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"I'm a strong independent skid-steer loader, and I don't need no  In completely unrelated Linux news, I just tried elementary OS. I know it's "bad" because of the Ubuntu underpinnings, systemd, because people mistakently think it's an OSX ripoff (it isn't) and all that stuff. But this is what desktop Linux is supposed to be like. This is how we get people to use non-MS/Apple OSes on the desktop. It's fluid, intuitive, pretty and fast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzSPGkOyzW8
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keykey posted:Looks interesting, I'll give it a shot. The largest issue I've had with Linux in general is first, support. Obviously since it's free and a communal sort of software, support and installations for anything else are pretty lovely at best. Second is the reliability factor, did you just get a break in power or have kids that don't understand how to shut down a computer instead of just pressing the power button? Hopefully you don't get the dreaded broken pipe error. It's a craps shoot, hopefully not because it's easier to reload off a backup than it is to fix the drat thing. Keep in mind that the version he's showing is Freya, which is currently under development. The current release is Luna, and while it's not quite as snazzy, it's a lot more stable. Personally, I find Linux much easier to fix if/when it borks than Windows. Boot up on a live system USB stick and fix whatever's wrong. Then again, I have ~14 years of experience under my belt, so yeah.
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Viggen posted:I'd say that is due to your choice of TWO whole bloated window managers if you actually want to accomplish any work. Everything else is just janky. But XFCE and LXDE aren't bloated at all? 
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Oct 9, 2014 17:09
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MrChips posted:Surely I can't be the only person who thinks the Nexus 6 is just too big and too expensive? I'm eligible for an upgrade right now and I was kind of holding off to see what the 5's replacement would be, but now I'm thinking I'm just going to get a 5 instead. 5 inch phones were too big already, a 6 inch phone is just absurd. It's a tablet, dammit. A 4.5 inch screen is probably right around the sweet spot for me. Anything more than that just doesn't fit very well in a pants pocket.
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Oct 16, 2014 22:32
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Tusen Takk posted:Phone postin 😎 💩 This will end badly. At least we can't increase the font size in posts 😀 KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Oct 16, 2014 |
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Oct 16, 2014 23:28
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some texas redneck posted:Hollllllllllllly gently caress. I just logged into the billing system for the hospital.  But remember: Public health care is SOCIALISM!
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Oct 21, 2014 11:58
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meatpimp posted:I beta tested for Papyrus for a while. What an awesome company that made awesome driving games. Until they got gobbled up and destroyed, even before EA made that trendy. Man, I spent so many hours playing IndyCar Racing II.
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Oct 21, 2014 13:26
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Darchangel posted:From more than a few pages back: You didn't even use the best Laibach cover of them all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E72v6G9JHY Ok ok, second-best, then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meh5BXBdx_A KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Oct 21, 2014 21:34
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Sorry, you're wrong. Nothing can top The Final Countdown. Laibach just lays it on super thick in general with the outward appearance of fascistic tendencies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG7jsMBPbpQ But when you look at it, it's just a generic cross, some British uniforms and a coal miner hat. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Oct 21, 2014 21:44
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rscott posted:You realize that Rammstein jacked like their entire stage act from Laibach right? Or as they like to put it: "Rammstein is Laibach for adolescents, and Laibach is Rammstein for grown-ups." Seconding the Life Is Life cover, I had forgotten about that one. For shame.
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Oct 21, 2014 22:23
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bolind posted:I'm 95% certain that with my appetite I'd be 400 pounds had I been born and raised in the U. S. of A. Likewise. 215 is plenty for my height, 400 would be deadly. I just got my cholesterol info back from the doctor. Apparently my numbers are pretty drat good, even for 28. And it's not like I deliberately try to eat healthy, other than having pretty much cut out all soda and candy and other empty carbs from my diet, and I still gobble down cake occasionally. It seems to have worked, though.
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Oct 23, 2014 17:31
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Raluek posted:Seriously. I have 8GB in my desktop, and it sits at ~75% capacity just diddling around on the internet. God help me if I run a VM. And yet somehow ChromeOS (Linux with a Chrome UI), runs perfectly well on Chromebooks that max out at 4GB. Odds are that most of the memory usage shown on your desktop is used for disk caching and buffers. For instance, I have 16GB in my desktop. Currently, it's showing 15.8GB "in use". But after splitting out the numbers, only 3.4GB is in use by applications. The rest is OS-level cache and buffers, and thus actually free. Also, Firefox and Chrome do some caching in RAM, which can artificially inflate their memory usage statistics. In my case, they inflate it a lot, since I mirror all of my profile/cache directories to a RAM disk for performance and to reducing wear on my SSD. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Oct 23, 2014 |
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Oct 23, 2014 21:21
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bandman posted:I use a Dell Latitude 820 from like 2006 or so running Ubuntu with 1GB ram and a 40GB hard drive. It's got a 2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, which seems to be enough for my typical use. I got it for the low price of $free, so I can't complain. It works fine for dicking around on SA and watching dumb poo poo on YouTube, which is like 90% of my home use, so I can't be bothered to get anything better. The one thing I have considered is upgrading to 4GB ram, but that would cost infinitely more than the computer itself, so I have a hard time justifying it. Just do it. RAM is cheap and the benefits are noticeable, if not world-shaking.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:26
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kastein posted:If you do the same thing in firefox eventually the whole browser hits 3GB (which is a magic number because firefox for windows is only released as a 32 bit app, and WoW64 processes get a 3/1 split memory map these days) and it can't allocate any more, so it just barfs everywhere. Not kidding, poo poo just stops rendering properly, black boxes appear in strange spots, corrupted data from pages long closed shows up where something else should, fonts suddenly go monospaced, etc. It's pathetic to see and tells me that whoever wrote the code responsible for it had no idea what this strange thing known as a "return value" from malloc() is, and why it being -1 means something. I have literally never seen that happening, and I consider myself a heavy tab abuser. Like "I never have less than 10 tabs open, ever" usage, with javascript/plugin-heavy interactive sites. On the other hand, I have Chrome barf on my old Thinkpad T42 with 1.5GB ram and a 1.7GHz Pentium-M. Chrome really doesn't like single-core low-memory hardware, and it starts by clearing tabs from memory so they take 5-10 seconds to switch to. I've had it give up completely sometimes and just render a grey/white grid instead of the actual pages. It actually happens on my work laptop as well, but that thing is loaded down with a metric shitton of corporate crap, so everything runs slow as molasses on it.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:34
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Pham Nuwen posted:* 4 year old desktop that I tried to build semi-decently with a 6 core AMD and (finally upgraded) 16GB of RAM. Sees a lot less use now that I'm married. Finally moved the root disk from a 200GB IDE to 500GB SATA. Hexacore AMD with 16GB RAM bros  Mine's a Phenom II 1100T, the fastest CPU my AM3 motherboard will support. 125W TDP, baby!
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Oct 24, 2014 07:49
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some texas redneck posted:I can verify that a low end Chromebook with 2GB is quite painful to use. It's... usable for posting (on it now), and the occasional YouTube video. But between the 2GB and the 1.1 GHz cpu.. That's mostly down to the lovely CPU, though. It also points towards bad hardware design if it overheats that easily. Is it a fanless design with a old-gen Celeron/Atom in it? The newer Bay Trail/Haswell Celerons and the Nvidia Tegra K1 perform much better, at significantly lower TDPs.
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Oct 24, 2014 09:10
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It's still an early Chromebook, and those were pretty much all uniformly crap, especially compared their successors.
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Oct 24, 2014 09:39
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Fo3 posted:Tried the full proper google chrome? Flash works fine in Chromium (the open source Chrome release most often used on Linux), but it does lack some of the proprietary video codecs that the official release has.
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Oct 24, 2014 11:59
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I work at an ISP, and we're hit with the same shortsightedness on our streaming apps and websites. They all use proprietary DRM plugins that only work on Windows and Mac OS, or inside the official Android/iOS apps. And the Android app doesn't even work on Cyanogenmod. When other companies can do streaming (with DRM) through HTML5 and other open standards, I have no idea why we insist on being so rear end-backwards.
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Oct 24, 2014 12:24
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some texas redneck posted:Another Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market (the one right by my house) actually offered me $10.60 if I would work in the bakery and deli. I can handle deli fine (done it before), but I'd also be handling the rotisserie chicken.. which always grossed me out at Whole Foods. And no way in hell can I decorate a cake. Yeah, handling raw chicken everyday probably gets a bit gross. But decorating cakes sounds like a sweet (haha) job. I thought being good at decorating was A Gay Thing?  HotCanadianChick posted:AMD hasn't been competitive in CPUs (desktop or mobile) for the better part of a decade now, and anyone saying otherwise is straight up delusional. AMD's latest and greatest current 220w-sucking desktop chips are often outperformed by cheaper, lower wattage 35w intel ultrabook chips. The roles are well reversed from the glory days of the Athlon and shitshow of the P4. The Phenom II really was the last good (or at least decent) AMD processor, but Intel buried it with the Core i3/5/7. Mine still keeps up with gaming etc. pretty well, but then again I have the absolute top-of-the-line hexacore space heater edition. My first PC that was actually mine was a 350MHz K6-2 with a blistering 64MB RAM, 12GB hard drive and a 16MB Riva TNT, so I kinda have a soft spot for AMD. They're pretty much not a player anymore, though  I think that K6-2 is still in service as a firewall, actually. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Oct 25, 2014 |
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CharlesM posted:Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. I uninstalled it before because it has full page ads or some poo poo and didn't work for other stuff, but it worked this time, so... problem solved? The basic MX Player is free with ads, and the ad-free Pro version isn't very expensive. The hardware-specific codecs (for better performance) work on both versions. It's the only video player I use on Android.
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Oct 25, 2014 11:33
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While my own car is in for a supplemental anti-rust treatment, I'm driving one of these babies: A Peugeot 107 powered by 1.0L 3-cylinder sewing machine with a massive 68HP. It's obviously slow as hell, and you can definitely tell that it's a super-cheap little car, but man that engine is fun. It revs nicely and it has this really pleasing rasp to it. It's been described as sounding like half of a Porsche flat-6, and I tend to agree. It's also a lot smoother than I would have expected. Plus, since it's so slow, you can rev it out in 1st and 2nd and still only be doing ~70kph. 3-cylinder small cars are flippin' awesome.
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Oct 27, 2014 12:26
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Wifi saturation, as seen from my apartment: 2.4GHz is basically useless due to interference, I get maybe 3Mbit/s if I'm lucky. So I set up a 5GHz 802.11a/n AP that was surplus at work and now I can actually saturate my 20Mbit/s DSL. Feels good to finally be running a decent wireless network, unlike those 2.4GHz plebs.
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Oct 27, 2014 19:29
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CommieGIR posted:5Ghz is awesome, its only downfall is its inability to penetrate most walls reliably. I live in a 50mē 2-room apartment, I get plenty of penetration 
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Oct 27, 2014 19:36
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Stealth Like posted:If you drop your phone in water, you should pull the battery and rinse it out with distilled water before drying it to remove impurities/salts from whatever you dropped it in which can short circuit it if they're conductive. Rice works wells because its hygroscopic. You can also save the silica desiccant that you get with a lot of different things, bake it for awhile and reuse it for whatever. It will do a much better job than rice. That's pretty hard to do with a modern phones, since most of them have non-replaceable batteries. "Wait a minute, let me just get out my screwdrivers" *Plunges both hands into toilet*
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Super Aggro Crag posted:I feel so old. I have zero Halloween plans besides getting drunk and watching scary movies all night. Actually, I'm visiting my family this weekend. But probably still getting drunk and watching movies.
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October is over. gently caress October, it sucked rear end.
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