I switched from windows to fedora as my daily driver in 2024. Fedora sucked imo. Slow updates and just difficult to configure in the ways I wanted.

Used arch install to put arch on my work laptop early 2025 and have not looked back. Switched my desktop to arch not long after. pacman is amazing and I can't imagine doing it any other way now. The look on the IT guy's face at work when he suggested we try obs to test a camera, and I had it installed and booted within 20 seconds was priceless.

I do wonder what the legal threshold is? And what sort of discretion can be applied? Someone cranking out bohemian rhapsody has to get a decent dB leeway over old mate with the Nickelback discography.

I was going to suggest trying them at a lower clock but seems like you might be out of luck.

It is pretty rare to see multiple fails like this, do a search for your ram, mobo, chipset CPU and bios and see if anything flags. Might even be worth messing with latency settings, XMP can do stupid things.

Anyone already running memtest probably knows enough to check stuff but just in case.

Assuming it's a reputable brand it's probably worth attempting an RMA, it usually has pretty long warranty.

I'm going to use this as a find the pattern challenge in the future.

A modern version of alt+f4 to change teams. Or f10 to switch your loadout. Love it.

Pretty sure it was just the age verification stuff.

Here is the paper

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.25563

And here is the easier to read press release from Q-CTRL with less errors and ad block black screens.

https://q-ctrl.com/blog/q-ctrl-achieves-worlds-first-gps-free-quantum-gravimetric-navigation-demonstration-in-maritime-field-trial

Depends if you care about names or about physics. Radio, Infrared Gamma etc are just names we give to various parts of the continuous electromagnetic spectrum. The edges of these definitions are not super well defined. Changing from RF to microwave could be defined at say about 3 GHz, but there is not some clear physical difference between a 2.9 GHz photon and a 3.1 GHz photon other than the frequency change.

The lower limit to the frequency is I guess the inverse of the theoretical age of the universe/2. Something can't currently be oscillating slower than that.

There are some theories on plank length, quantisation limits, etc that might set some theoretical upper limit of photon frequency. But we don't appear to be anywhere close to observing such things. We have seen some rather crazy short wavelength particles that we haven't fully understood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle

Lewis Rossman.

I have no valid reason for this. I fundamentally agree with the guy on most things for the dozen or so vids I have seen. Right to repair etc etc.

But something about him just comes across as entitled and annoying. Like even if I knew the was right I would want to disagree with him.

Here is the real article without the compounding editorial errors.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.25563

I'm with the RBA on this one. The price on the sticker should be what I pay no matter the format I pay in. It's one of the great things about aus.

Cash still has significant overhead and businesses manage to account for that. Digital should be no different.

Can't believe the guts that must have taken. Absolute legend.

Sounds like it's time to switch out the 1080ti for a 9070xt. Been almost 10 years, probably due for an upgrade.

I will miss having that CUDA compatibility on hand for matlab tinkering. I wonder if any translation layers are working yet?

There are variations of the Skull and Crossbones here that have specific meaning?

That sure sounds like the desired result to me. The big sign on the ice cream stand says $4.64. Then I go and buy an ice cream I get charged, exactly $4.64, clear and simple. Mission fucking accomplished.

Oh I have cash in my back pocket, and I get a discount for that, sure mate, I'll happily pay a bit less than I was planning to pay anyway.

Are visa and MasterCard overcharging in their duopoly, yes. But that's not this battle (and they capped their fees a year or so ago in Aus to help combat that too).

I installed fedora to replace windows on the 31/12/2023. I wasn't a complete Linux noob by any measure but haven't run it as a main OS before. Thank you proton for getting me over the edge.

The whole repo situation on fedora is honestly pretty meh, things are out of date or broken too often. Or they just don't exist. I have put arch on a number of machines since and find it significantly better. My main box will move away from fedora next time I'm enthused to mess with it and this is the primary reason.

I have no doubt that that code is over complicated and inaccessible and probably needs a full rewrite that actually makes it accessible and effective.

That said, I'm sure there are far too many builders that are looking for the cheap and easy loopholes that certainly contributed to its current state.

Literally yesterday I found a beam in a 2007 apartment build that has been secured to the slab above with framing nails. This should have been done with a proper concrete bolt or anchor. The nails were failing and the whole ceiling was starting to fall.

Honestly. I think the government should design a cookie cutter 3 bed house that is standardised and easy to build, easy to check and certify the build. Buy or hell even make the framing and materials locally in bulk and start pumping out the same house over and over again.

How can we reduce paracetamol poisoning? Better access to mental health services? Nah. Let's make them buy two boxes instead of one. That will do it.

What a joke.

Even when in power and offering cash incentives, the LNP couldn't convince the power industry to extend coal power plant lifetimes or build new generators. Renewables have already won the free market, they will likely never be beaten in our lifetime. Good fucking luck getting any company that wants to actually make money to invest in nuclear.

The only reasonable argument left for nuclear is the baseline and storage argument, but again the writing is on the wall, industry can see the trajectory that batteries and storage tech is on and know that by the time they spend 2 decades investing in current gen nuclear, it will probably be beaten by storage in the free market anyway.

"When card surcharging ends, the sticker price will be the price that consumers end up paying,"

So keen for this. The number on the sticker should never be larger than the amount I pay. It's that simple.

I genuinely cannot understand the issue and the dismissive attitude some people seem to have about this concept.