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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • agreeing with orclev - i setup an older nvidia gpu pc on linux mint and that pc has to have all other applications closed to play minecraft when it used to handle youtube video or actual video running and maybe an antivirus scan in the background and minecraft on top fine in windows.

    GPU is running (as opposed to when the driver failed to load haha) but some kind of processing is still on CPU, i tracked down the problem but the point where i figured out i need to keep up with the latest vaapi and compile it to just diagnose it i stopped and told the kids how to quit other programs first before minecraft. or bloons.

    edit: found my problem. mission center randomly spikes in cpu and memory use and gets to 99% in both…and i’m constantly running it. now i bask in swap utilization 0% forever and ever


  • got mint xfce, because that’s what i used before win10, and that’s what i use on and off usually ever since then. i think it’s gnome that made me change to xfce and it was clunky back then on ubuntu, though i can’t remember my actual beef with it, so i changed to mint and never changed to anything else.

    i use handwriting input on windows and have bullied the pattern recognition into learning my handwriting almost perfectly - that’s the only thing i miss. i miss it a lot…

    expecting at some point my mom will give up and ask for linux on her windows 10 laptop since her grandkids use ‘free online games’ websites (she doesn’t do any banking or serious stuff on it, so i’m not that bothered) and it will get devoured by malware but even odds it will be me or my brother.




  • It also helped that he withdrew completely from public life, as opposed to doing the jkrowling thing where she repeatedly announced that anyone supporting her books support her views. Divorcing good omens from him is even easier because Terry Pratchett’s daughter stepped up and took over in his stead, but also because there is acutoff that is immediate instead of something lingeringly tainting every aspect of his stories the way the harry potter books and other media is.

    This hits tumblr expecially hard because he’s a regular poster there and his comments are everywhere, but nevertheless he did inspire a lot of young writers and give good advice there, and you cannot argue that those advice did good when they were being offered, while admitting that asking him anything are not advisable now even if he didn’t go full silence.

    this aged like milk lol