timkenhan

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[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago
[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's a ham indeed...

What do you usually find on that weekly net?

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Funny that what got me here was actually the occasional difficulty of reaching folks in the other cars during road trips.

How far can you reach with that 2m HT?

Where I'm from, the license-free HT operation is in a specific UHF range with low power, which I have very little faith on.

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
 

Where I'm from, 2m band seems to be popular due to the small antenna requirement. The fact we're in densely populated area probably also play a role.

There should be the 70cm band as well, but I haven't seen any sign of life around here.

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Did the magic smoke come out?

If so, you can try replacing the chip. Some basic SMD (de)soldering is required.

If not, you can try reseating your clip. Hopefully the chip is still good. It may have more tolerance than specified.

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

While many comments here are correct that it would affect less than you'd expect, there are things that may not be covered.

For example:

  • there's no setting for hyperthreading
  • no way to disable SATA drives, in case you'd like to be selective
  • you'll need to reflash the BIOS if you want to change boot order permanently

Also, make sure you have the correct video BIOS.

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How would the lack of passive CPU powersaving affect things on your end?

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 18 points 6 months ago (22 children)

Serious question: you'd use that for your daily driver?

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This reminds me of that time I accidentally roasted my college instructor in front of the class.

It was some kind of logic class for computer science. We were going thru a topic of "statement", which is "something that has a truth value".

I asked, "what about sarcasm?"

He answered, "sarcasm also has truth value in it, so it's also a statement".

Then he told me to give an example, to which I instictively gave without much thought: "this class is great!"

Had the whole class laughing while he frowned.

It was the very first day of him teaching.

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How would Flatpak know which driver to install?

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 27 points 8 months ago

Still better than no update.

 

Hopefully this is the right place to ask. Lemme know otherwise.

I got a Thinkpad W530 with Quadro K2000M GPU (Kepler). With coreboot, I was able to get around all the headaches related to Optimus only having the discrete GPU enabled.

The GPU itself is well-supported by nouveau driver, missing only a few features on the power management side of things.

Things are good when I run stuff natively. However, I have yet to figure out Flatpak. I know we use org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.* packages that are some kind of Mesa abstraction layer.

Things are much more straightforward with Intel and AMD GPU. It is actually quite easy with the proprietary NVidia driver, but it doesn't exactly come free.

The ultimate question is: Should I install one of those org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-<ver> packages with my nouveau? If so, which version?

 

Tried uploading an image I took with my phone camera into a Lemmy post, and failed.

I gotta admit that the image was indeed large (4MB). Refusing it would be reasonable. After resizing the image, it was successful.

What I found to be unreasonable was the error message. It returned a bunch of JSON garbage on the pop-up.

I ended up having to move from my phone to my computer and went on the network inspect tool just to see what's going on (a "file too large" error).

I would suggest a clearer error message. I don't know how this could be implemented, but it will be a deterent to a lot of people.

 

Hi everyone, I've neen having this issue when running KDE wayland with multiple screen on my Thinkpad W530. I'm using the nouveau driver.

The primary monitor is fine, but the secondary one is glitching.

This is tested on Gentoo as well as Debian. I know it's not hardware issue because it runs fine on X11.

Anyone have any idea about this issue?

Edit: I should probably mention that I was using DisplayPort in the photo, but I also tried VGA and it gave the same result.

Edit1: I was able to narrow down the problem somewhat. Switching the BIOS setting to "Discrete only" for the GPU (thanks coreboot!) seems to make the glitching go away! This means the Optimus would be to blame.

 

The current alpha is going great!

I'd like to make a few requests, especially regarding link handling.

  • Lemmy links (e.g. a lot of people linking recommended communities) with this app
  • Other links in regular browser, not in-app one

I hope that we'll reach beta (or better, stable) soon!

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