[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

So much better, thanks!

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I don't like musicals but this film is amazing, truly one of a kind. Absolutely worth watching!

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Does anyone else live in a safe seat that may flip during this election? Looking at the latest Survation poll, which predicts Labour will win 484 seats (vs 64 to the Tories and 61 to Lib Dems), I can't believe how tight some of the results are projected to be in what have previously been very safe Tory seats as far back as I remember.

https://www.survation.com/survation-mrp-labour-99-certain-to-win-more-seats-than-in-1997/

I've lived in some of these seats and always voted but without any real hope of flipping it. For them to turn red would be a huge change.

One seat, North East Hampshire, was the safest Tory seat in 2015 (by numbers and by %) but this election the projection is Lab: 24.2%, Con: 32.2%, Lib Dem: 29.3%.

Results night could be very interesting!

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Midge defence? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world to c/askuk@feddit.uk

If anyone has any good tips on beating the midges, please share them!

I got absolutely devoured this weekend up by Loch Latrine (edit: Katrine) (completely forgot it was midge season, so I was unprepared).

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

That ship was about 100,000t.

There's a fairly crude equation in the American bridge engineering standard that relates impact load to the mass of a ship, which is:

P =√(DWT) +-50%

Where DWT is the deadweight tonnage, and P is the impact load in meganewtons.

So in this case P=315MN +-50% which is 315000kN or 31500 tonnes of force...

For comparison, I'm working on a project where we're going to build a new concrete bridge on the ground next to where it needs to go (under a railway) then wait until we have a planned week with no trains running and push it into position using jacks. That bridge is a 60m long 20m wide 8m high concrete box with 1m thick walls and top and bottom slabs, and we think we will need about 30MN to install it (one tenth of the impact load from that ship).

So yeah... that's quite a hit.

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 75 points 8 months ago

The 5800X3D has the same core architecture as the 5800X but it runs at 11% lower base and 4% lower boost clocks. The lower clocks are in exchange for an extra 64MB of cache (96MB up from 32MB) and around 40% more money. For most real-world tasks performance is comparable to the 5800X. Cache sensitive scenarios such as low res. canned game benchmarks with a 3090-Ti ($2,000 USD) benefit at the cost of everything else. Be wary of sponsored reviews with cherry picked games that showcase the wins, conveniently ignore frame drops and gloss over the losses. Also watch out for AMD’s army of Neanderthal social media accounts on reddit, forums and youtube, they will be singing their own praises as usual. Instead of focusing on real-world performance, AMD’s marketers aim to dupe consumers with bankrolled headlines. The same tactics were used with the Radeon 5000 series GPUs. Zen 4 needs to bring substantial IPC improvements for all workloads, rather than overpriced "3D" marketing gimmicks. New PC builders have little reason to look further than the $260 12600K which, at a fraction of the price, offers better all round performance in gaming, desktop and workstation applications. Users with an existing AM4 build should wait just a few more months for better performance at lower prices with Raptor Lake or even Zen 4. The marketers selling expensive “3D” upgrades today will quickly move onto Zen 4 (3D) leaving unfortunate buyers stuck on an overpriced, 6 year old, dead-end, platform. [Mar '22 CPUPro]

Jesus

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 81 points 9 months ago

Will it though? Seems like the kind of task that requires a huge amount of effort, way beyond the kind of capacity you get from casual contributions in peoples' spare time...might be difficult to maintain feature parity and implement new standards without a full time team on it.

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I've ordered myself some parts to build a PC for Linux gaming. In the meantime, i'm deciding on which linux distro to use.

For the desktop environment I typically use KDE.

I have used Ubuntu in the past but i'm ruling it out because of snaps and other such annoyances. This also applies to Ubuntu based distros that use the same repos (KDE Neon etc).

I see the wikis recommend Nobara, but I'm reluctant to use a Fedora based distro because I'm so used to Debian/apt (both as a desktop and server distros). I'm not ruling it out completely though.

Any reason why I shouldn't just go with Debian + KDE and install Steam? Will I be missing out on lots of performance improvements or is this easily addressed by using an additional repo for a tweaked kernel and proton version or whatever?

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Washing groceries to avoid getting covid

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

Victors write the history

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world to c/buildapc@lemmy.world

I'm working on a build list for a Linux gaming rig. It's my first build so I'd welcome any comments or tips!

I'm mostly looking to run games like the Total War series. I'm not obsessed with getting peak performance, I'm angling more for a reasonable value mid-range build.

Linux support is essential, I won't buy any Nvidia products.

UK market if that makes a difference.

List below...

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor (£139.99 @ Amazon UK)
  • Motherboard: MSI B550 GAMING GEN3 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£89.97 @ Ebuyer)
  • Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory (£64.98 @ Amazon UK)
  • Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£84.24 @ Amazon UK)
  • Video Card: PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6650 XT 8 GB Video Card (£239.00 @ Computer Orbit)
  • Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case (£74.50 @ Computer Orbit)
  • Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£101.62 @ Amazon UK) Total: £794.30
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Krita (f-droid.org)
submitted 10 months ago by AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

Discovered this one today when looking for an image editing app for Android. I've used Krita on Linux before but didn't know there was an Android app!

The UI is a bit clunky on a mobile but it does the job!

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Whole some mike (lemmy.world)
[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

BY accident

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

Love how openly you guys communicate about the management of LW. It's interesting for anyone with an interest in self hosting things to see how you've scaled up. Keep up the good work!

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Very resourceful, I like it.

Added benefit: you'll definitely hear it if someone tries to open the garage door and steal all your stuff in the middle of the night

CLACK

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It's a free software firmware replacement for ereaders based on Alpine Linux.

I've not tried it myself but wonder how it compares to the stock firmware on Kobo, particularly in terms of battery life and general performance.

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I have a box running kodi in standalone mode with X11. My TV displays "no signal" if I leave it for too long, does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

I can still ssh into the box and use the remote app Kore so the system hasn't suspended or anything like that.

Pressing up/down etc on the kore remote, which should change what is displayed on screen, doesn't wake kodi up. However, I can wake it up if I tell Kodi to play a video.

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I'm looking for a linux kernel for Debian that is 6.4.2 or above (need it to support the AX101 WiFi module).

The Debian package linked below is "linux-image-6.4.0-2-amd64 (6.4.4-3)"

Does that mean the kernel version is 6.4.0 or 6.4.4?

https://packages.debian.org/unstable/kernel/linux-image-6.4.0-2-amd64

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Tell me your favourite rescue USB image and why!

Also rescue tips and tricks as that's always interesting.

I have been using a Debian installer USB as I had it to hand (DVD image IIRC) but if I boot into a shell without mounting another root FS the number of utilities is quite limited (just busybox basics). For example just now I wanted gzip but it only had gunzip...

I feel like a shell started from the installer USB should have access to a lot more utilities because the files are there on the disk!

Does anyone know a way to set up a kind of USB like the debian installer where you can install packages from the installer into the live environment?

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

OsmAnd, best downloaded from Fdroid. It has profiles for driving and hiking so you can use it for both with different settings.

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Future incidents probably will still happen, but when you develop in the open it's much easier for people to trust you when you talk about incident response and mitigation, because they can see what's happening out in the open. In contrast, nobody trusts Reddit to do what they say.

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