Maybe I grew out of the age range or maybe the whole market of silly knick-knacks has died out but they definitely drove my interest in all things electronic.

I’d say Intel’s 12th gen igpu has “best supported” consumer vGpu offerings available and it’s through sr-ion I believe as well. I’ve had it on the back burner on my homelab until a recent performant gui need had come up.

Nowadays it makes for a fun free for all drinking game as everyone fumbles stuck together red cups.

Good enough is going to be the output when nobody has the time or people's time isn't valued.

There are certainly are issues in China but are these "popular headline" talking points worse than the suffering we have here? And that's even after assuming they are factual.

We sell prison labor for pennies. We allow individuals to create epidemics and slap them on the wrist. We allow the future of our next generations to be squandered for today's profits. We allow our government to be just as captive to the desires of private parties in a way that's effectually reduced elections to a non-choice.

I don't think anyone with a conscious can say we're any better and that's without taking into account our worst contributions of genocides/wars/instability to the global community.

But in the end w/e, you have your freedom tinted glasses on (it must be nice) and the average american is screwed on our current trajectory.

TikTok is the first and just about the only place I’ve seen content about corporate greed, the accelerating disappearance of the middle class and the real downstream effects of US foreign policy that hasn’t been whitewashed.

The ball is in China’s court now, if they can provide a space where this class consciousness can continue to grow they’ll easily get equal/better (though I think magnitudes greater) returns than Russia’s recent social campaigns.

For better or worse it was a positive experience, especially when you usually already have a pkgbuild to go off of.

If anyone is interested in these things mine has been great for 5 years now and would recommend a lidar based one at a minimum. Got a Wyze for my now wife on sale for $75 (a steal) 1-2 years ago and it’s a cost reduced update of mine but performs just as well as mine and I think may use US servers (being a US company?)

Yahoo Auctions is more popular over there and proxy services (I use Buyee) make it pretty simple bid/buy and not too much more expensive if you wait for their (Buyee) coupons.

Also the resources->galleries was useful, found some new but actually old sites to check out.

Having the ability to keep alternate configurations for $previous_kernel and $nvidia_stable have been super helpful in diagnosing instead of rolling back.

I found it funny how silently it would fail at times. After coming out of a game or focusing on something I'd scratch my head as to where did the docks/background went. I'd say you're lucky in that it recovered itself, generally I needed to run `plasmashell` in the alt+f2 run prompt.

I do agree and lean towards using golang to have an easy binary but there's a lot of work already in this space for managing instances. I have a similar ansible task running on AWX to check instance updates but have had a backlog task to actually move it to Prometheus so the notifications and information are sitting in Grafana.

My recent AMD build (5950x) also had a similar high-end part instability where it would lock up under Linux when downclocking to a very low idle. Replaced the processor but it still needed a small voltage bump to keep stable.