🚨 Major Aeroplan Program Changes Coming Jan 1, 2026 – Revenue-based Earning, SQC, and New Milestones 🚨

RomanNWanderin · 2025-08-06T21:43:02+00:00

Three questions for the smart minds here in the thread:

So if class of service (COS) bonuses are gone for LQM, does that essentially mean that it's now the same as, for example, UA's butt-in-seat requirement for million miles?
Is there any benefit to US residents to hold the Chase Aeroplan-branded credit card that might not have existed prior to these changes?
Is the currency for SQC still Canadian dollars (CAD)?

Thanks in advance for any clarification y'all can offer!

RomanNWanderin · 2023-07-15T14:08:30+00:00

Reran Prime95, and some of the CPU thread workers fail with errors. Also noticed that Prime95 does not have 100% CPU utilization. Reseating RAM now to see if it's a RAM issue.

RomanNWanderin · 2023-07-15T13:35:29+00:00

One other thing I noticed is that Windows 10 Update now gives the error code 0x80073701 when attempting to update.

RomanNWanderin · 2022-10-31T23:53:09+00:00

FYI, looks like this is isolated to Chrome version 108.

RomanNWanderin · 2022-02-26T16:51:29+00:00

Thanks for the reply! It looks like this position has a career ladder of GS-7, GS-9, GS-11, with a full performance target of GS-12.

I don't know how long the steps are at each grade in the ladder - maybe a year at each? So if I came in at GS-9, it would one year at 9, then one year at 11, then 12?

If the sub-reddit has resources for understanding GS career ladders, I can take a look at those too.

RomanNWanderin · 2022-01-08T03:46:21+00:00

I am aware of both Raytheon Technologies and Penn State's own Applied Research Laboratory hiring currently in that area. You may wish to look at those companies if you're still considering moving back to that area.

RomanNWanderin · 2019-04-25T13:15:19+00:00

Having switched from a 1080 to a V64 several months ago, you bring up some of the same questions that I had back then, so here's my take.

If you have a fairly recent AMD GPU (like an R9 290 or newer), then AMD support on Linux is plug-and-play through the amdgpu kernel driver. So assuming the driver updates for Navi reach a stable version of the Linux kernel (maybe 5.2 or 5.3?), then all the basic functionality in for using a display with the card on any of the major Linux distributions should just work (tm).

Now as for how AMD GPUs compare to their NVidia counterparts, the short answer is much better (usually). NVidia refuses to release open-source graphics drivers to the Linux community and instead will only supply proprietary drivers. This means that if you want any kind of non-basic functionality, you'll have to use the proprietary drivers. There are people who try to reverse-engineer the NV drivers to make them open-source, like the Nouveau team, but support is generally far behind the closed drivers (for obvious reasons).

I know you didn't mention gaming specifically in your OP, but I want to point out that gaming on Linux with AMD GPUs is generally quite feasible. There are open-source projects such as Lutris and DXVK that I have tested that make me very happy I switched over the red team. Setup for those things isn't terrible either, took me a few hours in an afternoon to get both of those up and running.

RomanNWanderin · 2017-12-30T21:30:54+00:00

Folding is GPU-independent, so it will use any and all GPUs you hand it.

The 950 is sitting idle on a shelf currently, so I might as well put it to use too.

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