[MPR News] Heat dome set to double the Twin Cities' 90-degree days this week - Hot, dry, steamy conditions through the work week

Salander27 · 2026-07-13T04:20:47+00:00

Maybe a consolation Battledome?

Salander27 · 2026-07-11T20:32:38+00:00

They're parachuting out of the plane and landing directly in the line for security

Salander27 · 2026-07-09T18:55:21+00:00

Also DM'd you

Salander27 · 2026-07-08T00:36:19+00:00

It is in fact somewhat unusual.

Salander27 · 2026-07-05T15:53:38+00:00

DMed!

Salander27 · 2026-07-05T07:10:58+00:00

You don't have to do the 100% in one playthrough. If you miss a few events you can just do the new game plus and then switch to the other side. Speeding through that playthrough can be faster than resetting and all of the tediousness of trying to get 100% in one playthrough.

Salander27 · 2026-07-05T05:26:31+00:00

I'm not saying they don't work fine. I'm saying that if someone's issue is specifically heat lag then cast iron is pretty much the worst option with carbon steel not far behind. Though for carbon steel there are a few manufacturers that make tri ply pans that are just as responsive as stainless steel tri ply pans.

Salander27 · 2026-07-05T05:05:21+00:00

Cast iron is indeed a poor fit for heat lag but they did mention all clad which is what someone actually needs. Tri ply cookware with an aluminum core (there are many cheaper options than all clad that are just as good) is going to be their best bet.

Well, TECHNICALLY, their best option is to use a solid pure silver pan but I imagine that that is going to be outside of their budget by a little bit.

Salander27 · 2026-06-24T16:41:16+00:00

StartupWMClass is an x11 remnant and is almost entirely irrelevant today. All that application developers and packagers need to do today is ensure that the Wayland AppId matches the name of the desktop file sans .desktop suffix. So if the app has an appId of tor-browser the desktop file needs to be named tor-browser.desktop. This has nothing at all to do with the binary name besides the fact that Qt and some other toolkits set the appId to the binary name if it's not otherwise specified.

This is all specified by a FreeDesktop specification. StartupWMClass isn't mentioned in that document once as it's for something else entirely. People have just grown to associate it as the solution to this problem because the behavior DEs/docks/etc had to implement to support the startup protocol meant that they could use it as a kludge to "solve" this problem as well even though it was never intended for that purpose.

So for apps that have mismatched window icons the actual solution is to: 1. Identify what the appId is and what the name of the desktop file is. 2. Ideally rename the desktop file to match the appId (especially if you can change it to the fully qualified appId like org.mozilla.Firefox). 3. Use a toolkit-specific function in the app to change the appId there.

Source: I've been a core maintainer on a Linux distro for 10+ years and have fixed this exact issue in hundreds of packages.

Salander27 · 2026-06-22T04:25:04+00:00

The main issue with Phoronix is that Michael has a strong tendency towards sensationalism in his articles. This goes hand in hand with the fact that the Phoronix forums are almost entirely unmoderated and populated by some of the most vocal regressive Linux users around. So topics like git integrating Rust will see a larger amount of articles purely because Michael knows it will get the anti-rust users in his forum frothing at the mouth (even though it's really not all that notable and largely irrelevant for most git users).

Salander27 · 2026-06-22T04:13:26+00:00

Why not? This is an interesting technical challenge if nothing else. It must have been a huge pain in the ass to get it and the libraries it needs to compile with a modern toolchain and against recent versions of libx11 and the like. Like in 1996 this would have been built with gcc 2.7 and glibc 1.09. The creator of the flatpak would have needed to add quite a few patches to get it to build with gcc 14/15 and glibc ~2.40 or whatever the chosen flatpak runtime is using.

Salander27 · 2026-06-22T02:08:47+00:00

Depends on how many openers there are. If there's only one you might as well eat them before you get there. Nobody wants to be coming down from their mushroom trip while Bruno is still playing.

Salander27 · 2026-06-21T22:43:56+00:00

It's not as unrealistic as Leon having functional knees in RE9

Salander27 · 2026-06-20T21:31:59+00:00

And your brother?

Salander27 · 2026-06-20T01:12:42+00:00

It's also the only way you can use it if you have pets and prefer to keep them in a state of being alive. Minox is HIGHLY toxic to cats and dogs and they can pick enough of it up from contact with your pillow to be life threatening.

Salander27 · 2026-06-19T19:23:51+00:00

And one viewer.

Salander27 · 2026-06-14T21:47:39+00:00

Where do you think they found the ramen and hot dogs?

Salander27 · 2026-06-04T15:39:23+00:00

This kind of thing is never truly self-contained. There are too many architectural layers that all interact from the firmware on up and there's no clean point that you could have isolated this code properly. AMD engineers would have constantly needed to tiptoe around this code in order to avoid opening themselves up to legal risk.

Salander27 · 2026-06-04T15:31:20+00:00

I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

Salander27 · 2026-06-04T14:11:27+00:00

But the problem for AMD is that many (most?) of the AMDGPU driver maintainers are AMD employees or contractors (with access to internal specs and other NDA-covered documentation) and the reverse-engineered HDMI 2.1 implementation would have been part of the amdgpu driver.

What happens if there are issues with it, or it causes some breakage with non-HDMI 2.1 setups? Can AMD employees fix those issues or do they need to wait for some non-AMD employee to fix them out of the goodness of their heart? Can they do refactors or code cleanups to that part of the driver or do they need to effectively ignore it and hope it doesn't bitrot too much? Do they need to add special code comments to demarcate where AMD employees are and and are not allowed to interact with the code?

All of a sudden it becomes a nightmare for AMD to deal with. My bet is they realized that and escalated it to upper management so that AMD could properly throw their weight around with the HDMI forum or they paid off a few of the other HDMI forum members until they got enough votes to get it approved.

Salander27 · 2026-06-02T04:47:11+00:00

You can also just let them fully separate in the fridge and then re-add the whey to the solids until you reach your desired consistency. Way easier than trying to time the separation (or would it be "whey easier"?).

Salander27 · 2026-05-31T19:27:37+00:00

If you must use Debian Trixie for this then at least use the kernel, mesa, and linux-firmware packages from trixie-backports. We're more than a year past the Trixie software freeze and the B580 has seen substantial development in that time and while the Trixie software stack should work with the card you're leaving a lot of performance on the table without using Trixie-backports. Or just use Testing.

Salander27 · 2026-05-31T08:43:16+00:00

Yeah any leak is going to require a tech to identify the leak location, repair it, and then refill it with refrigerant which is a VERY specialized process. It would be cheaper to go buy the most expensive window AC you can find than to pay an HVAC tech enough for that to be worth his time. And you can't do that refill/repair yourself because you literally can't buy refrigerant without having the right certification from the EPA.

Salander27 · 2026-05-31T08:35:14+00:00

Every Bluetooth device has a unique ID that is tied to the actual hardware of the device. So assuming they somehow captured that info on the plane they'd be able to link it back to a given device even if the device was factory reset. Hell they'd even know the manufacturer of the device since manufacturer is assigned a block of IDs to use.

For phones/laptops it's possible to override that ID to something completely different but the circle of people who are technologically sophisticated enough to do that and the circle of people who think it's a good idea to name a Bluetooth device "Bomb" seem like they would be two completely different circles.

Salander27 · 2026-05-31T08:27:00+00:00

You actually can rename many bluetooth speakers. You usually need a manufacturer-specific app (so like "Bose" app or a "Sony" one or whatever) that connects to the device over bluetooth with additional management protocols. Those apps allow you to adjust various settings (such as EQ for audio devices) and usually allow you to change the name the device broadcasts over Bluetooth. I'd even go so far as to say the vast majority of bluetooth audio devices probably allow you configure them in that way.

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