xavier666 @ xavier666 @lemm.ee

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Scrolling this thread in office has been quite nerve-wracking

Development, I’m not sure about

This has been done by Github several times. But thankfully, all major distros are not primarily hosted by Github.

However, I am unsure how powerful sanctions are on distros if the US becomes relentless.

I had a brain fart. I completely forgot that Canonical is British.

I'm afraid a federated micro-blogging website using ActivityPub doesn't/can't exist ;_;

I am playing Stardew Valley and there is so much to do in the game that I'm set for this year.

If your poop isn't soft, you need to drink more water.

I unfortunately had to buy "A Way Out" and "It Takes Two" to play it with my spouse. I'm sorry.

But I installed the "Fck EA App" with great pleasure (https://github.com/p0358/Fuck_off_EA_App).

Doesn't matter at this point. He'll pay Trump another 1 million dollars and this news will simply vanish.

That's gonna be a no from me, dawg

tl;dr for others

A: "I have an Pink Unicorn inside the trunk of my car. It vanishes the moment you try to open the trunk or look at it."

B: "What? That's absurd"

A: "I know it exists. It's up to you to disprove it"

B: "But there is no way one can capture/observe/understand it with any sort of scientific instrument"

A: "Don't care. Skill issue"

Highly sophisticated Darwinian CAPTCHA

Nice

Amidala kind of ruins the experience a bit

Yes.

Right now I'm documenting the fault and status of the device. I have heard that Asus sometimes "add" extra damage to the device so that they can claim it's not covered under the warranty.

There's no reason this should impact your warranty. But also your ASUS warranty is meaningless anyway. Unless you want your device held for a ransom

I currently have an issue with my device. The SD card reader is faulty. It was not working on Bazzite. I thought maybe it might work on Windows (but chances were low). I installed Window and saw the SD card reader was indeed fried.

Now if I submit my device with Bazzite to the Asus representative, they might say "different OS, we can't help! hurr durr" and send me back. You can't argue with these on-field agents. I took the safe way and replicated the problem on Windows.

I heard some technicians replace the MB, apply proper shielding, adjust the fan curves, during the repair process so that the issue does not repeat. I'm hoping for this outcome.

Thanks for this. Got a burst of nostalgia

but I’ve accepted defeat in trying to understand it

I may have shared the link but even I don't know how it how it works.

It's like admiring the Eiffel Tower; you can understand that it's a marvel of engineering without understanding the underlying engineering concepts. Such experiences are rare but they truly humble you.

Regarding the square root, understand the following concepts

1. Bit shifting simply shift the bits to a certain side (Left or right) => 0010 << 1 → 0100
2. Mathematically, it multiplies or divides the input number with a factor of 2, depending upon the type of shift
3. If you shift the number n with a nice shift amount x (I have greatly greatly over-simplified this), then you can calculate the inverse sq. root since inverse square root is 2^(-1/2)
4. Calculating the inverse square root manually will take lots of clock cycles, which was not feasible for a FPS game with the limited h/w
5. Bit shifting is a lot faster since we are not computing, but instead shifting

The resultant shifting gives us an answer which is close enough to the answer, and that is good enough for FPS games for calculation of reflections.

Source for bitshifting

PS: Someone who is more experienced in this domain can correct me if I'm wrong.

I am still in awe of the fast inverse square root method used in QuakeIII. Good times.

There was/is a movement regarding butthole and ball tanning. I am suspicious that it also started like this.

grandpa loved his bacon, pork

Had he reached 60-70, he would have suffered from gout