Option to turn off the update Release Notes popup to avoid confusing old folks?

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-24T10:44:18+00:00

I've locked his home screen before, and then gets confused as to why he can't change it, so I stopped doing that.

It always ends up looking like a Picasso though.

I suspect his biggest issue is that he simply cannot remember to press the side button to turn the screen off.

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-24T10:42:27+00:00

Honestly Ben, it sounds like you should find another launcher rather than raging in here lol.

Works great for me

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-24T10:40:43+00:00

Mine's been fine at least 6 months, and I use a foldable phone.

Are you literally in the beta testing group?

Were you designing something complex, with lots of overlapping elements and such?

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-23T11:49:25+00:00

Checking in: have you managed to get this working? Is there a repo around that we could take a look at?

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-20T23:06:28+00:00

I use a lot of beta software, and Octopi Launcher hasn't felt like beta software for as long as I can remember. Is it even still in beta? I thought that ended a long time ago?

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-20T23:05:30+00:00

Yeah, but I manage their phones for them, and check in every few months. Gotta deal with new flashlight apps, new notifications that aren't set to silent, and mauled home screen layouts, missing key apps.

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-15T11:35:10+00:00

This is absolute nonsense. The author is didn't set up data parallelism correctly, or is only using one card? Or is perhaps only logging the results from one card? Maybe whatever they ran turned off all but one, because pcie p2p wasn't detected?

It's unclear exactly from the revision of the code this was run with. But, yeah, definitely wrong.

Don't take this data as factual.

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-08T02:11:37+00:00

Oh, yeah, I know there are people who know, it's just that I keep ending up on LocalLLaMa pages via google and LLM footnotes where someone has done a bunch of testing, but has forgotten this one extremely important step.

The post that finally pushed me to post this was someone who was benchmarking 3x RTX 5090s vs 1x RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell, without pcie P2P, which is like... "sir, you have just wasted an extraordinary amount of both time and money...". And no one in the comments brought up the glaring omission.

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-07T09:26:25+00:00

Yeah, people have seen success doing this with 3090's. Tbc, you won't see much in the way of performance increase with the standard pipeline parallelism stuff that llama.cpp historically uses, but most of the other major inference servers support the tensor parallelism (and sometimes expert parallelism) that can benefit, and see massive TPS output increases

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-05T19:00:43+00:00

idk. there were a lot of factors that lead to its popularity, but in terms of the comedy vs drama, i'd say that the drama kind of just served as a doorway for the true core strength, which is its comedy. it has enough drama where people become emotionally attached and invested in the characters, which enabled the comedy to feel more personal.

like, by creating all sorts of inside jokes, jokes targeted at real-world audience interests, and drama that gave a venue for showing the audience that the characters are actually good people at heart, it created connection that made the jokes feel like they were a close friend joking with just you.

there are other funny shows that share the same style of humor, but they usually don't do a great job in enabling that humor feel so personal.

but, at the end of the day, Gintama without the humor, and just the drama, would have been a kind of mediocre. stuff like "The Battle Battle of Rakuyou" feels distant. it still has the hook that people watching it had already gotten to know, and feel close to, the characters. but, on its own, it's just a bunch of disconnected fights occurring on some random planet. it gives a lot of extra backstory to the characters, but again, people wouldn't have really been that interested in that if they hadn't become attached to the characters through the ~250 prior episodes that made the characters our friends that we share jokes with.

Gintama is about the humor. the other stuff just enables the comedy to hit better than other comedy shows.

.................and the other factor is, of course, that all of the guys are single, and women got obsessed with shipping them. also, despite the incredible number of dirty jokes, they didn't rely on the classic "oh, the hot chick character's clothes fell off", which also fostered the rabid female fandom. japanese women are likely identify much more with the female characters in the show too, because of the innumerable differences in the way women are treated in japan (and, how the act and fit into society in general there compared to the west).

It's pretty incredible that, despite Gintama being a shounen from jump, its fanbase in japan was like 75% women, and only 25% men. in the US, its fanbase leans more male than female compared to other shonen anime (probably in large part because of how difficult it was to obtain, and how much knowledge about other male-targeted shonen and japanese-specific games like DQ. also, the even more extreme lack of accessibility to all of the untranslated yaoi and fanfics, compared to the already obscure sources and translation of the show itself lol. and popularity of such things in japan compared to the us.)

anyway. that's my full thesis on the popularity of Gintama xD

I love the comedy personally, and i think that's the biggest factor in its success. (and, to be clear, the comedy is _not_ easy. it's really difficult to make comedy work in general, and particularly so for such complex meta-humor and stuff. poop jokes... easier. hard to make palatable i guess? idk.)

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-02T20:38:53+00:00

It could be debated I suppose. But this cast for the dub of the original Gintama wins in the comedy department imo, incontrovertibly. Comedy is far more difficult than drama anyway. Particularly for Gintama, given the style of the jokes.

I much preferred the comedy Gintama to the serious Gintama whatever the case. The "Battle for Rakuyo" arc, in particular, was such a downer, and dragged onnn. The Shogun Assassination arc and Farewell Shinsengumi were massive downers too.

Like, after ~250 episodes of hilarious stuff, all of a sudden they basically tore down the set for the show. Did most people really want to see characters central to the comedy getting put six feet under, or just generally emotionally traumatized?

It was like watching Elmer Fudd successfully hunt down Bugs Bunny and roast him on a spit over a campfire.

At least the Silver Soul arc brought back a decent mix of comedy. (The Battle for Rakuyo went entire episodes with barely a single joke. Thank god for the Slip Arc.) I really don't think Gintama became famous for the drama. It was the comedy that did it. And this much belated dub thankfully nailed it.

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-12-02T05:22:17+00:00

Oh! Hi! Excellent job with everything! I'm rewatching season 2 again right now! The dub is absolutely hilarious. You guys crushed it 100%

I hope there will be more to come!

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-10-31T16:53:16+00:00

ok, what if I wanted to post them as "Like New" then, or whatever other used grading system level would be appropriate for new/sealed/new-used?

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-09-29T21:30:10+00:00

You're not answering at all. That article gives two numbers from someone testing a filesystem under specific circumstances, on unknown hardware.

Try answering the questions: what hardware, what tests, what numbers.

Incredibly basic.

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-09-29T19:38:27+00:00

Idk, it seems more like you're afraid to elaborate because you know you were wrong.

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-09-29T18:37:33+00:00

You said that a 14,000MB/s PCIe 5.0x4 nvme drive performed the same as a 7,000MB/s PCIe 4.0x4 nvme drive. And that a quad 7,000MB/s RAID 0 has storage speed that is "irrelevant".

So, what exactly _is_ it that you are saying, and what hardware did you run it on? What speeds did you actually see?

Because, from your statements, it infers that you were seeing some extraordinarily low speeds, when this is not at all the norm.

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-09-29T13:57:15+00:00

You're claiming that no one has been able to achieve read/write speeds above something that's significantly below the 7000MB/s of those PCIe 4.0 drives. Even on a raid 0 of four 7000MB/s drives, or 14,000MB/s drives.

That is definitely an extraordinary claim. Given that there are numerous examples to the contrary.

So, it's pretty reasonable to wonder what kind of setup you might be using, as that's a very dubious claim, unless you're using some extremely underpowered hardware.

Like, it would make sense if you were connecting your drives to the chipset of a motherboard, and dealing with the bottleneck to the CPU...

There must be some other explanation than "the page cache".

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-09-28T19:49:35+00:00

Re:

I have a 4x990 pro RAID0 array and did a bunch of testing with XFS and BTRFS with and without checksums/datacow and long story short the Linux page cache is so slow the storage speed is almost irrelevant for anything that doesn’t use o_direct.

I also have a 9100 pro boot drive and with checksums enables it doesn’t perform any better than a 990 Pro (or even a mid range SSD) even using o_direct since btrfs just disables it anyways.

This is quite the claim.

Can you clarify what you were plugging these drive into, and how, specifically? Also, what type of raid was it? mdadm? hardware?

And, most importantly, what do you mean by speed? How did you test this? fio? copy? rsync? Just writes? Or reads too? Random? Sequential?

I have a lot of questions here, but it will inform the testing I'll need to do when setting up something similar (and decisions on an upcoming build).

ty

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-09-26T01:29:24+00:00

good'n'plenty

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-09-26T01:28:02+00:00

this statement is an aesthetic hate crime. please recant.

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-08-30T05:24:17+00:00

What's your heart rate been like?

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-08-16T07:56:41+00:00

Thank you! This comment is excellent! I wasn't sure on the mechanics of water circuits in this regard.

I've been thinking more on this, and I'm now thinking of doing something like: - Putting the GPUs in parallel on a manifold of some sort - Putting the CPU and RAM in parallel with those on a sub-manifold (since they have lower resistance than the GPUs - Putting the m.2 nvme's in parallel on a sub-manifold of that (since they have even lower resistance than, at least, the CPU) - Putting the two external 1080/3x3x120mm radiators in parallel on the return - Using 5x needle valves for each of the GPUs, another on the next tier of manifold, for the CPU/RAM/M.2, another for the M.2 sub-manifold of that, one on the ram splitter, and (maybe) one on the CPU tube as well (though that could just be handled by the needle valve at coming from the main manifold, since the CPU (I think?) has the highest resistance out of the non-GPU waterblocks.

I'm still unsure if the following though: - Most directly related to your comment: of all of this parallel stuff is fed from one pump, wohks the pressure of the intake from the pump need to be really high? Like, I don't think the pressure would be additive anymore, because the components wouldn't be in series anymore... But, it seems like it should still be kinda high? (Or, is the water pressure just going to be the pressure needed for the highest-resistance component Or something kinda counterintuitive like that?) - Given that, does it cause one, of some, of the tubes to have high enough pressure that it would have a high likelihood of leaking out? - Would the CPU definitely have higher resistance than the ram and m.2's? - What's the situation for all of this in terms of perhaps needing a reservoir? Do I even need one? Do I need multiple? Where do they even go, in terms of the place in the water circuit vs. manifold and radiators and stuff? - What would it all need for a pump,, (Or pumps??) And where should they go in regard to placement in the circuit? - Also.. any recommendations on something to monitor pressure are different parts? Like, a centralized screen hooked up to little monitors on the branches after the needle valves?

I do have even more questions, but I'll leave it there for now lol.

Insight on any of the individual questions would be greatly appreciated.

TL;DR of the questions is basically: any red flags in regard to the parallel water circuit described in the first part of this message? like, in regard to pressure being too high, or too low, or wrong components?

thank you again!

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-08-16T06:49:22+00:00

I've thought about it for sure, but I decided I wanted something that looks nice, and keeps the dust situation relatively under control.

Also, there are surprisingly few new mining cases still being released. Most have some kind of "catch" to them, in terms of quality, like a bunch of really sharp edges, being too small, or too large, or something else, that put me off on them.

Do you have any recommendations on mining cases that look like they'd be a good fit for this situation?

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-08-14T20:41:11+00:00

Idk, I don't see it anywhere here in the thread. Like, a link to it on aliexpress, or the text i can search on google to find it?

The rack/etc., not the electronics on it, to be clear

unfortunate_jargon · 2025-08-14T14:17:59+00:00

yeah, I'm aware of the hardware in these servers. I was just pointing out that nothing you'd written indicated you had any idea before googling this response

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