IrritableOcelot

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[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

Some motherboards explicitly enable wake on LAN as a BIOS option. If not in the BIOS it's going to be a bit harder, but the software option recommended, (the Archlinux forum link) looks interesting.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, he was eating sodium bromide instead of sodium chloride. Any significant amount of bromide is not good for ya.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on how much power is being transmitted to each base station, but it would have to be a colossal satellite to be "we're all going to die".

I pointed that out mostly as a limitation on how much power could be transmitted to each base station.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Microwave scattering is an absolute nightmare over that kind of distance. Even for much shorter distances, microwaves are only practical to transport over a couple of meters in a waveguide.

If its transmitting to a base station, we can assume it's in geosynchronous orbit, or about 22,000 miles from the surface. With a fairly large dish on the satellite, you could probably keep the beam fairly tight until it hit the atmosphere, but that last ~100 miles of air would scatter it like no tomorrow. Clouds and humidity are also a huge problem -- water is an exceptionally good absorber in most of the MW band.

I saw numbers reported for the transmission efficiency somewhere (will update this if I can find it again), and they were sub-30%. The other 70% is either boiling clouds on its way down, or missing the reviever on the ground and gently cooking the surrounding area.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh damn! Hey, if I was convinced that was a DSLR, then no need to rush getting a camera 😂

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You seem like a really fun gi! Nice depth of focus & clarity, what's your setup?

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🎶Living in a JabRef woooorrrrld🎶

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My understanding is that they offer them all, but publishers havent been able to reliably get 8 or 16gb cards. Whether thats Nintendo being shady or some legitimate supply issue, I don't know.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, on fedora you just click the check box for the Nvidia driver repo in KDE Discover or Gnome Software, and you're good.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Zettlr! Its designed around writing manuscripts in markdown+latex, then exporting to pure LaTeX, PDF, or any other Pandoc-supported format via a builtin Pandoc GUI. The only thing that doesn't work particularly well is the table editor, but they're working on it.

It is electron based, but almost all graphical editors for markdown + inline latex are (obsidian, etc.) because MathJax & KaTeX are the most mature method to render LaTeX inside other document formats.

Obsidian is also good, but it's not FOSS and their built-in export isn't great.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

Nah, I've had no issues pasting from the clipboard into signal, from either the Mint screenshot tool or Flameshot. Not sure what issue the top commenter is having...

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but they can't build Pandoc translation against an experimental format, so no LaTeX anytime soon.

 

To deal with all this Intel CPU disaster, I've been having to manually check MSI's website for mobo updates. It occurred to me that keeping BIOSes and other drivers that aren't delivered through your OS's update manager of choice is such a pain, and it's common knowledge that a lot of critical BIOS updates just don't get applied to systems because folks don't check for updates unless there's a problem.

Thinking about that, I realized that it would make life a lot easier if you could just have section in your RSS reader for firmware updates, and each mobo manufacturer published BIOS update announcements as an RSS feed. All your updates are in one place, and you're notified promptly! Of course, this would also apply to NVIDIA drivers, so you can get automatic updates on Windows without having to download Geforce NOW bloatware, but of course that's very intentional on NVIDIA's part.

Does anyone know of other easy ways to passively keep track of BIOS updates?

 

OK, y'all. I'm trying to find a book I read many moons ago. I feel like it was by Diana Wynne Jones, but it's not in her bibliography. Massive spoilers incoming, obviously, but I can't remember what the spoilers are for.


The book starts on an island nation in the south of the world, with a rigid code of conduct which one of the main characters is being disciplined for breaking. The main characters leave on a quest to the oppressive and powerful kingdom in the north, and its revealed that one of the other main characters is the crown prince of the evil kingdom in the north, and can use their magic. If I recall correctly, his use of that magic makes dark veins stand out under his skin, and he has to fight against it controlling him. There's some kind of time limit, I think if he uses the magic too much, it'll take him over and he'll become the new ruler.

To gain some advantage over the evil kingdom, they visit an abandoned city, break into some kind of temple, and have an encounter with some kind of deity, which might then take over one of the characters?

Later in the story they make it to the evil palace, and there's a plotline about multiple children of the evil king trying to kill this guy, so they can inherit the throne. I think the evil palace is embedded in a mountain somehow.

Anyone who can set me on the right track, it'd be much appreciated!

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