Depends on the zone.

In Texas where I lived… you get snakes. BIG snakes. And fun things like ninja bug swarms, wasp colonies, black widows, and such.

There aren’t a lot of wet leaves in Florida with so many palms or evergreens, but if you do leave them, you get disease and parisites, especially if its up against your house. Like, all the native plants in your yard will start dying. And it’s definitely not safe to step in.

I thought there was a cutoff for pascal cards too?

Also, random thing, but I did not get a notification for your reply.

I don’t think that’s a piefed thing, as it happens a lot to me, even with other .world users.

Nuke everything and start over? I guess you could keep the home directoy, but TBH I’d back it up and nuke it too, just in case.

Or, as a shorter term solution, run it off a USB drive.

Fedora

GTX 1660 Super

freezing

Almost certainly a Nvidia issue, and that’s such a deep rabbit hole, I don’t even know where to start.

…It’s not a fun troubleshooting/learning process.

The most expedient thing would be to try Bazzite or Nobara for a while. Both are Fedora based distros (so they’re familiar), but they have better support for older Nvidia cards out of the box.

This would be a better long term solution anyway, as whatever’s going wrong, you wont have to maintain it yourself through updates.

There’s certainly no conflict of interest there…

Google gets a cut from the Google Ads click, which takes the user directly to the Play Store (or, if on desktop, the Chrome extension store).

If it’s some free shovelware app, they get a cut from the ads spammed onto the user’s screen. If it’s a sham subscription app, they get a cut of that. I see this a lot test clicking ads these days.

If its legit phishing, that’s a fair point; they don’t get a direct cut of the scam, other than the attention it drives towards their app stores and the data they collect for the user’s profile. But the point I’m trying to make is that it’s incredibly hypocritical to paint 3rd party apps (and indeed any competing app store) as a danger when they do such a poor job policing their own store. They may have a point, but it doesn’t really tackle scamware unless they change their moderation habits.

Could it perhaps be, I don’t know, the entire rest of the world calling out China’s own genocides?

And no, the US has no leg to stand on when it comes to stamping out ethnic groups, especially Muslims. So?

Yeah. I would massively emphasize this too.

Don’t mess around.

Especially don’t mess around with AUR. Discrete apps and such are fine, but AUR ‘tweaks’ that mess with the system are asking for trouble, as they have no guarantee of staying in sync with base Arch packages.

Ease of use.

I’ve run the same CachyOS partition for 2 (3?) years, and I don’t do a freaking thing to it anymore. No fixes, no tweaking. It just works.

…Because the tweaks and rapid updates are constantly coming down the pipe for me. I pay attention to them and any errors, but it’s all just done for me! Whenever I run into an issue, a system update fixes it 90% of the time, and if it doesn’t it’s either coming or my own stupid mistake.

On Ubuntu and some other “slow” distros I was constantly:

• Fighting bugs in old packages

• Fighting and maintaining all the manual fixes for them

• Fighting the system which does not like me rolling packages forward.

• And breaking all that for a major system update, instead of incremental ones where breakage is (as it turns out) more manageable.

• I’d often be consulting the Arch wiki, but it wasn’t really applicable to my system.

I could go on and on, but it was miserable and high maintenance.

I avoided Fedora because of the 3rd party Nvidia support, given how much trouble I already had with Nvidia.

…It seems like a misconception that it’s always “a la carte” too. The big distros like Endeavor and Cachy and such pick the subsystems for you. And there are big application groups like KDE that install a bunch of stuff at once.

We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer.

Translation: if they want scamware, it better be from Google Play, where Google gets a 30% cut. On top of the cut they got for the phishing link in Google Ads.

And if anything thinks I’m being hyperbolic, go on Google Play and search for pretty much anything. Or turn off your adblocker.

The key being FSR 3.

If it was FSR 4, that’d much better looking at high res.

I mean, we already have Gaming PC OEMs and mini PCs. It’d be awesome if they start shipping SteamOS, but they can’t sell hardware at a near loss + make up for it with Steam sales + guarantee hardware support in software like Valve can.

And most don’t have the volume for “semi custom” AMD SKUs.

EDIT: The only entity I could see doing this is Intel, selling an Arc Steam Machine. That would be awesome, actually.

Whooaaaa, slow down.

It’s going to be awesome, but there’s no way Valve and spin up the production volume of a PlayStation or Xbox that fast. It will probably take a few more Steam Machines to get there.

Hence, Zuckerberg has just recently fired most of the LLAMA staff, the lab’s leader is rumored to be leaving for their own startup, and the new lab where all the funding’s going is a bunch of tech bro egos that are pro-closed models.

…And I suspect PyTorch is too “utilitarian” for Facebook’s leadership to draw enshittification attention.

Llama was an anomaly, and it seems they’re done with that. Which is quite sad. But on the plus side, it could be a death knell for Meta (as all that ego in the new lab will be a catastrophe).

…Oh. I see, I misread the generation.

Yeah, that’s a huge caveat, one that would get me to reconsider the whole box, as FSR4 is way better than 3. I wonder if there’s a chance for AMD (or Valve) to backport it?

based on FEX

Hey? Who knew open source projects could be massively profitable and time-saving if a coporation sinks some earnings back into them? And if they swallow that “but what if someone else uses it!?” pride?

…Oh, right.

Valve already knows!

AMD must feel good about this, given their (apparent) alarmingly small desktop GPU marketshare.

…They really just need OEMs to ship the things, and now they got a great one.

I’d be neat if Steam offered an Intel Arc variant too. The B series is massively underrated.

Yeah.

I was with family, on an RTX 2060 laptop and a nice TV. I fed it 1080P for the TV to upscale (since that’s the only res it would take at 120HZ or something like that), and it looked good. Those TV ASICs are quite powerful these days.

I mean, it will do 4K in old games just fine.

FSR(4) is less noticable at higher res, anyway.