Telorand

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Telorand,

I was running Bazzite on my Deck, which uses pipewire(-pulse?), and it had intermittent audio crackling. I swapped back to SteamOS some time ago, which I believe uses just PulseAudio, and the audio crackling is gone. I suspect either there’s something funky going on with the default config, or there’s something wrong with pipewire-pulse itself.

Either way, hopefully someone can corroborate or that can help point you in the right direction.

Big Oil’s still got some juice | WSPA blocks California Polluters Pay Climate Cost Recovery Act of 2024 for now (www.politico.com)

But a potent combination of the California Chamber of Commerce, the Western States Petroleum Association, the California Independent Petroleum Association and the State Building and Construction Trades Council helped ensure it didn’t come up for a floor vote.

Telorand,

The fact that they had that much influence is a prime example of why capitalism is dysfunctional by design.

Do you guys/gals think it's funny how many people talk big in the game chat but complain about 90+ gram gaming mice?

It could just he me but I feel that people can only blame their gear so long before they should admit that they’re getting outplayed. At the same time, it’s strange how those some people will scream their chest out or slam on those keys to rage out on everyone else like they’re big and tough.

Telorand,

I don’t think it’s funny. It’s annoying and petulant, and they’re the reason I don’t play competitive games. I’ve got better things to do with my time than listen to some tryhard scream and moan, and there’s literally thousands of other games I can play without having that experience.

Telorand,

The only silver lining is that it might be relegated to ARM systems initially, so we’ve all got time to figure out a plan to shift to Linux.

Telorand,

Y’all speedrunners march to the beat of your own kazoo. I love it.

Telorand,

And then QA sends it back with a bunch of regressions, then you go, “Why would somebody do it like that‽” and finally remember that the end user is dumb.

Telorand,

“If we allowed encampments in this instance, it would be nearly impossible to stop encampments from other groups in the future without facing challenges of chilling speech or viewpoint discrimination.” —UT President Jay Hartzell

Yeah, Jay. That’s kind of the point of the right to free speech, free assembly, and protest. That’s why your goon squad dropped all charges against every protestor you arrested, because they didn’t actually commit a crime and were in fact exercising their rights.

Telorand,

I dare the President to hold a confidence vote with the faculty. Most university professors don’t appreciate authoritarian leadership.

Telorand,

I switched back to Steam OS from Bazzite due to some QoL issues on the OLED Deck, and there’s definitely some improvements between sound, battery life, and general performance.

Makes sense why they wouldn’t want to upstream their work, since it gives them a market edge, but I wish they’d introduce some kind of persistent Overlay FS, so people can install non-flatpack software. Being able to layer packages in Bazzite and utilize things like Distrobox was so nice, and keeping these improvements to themselves means the user has effectively less options.

Telorand, (edited )

Oh, does it? I’ll have to go check! That’s almost as good as layering, especially since you can have anything from Ubuntu to Fedora to Arch.

Edit: Well, I’ll be goddamned. It most certainly does have distrobox and podman already installed!

Telorand,

I don’t know why, but the idea of the Earth yeeting off into space at 67,000 mph all of a sudden is really funny to me.

Telorand,

From the manual:

The Clear CMOS button located on the rear I/O can be used to revert BIOS settings to default. To clear CMOS, turn off the power and remove the AC power to the power supply. Allow 30 seconds to ensure no standby power exists. Press and hold the Clear CMOS button for 3 seconds.

Did you do all of that? I have read elsewhere that reset buttons sometimes don’t work the first time (or at all), so make extra sure you’ve cleared out all the power from the motherboard and CMOS. Some people have even had to completely disconnect the battery.

If you’re sure that you’re sure you’ve cleared the CMOS, then you should move on to testing the problematic parts one by one. If that CMOS step didn’t fully discharge the power and force a reset to default, it could be that the saved settings got fucked up, and it’s now trying to use corrupted settings (instead of the default fallback ones).

If that doesn’t work, you might try to see if you can do a BIOS upgrade via flashback, which might reset your BIOS settings to default, after which you can maybe get in and do more troubleshooting.

…nzxt.com/…/11652846587803-Updating-your-NZXT-Mot…

Telorand,

There’s Home (Subscribed), Local, and All views. If I open All, I can see posts from communities all over the Fediverse, even ones that I haven’t subscribed to.

Is that what you’re looking for?

Telorand,

Gotcha. That makes sense why that might be handy, if you have a lot of communities you keep up with.

Telorand,

Yeah, Mastodon has lists, so it’s definitely a feature that is possible to add server side.

Telorand,

I agree, that would be handy, though I think the original design was to allow one to rise to the top organically (i.e. people are more likely to join the community with the most members). I don’t know how that’s actually playing out in reality, and having the ability to group them all would be useful.

Telorand,

Mastodon “Lists” is a close analog, I think.

Telorand,

Nobody focuses on “black carbon,” because we can’t prevent wildfires, as they are a natural occurrence even without climate change. They are happening more frequently due to climate change, and firefighters try to control the burn in various ways, but it’s a lot easier to work on the human-sourced CO2 and Methane than it is to address wildfires. The frequency and effect is a symptom of our own output.

If we can get a hold on our own emissions, wildfires will become less frequent as well.

Telorand,

That’s one of the things I meant by “various methods,” but a controlled burn isn’t preventing the burn itself, just (hopefully) its spread. The fire is going to happen regardless, because it’s a natural and necessary occurrence.

If our various governments could be bothered to actually penalize the worst polluters and invest in actually clean energy sources, the wildfires would sort themselves out; we’re the ones that are making them worse.

Telorand,

Right. I agree that controlled burns are necessary, and firefighters already do them. My point is that those things are addressing the symptom of increased wildfires, and people are “ignoring black carbon,” because it’s not a viable path towards meaningfully addressing that specific issue.

Wildfires won’t ever completely stop just because we switch to 100% green energy, but this article is looking at the problem from the wrong end.

Telorand,

And sometimes it’s used to create a barrier so the fire encounters a span of spent fuel to contain its spread. It’s still just addressing the symptom. The author seems to be under the belief that people are ignoring “black carbon,” when in reality, things like controlled burns never stopped. Nobody is ignoring it, and its increased intensity and frequency is a symptom of the climate change we’re causing.

It’s like arguing that we need to cool the oceans. Duh. We’ll do that by focusing on the core problem of our emissions, and we’ll still have work to do as the climate recovers (should we make it that far).

Telorand,

I don’t have any leads, but it’s really easy to do yourself. I just did my first time ever a couple months ago for this season of mowing.

If you don’t find what you’re looking for, don’t sweat the effort required. Took me about an hour with zero experience, and it would probably take me about 30min this next time. Just be really careful you don’t lose the pawl in the axle for the blades (you need it in place to make the crank work), and pay attention to its orientation in case it falls out by accident.

Telorand,

Thank you! I bulked several hundred of the heaviest items and sold them to a vendor, and I made throwing knives from the excess steel (and sold those).

I think I should still pare that down, though. Right now, screws are my primary concern, and like you pointed out, I don’t seem to be having trouble with things like lead, cloth, and steel. I do have power armor, and I saved up to get the core recharger, so I should probably make use of that more often.

What are your thoughts on keeping higher level weapons in stash? I have some level 25+ items, but I’m only level 19.

Telorand,

Thanks! That helps a lot. I have a few heavy weapons I’m holding onto that are 45+, so I’ll see what’s worth keeping.

I tend to enjoy the stealthy, long-range playstyle. My favorite weapon so far is a hunting rifle I’ve modded with a long scope and a suppressor (and others mods that boost aim, crit, or reload), and I try to use a plasma pistol for close quarters (because of the chance for nuclear waste); I have an automatic laser rifle and a 10mm subauto as backup, if things get overwhelming. I’m open to suggestions, though!

I play on PC via the Xbox/Game Pass launcher.

Telorand,

But let’s keep voting in Republicans, amirite? Surely, they’re not a big part of the problem… /s

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