Even during the botched launch of Cyberpunk 2077, this is a really great song. I still need to watch Edgerunners.

Thought this'd be interesting for those here, a tutorial for installing/running a Windows XP virtual machine with GPU passthrough. The tutorial needs a little rewrite, and I might consider doing that rewrite myself, but I was able to get things to run fine.

Only warning I'd give is that some GPUs might not work OOTB with the virtual audio chipset. This happened to me when I was trying to use a virtual AC97 chipset - I had to move my GPU to a different virtual slot in the virtual machine to get it to work.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/5639428

::: spoiler Context / Spoilers for Who Framed Roger Rabbit

In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the villain douses the sentient shoes in acid that kills cartoon characters. Fair to say that scene probably traumatised a lot of children when it came out. Hell it hit me seeing that scene now and I'm in my mid-20s.

The mod from the plush community on Blahaj.zone made the plush to show their child that they're only just acting and I think that's really sweet.

Thought I'd share it here on Pawb's community. :::

Might as well shoot the question here. Thought I'd ask since I ordered it, and I am a little worried with UK customs. The order form said there was nothing in import tax, so I presume customs will keep it until then?

(FWIW, I've ordered internationally before but tax has been handled just fine there. This is the first time I've come across this.)

Edit 2024-02-23: The plush arrived quite a while ago (early Feb) with no issues regarding customs. Honestly a really good quality plush for the price.

Honestly I just wanted to show you lot the Xbox lol

Amazing cover of Jenny Silver's Melodifestivalen entry. I like the "modern ABBA" sound they went for rather than going full electro house synths like the original, it makes it sound timeless in a way.

could I get away with posting this on the Eurovision communities

This isn't so much an Arch issue (For what it's worth, this also happened on Nobara) but rather a Pipewire issue but I wonder if anyone's had this issue as well as me...

Running Arch on linux-zen (to fulfill Waydroid's binder requirement), on a Ryzen 7950X, motherboard has a Realtek ALC4080, connected via USB (yes it's still an internal sound chip).

Basically, after any prolonged use, I would get a lot of stuttering. It got particularly bad when I was running MusicBrainz Picard while listening to something in VLC, but it will happen often, and constantly.

I've tried setting my default output to the headphones, no dice. Also tried some workarounds from the Arch Wiki, specifically disabling suspend. Still happens. Adding headroom errored out Wireplumber.

Anyone had this and if so, have they been able to fix it?

Edit: I'll probably have to check if it's a kernel thing. I've just done some intensive tasks (i.e. installing Gentoo in a virtual machine) and the cutoffs come back. I remember Arch having something on the Wiki about that.

Prompt was something along the lines of "Sonic the Hedgehog drinking out of a steaming hot Tim Horton's cup".

Funnily enough the two Canadian people that I know of both said negative things about Timmy's, one of them saying that he has referred to Timmy's as animal vomit, so maybe Bing is on the mark. 🤔 (disclaimer: i actually don't mind tim horton's and even like their sweeter coffees)

For context, I've been getting some old Windows versions working with GPU passthrough thanks to MattKC who has been writing tutorials about it on his forums. I was able to get a Windows XP guest to work on this rig by passing through the 750 Ti, with the RX 480 doing host duties.

It's not as simple as that, the NVIDIA drivers at the time still detected VMs so you need to work around that, and I had to move the virtual PCI-e ports around otherwise there's a conflict between the GPU and the virtual AC97 sound card, and you need to install the F6/floppy drivers for ICH6 so XP can use the virtual SATA ports. But once it's set-up, you've basically got a pretty powerful XP virtual machine. Wanna get Vista and 7 working with this in the future too.

Fun fact, you can run the original GeForce Titan on Windows XP. NVIDIA's last XP-compatible drivers were in 2016.

I've noticed that federation here can be unstable lately - sometimes my comments will federate, and sometimes it won't.

An example of a comment I recently made that has not federated:

• https://iusearchlinux.fyi/comment/2017031 (my comment)
• https://lemmy.world/comment/3163328 (parent comment)

An example of a comment I recently made that has federated:

• https://iusearchlinux.fyi/comment/2104278 (my comment from this domain)
• https://pawb.social/comment/2343226 (my comment from the remote domain)

Might want to check the logs in case something's up. I don't think it's to do with the backend or whichever version it's using.

I've been trying out Bluesky for nearly two weeks now thanks to a friend of mine who gave me an invite code. For context, it's basically an alternative social network platform that was initially part of Twitter but broke off after management changed from Jack Dorsey. There's a lot about it I could talk about, including its long-term plans for federation like we have on the fediverse and how barebones the official client is, but the Taylor Swift community is probably not the best place for that. :p

Anyhow, Kamu decided to show the growth of the furry community on Bluesky, but one thing that was of note is the Brazilian supercluster. It's basically larger and more tightly-knit than most of the other non-English language clusters, and according to Kamu, one of the reasons for its growth? Taylor Swift. One of the earliest Bluesky communities were the Brazilian Swifties, and they were very effective at organising.

Let me know if I should move this elsewhere, but I think it'd fit here and you lot here might enjoy this. I don't know about Bluesky's reputation amongst the ActivityPub fediverse, but I think this is a neat little tidbit to post here either way.