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How happy are you with your current distro?
  • Tried out Mint, Debian w/ KDE, switched to Debian w/ gnome, now settled into Cachy OS. Only thing I'm wanting for is support for my Dell Canvas touch and totem, but I expect that'll get pushed to Open Tablet Drivers before long

  • How Well does Pop OS! Support Touch

    Recently switched from windows 10 to Debian 12.5 bookworm since I have a unique setup (Nvidia 2070S GPU, 2 1080p monitors, Dell Canvas, and TV) and the default inclusion of Nvidia proprietary drivers and years of Wacom support have made everything workable (nearly out of the box!).

    However, touch still isn't great. It works well in Xournal++ and decently in Krita, but struggles everywhere else as a mouse input.

    I'm considering hopping to Pop OS! once a stable version of their much anticipated COSMIC DE launches since I love the upgrades over GNOME.

    Anybody running a pen display similar to the Dell Canvas on Pop OS! that can speak to it's support for pen and touch input?

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    Will Corps ditch Windows over Recall for Linux?

    What do y'all think? Does switching to Linux as an entire corporation mean RedHat? Or could it be done on a distro like Debian?

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    Microsoft accidentally lists the benefits of not using a Microsoft account on Windows 11
  • This is what it comes down to. Nearly every office job pays for the Microsoft enterprise suite and office 365 subscriptions, before tacking on third party tools for monitoring and info. sec. for IT. I would gladly ditch Office 365 for Open Office and Debian, assuming all the higher ups would be willing to take such drastic measures to reduce expenses. I think most employees would balk at learning "an entire new system" regardless of how minor the differences actually are at this point.

    I'll give 'em this: Microsoft's model creates very sticky revenue with high switching costs.

  • Nvidia's grasp of desktop GPU market balloons to 88% — AMD has just 12%, Intel negligible, says JPR
  • It's a problem already, right now. Prices are already ridiculous and I'm sure the Nvidia 5000 series will be even more so before AMDs 8000 series add fuel to the fire in an effort to retain their fledgling market share.

    It's the main reason I haven't upgraded yet: I just don't want to drop ~$1K USD on another GPU that can handle 4K 120fps displays

  • Carrying Case?

    Howdy!

    I have a keeb.io cepstrum split board that I'd like to travel with when I head into the office. Anybody have good experiences with a carrying case they could recommend? My cepstrum is 8 inches / 20.5 cm by 4.5 inches / 11 cm for reference.

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    Yo, what was your first computer? How old were you, where and how did you get it, what did you do with it, etc.
  • First one I remember was a beige tower and similarly beige CRT my dad brought home from his office since he bought a new tower. It ran Windows XP, but barely. Spent a lot of time on homestarrunner.com, addicting games.com, and other flash game sites since I had no money for actual games and I already beat all the games on my Gameboy.

  • Reading direction should be inverted: we should read pages bottom to top

    If I could flip a switch and change this one aspect of modern life, I'd be willing to re-learn all my old reading/writing habits. It just makes more sense to "build" ideas upward.

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    What were your top favorite video games as a kid?
  • Oh golden sun was such a gem. My parents bought it used for cheap and I had such low expectations - spent so many hours playing through the storyline as a kid it has to be the best playtime/$ investment in my lifetime so far.

    Definitely going to go hunt down Golden Sun 2 now

  • What is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life?
  • Hanklight D4K for $50 was my first portable enthusiast flashlight. I'm currently 4 hanklights deep and they're loads of fun out in the country for spotting wildlife and general use with the open source Anduril 2 firmware (yes, flashlights can get firmware updates).

    Link to Hank's Site

  • Departure from Von Neumann Architecture Imminent?
    interestingengineering.com Swiss researchers develop first large-scale in-memory processor

    The use of MoS2 allows the entire assembly of 1024 elements to fit into one square centimeter space and be fabricated using industry-standard tools.

    Swiss researchers develop first large-scale in-memory processor

    Can anybody with experience in fabrication reveal more about this? Very exciting ideas, but hoping to learn more in real-world context

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    What game do you play to just chill?
  • It's all about how you play in my experience. If you want to get a basic factory up and go slug hunting, super chill. If you want to sink your spreadsheet teeth into optimizing every resource available and build a non-spaghettified factory, plenty of room to go hard core.

    Also the graphics are fantastic for all the massive machinery

  • [!No longer indecisive] I (23M) am indecisive about maintaining a relationship with my partner (22F)
  • Absolutely do not sacrifice your health for someone that does not treat you like an equal partner.

    Echoing what others have said, she's an adult, and she is not your responsibility. Move on. You'll know you've found a good match when you take good care of each other and approach life as a team: celebrate your successes and support one another through tough times.

  • Windows 12 May Require a Subscription
  • This is where I'm at; upper management has already greenlit moving all data to a OneLake Data Hub so the rank and file can try power bi instead of excel for everything. Suggesting moving away from their ecosystem at this point is moot

  • Update: Amazing Customer Service!

    My last post

    I recently posted looking for help diagnosing my D4K which all of a sudden stopped outputting anything from the main emitters. After trying all the suggested troubleshooting steps, I decided I'd just have to talk to Hank himself and see if he'd send me a boost driver for free so I could attempt to replace it with some soldering advice from YouTube.

    I was already saving up for a DW4 as my next light, but with the sale I had to jump on an M44 too. I emailed Hank after placing my order, and he quickly responded that the solder job would be difficult, and he'd include a brand new head for my D4K with my order!

    With all the rave reviews about Hank's customer service I thought he'd do me a solid with the driver, but I did not expect basically an entire new light!

    Now the hard part is deciding what to order next. . .

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    Dead D4K?

    Hi all,

    I've had my cyan D4K Hanklight for only a few months (ordered in April) and I can't seem to get my main emitters to turn back on? I had the light on while cable managing my PC and all of a sudden it turned off. I didn't touch the switch, it just cut off.I checked the cell first which runs fine in my K1 and was at 60% capacity. I've tried these 2 factory reset methods:

    1. 13H (I held for 5 seconds), and
    2. disconnect tail cap, hold switch, reconnect tail cap, release after 4 seconds.

    Neither appear to do anything. The auxillary LEDs are still running in low mode, but I can't seem to change them with the usual 7C for mode and 7H for color.

    Is there any possibility my dedomed 519A emitters are still alive and kicking? Or should I just order a "domed" normal version?

    Thanks for reading!

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    Can I pick your collective brains about an idea for a home cooling solution that I have thought of?
  • Sounds similar to the concept of a swamp cooler to me; maybe look up how they calculate efficiency?

    Also, swamp coolers are only effective below a certain temp, so you'd need to think about bypassing (cutting the fan and turning on air con) above a certain threshold

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