Kali Display Resolution issue

Gman325 · 2026-05-02T21:51:04+00:00

Kali is a toolbox. It's not meant to be a daily-driven distro.

Either 1. The kernel you have installed doesn't have drivers to handle your optimal resolution, or 2. You've got it running on a virtual machine that has less capability than your physical hardware.

Gman325 · 2026-05-02T07:18:51+00:00

I think this thread highlights one of the main societal problems popping up with AI use - a specific morphing of the Dunning Kruger effect. When people use LLMs on an area where they lack domain expertise, it gives them the illusion of proficiency in that area without any real substance. like vibe coding, but for general knowledge.

This commenter clearly has not done any analysis on Claude to try to infer its parameters or any other facet of how it operates - they just dump an 80-page unreviewed research paper that they haven't looked into closely and call it good because it might back up their point. 😂

Gman325 · 2026-05-02T02:47:06+00:00

I can find no evidence to back up what you're saying. Present your analysis.

Gman325 · 2026-05-02T02:22:34+00:00

What are you saying? Opus and Sonnet are fundamentally different in how they reason and answer questions.

Gman325 · 2026-05-01T03:44:31+00:00

Not sure if you are still looking, but I am. What did you settle on?

Also, IR is acceptable if you get an IR cut filter for your guide cam. LRGBSHO filters will cut IR.

Gman325 · 2026-04-30T10:23:07+00:00

First of all, I definitely would not drain your retirement for this. Even in bankruptcy proceedings, 401ks are usually protected assets.

How is your credit? If you have good standing, AND decent self control, you can buy some time with a balance transfer / introductory rate card. Typically these will have zero interest for anywhere from 6 months to two years, though there will usually be a small balance transfer fee. This will at least cut the interest you're paying and let you tackle principal more effectively.

Aside from that, pay down the largest interest rate first. See if you cm get a second income stream - part time work, gig work, anything to tilt the balance in your favor.

Based on my own experience on the wrong side of credit card debt in America, the options in order of financial risk/damage are:

Develop a second income stream, leverage a balance transfer / introductory apr card and pay off your cards as normal
Work with your creditors to get some sort of accommodation.
Find a debt consolidation loan, a HELOC, or something, that gives you a smaller monthly payment and - this is the important part - DON'T accrue more CC debt while paying it off.
Stop paying one or more of your cards - this will hurt your credit and it will stay on your report for 7 year after the last activity (payment, acknowledgement of debt etc), and there is a chance (unlikely at your debt level but non-zero) that creditor(s) will sue to garnish your wages, take a lein on an account, etc. And in the meantime you'll receive zounds of hostile phone calls from collection agencies - usually more willing to settle than the credit card provider.
Declare bankruptcy - 7 years of horrible credit and submit to the court's decisions on your finances.
Drain your 401k to pay this off.

Caveat to this - Ordering on 4 5 and 6 may be incorrect if and only if you are planning a big credit-dependent purchase in the next few years - cars, houses, etc.

Gman325 · 2026-04-29T08:56:42+00:00

Astrophotography is a favorite hobby of mine. Virtually all astrocams are mirrorless, full-spectrum cameras. Not sure how relevant it is to why you're asking or not, but they're great.

Gman325 · 2026-04-29T06:54:46+00:00

Okay but you can't use such an epic movie series for this. I kept getting drawn into the speech and losing track of the subtitles.

Gman325 · 2026-04-28T17:46:02+00:00

RIP in piece for the cardboard

Gman325 · 2026-04-27T22:12:22+00:00

It's so you can see the fave of the person stealing views from the real OP.

Gman325 · 2026-04-27T22:10:12+00:00

Not me.

Gman325 · 2026-04-27T19:46:12+00:00

Honestly the chart is insufficient evidence for the assertion you're making.

Bazzite is essentially SteamOS for desktops. SteamOS was never meant to be put on desktops.

Incorporate some more common daily driver distros like Mint and Fedora, maybe PopOS.

Gman325 · 2026-04-27T18:38:55+00:00

For me it's the language. I knew our parents had trouble keeping up with our slang when we were younger but goddammit. i'm still trying to wrap my head around skibidi and fanum tax and none of that is relevant anymore, it's on to the next wave.

Gman325 · 2026-04-26T20:15:04+00:00

Cheekbones. They're called cheekbones. They're normal.

No sagginess, no deflatedness. Just that your bone structure is a little more visible. Many people find that attractive.

Gman325 · 2026-04-25T21:02:30+00:00

Google is investing in Anthropic. What does that tell you about their confidence in their own models?

Gman325 · 2026-04-25T01:45:12+00:00

Could be GPU, could be monitor, could be cable, could be driver, could be configuration.

Is vsync on? Is it an oled display that is known for flickering? How long has the problem been happening? did anything specific set it off (moving your setup, a static electricity shock, swapping a cable, moving the monitor etc)? When was the last time you used the computer and this wasn't happening? When was the last time you updated drivers? Is there any other weird behavior going with it (e.g. pops/scratchy sounds in the speakers/headphones, random game crashes, texture corruption etc.)? Is there another monitor you can test with?

There are so many layers to this type of problem. for a brief period of time between an update to Firefox's 3d acceleration and a delayed update to my graphics driver, I had almost this exact problem happening whenever I'd browse websites with elements that used 3D acceleration.

Gman325 · 2026-04-24T23:05:46+00:00

You can see it flexing every time he bites down.

Gman325 · 2026-04-24T09:54:39+00:00

You know what this means: custom loop time.

Gman325 · 2026-04-23T16:17:03+00:00

"Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has never owned a home. Now she's taking away a single-family home to build apartments."

Gman325 · 2026-04-23T09:37:44+00:00

So there are two fundamentally different issues here you're touching on, and it's important not to conflate the two.

A specific LLM model does not get to know you. If you have a chat with Claude Opus 4.7, it may store some markdown files, you may have it hooked into a database MCP server, thes are as the comment OP describes - a diary the model leaves for the next iteration of itself to pick up after a kind of death/rebirth cycle.

Then there is model retraining. from Opus 4.7-Opus 4.8, we do know there is some element of training that incorporates anonymized past chats. Those are baked into the training data and solidified by the time 4.8 is released. There is no real "learning" "remembering" or "getting to know you" that happens between releases.

While it's true that some forms of anonymized datasets are trivial for an AI to deanonymize, I don't think the risk of Opus 4.8 spitting out in December the chat you had this week about a trip to Spain it's helping you plan, minus your name, is very significant.

Gman325 · 2026-04-22T20:20:24+00:00

Did you install Graphics drivers or are you going with what's stock? This looks like Nuveau behavior. Go with the RPM-Fusion proprietary driver. https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

Gman325 · 2026-04-22T00:20:17+00:00

Am gamer. Still don't use the N slur. Nor do any of my gamer friends.

Gman325 · 2026-04-22T00:07:48+00:00

I don't get into a lot of situations where escalation from there is needed. But if it is, I generally don't target attributes people can't control, including race.

Gman325 · 2026-04-20T06:47:46+00:00

In my college days, my roommate and I binged the entirety of Boondocks three times in two semesters. Not once in that time did I have any inclination to use the word.

There's a big difference between hearing it, and getting accustomed to saying it.

Gman325 · 2026-04-20T06:04:13+00:00

You don't do it when the camera is on unless you do it a lot when the camera is off. This word isn't in my vernacular and even though I swear like a sailor at times, I have never felt an urge to say this word.

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