gerryflap

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[–] gerryflap 7 points 1 week ago

We'd probably not get along very well. 19 y/o me though he saw the world "logically" and that everyone else was wrong. He saw emotions as a weakness, and interpreted the world as black and white. To him everything seemed clear cut and simple, and everyone who didn't agree was an idiot.

Seeing nuance and accepting emotions as a valid argument to anything are not things he'd accept. Accepting that people who think differently are not completely stupid might not go well with him. And, without getting into details, I don't think he'd agree with the current situation. He wouldn't be surprised to see me work as a programmer, but his black and white thinking wouldn't gel very well with the reality that most companies aren't exactly "good" causes.

[–] gerryflap 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Damn, so many squares ticked but no bingo :/

:3

[–] gerryflap 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure what the issue with zip files is? They're supported on basically every device and afaik are not a proprietary format or anything. Seems better to me than rar or 7z. Tar.gz is also fine, but * don't really see why one would care

[–] gerryflap 1 points 1 week ago

Oh this looks better yeah. I know your pain with Darktable. I'm still trying to find out how to use it (and RawTherapee) as well

[–] gerryflap 3 points 1 week ago

Ironically my laptop, which has been Linux-only since 2015 or something, has finally stopped working properly. The dedicated GPU (NVIDIA Quadro K1100M) no longer has working drivers with the kernel from Ubuntu 24.04. Then again, it wouldn't run windows 11 either probably.

[–] gerryflap 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think she interprets it as "the road ahead is still working" i.e. not broken

[–] gerryflap 5 points 1 week ago

Definitely not me :3

[–] gerryflap 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I finally committed to Linux at the end of last year. Enough is working to make it preferable to Windows now. I'm still having a lot of bugs, and it's costing quite some time. But at least my computer is mine again. No more telemetry, ads, and UIs that treat me like a toddler. No more updates forced onto me instead of being done whenever I want it.

[–] gerryflap 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I know that 8GB is too little. NVIDIA is really stingy when it comes to VRAM unfortunately. Beack when I made the decision this 3070Ti was the most expensive I could buy and I needed CUDA for some projects I was working on. Back then AMD's ROCm had bad support on consumer GPUs and also in libraries, so I didn't have a choice. I'm hearing better noises now though, so maybe my next card will be AMD.

Either way, I'd expect at most the game to crash. That would be acceptable, though annoying. Preferably it'd use the RAM as a sort of swap, which would grind everything to a halt but wouldn't outright kill the game or my desktop. I really shouldn't be losing all open windows

[–] gerryflap 1 points 1 week ago

Ah that would explain the issues and the difference with Windows. I'm on NVIDIA yeah. Going over the VRAM limit and writing into RAM surely isn't ideal either, but it would beat crashing out entirely. It also seems that Unreal engine 5 games just consume all VRAM they can. Like they're almost claiming everything they can get away with, but somehow usually work fine. But once I alt+tab or switch workspace there is no VRAM left and Wayland commits sudoku (for good reasons).

[–] gerryflap 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh yeah I found something similar just now which might work? Using DXVK_CONFIG="dxgi.maxDeviceMemory = 6144:" %command% to try and limit the game to 6GB VRAM. It hasn't crashed since, but I'm unsure whether that's because of this. I could try the other parameter as well and see if that works, though reading the comments I'm unsure about that. Worth a try

EDIT: I also found a comment on the NVIDIA forums detailing this solution. Apparently you can configure this system-wide, which would limit the VRAM on all DXVK games

[–] gerryflap 8 points 2 weeks ago

Misschien niet, maar dit maakt het wel makkelijker dan voorheen. Omdat je het nu niet meer makkelijk kunt krijgen zal een kleinere groep maar vuurwerk afsteken. En al het vuurwerk wat je ziet is verboden, dus elke knal die je hoort is illegaal. Hopelijk heeft tdit over de jaren na het verbod het effect dat het steeds minder wordt

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