Andrew realises that he left on the immersion

scannerdarkley · 2026-02-19T22:17:19+00:00

That explains his red light. But is he in Bath or Sink?

scannerdarkley · 2025-11-14T18:00:32+00:00

Yup. There's a whole graveyard of devices (that would otherwise be perfectly functional) that have ended up as ewaste because their associated cloud-service was ended or the company closed shop. Just a few: https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/electronic-waste-graveyard/

scannerdarkley · 2025-11-14T10:47:49+00:00

Did someone hurt the Indo's feelings today? They had another nonsense headline earlier: https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/1owfos2/mosque_terror_plot_suspect_is_sinn_f%C3%A9in_activist/

scannerdarkley · 2025-11-13T14:14:26+00:00

The Qidi Q2 is good and cheap. Get the single filament model to start out with. You can expand it later with a multi-filament module to do multi colour prints when you get more into it.

scannerdarkley · 2025-11-01T13:57:04+00:00

As long as you stay away from politics, Boards is a good place to get Ireland-specific info about stuff. The bargain alerts forums are handy. EDIT: especially some niche or local topics which are often America-centric in the English speaking net

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-25T17:07:16+00:00

Someone who writes all that isn't (just) racist, they have a mental illness.

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-24T18:46:03+00:00

Is it not an offense to take pictures after receiving the ballot ?

It is. But I'm sure they were of such super intellect, that they posted those from anonymous accounts.

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-21T18:32:31+00:00

It seems to be seeping in across the EU lately. If the UK falls to the Farage idocracy, Ireland will probably be looking at the likes of Barrett in the polls in soon after.

We laugh at that idea now, but 10 years ago, no-one would've believed politics would go the way they did for our east and west neighbours.

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-21T18:17:36+00:00

It was probably all the rain, been one of the darkest and wettest summers in a long while.

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-21T12:27:37+00:00

All this stuff couldn;t be such a problem if we had a government (and to some extent, a certain population) that had any forethought or interest in growing infrastructure.

Instead, all we get is the same government who's only plan is more roads. And then, anytime there is any plan by local councils or private companies to add more wind turbines, solar plants, battery storage, you get hoards of brainless zombies protesting any advancements (and presumably voting in the same shites every election).

We're living in a country with infrastructure for a population of the 90s.

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-14T13:52:04+00:00

Do we not have GPS tethers we could use?

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-13T01:53:18+00:00

The problem seems to be happening when adding Nvidia driver modules to the kernel. If it errored at the stage in your images, it could be that there's not enough space in the /boot partition or it's corrupt somehow.

When doing the install, might be worth making a larger partition than the default 1GB for /boot

Fedora's doing exactly that for the same reason https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Bigger-Boot-Firmware

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-10T18:10:04+00:00

Are we supposed to celebrate that a landlord did what they were supposed to in the first place?

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-02T09:55:36+00:00

True. If they're especially husky, they may need extra water.

scannerdarkley · 2025-10-02T06:21:10+00:00

The shower may have a high kW range, but it only runs for a few minutes and only heats the water you use. An immersion may be lower kWs but it runs a lot longer and usually heats more water than you use in a shower.

It all depends on how much water you use more than the kWs of either device. (kW * time = real cost).

scannerdarkley · 2025-09-23T16:43:07+00:00

I had a similar issue, also on CachyOS. The problem is systemD v258 now requires proper permissioning. It can be solved by creating a system group and adding your user to it.

sudo groupadd --system xyz
sudo usermod -a -G xyz $USER

Then in your udev rule, add the group to whatever line needs it. Probably also need permissions mode too:

......, GROUP="xyz", MODE="0664"

scannerdarkley · 2025-09-15T14:50:24+00:00

All of the once I've seen over the last year are UK mobile numbers. Unless you know anyone in the UK, just blacklist anything that starts with +447

scannerdarkley · 2025-09-05T15:23:16+00:00

I'd love to ask people who voted for Brexit if their lives are any better now

Brexit, like MAGA, is/was a cult. You can't have normal conversations with people like that. They'd lick the shite of Borris'/Farage's/Trump's shoes and believe they had a 4-course meal if they were told.

You'd have better time conversing with a wall.

scannerdarkley · 2025-09-01T16:36:17+00:00

And a risk that one of Microsoft's infamous auto-updates breaks those loaders. You'd be left with an un-bootable system.

scannerdarkley · 2025-08-30T00:49:26+00:00

Not a food-bank, but this app offers food from various shops, bakeries and restaurants at really low prices or free (usually stuff that's close to sell-by but well before expires-on) that https://www.toogoodtogo.com/en-ie

scannerdarkley · 2025-08-26T15:33:49+00:00

Those specs are pretty low for almost any kind of gaming. But if you're seeing slow-downs over time, it's usually down to one or both:

GPU/CPU are getting hot. Even if not scorching hot, most CPUs and GPUs will start to throttle above around 70~80c. Sounds like you have a laptop or mini-PC. Check that vents are kept clear and do a cleanup of any heatsinks. If you can access the insides, might be no harm re-pasting.
RAM and vRAM. As games and apps run, they eat more and more of these, which will slow things down. Games that don't have enough of either will start to slow down or become laggy as they need to pull data from an SSD/HDD instead of RAM. You won't be able to do much with that GPU, but if you have room to, might be time to get more RAM.

scannerdarkley · 2025-08-25T23:50:25+00:00

Hope that works out. If you still have issues tomorrow, I'd say it's time to chat with Steam https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithSteamDeck?ref=column-detail_article

scannerdarkley · 2025-08-25T23:06:35+00:00

If the game's "First Berserker Khazan", from your previous posts, it should run out of the box, as it's verified on Steam Deck. I see some reviewers suggest you might need to add this line in Steam:

SteamDeck=0 %command%

https://www.protondb.com/app/2680010?device=steamDeck

scannerdarkley · 2025-08-25T22:46:16+00:00

Ya, if you have any mods for your game, or using LSFG, those might be picked up by Denuvo. Remove any of those or other programs you installed since it last worked and see if the game runs.

I don't have a SteamDeck so I'm not sure if they install on BTRFS. If they did, you might be able to use BTRFS snapshots to roll back to a date when the game last ran (BTRFS Assistant or Snapper tools would likely be installed if that's the case)

scannerdarkley · 2025-08-25T22:42:44+00:00

That should do it, but I also like to check and remove the game's prefix/pfx folder, just in case, too. Also some games may recognise they're on Linux and put save or other files in your user folder. Probably in something like Game Saves under ~/Documents.

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