There is a "Basic Board", which looks like a kanban board but it's just sticky notes. The "Kanban" board is locked as a premium feature
I don't know if it's my ADHD or because my life is such a mess (not to kid myself: my life is a mess because of my ADHD, so the question is moot) ... but I need to interrupt the previous stream of posts with something else that needs my attention first yet again
I need to switch distros. I have over 10 years of Gentoo under my belt. I have used Arch, Sabayon, Debian, *buntu. I had moved away from rolling release and switched to *buntu LTS because Linux is no longer a hobby in and of itself for me. I stopped being 12. (I'm 13 now).
The problem that emerged however: the LTS update cycle is too long and too large. My system ends up a big mess with a ton of ppas and other random stuff that is a massive pain to upgrade. It's better to just re-install. But that eats too many spoons, I am way behind.
Hence I figured, it's best to move back to rolling release. Keep the updates small and make a habit out of it. I do not want bleeding edge however, my system needs to work. I don't need the maximum gaming performance or anything. Just a solid base that gets out of my way and where I can pop the hood open if I have to, without turning it into a giant mess.
So what would your suggestions be?
I've already been recommended openSuse Tumbleweed, Manjaro and CachyOS
The problem that emerged however: the LTS update cycle is too long and too large. My system ends up a big mess with a ton of ppas and other random stuff that is a massive pain to upgrade. It's better to just re-install. But that eats too many spoons, I am way behind.
Hence I figured, it's best to move back to rolling release. Keep the updates small and make a habit out of it. I do not want bleeding edge however, my system needs to work. I don't need the maximum gaming performance or anything. Just a solid base that gets out of my way and where I can pop the hood open if I have to, without turning it into a giant mess.
So what would your suggestions be?
I've already been recommended openSuse Tumbleweed, Manjaro and CachyOS
Got this graphics card from my close friend Velvet. A bit more modern than the 1080 Ti I was using so far. Let's give it a try if it runs better, even though the 1080 Ti has more shader cores, memory and memory bandwidth.
Bun's Lab
I need to switch distros. I have over 10 years of Gentoo under my belt. I have used Arch, Sabayon, Debian, *buntu. I had moved away from rolling release and switched to *buntu LTS because Linux is no longer a hobby in and of itself for me. I stopped being…
I started with openSUSE Tumbleweed. It's a binary rolling release distribution, but not bleeding edge. There is a test pipeline for updates.
What I did like about it was the integration of the package manager with btrfs' snapshots: you can just roll back updates.
(open)SUSE has always been famous for its GUI driven system configuration tool YaST. It's still there, but so far it hasn't gotten in my way (I don't use it).
I've used it for 2 days now and I can only summarize my experience as:
death by a thousand paper cuts.
I've been having issues that should not have been issues anymore in $current_year. Things that would be a big hurdle to a novice and are an annoyance to me.
More in the comments 👇
What I did like about it was the integration of the package manager with btrfs' snapshots: you can just roll back updates.
(open)SUSE has always been famous for its GUI driven system configuration tool YaST. It's still there, but so far it hasn't gotten in my way (I don't use it).
I've used it for 2 days now and I can only summarize my experience as:
death by a thousand paper cuts.
I've been having issues that should not have been issues anymore in $current_year. Things that would be a big hurdle to a novice and are an annoyance to me.
More in the comments 👇
Chat, idk if I can keep using this. I'll give it some more time, I honestly want it to work.
But I should already brain storm what's next?
Edit:
smart scan and memtest
But I should already brain storm what's next?
Edit:
smart scan and memtest
I just wasted 2 hours of my life trying to set up SIP with my FritzBox.
Why? There is a bug with the web interface. Copy pasting a password causes it to mess it up with a hidden white space. You have to type it out by hand.
Why? There is a bug with the web interface. Copy pasting a password causes it to mess it up with a hidden white space. You have to type it out by hand.
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If you got an older system, like me and my Haswell based T440, and you've been wondering why YouTube completely trashes your CPU: they're delivering codecs the CPU lacks hardware acceleration for.
Right click on the video -> Stats for nerds -> if it shows anything but avc1 it's giving you AV1 or VP9 but not H.264. If you got Firefox, just install the h264ify plugin.
On Linux there's also the
Right click on the video -> Stats for nerds -> if it shows anything but avc1 it's giving you AV1 or VP9 but not H.264. If you got Firefox, just install the h264ify plugin.
On Linux there's also the
vainfo tool to check if your VAAPI is even functional.🥰4
Let's share some MacGyver stories. I'll start:
One morning after booting up my laptop, the image was stuck in an 800x600 area in the top left corner. It was the highest resolution that xrandr reported. I thought the display cable was broken again, but it was not.
After dumping the EDID EEPROM of the LVDS panel I noticed it's completely empty. Just gone. There was no way to write to it.
Said laptop had a VGA out. (Later) VGA carries DDC2B, a serial communication channel with the monitor so that the PC can automatically recognize the supported resolutions. It's just I2C.
I wired up the LCD's EEPROM to the VGA port and used that to re-flash it with some EDID binary I made up. It worked.
One morning after booting up my laptop, the image was stuck in an 800x600 area in the top left corner. It was the highest resolution that xrandr reported. I thought the display cable was broken again, but it was not.
After dumping the EDID EEPROM of the LVDS panel I noticed it's completely empty. Just gone. There was no way to write to it.
Said laptop had a VGA out. (Later) VGA carries DDC2B, a serial communication channel with the monitor so that the PC can automatically recognize the supported resolutions. It's just I2C.
I wired up the LCD's EEPROM to the VGA port and used that to re-flash it with some EDID binary I made up. It worked.
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My google results have been flooded with fake shops.
All I wanted was the pattern for the nanovna test jig.
All I wanted was the pattern for the nanovna test jig.
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