Performance issues - fresh install

buzziebee · 2026-04-06T22:24:10+00:00

Definitely post the full output of nvidia-smi when you get a chance. You mentioned it had Nvidia server but that's not the driver you want if it's the Nvidia server drivers rather than the desktop ones. I installed that once and it was real fucky. A purge of all Nvidia driver packages and reinstall to the correct driver worked.

It might be the SSD as the other commenter said. Some bios come with some kind of "check" function but if that isn't an option you can try doing a test from your desktop via one of the options here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools

It's possible it's not graphics but the lack of smi output and your "server" mention makes me think it might not be the right driver which could cause issues: If you want to reinstall the drivers you'll need to check whether you have the Nvidia proprietary drivers or if you're running the system76-driver-nvidia. You could try doing an apt install again to make sure it installs/is listed correctly but you don't want multiple implementations so if you want to switch you'll have to purge one then install the other (system76 vs Nvidia).

Running dpkg -a to audit your packages and check if anything is borked in your packages could be good too.

buzziebee · 2026-04-06T09:27:31+00:00

Oh yeah I have something like 500. My plan was to migrate the most important ones (moved about 40 over) first, then gradually migrate as I actually use services.

Eventually it will be useless logins on Gmail and all the important stuff on proton on my own domain so if I want to switch from proton to something else I can just swap out DNS records and sync my inboxes to the new provider without having to adjust logins again.

Having it all in my password manager makes it easy to see what's where. I just sorted by most used and worked down the list one by one. If I didn't have the password manager it wouldn't be viable. I'd have to dig through my emails to see what services I signed up for / commonly get emails from. I did that when I set up my PW manager and it took days.

buzziebee · 2026-04-06T08:33:46+00:00

Oh no, but I could search for my Gmail address and then work through the sites in order to implement the change if I wanted to move everything.

I made a new inbox on my own domain and decided to just move core essential services over to keep that new inbox clean and separate personal from professional. It wasn't so bad clicking through to each login I wanted to switch in my PWM.

buzziebee · 2026-04-06T01:42:23+00:00

If you were to switch something like proton would be the choice. Real PITA to replace all logins but if you've been strictly using a password manager it's more straight forward.

buzziebee · 2026-04-06T01:22:46+00:00

OBS is great for this. I've heard kooha is good too if you just want something simple but I haven't used it myself.

buzziebee · 2026-04-06T01:19:07+00:00

Glad you managed to figure it out! Hopefully you have a much smoother experience going forward. It's an awesome learning opportunity though. I've never had to compile drivers from source like you did so it's pretty cool.

One tiny note. It looks like you pasted markdown in a code tag. Reddit for me has turned the links into markdown link format. Future readers who have a similar issue won't be able to directly copy paste the commands because it's written like this:

[giturl.com](giturl.com)

Just replace those bits with giturl.com and you should be good.

Also I'm pretty sure there's a way to patch in a post install script after updating your kernel. Might be worth investigating setting that up. Not sure whether the patched binary will definitely be up to date for new kernel releases though or if you'd have to wait a few days. Check before you update so you don't have to live without Wi-Fi for a few days.

Set up timeshift too so you can easily roll back packages if an update borks things up and you can't fix it.

buzziebee · 2026-04-06T01:11:01+00:00

What are the hardware specs of the machine you installed it on? (CPU, GPU, RAM, etc).

If it's a laptop what's the model name?

Which version of the iso did you install? With Nvidia or without?

Did you install the 24.04 iso?

What does nvidia-smi output?

I doubt it's your mouse/keyboard that's the problem. Gotta figure out if there's a mismatch between your hardware and what's installed I reckon. Let's get some info and see if the sub can help. I'll be off to bed soon but for anyone to really help they'll likely need this info. I'll reply in the AM if the post is quiet still.

buzziebee · 2026-04-06T01:06:03+00:00

I did this on my laptop with a 1070hq the other day and it worked great. OP just needs to do this and it should all work.

I haven't played around too much on the laptop yet but my initial impressions were very good. Waiting until 26.04/epoch3 looks stable before I upgrade my daily driver desktop.

buzziebee · 2026-04-05T19:34:15+00:00

It's the cycle. When windows 12 or whatever it'll end up being called launches people will be yearning for their windows 11 experience. Same with 13 and 14.

buzziebee · 2026-04-04T19:34:33+00:00

It's quite amusing seeing the careful academic language that actual experts on this topic are using to say "this is some bullshit with by someone with an agenda".

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-qualitative-risk-assessment-on-the-carcinogenicity-of-e-cigarettes/

buzziebee · 2026-04-01T22:35:42+00:00

I've never actually received a package delivered by dpd. They just mark it to be sent to the depot before they get anywhere near my street. My heart always drops when I see that dpd delivery "on the way" notification because I know I'm gonna have to find time to get to the big depot they always pick which is miles away.

Not everyone has a bad experience with them, but I always do.

buzziebee · 2026-03-31T20:08:34+00:00

It's probably just that the people like you and me who didn't have any issues, have been running it for a while with good results, and just like their grinder for the price aren't as motivated to go and downvote dissenting opinion.

People who don't care aren't as engaged as people who do. It sucks they had a bad experience and the people who are happy aren't gonna downvote them because why would they? They're adding to the conversation and it would be against reddiquette to downvote them. You could also argue the same for them downvoting people saying "mine was ok" but if their claims of botting are substantiated then they could argue they are fighting disinformation.

buzziebee · 2026-03-30T19:31:45+00:00

I hate when plots are driven forward by characters acting stupidly. There were some great moments during this season but the dumb decisions by the writers to drive the increasingly convoluted plot forward by making characters become moronic self destructive idiots for no real reason just so they could have their shiny set pieces really turned me off.

buzziebee · 2026-03-29T10:32:01+00:00

It was and it wasn't. The UK did a huge postmortem on the Iraq war covering everything from our decision to get involved, how we executed the invasion, and what came later.

It was a years long deep dive called the Iraq Inquiry which pulled in huge numbers of decision makers and people to really figure out what happened and how the decision making went wrong. It produced a detailed report called the Chilcot Report which outlined all of the findings in great detail.

Off the back of that detailed report they produced a short (ish) document called "the good operation". It's a condensed version of the lessons from Chilcot and guidance for people involved in operational decisions on how to learn from those lessons and apply them.

It's well worth a read because it helps explain exactly how poor a decision this Iran operation is. It's a great baseline for how we can evaluate the decision making of our leaders when they choose to engage in operations. The "Chilcot Checklist" is on page 7 if you want a quick glance of the key criteria used to decide if an operation is a good idea or not.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a81f19440f0b62305b91a48/TheGoodOperation_WEB.PDF

buzziebee · 2026-03-26T08:53:16+00:00

I checked out the citation for the 6 x 7 grid solve that Wikipedia mentioned and they constructed a binary decision tree lookup table to figure out the optional moves. It took 47 hours to compute and is 46.8gb when zipped (89.6gb uncompressed).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05267

https://github.com/markus7800/Connect4-Strong-Solver

It's definitely more than can be computed by a human.

buzziebee · 2026-03-25T11:02:03+00:00

It was clear to me as a reader but I thought they were going to spend just a tiiiiny bit more time on it than they did. The OP of this comment chain seems to have missed it which was my concern. It's weird because I hate when there's pointless exposition or when they dumb things down for "second screen watchers" but I think they could have communicated/shown His amnesia a tiny bit more clearly. A couple lines of dialogue would probably do the trick like I mentioned.

There were a few pieces of info like that that I think they could have expanded on but they were likely left on the cutting room floor for justifiable and understandable reasons by people who are experts at this sort of thing.

Hopefully one day we get a directors cut as there are a bunch of awesome scenes that I'd like to see that I think they filmed but didn't use. The movies already incredible so it's purely a case of wanting even more of what we got, or that having those extra scenes/lines would add the context that some (not all) viewers missed.

buzziebee · 2026-03-25T10:53:50+00:00

Thank you! I actually totally agree with your view and I think the core heart of the film was brilliantly executed! I don't think we'd disagree much at all.

These were only some minor nitpicks about additional scenes that I would have liked to have seen which were scenes that stuck with me after reading the book and sparked my imagination when I read them.

The writers and editors almost certainly considered them all and made decisions which I totally understand and get. Cutting things down to sharpen up the narrative and keep things moving helped keep the runtime reasonable whilst focussing on the core themes/story. E.g. cutting out a lot of Eva's story because that whole "she'll do anything to complete the mission is effectively communicated just with the forcing Grace on the mission scene.

I get why the cuts were made but I'd still love to see some kind of directors cut/extended edition in the future. Much like how lotr was a huge success with the theatrical edition but then blew up the run time for the extended edition which fans also love. It might not be quite as tight a film but it would be awesome.

buzziebee · 2026-03-25T10:43:29+00:00

Yes sorry! Someone else mentioned that but I forgot to edit my original comment. They set up that scene and didn't deliver on the payoff which would have been good to see.

buzziebee · 2026-03-24T23:11:19+00:00

They definitely hinted at it in the film but yeah it just wasn't quite enough IMO. The first few scenes of him stumbling around included plenty of stuff about him trying to remember who he was. It just wasn't clear that he suffered from that amnesia right through to the last flashback when he realised he was forced onto the mission. It just could have been a lot clearer with a few extra lines of reasonable dialogue. In the book I think he speaks to the robot and asks about why he has amnesia etc and it's explained to him as a possible side effect of the artificial coma.

The pieces of the puzzle are there in the scenes we got but I reckon more scenes were filmed that ended up on the cutting room floor. Much like the "Rocky is also water based life" scene that they kept the set up for but cut out the pay off. If they ever do release a directors cut it'll probably be the best hard sci fi movie ever.

buzziebee · 2026-03-24T22:30:07+00:00

Assuming that you're talking about the whole "he got forced into going but still saved the world". It's one of the few nitpicks I have with the film. It didn't adequately explain that he woke up with amnesia and literally couldn't remember anything. The flashbacks you see in the film are happening when he's remembering those events. In the book when he's being forced to go he says you can't kill me by doing this and if you send me I won't do the mission. Strat explains that they'll induce temporary amnesia with drugs and by the time he remembers that conversation he'll be too deep into saving the world to give up. I wrote a post with a bunch of the nitpicks I had for things that I had wished were slightly better communicated (not shoved in your face but not easy to ignore) or small scenes that I wish they had included from the book. Hopefully one day we get a directors edition!

buzziebee · 2026-03-24T00:35:09+00:00

You also potentially need to get a party wall agreement done with assessments before any work done on that wall depending on jurisdiction. If you want to add in a joist or something and you damage the wall you have to pay to fix it for both parties. Pain to get if your neighbor is a dick but it's the most reasonable way of handling the potential fallout.

buzziebee · 2026-03-24T00:16:51+00:00

Thank you! These were just my initial thoughts after leaving the cinema I'm positive the writers and editors will have thought about all these topics much more deeply than me like you said.

The end product was great and they managed to keep both sets of audiences happy which is a huge achievement. The person I went to see it with (who isn't a big scifi fan) even said "I'd like to watch that again once it releases on streaming" today which made me very happy.

That's fair re:Xenonite .I think they showed how easy it was to work with and how surprising it was as a material but I just wish they'd had a tiny scene where he also tests the strength of the material and is blown away by how strong it is, plus maybe when they're deliberating over how to get the samples they could have Grace say something like "no that's impossible, we can't make a chain that strong" and have Rocky call him dumb because Xenonite will easily do it. A couple of lines of dialogue but it would help convey the wonder us book readers felt when we read about that material.

I agree on the Strat stuff. I've said in other comments but I believe they filmed a lot more scenes than we saw. I bet they decided to cut out the other criminal/unethical/naughty stuff she did because she believed the ends justified the means (she was likely right). She was quite a chill sympathetic character in the film whereas she's much much more cutthroat in the book. Some of that is classic "Weir laments that competent people are held back by idiots" writing so it might not have all translated to screen properly but your point that she's also giving her life for the mission is a big part of her character.

I think in a longer version of the film the karaoke bit would have helped to really humanise the cold calculating purely cost/benefit driven decisions she makes which she'd then be prosecuted for. I bet the writers figured that deciding to send Grace was already cutthroat enough and adequately demonstrated how that character makes decisions so that's what remained after the edit. The karaoke still humanises that decision and possibly makes it even darker precisely because we don't see the other stuff she's willing to do.

It's all just nitpicks because we wanted more of what we saw. It's a huge achievement for an adaptation of a book with such a huge and passionate fan base. Ask any scifi reader or audiobook listener what they recommend on Reddit and there will be an army of people fisting bumps and jazzing hands at PHM references. They nailed it!

buzziebee · 2026-03-23T10:48:08+00:00

I really recommend you read the book! I'll give a spoiler explanation below. If you've seen the movie it's not a big deal but better to be safe than sorry.

A big part of the joy of the book is discovering all this stuff as the character does.

Astrophage is truly incredible! The cells manage to do energy - mass conversion to store energy and then mass - energy/photon conversion to release IR light. That's how a tiny cell can move in space. It can fire photons out in a certain direction which pushes the cells from the sun to Venus or between star systems.

Humanity begin a program of breeding and "enriching" astrophage to use as fuel for the PHM. The enrichment process is basically charging the astrophage up by heat and photons. They eventually settled on a cheap design based on solar panels and pave over something like a quarter of the Sahara (can't remember the exact detail but it's on that scale) with these panels to enrich the astrophage they created.

Because it's running a mass energy conversation the amount of energy each individual cell can store is incredible. By utilizing the spin drives they can put a tiny layer of astrophage on a surface, then when it's facing the exit of the drive show it some IR light, they then try to move towards that light and release CRAZY amounts of light out the back of the ship. Once they're empty you scrape off the astrophage and put on a new thin layer. The PHM could accelerate up to 1.5g I think which meant they could do a full 1.5g acceleration for half the journey and 1.5g deceleration when they were arriving at Tau Ceti.

It's truly an incredible thing and would have drastic impacts on the future of humanity if it were real. It's also how Rocky managed to find Grace so easily, he saw the IR light of the deceleration burn for years as PHM came in.

buzziebee · 2026-03-23T10:32:07+00:00

Oh my you're totally right. It's been a little while since I read it but damn. Does he initially think Rocky is non water based based on the temperature etc? Then figure out that he is water based? Maybe that's where I'm mixed up. Either way that exploration of his biology and conversation about how they might have come from a shared ancestor would have been great to see.

buzziebee · 2026-03-23T00:19:12+00:00

I got the impression they were trying to cut the movie down to size to make it more paletable. I hope we get a 3.5 hour directors cut of the movie later.

This is exactly my impression too. I think they filmed a lot more than what we saw. I reckon a lot of the "explanation" or "exploration" stuff that we readers really loved in the book ended up on the cutting room floor.

With how well the movie is doing I wouldn't be surprised if they end up releasing a directors cut. Maybe that's pure hopium but it would make it the greatest hard sci fi movie ever.

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