everything in the same place and require less swiping to get between them. Having two different sections is annoying and having it one way in the mobile UI and another way in the desktop UI is beyond stupid. I really wish they would just give us the option to pick our preferred layout.

I got to be on the Tech Over Tea podcast! I really enjoyed talking with Brodie and would definitely recommend his main channel as well as Tech Over Tea. There is another podcast I sometimes watch called Linux Game Cast too.

Also Brodie’s podcast Tech Over Tea. I was on the podcast so I’m a bit biased, but he has a lot of open source developers from different projects on and they are always interesting.

I usually put up my Christmas lights at the end of September if I can. Programmable RGB lights so I can use them for Halloween as well as Christmas. I turn them off between Halloween and Thanksgiving usually, but now I’m seeing tons of Christmas lights already on in my neighborhood and I didn’t actually put my lights up this year. Probably will just go without putting them up this year as I hate going up on the ladder, but I have some RGB spiral trees to put up in the yard at least that I’ll still put out probably after I get back from Thanksgiving break.

git reflog, you can get your old commits back

Just to make sure, you’re using DisplayPort right? I don’t think the Arc cards support VRR over HDMI. The HDMI port on the Arc is actually a built in DisplayPort to HDMI converter, and I don’t think any converter chips support VRR modes.

Hmm, 6.5 should support VRR just fine yeah

What kernel are you using? Debian tends to lag behind with kernel updates which makes it a bad choice when running new hardware. I switched from Debian to Arch when I got my A770 because at the time Debian’s latest kernel even in sid didn’t support Arc at all while it worked fine in Arch.

I upgraded from a 1440p 144Hz screen last month. It works well with 1440p and you won’t need to rely on FSR as much as on a 4K 144 screen.

10000% this. I don’t give a shit how you make money. YouTube started out as a place to let people show off to the world. It was wholesome. It was a community. Then they started paying people for views and it got perverted into this capitalist hellscape we have now where the most popular channels are garbage spewed out by content farms that exist to game an algorithm. Where the highest earners can commit literal crimes and get a slap on the wrist because Google wants the ad revenue their views bring in. This is not a community of the “you” the end users who just want to share interesting hobbies and funny clips with the world. Put the “you” back in YouTube.

I’ve been running an A770 Limited Edition on Arch for a year now and I am happy with it now. It was a rough start, with issues ranging from glitches and crashes to HDMI and DisplayPort audio/VRR issues, but these days it is pretty solid. VRR works fine on my DisplayPort 144Hz 4K monitor. Most games perform pretty well but temper your expectations, the A770 is a midrange card.

I can play Overwatch 2 at 4K 144Hz low settings just fine and I don’t see many frame dips. It’s not noticeable if it does dip because VRR. CS2 performance isn’t amazing, but at low settings 4K I get between 100 and 160 frames depending on complexity. I have FSR turned on. On Cyberpunk I have FSR turned on and it seems to dip down to 20fps when out in the desert and the city is in view, but usually 40 to 60.

I read this as monetization being the bad idea, and that is basically the same thing as being capitalismed to death.

PinePhone Pro with keyboard case?