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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

What standby mode does your laptop use? Classic S3 standby, or S0 standby like most modern laptops are forced into?

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

Are there any other virtual stores on the console? There’s obviously physical store fronts, but I’m pretty sure there’s only the one digitally on console.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

Apple doesn’t have a monopoly though, there’s still Android. And outside of the US Android is more popular than iOS.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

OP is using OpenCore Legacy Patcher to run an newer OS on an unsupported machine. The option boot menu won’t work, they’d need to get back to the OCLP menu to boot Mac OS.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

Odds are your Linux install overwrote OCLP. You’d need to install OCLP again and configure it to boot from either Mac OS or your Linux install.

And with GPT partition you can have 128 partitions so ~120 different OSes easily on a single drive.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

Does the size of a 6kb program really make that much of a difference?

Side note: If I’m reading this right (ignoring dependencies) sudo is 6kb while doas is 14kb.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

Ya know, I wish I could at least say something about being european and using commas instead of periods for decimal points, but I can’t even say that. Still 6MB fully installed is nothing these days.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

What’s the point?

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

I wasn’t asking for myself.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4fbf2676-b568-417a-837b-d1f6328ccf48.png

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

This looks like something you’d see on /r/schizophreniarides

Side note but has that or InfowarriorRides migrated to lemmy yet?

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

It took some trickery (that I don’t remember) but I was able to get my 3080 laptop to support the ancient unsupported Nvidia GPU with both running their correct drivers. Have you tried fiddling around with updating and rolling back drivers in device manager?

And unless you need the certified drivers (which it sounds like you might not even be able to use) or the extra floating point performance then quadros are a waste of money.

Also from what I can tell modern GeForce and quadros can only drive 4 displays at a time. My ATI 5870 from 2010 can do 6 displays, but for whatever reason they decided that was too many and went back.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

Modern gaming laptops with Advanced Optimus are switching back to a mux for everything.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

They’re still some of the best machines out there. Every other machine has gotten shittier at an even more rapid pace.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

I feel like it’s just going to end up allowing lower quality games. And importantly for epic, more of a cut for them.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

I really hope that unticking “Vote Putin” instantly kills your character.

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    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Is your battery dead dead? It should work just fine with a 3rd party battery, I’ve never had any machines give me problems with 3rd party ones. It’s only when the battery is below 5% state of charge that it will throttle like that.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    (dying at 40% battery, randomly switching off and other similar things). I’m on my third replacement battery, so either I’m really unlucky or there’s something fishy going on

    Not unlucky, they’re just garbage 3rd party batteries, and no official 1st party batteries.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    POST is supposed to check all CPU cores and all RAM. It’s check isn’t perfect, but it does check them all.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Well unless it’s just editing the text file. God forbid you unknowingly enter vim and don’t know how to get out without rebooting.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    That’s assuming that you’re able to google it. Before everyone had a phone in their pocket, and 17 computers lying around if you were stuck in command line with no GUI then you had no option.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    The 5090 costing an arm and a leg is fine since it’s the flagship. I just hope the 5080 isn’t actually just half the cores of the 90 just like 40 series has been.

    I just hope anything less than the best of the best isn’t an awful value like 40 series has been. And the 5090 costing 2k isn’t gonna make 50% less cores on the $1k 5080 look like a better deal.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    PC? All digital.

    Consoles? All physical

    I do t play games on console all that often so I’d rather the option to pick up a cheap used copy. Plus I could play that game any number of years down the road when the servers are long shut down. But on PC I just want to click the button and the game installs and opens.

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    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Also the trackpad. Nobody comes close to Apples trackpad drivers. From palm rejection, to gestures, to just simply pointing. Not even Microsoft’s precision track pads can compete.

    Usually the wifi chips are broadcom based so they can be really shit on linux, but that obviously depends on the model.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Can it be done? Yes. But compared to Mac OS it’s an awful experience. Thankfully the machine predates the massive trackpad and Touch Bar. But leave the Mac running Mac OS, it’s a far better experience than the half baked Linux support.

    And who knows, maybe you’ll like it? It converted me.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    You can’t update any browser

    The 2014 13" MBP can run (officially) Mac OS 11

    Chrome for Mac requires Mac OS 10.15 and up

    Firefox requires Mac OS 10.12 and up

    Apple’s software (like Xcode) are pretty much the only things that wont be updated.

    So that’s just not true.

    Laptop runs extremely slow

    Source on that? I have an even older 2012 MBP and the latest Mac OS feels just as fast as the very first version it can run.

    Everything works great, laptop is at least 3x faster.

    That you can easily tell is just 100% made up. Even on old machines Mac OS still runs great on them, it’s one of the best things Apple does for those devices.

    What support are you going to get on a 2014 macbook? Zero support.

    Not getting updates but everything works flawlessly > god forbid Arch of all things.

    I can 100% garuntee you the trackpad (the primary way of interacting with a laptop) will be nowhere near as good as in Mac OS.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    It’s a hardware issue not a software issue. If your laptop can run its webcam and not have the light turn on then it’s bad hardware. Software might get around one exploit, but that doesn’t fix what’s a hardware issue.

    [Rant] A few days ago, I asked if Mint would run okay on a Lenovo T460 (I appreciate all the advice). I got it working, but the installation was a big pain and I totally blame Lenovo.

    I got the T460 refurbished and I really didn’t want to run Windows 10 on it. I last used Linux for any real length of time a good 20 years ago, so I’m pretty inexperienced with it at this point and I had to figure out how to install it myself....

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    It’s not even machine specific. UEFI vs legacy bios boot mode is universally supported in all but the latest systems. If OP had to switch to legacy boot mode then they probably made the USB “incorrectly”. You’d run into the same issue on windows if you made the USB boot drive for legacy bios mode.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    I like htop because it has nice CPU graphs and a good tui for navigating. Top is a bit too obtuse for a new user, especially since CPU time is measured per core and not per the entire CPU. Plus I never figured out how turbo boost plays a roll in those percents.

    I haven’t gotten around to messing with btop, but it seems like more of what I like.

    Also fuck the “muh bloat” people. I have an i9 and 32 gigs of ram. I don’t care that a monitor util takes 1/10th of a second longer to launch and uses 1MB more of ram.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    The biggest thing is don’t accidentally give away your security questions to reset passwords to anything important.

    Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?

    I’m interviewing for a software dev job currently (it’s in the initial stages). If things work out, I’d absolutely prefer a work laptop with Linux installed (I personally use PopOS but any distro will do), a Mac will be second choice, but I absolutely cannot tolerate Windows, I abhor it, I hate it… (If all computers left...

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    If you value getting paid I’d highly suggest not tampering with any computer that isn’t yours.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Talk to people.

    Unless you want to be an SDR or something either high turnover and therefore lots of demand. Then indeed or any job hunting site.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Kill-a-watt is the most popular one. In the US they’re sold in harbor freight stores for like $30.

    I put that meter on everything. I love it.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    What is your goal with measuring this? Be aware that power consumption is designed to spike and return low. Most modern laptops won’t run very fast with a dead battery. Even with a high wattage charger because the spikes are too intense. Even with the highest wattage charger.

    The average power estimates that hwinfo in windows gets me is pretty accurate, but even it can’t account fully for the spikes. I’m not sure what the best equivalent is for Linux.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    My favorite line from someone here: Yeah we have a hybrid work system. You work in the office until 5pm. Then you go home at work from home.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    They’re currently what 15% of the market? Nvidia would happily swoop in and pick up some more market share.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    I don’t think I’ve ever used hdmi by choice. It’s always been VGA > DVI > DisplayPort. The only times I use HDMI is consoles or stupid monitors either only 1 DP and a bunch of HDMI.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    DVI and vga were mostly on older devices. HDMI was inferior to dual link dvi until I’d switched to DisplayPort.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    I’m waiting for a headline that’s “game dev asks workers to return to office 7 days a week”.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    And scale really well. Drop clocks a smidge, tell the CPU to not try to run at 95c, and power consumption nose dives.

    Is my PSU causing crashes/restarts? Broken, or under-provisioned?

    I’ve been experiencing instability with my system, and I’m beginning to suspect that the PSU is either faulty or under-provisioned. I’ll get random crashes (reboots, more specifically), mostly when doing something intensive on the system like starting up a game. Looking at all the crash logs, I can’t really find any...

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Try limiting the speeds of your CPU then the GPU and see if the crashing still happens. If you drop the CPU speed and it goes away then something is with your CPU (or memory). If dropping just the GPU stops it then it’s probably the GPU. If you have to drop both and then it’s stable, or dropping either CPU or GPU then it could be the power supply.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    It could be the spike in loads that’s causing problems. I tried googling for transient spikes since Nvidia is notorious for it but AMD is better. But they pointed out this.

    reddit.com/…/anyone_experiencing_5700_xt_instabil…

    Also SFX PSUs tend to not have as much capacitance on the output side which could be part of the problem. A higher wattage PSU might not fix the problem, but it could help. But a higher quality one should definitely fix it assuming it’s a PSU problem.

    Try running some synthetic tests first for a while and see if it’s stable. I think my PSU is dying from the spikes in load from my 4090. But that’s a 4090.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Bleed and galoob were both explicitly comercial products.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Lemmy moment.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    Just open up 50 chrome tabs, have discord, Spotify and all your other junk running in the background.

    That’s why I went with a dual computer setup at home. My gaming PC just runs the game (and monitoring software because I’m a nerd) and my second PC does all the internet browsing/other stuff.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    That particular person appears to believe that upscalers, such as like DLSS and FSR, are “basic features”

    Do people really like DLSS/FSR that much that they consider it a basic feature? I can’t stand the look of it and I’d rather just run actually at a lower resolution since it ends up looking better.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    My qualm is all of the visual artificing I see. Maybe it’s just the games I play, but there are some pretty bad graphical glitches that bother me, and the frame timing is off or something because it makes the game feel less smooth. Part of the smoothness is probably the relatively weak CPU in my laptop. But even on my desktop the frame pacing doesn’t feel the same as native.

    fuckwit_mcbumcrumble,

    I’m talking about software, not hardware. The pocket is magic because it’s open an developers can do whatever they want to it, and there’s a bunch of devs supporting it. This device is open source, but is just a fancy GBC, and the review pointed out that it’s a bit rough around the edges still.

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