FishInABarrel

joined 1 year ago
[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Programs compiled “from scratch” don’t have an icon...

As someone that wrote Windows applications for a living, that's wrong. You just have to add a resource file and your icon.

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Desktop: Cerberus (triple monitors)
Media server: Alexandria
Firewall: Hadrian

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think there's a bug causing threads that don't have an image to pull a random thumbnail. I've seen a lot of unrelated thumbnails the last couple of days, but this is the first NSFW one.

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a ceramic. Not exactly what people mean when they say "aluminum." I mean, if that's considered aluminum, then so is sapphire.

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Consider two potential creditors:

  • Person A has no credit history at all.
  • Person B has had a credit card with a $20k limit for ten years, generally has a balance of less than $2k, and has never missed a payment.

Can you see how B is a less risky client than A? A is essentially an unknown risk, but B has demonstrated the ability to manage their debt. A could still get, for instance, a car loan, but likely not a mortgage. And B will get a lower interest rate.

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Michael Clayton

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Has ending on a cliff-hanger ever worked to get a show renewed?

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I don't know how it is in practice, but conceptually clearing a jam in a 40mm grenade thrower sounds nerve-wracking.

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I've got an older 3900X that's Zen 2, but I'm otherwise clear, too.

It's kind of hard to figure out which Zen # a CPU falls under, so here's the Wiki page listing all Zen 2 CPUs.

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Heat pump water heaters already exist, but I think they're pretty expensive compared to gas/resistive heat.

I wouldn't be surprised if electric tankless water heaters are indeed infeasible under this mandate. Heat pumps generally aren't powerful, and tankless heaters require enormous amounts of power while in use.

[–] FishInABarrel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a month or so into switching from Windows 10 to Ubuntu. I've never lasted this long in prior attempts to switch over.

Gaming has been quite good. Steam just works for 99% of the games I've tried, with the 1% being one or two minor bugs in games that otherwise worked fine. Lutris, on the other hand, did not work at all. 0% success rate installing or running games.

Linux does still seem brittle and/or unnecessarily complicated, though. For example, I have a super common nvidia card, and my first post-install experience was having to boot into safe mode to fix the drivers. Then Ubuntu updated the drivers and my screens didn't come back up. I had to hard-reset to get them back. And I have yet to get NUT installed and configured correctly so I can have the PC power down gracefully when the UPS runs low, something which is trivial in Windows.

Is all the frustration worth it to have an OS that isn't selling me ads and trying to move me to a cloud account? Probably.

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