Rockslide0482

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I have one. No dead pixels. It doesn't necessarily do fancy things but that's sort of why I got it. $30 and it tells the time, shows me notifications and lasts over a week before I have to charge it. Eeeeevery now and then I'll use it to control media or play 2048. Hey it even counts my steps!

Doesn't look like it currently supports powershell or bash. I don't code but I do a fair bit of scripting. I've played a tiny bit with AI assisted scripting but it's generally left a lot to be desired.

[–] Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I always thought Ziggy was a cool name.

Definitely for you to decide, but if you're on a desktop in a single family home you're probably fine. A laptop that you bring around with you I would highly advise against. I would probably also evaluate what other functions the computer serves. Just gaming or also do you do your job on that machine. What else does that machine have access to?

[–] Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

TLDR: do memtest on your RAM

I recently had an issue for quite some time where my computer would occasionally just hard crash. When it first started happening I tried many of the common tests including memcheck but found nothing. For a while it wasnt super common so I just lived through it. I thought it was an OS thing but it occurred on a different Linux distro and even on the ancient Windows 10 install I have but rarely use. I was just about to pull the trigger on replacing mobo and maybe even CPU+RAM. Before I did that I followed someone's suggestion to do a mem test. I could have at least sworn that I already did that and it came clean but it was an easy enough test to run, so why not.

Sure enough, found an error. I isolated the faulted DIMM, pulled it out and I haven't had a crash since. Crazy since I'm all but certain I did both memtest from a Linux live iso and the Windows memory checking utility.

In short, test your RAM. Do multiple passes. Maybe even just try swapping out single DIMMs and running on that for a reasonable ammount of time to see if you can isolate a culprit. It was my first thought when the issue first occurred because it's usually what causes stuff like that. When the tests came up clean originally I assumed it had to be something else. I was wrong.

[–] Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the KDE vs Gnome thing in general for a lot is familiarity, but I gotta say as a primarily Gnome user, I find Dolphin harder(or maybe less intuitive) to use. It's not bad, and in a number of ways I would agree is absolutely superior to Nautilus, but for whatever reason, between the two, I generally would prefer Nautilus.

[–] Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

wouldn't that be chili sin carne?

[–] Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

I primarily use logseq but have obsidian configured to use the same directory. I then use logseq for journaling and some tag notes that have searches and links kind of built in. Then I have obsidian for wiki or KB type notes. I can then link to parts of that in logseq. I also use obsidian for a few niche situations where the plugins add value. Its not a perfect solution but it works pretty well for me. I also typically use obsidian to folder directory organize my non journal notes, bit really you could just as easily use your file browser for that.

[–] Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's only been around for less than a year as far as I'm aware and from what I gather still seems to be finding its sea legs as far as balancing between what rolls in immediately(ish) and what comes in through the big "tumbles"

 

Thinking of trying to morph my Leap workstation into Tumbleweed (and potentially Slowroll once that project matures enough). I've seen that you can do it . I reckon I can rollback relatively easily via the BTRFS snapshots if it goes sideways, but just curious to see what others' experience with doing so has been.

[–] Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I miss Unity. It never got the love it deserved from a praise nor development standpoint. My typical Gnome desktop typically ends up being a quasi-Unity layout. I need to spin up the latest Ubuntu Unity spin for nostalgia's sake.

[–] Rockslide0482@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

in fstab, there's a nofail option that I started using when mounting NFS and other disks that may be missing and I don't want to kill my bootup

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