ulterno

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[–] ulterno 0 points 13 hours ago

Yaay! Slideshow wallpaper on my login screen!?

[–] ulterno 0 points 13 hours ago

Well, you won't be fitting a mouse inside a keyboard, so...

[–] ulterno -1 points 13 hours ago

Between the trackpad and the nipple, definitely the nipple.

It took so long for me to get half as good at the trackpad (after increasing its speed in the settings) as the nipple (with which I even managed to play Quake III (Old ThinkPad)). And this is saying as someone who can't use the gamepads.

Of course mouse is best though. Never tried a vertical for long enough and fixed my carpal tunnel onset by just being more physically active.

[–] ulterno 1 points 14 hours ago

Another way is to put magnets under your normal mouse and set it on a slanted metal plate.

Now I am kinda interested in trying it out. Need to find some powerful magnets nearby.

[–] ulterno 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

An eye tracker sounds nice, but there are times when I want my cursor to be in another place while I am looking somewhere else.
On the other hand, if I could pair it with my multi device keyboard's device selector, it would be great.

[–] ulterno 0 points 14 hours ago

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[–] ulterno 1 points 1 day ago

We do. It's just not common enough.
Pretty sure musicians would be using that instead.

[–] ulterno 0 points 1 day ago

Replace "machines" with "organisms".

[–] ulterno 1 points 1 day ago

Another one is air quality.

If you are breathing in too many undesirable aerosols when you sleep, you are not getting better, but worse.

[–] ulterno 2 points 1 day ago

If you didn't have to mine them out of something and just picked them off the ground, they are pickerals (= rocks).

[–] ulterno 1 points 2 days ago

Get on with the reflogging.

[–] ulterno 26 points 2 days ago

Perhaps the LinkedIn user should have considered learning "programming" instead of just C++

 

A person, on the Gnome Issue, suggested that terminals inhibit sleep when there is stuff running in them.

Continuing from that discussion, I am trying to understand, at which point it would be desirable to implement said inhibition - terminal emulator, the shell or the program itself

Additionally:

  • We want to inhibit when running stuff like pacman, wget, cp or mv
  • We don't want to inhibit when running stuff like htop, less, watch
 

Hopefully we can get better input to the discussion here.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ulterno to c/[email protected]
 

I have been thinking of a controller like this, which would be pretty fun to use for space games.

The ellipsoid marked as "Hand Piece", is supposed to be braced to the frame with motion encoders and need to push back the Hand Piece to the 0 position in case the user stops adding force in any direction.

Additionally, the hand piece can also have 5 buttons, 2 placed for the thumb and 3 placed for the 3 longer fingers each, with the button for the middle finger being a scroll wheel.

This should make up for actions like, Primary and Secondary fire, Target lock and cruise control adjustment, hence freeing the second hand for controlling utilities on the keyboard, or eating snacks. Whichever you prefer.

 

I have a multiboot system. One of the installed OS's does not use the NVMe SSD installed on the motherboard at all.
At the time of taking the screenshot, all the SSD partitions are unmounted, so apart from detection, the SSD is mostly unused.

  • I would like the temps to drop down to SYSTIN (≈35°C) levels.
  • I know, it's right next to my GPU, but I am not doing anything GPU intensive, the GPU temps are ~37°C ^[apart from GPU memory, which is 48°C due to the awful AMD 7th gen Zero RPM, which has no workarounds on Linux]

For the unmounted and unused HDDs, I just use hdparm -Y, but there seems to be nothing in terms of that for the SSD. And even though I appreciate the additional heat in winters, this is going to be too expensive for me. I'd rather burn some cheap Nichrome than my data storage device.

I checked out a Debian forum thread and from that, I checked the following:

❯ sudo nvme get-feature /dev/nvme0 -f 2 -H
get-feature:0x02 (Power Management), Current value:0x00000004
        Workload Hint (WH): 0 - No Workload
        Power State   (PS): 4

Showing it is already in the lowest power state.

Update: I probably checked that at the wrong time before. Did so again after Sleep and realised the Power State was 0. So just need to make sure the Power State went back to 4 after wake.

I have no active cooling setup for the SSD from my side. This becomes relevant soon.

  • Checking the SSD temps (using the same widget as in the image), the temperature on Sensor 2 starts out at ~40°C (after a normal reboot) and slowly increases to >50°C as shown at the start of the graph. Power State (PS) is still 4.

  • Running KDE partitionmanager, which probably does some reading to check the partition information, at 50°C stage, causes a temperature drop, as shown in the image.

  • Running KDE partitionmanager right after reboot, when the temperature is increasing very sloowly, seems to do nothing significant.


  • Turns out that after a few minutes of System Standby, the SSD doesn't return to PS: 4, so I have the culprit.
  • Running partitionmanager after that causes it to go back to PS: 4

So we have a solution! All I need to do is run partitionmanager on wake. nlol jk


Motherboard: MSI MAG X570S TORPEDO MAX (MS-7D54)
SSD: Samsung 980 512GB (correct firmware, bought long before the fakes started coming out)

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ulterno to c/programmer_humor
 

Until he actually had to use it.

Took 2 hours of reading through examples just to deploy the site.
Turns out, it is hard to do even just the bash stuff when you can't see the container.

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