rodbiren

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[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

Reactor is full of water so it's not an issue

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

It just sort of sinks down. You have two ways of manipulation, the cable the camera uses for power and data and the attached rope. Between those two you sort of puppeteer/swim it into place. It actually works out pretty good and some people are real pro at it.

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 80 points 1 week ago (5 children)

A whole bunch of welds in nuclear reactors are visually inspected using cameras duct taped onto the end of incredibly long poles which also get duct taped together. This would be the inside of BWR plants near the fuel and jet pumps. There is also an "art" to moving the cameras and poles around to get the shots you need. And if you get stuck the talented people know how to get you unstuck. There are also cameras just duct taped to ropes that the camera handler "swims" to certain spots.

Don't get me wrong, we have cool ultrasonic inspecting robots as well, but I was absolutely blown away by what visual inspection looked like in practice.

PS: The high dose fields make the camera look like it is being blasted with colorful confetti because of the high energy particles bombarding the camera module.

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I couch coop play this with my 6 year old and it is awesome! Music is a fun and super approachable for the younger crowd and older. I make him read to learn moves and stuff. It's clearly for learning.

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fish, less config and super easy to set things like path, colors, and the support for dev environments and tooling is better than it was. Used to be a Zsh user, but moved since I distro hop so dang much. Less time to get going.

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Croc or syncthing depending on what kind of experience you are after. Syncthing if you want to have a shared folder like expert. And croc if you just need to send something. Croc has an app on f-droid, and syncthing is on the app store. Both are open source and pretty for excellent in their own right.

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I have an old Lenovo W550s Thinkpad with a 2GB Dedicated Nvidia and an i5 5500U. It's got two batteries and sips power. It's only 4 cores, but for what I run it does great. I get fairly consistent 60fps on low settings for "boomer shooters" like Selaco. The thing is an absolute beast and hardly flexes. The plastic is cracked and I can just hand it to my kids without a care in the world. Dump a drink on it, drop it, I could care less. I had them help me change out the RAM and SSD because it's essentially bound for the dumpster and any value I get out of it is the cherry on top.

That and I can run pretty much and retro gaming console on it to about the Wii/GameCube, which blows my mind. All for probably like $200 of hardware.

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 40 points 1 month ago

Think of the profits corporations will be able to make curing the impacts of this!

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

Syncthing, micro, fish, btop, podman

I distro hop so these are usually the first that get installed.

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's a command line tool which filters for all lines containing the query. So something like

cat log.txt | grep Error5

Would output only lines containing Error5

[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe certain house members with green in their name would probably have never given the "green" light.

 

I wanted to post all the workaround and configs I needed to make Linux Mint work on the Lenovo Legion 5i Pro 2022 so others who need the help can find it on a non-reddit source. This will also be helpful for when I inevitably hop distros or break my system because I am a crazy person.

The following should get Linux Mint 21.2 working reasonably well on your Lenovo Legion assuming the assuming the model is the same.

  1. Fixing stuck on mint logo after installing the nvidia driver.

Install the most recent nvidia driver using the driver manager on mint. Run the following so systemd does not stall waiting for the backlight service.

sudo systemctl mask systemd-backlight@backlight\:nvidia_0.service
  1. Edit your kernel arguments so that the backlight works on Cinnamon

Open the file:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Add the following to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

acpi_backlight=video

Update grub to apply the change

sudo update grub
  1. Get a more recent kernel through one of the following methods to make suspend and resume work properly
  1. Adjust keyboard lighting (Optional)

https://github.com/4JX/L5P-Keyboard-RGB

All of that together should make the system function normal and reasonably optimal. So if you use Linux Mint or are having similar issues with your superior for some reason distribution, these may come in handy. As for future Rod Biren, quit spending all your time breaking your OS and avoiding actual work on your side projects. Loading bars are not actual progress.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I like to follow articles benchmarking OSs on phoronix a lot. Whenever Arch looks bad I see comments riddled with saying that is because the default scheduler sucks. I feel fairly compitent with Linux but for some reason schedulers seemed like this black box that lives in the realm of places where I normally break my OS from not paying close attention.

Is it a program run by something like systemd? Is it a config or patch of the kernel? Which ones are good and how important are they?

Anyways, any advice on schedulers would be appreciated.

 

Just had my old dumb LG TV die after 9 years of working just dandy. I lack the desire to root around for a dead capacitor so I am currently in the market for an approximate replacement to act as the display for my Linux media center in my living room. I figure this is the right crowd for finding a non-invasive TV so my Linux machine can be the brains. I trust modern Tvs less and less.

Desired features

55"
Non terrible audio
As dumb of hardware/software as reasonably achievable
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