Once we can vote out the conservative lunatics, we can make solar and wind farms in the uninhabited desert. It’s the conservative retards in Phoenix with the grass lawns and all the water wasting bullshit.

Down here in left leaning Tucson, the vast majority of people do not have water wasting bullshit property fauna. Palm Springs is only about 5 hours away and that’s what they’re doing and they seem to be doing well with it.

I’ve stuck to KDE because it’s more customizable and the devs don’t try to actively remove features from updates. Gnome might be a cleaner experience, but I don’t want to have to search for alternatives when my favorite gnome extension gets unexpectedly killed by an update.

KDE appears to be much more stable in that regard in that they’re actively trying (Union) to make themes more resilient over time.

AMD gfx cards cannot meet or exceed 5080/5090 cards. That said, I think a 9070xt is the best choice right now, because it’s probably going to be cheaper overall to just upgrade in 3-4 years rather than buy a 5090 and hold onto it for 10 years or whatever. You do you, but for me, I think upgrading early is the better choice since 2 flagship AMD cards should equal the price of the nvidia 5080.

As far as distros are concerned, Bazzite is a fantastic starting point because you almost certainly can’t go wrong. If you run into programs that need a kernel module or superuser permissions, just distro hop. It’s very likely that in your first time using Linux that you’ll not need those power user things, so Bazzite will be rock solid for you.

Also, in Linux, best practice is to set your home folder to be a separate partition on your HD. You can point your distro to the existing home folder so if you distro hop and you won’t lose your desktop environment prefs/setup or your files.

Here’s my notes on this for Fedora if you need a guide:

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler

Drive partitioning is highly variable between distros and even within distros that have received updates. The following shows the modern setup for all distros at this time. swap will depend on how much RAM the system has, and whether hibernation will be used. The proper /system partition size varies from distro to distro. Add a /home folder using the remainder of your drive space. In my case, I have an entire drive for my /home folder (the WD drive) that just doesn’t get reformatted ever if I distrohop.

Apps

1. LocalSend
   1. Remember to use Flatseal to grant filesystem access to the Flatpak so dragging and dropping work outside of ~Downloads folder (Flatpaks by default are sandboxed)
2. Steam
   1. install from package manager, NOT Flatpak or Snap version to include controller dependencies all together
3. Zen Browser
4. Geekbench
   1. run in terminal after installing Flatpak; otherwise will close terminal window without showing link to view score

/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=geekbench6 com.geekbench.Geekben
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1. Discord

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   1. install from RPM Fusion else rich presence won’t work
   2. set autostart args so app opens minimized in system tray
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   sudo dnf install <https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$>(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
   sudo dnf install discord
   

   system settings > autostart > add new,,, > application > select discord

   see properties > application tab > Arguments > enter --start-minimized

2. CEMU (from Discover/Flatpak store)

3. Retroarch :::

America didn’t have widespread contactless payments until Covid started. Covid surged adoption here, but Walmart is the only big box retailer holdout left that I can think of. Walmart wants to sell your data, and that’s harder if you use emulated card numbers (contactless payments or Apple-like cards with no set number).

I got a good bundle deal from Microcenter on a mobo with a wifi card that took over a year to be properly supported by the Linux kernel (or whatever relevant entity). This is good advice, but it’s likely that since we’re at the end of the AM5 generation, no new mobos should come out needing updates to function properly.

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler In my case, it was that I needed to hard power cycle (unplug, replug) sometimes to get Linux to initiate the networking card. :::

I see across the board frame drops in the UI from time to time. If I turn on low power mode, it gets real choppy. My expectation is 120FPS, no stutters, no frame drops ever; that’s how this phone was when I bought it.

Phones in general plateaued, but the pixel line has been sitting comfortably at a plateau 4 generations behind Apple/Snapdragon flagships which is unacceptable. I have an iPhone 15 Pro that I’m looking to replace because it’s starting to lag and stutter; the pixel 11 pro benchmarks LOWER than my 3 year old phone.

Human subjects are crazy to work with for a few reasons

1. People don’t follow instructions perfectly
2. Research subjects often don’t take the research project very seriously.
3. It’s not uncommon to have dropouts, thus you either have to find more subjects or have less data.
4. It’s impossible to know what the subjects are doing to cause data variability (diet, vices, etc)
5. You can’t lock subjects in a room and force them to eat and drink the same food every day.
6. There’s a financial (time) penalty to many research studies that can get in the way of enthusiastic participation.

Laboratory mice literally live 5 to a cage with almost no diet variability, in a controlled environment. Yes shit does happen with research mice, but it’s something that is easy to control overall.

1. Wax your ass
2. Get a squatting stool
3. Don’t eat spicy food
4. High Fiber, meaning, don’t eat anything purréd
5. Try to eat a salad with lunch/dinner
6. Limit or eliminate processed foods
7. Limit saturated fat intake up until the point your gallbladder can keep up
8. Red sauces, not white sauces
9. Eliminate fried food
10. Eat foods that are in a form where you can visually discern each major ingredient. (That’s kinda where the term “Whole Foods” comes from)
11. Eat lean proteins like chicken/fish/Pork (not bacon)

Myself included lol.

Moi même aussi lol

Graduated in 2014 from university of Arizona (bio/chem double major): my first job paid me 9$/hour to which I negotiated 10$/hour. Stayed with them 3 months before being fired for making mistakes (I did make small mistakes, nothing crazy though). Started as a cowboy giving horse rides and pony cart rides instantly at 10/hour + tips. A year later started teaching at the university for 10/hour. Worked there 7 years maxing out at 15.80$. The job market is utter garbage for graduates.

He’s also been dead for over a decade, sadly.

Child abuse. I thought it was normal to threaten children with violence for noncompliance. I thought it was normal to be afraid to misbehave or be suboptimal in school at the threat of violence.

Fixed the link for you 🙂

Ram Ranch Resistance

Shout out the 1 hour 45 minute drive from JFK to just over the bridge into Jersey