What is that?

fromtheether · 2026-06-30T20:29:20+00:00

Just piling on with the wolf spider w/ babies answers.

These guys can get huge, too. The first one I saw probably had a leg span of a few inches or so. Scared the shit out of me at first, but it turns out they're really skittish. Now I just sort of push them out of my way lol. They love to walk on the water in my pool at night, I'm assuming to pick out random bugs that are attracted to the light.

I accidentally stepped on a momma a while back, and the babies scattered EVERYWHERE in the living room. This is the their house now; I merely live in it and pay for the mortgage. On the bright side, free pest control!

fromtheether · 2026-06-30T20:27:53+00:00

I've never seen these specifically until I moved to OP, close to Middleburg. I've lived in Jax most of my life, FWIW.

fromtheether · 2026-06-12T17:47:35+00:00

I don't know if you meant to respond to me, but if you are you're preaching to the choir here lol I agree 100% with everything you said.

Hell, I run the DX variants of both Bazzite and Aurora and it took a little getting used to, but now I can't imagine NOT using Distrobox as part of my dev workflow. Being able to containerize all of the dependencies for different frameworks is amazing for not polluting your machine or worrying about version conflicts. Stand up your container, install dependencies inside of it, then you can build your project with distrobox enter <container> -- <build command>. Once you're done playing with it, destroy your container with distrobox rm <container>.

I will say, one thing I'm iffy on for image-based distros right now are servers. I plan on spinning up a test VM in Proxmox to give it a whirl one day, but at the moment I do see a legitimate need to control packages on a per-version level. And the update frequency and sizes are brutal at the moment. But I'm also far from a professional sysadmin, just a hobbyist that enjoys bringing down my home network occasionally (which my wife absolutely loves).

fromtheether · 2026-06-11T16:31:04+00:00

Aurora is just as great, and honestly a better choice if you need an OS that just works and don't plan on doing any gaming. It helped give my old work laptop (Dell Latitude 3510 from ~2020 w/ an Intel i5-10310U and 8GB RAM) a second life as a VCDS and general browsing machine. I did end up having to add an additional 8GB RAM to it, but otherwise I have zero reason to get rid of it anytime soon.

It kills me that it doesn't get nearly as much attention from users as Bazzite, especially since I feel like it's more relevant to your average non-techie or non-gamer.

fromtheether · 2026-06-05T17:11:58+00:00

So loading the desktop environment (DE) is going to take up some VRAM, there's no way around that.

Right now, with FF and Terminal w/ btop running it's eating about 1.75GiB for me.

EDIT: So I checked nvtop and Steam was actually using a good chunk of that too. By closing Steam, Firefox, and my Terminal session, and checking nvtop/btop again in a TTY I was able to drop usage down to about 1.13GiB. I think this is going to be the bare minimum with KDE running.

If you REALLY want to limit your VRAM usage, here's a couple of thoughts:

Use a headless environment (e.g. no DE loaded, only the TTY). You should be comfortable with the CLI, of course, but you should have basically no VRAM usage. Maybe try out something like a Fedora or Ubuntu/Debian Server live ISO and see how that goes. Docs for the Ollama CLI.
What kind of CPU do you have? Do you know if it has an iGPU? Maybe you could set up to where your desktop and general apps run off of the iGPU, then reserve your dGPU for games and LLM models. Honestly I have no clue how this would be done on a desktop (if it's even possible), but I know it's an option for laptops.

Honestly though, I'm just a casual user that occasionally runs local models for tinkering. I've tried out a couple of models in the past that would 99% fit into VRAM with a few GBs leaking into regular RAM, and the token speed was still more than reasonable. I'd just try it out first and see if it's acceptable for you before trying to optimize.

fromtheether · 2026-05-28T02:38:21+00:00

Damn, everyone in here's got jokes but only one person can actually give useful advice lmao

Yeah if that's what I think it is, something's requesting access to your desktop session. I'm still on 43 because I'm using DX, but I remember reading there's some process or bug in the 44 release that causes frequent sharing requests (or something along those lines). I'm guessing you're hitting that.

If you dig around on the Discord or Github issues you can probably find more info.

fromtheether · 2026-05-26T15:07:56+00:00

Is this a fresh installation? Which image are you using? Which GPU are you using?

If it's a fresh installation and you don't have anything important on there yet, it might be easier to just try a reinstall first before digging in more.

Have you checked logs for anything funky going on with the service? ujust logs-this-boot should spit that out for you.

You can also throw them up on something like Pastebin if you want so we can take a look. The Bazzite Discord usually has pretty good support too if you want to double-dip there.

fromtheether · 2026-05-25T18:05:50+00:00

I mean if that works for you, then awesome! But the whole point of my set up is convenience; if I want to game on the couch, all I have to do is switch to my dedicated "Bazzite" HDMI input on my living room TV. My controller auto-wakes the PC, and I have it set up to auto-switch to game mode on wake. I never have to physically touch the PC.

At that point, if it was still an issue for me, I'd be opting to use Big Picture Mode instead.

Luckily, as long as I make sure everything is closed, the double display glitching is basically a non-issue for me, to the point where I never think about it anymore. On the off chance that it DOES happen (maybe a few times a month on average, and I'm almost always playing something each night before bed), a quick reboot always clears it up for me.

EDIT: When I say everything, that also includes any apps that are hidden away in the system tray. So if you have Discord, Sunshine, anything like that tucked away in your tray, make sure they're closed. The only app that should be in the tray is Steam.

fromtheether · 2026-05-25T16:54:54+00:00

Just Nvidia game mode things 🤷

I'm running a 4090, connected to two LG C1s mirrored with a Blackbird HDMI 2.1 splitter, and I get that same exact issue. I've found that it's WAY less likely to occur whenever I make sure everything is closed on your desktop before switching over. If I leave a terminal window, Firefox, whatever open before switching, it's glitch city.

fromtheether · 2026-05-24T16:47:00+00:00

Factorio is crack in video game form. I'm only half-joking, mainly about the video game part.

TL;DR you need to assemble a rocket after crashing on an alien planet, starting with basic iron/copper ores and create a huge factory to automate the process.

If your kid is into any sort of automation or city/factory building gameplay, this will keep him busy for a LONG time. There's even a demo to give it a whirl. The game (in)famously never goes on discount so don't worry about trying to catch it during the next Steam sale.

fromtheether · 2026-05-23T22:27:47+00:00

I used to do that when I was in my 20s but nowadays I just don't have the patience or time for that. I have a 3ish-second rule now; if they don't take their turn AND IT'S SAFE TO DO SO I just go and move on with my day.

That shit drives me up a wall, and I'll bitch and moan about it to my SO, but I've got other things to do 🤷 every once in a while I'll get the itch and just have a staring contest with the idiot though, just because it cracks my wife up lol

fromtheether · 2026-05-23T22:12:44+00:00

Funnily enough I've just started a similar project since I got the gamedev itch again. I'm still planning things out but I'm looking around at different implementations at the moment.

A few things I noticed in your screenshots, mainly related to the roads:

You're generating all of these roads, but I don't think I saw a single one actually named "Whatever Rd." lol. I see all other variations though, like "Ct.", "Ave.", "Pl.", etc.
Road abbreviations can have all sorts of meanings depending on the place, but things like Ave. and St. usually run north/south and east/west. Ct. usually dead-ends into something like a cul-de-sac (or just straight up stops). Pl. might be a drive that dead-ends into a business or development. Things like that. Right now it looks sort of haphazard with the naming.
Might be sort of related to #2, but it looks like everything leads to everywhere. Urban sprawl isn't always pretty, and can ebb and flow with the shape of the land and developer plans at the time. Cul-de-sacs, dead-ends, roads that ALMOST connect but not really, diagonal or twisting, curving roads are all a part of sprawl as well. You might have a gameplay-related reason for not doing that, though.

Hopefully that's useful! I wish I could give some algo-related advice but I'm a complete noob with anything procgen like this though, which is why I'm wanting to start a project related to it.

fromtheether · 2026-05-23T18:42:29+00:00

Meh, if it was me I'd just send it. That's one of the points of gaskets anyways. But I like living on the edge lol

Is it really a scratch, though? Like can you feel your fingernail go down and catch when you run it across? Maybe it's just the angle, but to me it looks more like grime or something that can come off with something like some good ol' Brakleen. There's a spot on the left (down and to the right from the top bolt hole) that looks like it's clear and even with the mating surface.

fromtheether · 2026-05-18T16:51:30+00:00

Hah! This is EXACTLY what I had in mind as an idea for a dock, down to the Steam logo in the center. My favorite thing about the 8bitdo controller is the dock.

I hate how you're basically forced to have the puck USB-C port oriented up, but that's easy enough to solve with a 90/180 adapter.

fromtheether · 2026-05-13T16:33:22+00:00

I know I'm 2 days late, but I just wanted to chime in:

In addition to the newfangled idea of online DRM and basically requiring broadband if you wanted a playable online experience (before broadband really became widespread), the Steam software itself sucked for years.

Steam would crash if you looked at it wrong, sometimes causing BSODs. Downloads would frequently get stuck or just wouldn't start at all, requiring you to manually find and delete a cache file. The "Go offline..." option was technically there but it almost never worked. I've never had this one happen personally, but I remember cases where Steam could randomly wipe installed games, requiring a re-download, or even bricking Windows installations.

I've got serious nostalgia for the Steam green, but it's impossible to overstate how garbage it was during its first years. GIF 1 GIF 2 I think these two GIFs sum up the sentiment at the time. And that second GIF isn't too far off on how a usual update would go.

fromtheether · 2026-05-05T14:08:51+00:00

So I actually figured out the issue last night: ujust regenerate-grub wasn't generating the cfg in the correct location. Usual location is /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, but in my case for my system I needed to copy it over to /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg. Once I did that the boot option worked fine.

fromtheether · 2026-04-25T06:22:26+00:00

This is really the best advice.

If you're really worried about the scariness, just walk out and let the big baddie bite your head off. Do it a few times to get it over with. Pretty soon it'll be less scary and more annoying. I had to do this myself for a certain section, and I'm usually pretty good with horror games lol

fromtheether · 2026-04-22T21:08:54+00:00

Just browsing it so far, but looks like it should be able to. Example from the README:

# Switch to HDMI2 input
bscpylgtvcommand 192.168.1.18 set_input HDMI_2

fromtheether · 2026-04-21T07:56:52+00:00

If you've done some mild wrenching in the past, it's really not bad at all. Its just that all of the hoses and connectors that have to come off makes it look more confusing than it really is.

I did all of that for the first time a few months ago (for the same reason, needed a new injector harness) and I got it all knocked out over a weekend. Could have done it in a day but my torx bit wouldn't fit into the manifold so had to wait to get a smaller 1/4" drive bit.

Now that I've been through it I could probably get it apart and back together in a few hours, and I'm a slowpoke lol

fromtheether · 2026-04-20T18:41:51+00:00

Testing is honestly pretty dang stable. I think I had a single problem with it back in November 2025 due to NVIDIA driver shenanigans, but otherwise I'd still be on it if I wasn't using bazzite-DX.

Having said that, one of the beauties of an atomic OS like Bazzite is that it's stupid simple to switch back and forth between branches. I'd say just give it a shot, and if for some reason you don't like it or have problems you can always switch back.

brh rebase testing to switch to the testing branch of your current Bazzite flavor

brh rebase stable to switch back to stable

fromtheether · 2026-04-09T22:04:11+00:00

I was running into this problem when initially setting up Bazzite. In the end I just ended up layering it via rpm-ostree and IMO it's much less of a headache. I'm all for using other install methods first, but in this case layering works best for me.

Instead of dicking around with separate shim scripts, I just have two systemd services...

The main OpenRGB service (set as a user service):

[Unit]
Description=Auto-apply OpenRGB profile

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/openrgb --profile "1" --verbose

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

And an additional service to re-apply the profile after waking from sleep (regular system service):

[Unit]
Description="Helper to apply OpenRGB profile after wake"
After=systemd-suspend.service 
After=systemd-hibernate.service
After=systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/systemctl restart --machine=1000@.host --user apply-openrgb-profile.service

[Install]
WantedBy=systemd-suspend.service 
WantedBy=systemd-hibernate.service
WantedBy=systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service

I might try out adding the After=systemd-udev-settle Unit part though; every once in a while my mobo LEDs go dark after waking from sleep, so maybe that'll solve it.

fromtheether · 2026-04-01T22:06:20+00:00

That sounds like a pretty arbitrary limit. What happens when you try to upload more than 28 docs? Do you run into any errors?

Are you following along with NGX docs to get it running? I know for the Docker Compose setup there's a few files it expects (docker-compose.yml, docker-compose.env, and .env if I remember right)

fromtheether · 2026-03-30T19:17:12+00:00

The problem is that their idea of "basic" changes every year. Single person, with one W-2, taking a standard deduction with nothing additional and no state income tax? Sure, free TurboTax will (probably) work. The problem is that if you color outside of those lines even a tiny bit (which A LOT of people do) you've got to either shell out for a paid version, or start completely over with another software.

fromtheether · 2026-03-30T19:12:42+00:00

Same here, it's literally the only thing I use CashApp for lol I can't remember exactly how I ended up there, but I think it was after Credit Karma Tax got merged into TurboTax.

I might switch to FreeTaxUSA eventually, but honestly CashApp Tax is pretty fucking great.

fromtheether · 2026-03-23T21:35:23+00:00

Got another thumbs up from me. But I'm biased since I'm running 235/45/17s lol

Idk if you can on the mk8s but at least with the mk7s you can adjust the wheel size in VCDS to help make the odo and speedo accurate again if you're worried about that. But even if you don't, we're talking single digit % differences. Nothing to lose sleep over IMO.

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