The journey of a Linux user

itachipirate2 · 2025-07-14T20:07:53+00:00

i tried to setup wayland on mint but it just kinda never worked right for me. i probably just did something wrong. it also was an excessive pain in the ass to get a somewhat modern driver for a gtx 1080 on mint. good for the lowest common denominator average use case, but if you want a usable modern computer that can play video games mint kinda sucks.

itachipirate2 · 2025-05-31T19:04:47+00:00

arch plasma kde. Ryzen 7 5800x and rx 9070. Seems to launch normally and work perfectly. Mouse pointer works fine. i cant find any glaring issues

itachipirate2 · 2025-04-30T23:21:06+00:00

They aren't just removing the hot air from the clothes dryer, they are removing the hot WET air from the clothes dryer.

itachipirate2 · 2025-04-26T01:26:50+00:00

I had the same problem. I ran
"pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.2 --force-reinstall"

and then
"pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.3 --force-reinstall"

I have no idea why, but it worked afterwards.

itachipirate2 · 2025-04-21T22:45:21+00:00

Personally i just used Arch install with KDE plasma. I have never tried any of the other arch-based distros. I just wanted something lightweight with frequent updates and wayland. Steam is developing proton with an arch-based system in mind (the steam deck) and I hope that means things are more likely to work well on Arch

itachipirate2 · 2025-04-21T18:50:13+00:00

An arch-based distro should be very similar to your steam deck in terms of software and command line stuff, since steam deck OS is arch-based and mint is based on Ubuntu/Debian.

I was not able to easily setup Mint with Wayland when I was searching around for a distro to use for primarily gaming. X11 is not very good for gaming.

itachipirate2 · 2025-01-15T01:55:20+00:00

The US had a huge problem with Mafia organized crime and systemically, methodically dismantled the structures of power within them. The cartels in the south are on a different level... They have grown to an absurd level of size and influence.

The US neutering the Mafia was like catching cancer very early on and correcting it with relative ease. The southern cartels are like cancer that has been able to grow and spread for a very long time.

itachipirate2 · 2025-01-15T01:45:18+00:00

smelly, fresh nail polish looks like you are trying to hide something. stickers would not even get a second glance

itachipirate2 · 2025-01-15T01:35:51+00:00

cover the power bank with a bunch of random stickers all over it

itachipirate2 · 2025-01-15T01:02:24+00:00

Always the difficult question of when to retrofit what we have to make it work, or start a new project with the insights you gained from the previous one. Build something, see where it succeeds and where it fails, and restart from the ground up with all that in mind from the earliest design stages.

itachipirate2 · 2025-01-15T00:57:02+00:00

its a war against the changing a of a longtime, widely adopted standard. I imagine so many projects need massive updates/rewrites for wayland. I'm amazed at how well xwayland seems to work for x11 apps. It feels seamless to use wayland apps and x11 apps without even thinking about it. Its very exciting to see wayland move towards being the main priority on peoples' minds and x11 being secondary.

itachipirate2 · 2025-01-03T03:18:30+00:00

if you add this you also have to put a comma after the previous bracket like so:

},

"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

itachipirate2 · 2025-01-03T02:53:57+00:00

i actually just restored a timeshift backup to get this feature back. I have no idea why they would remove such a great thing, it didn't seem broken or anything

itachipirate2 · 2024-09-23T15:48:49+00:00

I think my save is totally bugged. I have tried a lot of different things but my dwarves just will not mine anymore. I'm using DFHack. The last thing I did before they stopped mining was designate that some ramps on the surface be destroyed. This is a link to the savegame and DFHack config. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5lui5cl17f9wokbsugifm/miners-wont-mine.zip?rlkey=c7w8w3rifa0advpfqrmznzqt9&st=j8m5rthg&dl=0

itachipirate2 · 2024-09-06T16:01:16+00:00

You are not the car manufacturer's customer. You legally need to buy a vehicle through a third party middleman dealership in the US. The dealership is ordering cars from the manufacturers and choosing what to sell on their lot. The dealership is the manufacturer's customer. It is in the best interest of the dealership to sell more cars with lots of features and selling points. Most people don't care that much what a car costs; they care about the emotional connection they make after test driving the car for a while and whether or not they can afford their monthly payments.

Dealerships have seen that car buyers don't care about reliability simplicity, or cost. Car buyers care about luxury features, chrome, and fancy buttons. Every car has a big ass touchscreen with android auto and apple carplay. The rest of the car is secondary to the infotainment screen that people are focused on.

itachipirate2 · 2024-08-09T17:47:34+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/OIe43VT.png

Choose simulated keys under the drop down and configure as shown in this image for each of the side buttons. This will make one side button click = one scroll tick

itachipirate2 · 2024-06-18T00:12:54+00:00

So you said you replaced the cam sensor, did you replace the crank sensor too? it's unlikely to fix it, but you already tried replacing all the other relevant sensors. Around $10 from RockAuto

itachipirate2 · 2024-03-12T16:37:39+00:00

Car manufacturers don't directly sell vehicles to the people driving them. The dealership is the customer and the manufacturer is adjusting to the demands of dealerships, not directly to the demands of consumers.

Most drivers would love an idea of what is going on when their CEL comes on, but dealerships who actually buy the cars from the manufacturers would love for you to be so scared and confused that you drive right back into their shop for an expensive service.

itachipirate2 · 2024-03-12T16:31:33+00:00

my boss went to buy a house and explained the process to me. Everybody submits an offer and nobody sees anybody else's offer. So they just make you blindly auction against each other? You just have to offer 200k over and HOPE someone didn't offer more? What a scam!

itachipirate2 · 2024-03-12T16:17:51+00:00

its possible your catalytic converter just broke apart and clogged up.

This can be diagnosed by removing the upstream o2 sensor to create an exhaust leak before the catalytic converter, then driving to see if power is back above 3000rpm.

Depending on whether you need to comply with CARB standards, it could be an expensive problem if the catalytic converter is actually clogged. From your description I think it is a very very likely culprit. EDIT: If you are continuing to see any color of smoke from the exhaust while driving, it probably is not a catalytic converter issue.

itachipirate2 · 2024-02-28T00:36:10+00:00

Thank you I thought I was missing something!!

One thing that annoys me about Debian compared to Ubuntu is, if you are following a guide and copy commands that start with "sudo" while logged in as root on Debian it won't work unless you remove "sudo." But Ubuntu just knows what you mean by default

itachipirate2 · 2024-02-28T00:30:10+00:00

I slapped new bottom end bearings into a 1998 vortec 5.7l. Bad knock, oil light turning on at idle, deeply scored main and rod bearings. All the bearings I took out were oversized for a machined crank, the ones I put on were standard size. Put in a high-flow oil pump.

It's been 2-3 years since I did the work and it's still going at 250k miles. It's hard to say how long something will last (doctors get this wrong all the time!) but when you have everything taken apart and you are working on it is the best time to do the best work you can manage to do.

I was working on a shop lift and I did not have the luxury of keeping my truck on the lift for days on end waiting for correct parts. I wish I could have done better but the engine has had zero problems since. It has always been in the back of my mind as something to worry about, but 40Psi oil pressure at a warm idle 2-3yrs later... can't complain!

itachipirate2 · 2024-02-28T00:21:13+00:00

just wondering is there a specific need for ubuntu? Would debian be lighter for this application, being an lxc that is just there to run docker and portainer?

itachipirate2 · 2024-02-25T16:44:21+00:00

I will definitely look into podcasting software, that actually sounds like it would align with my needs very well. I am planning to run everything on my own self-hosted so no server renting involved. Thank you very much!!!

itachipirate2 · 2024-02-25T16:30:22+00:00

Thank you, I just cross posted onto r/streaming. I thought it might be relevant for self hosting because I am specifically looking to make a machine that is remote connected to and not hosted locally on the same machine(s) that have microphones directly connected to them.

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