site now part of ‘CoreAI’ team

Are they trying to make GitHub into something that creates code instead of something used for collaboration and hosting of code? Ewww.

I had a look at the support page for the mobo, and there is a BIOS update from Mar 11th. It contains a zip with a .F52q file inside. You should be able to use that file directly from a USB in the BIOS.

Which motherboard do you have? There is almost always a way to load from a flash drive via the BIOS. Many motherboards even have a way to do it from a flashdrive without the UI working at all via a button on the back (BIOS Flashback).

Unfortunately so is Visual Studio and VS Code, yet we don’t say anything made with them is ‘vibe coded’. The text, big and bold, right the top of the screen for VS Code is literally:

Visual Studio and VS Code have an AI assistant as well, yet we don’t decree all programs written with them as ‘vibe coding’. The presence of an AI assistant in the IDE isn’t evidence of vibe coding.

Proton’s repo here is open source. What portion of it presents issues? Any?

That seems perfectly fine to me.

If you measure it in minutes, it would be pretty easy. And measuring in miles also is pretty straightforward. Break out the measuring tool on your map of choice and write down how long your standard route is, any deviations you can guestimate quickly.

The nagging popups, ads, the dubious ad-riddled webpages I have to visit to download apps.

I still have to use Windows at work, and it advertising apps in the start menu and specific games to me with a notification popup in pro versions of the OS just blows my mind. This is a piece of software my company paid extra for, and it has ads all throughout…in a completely ‘clean’ install.

It’s even worse since I end up using VMs at work, so I get to experience this over and over on each machine.

The cloud is just someone else’s computer.

you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything

Absolutely not. That data should be in at least two places. A local and a remote is the general setup. If a cloud provider is the main source of the data, the ‘remote’ location would probably be your house. ;p

Thank you for the link, that is exactly what I was looking for. Biggest takeaway for me here is solar/wind + storage is competitive with natural gas generators, which is what they are primarily competing with economically.

The graph, from page 8:

I wish these reports would include required other costs, as solar needs to be paired with grid-scale storage or, more often, peaker natural gas plants. Both of which are pretty expensive.

It may still be cheaper, I honestly don’t know, because all the reports leave such necessary, and expensive, things out.

Always nice to see more AMD laptops. Personally a fan of them as they work well for moderate gaming without a dedicated card.

Really wish Intel would get their chips up to snuff, simply because we really don’t want to just swap from one monopoly to another.

India is in it for India. If it is better for India to trade with the US than Russia, they will.

I wonder if walking outdoors makes people feel more awake

It 100% does. Fresh air, direct sunlight does wonders.

“Gaming Distro” just means some various gaming softwares are preinstalled, like Steam and Heroic (for GOG, Amazon, and Epic games). I mention this just to keep you from overly worrying about picking the “wrong” distro.

• Bazzite is basically SteamOS.

• Mint Cinnamon was my choice as it feels very familiar to a Windows user, and comes with a bunch of desktop productivity stuff pre-installed. It tends to remain on more time-tested, stable versions of software.

• Fedora Plasma is also very popular, and will feel familiar coming from Windows. It tends to have the latest and greatest version of softwares.

and maybe a guide on removing windows entirely once its all said and done

If you plan to switch over all at once, during the install, tell Linux to use the entire drive (ie, do a full format). That will completely remove Windows during the install.

If you are going to dual boot, you can format the Windows drive at some later time.

do’s and dont’s

If you are going to dual boot, don’t dual boot on a single drive. Windows likes to fuck with other things on the same drive as it, including other Windows installs.

If you get a prompt about codecs during the Linux install, install them.

Yeah, ASUS is in an awful state. Their Armory Crate malware* really just takes the cake on the whole thing.

*It literally survives through a full format and will run and create popups on your computer without any human interaction if you buy an ASUS motherboard. It’s malware.

I found if the pot makes solid contact with the electric elements the electric can actually heat up water faster than gas. But if the bottom of your pan isn’t flat or the element is warped, they are really, really, really slow.

My experience has been with gas (fast), electric resistive with exposed and warped elements (slow), electric resistive with a glass top (fastest).

I pack up full hard drive images from time to time (think 100GB+ files). More threads is always welcome!

Yeah, it’s very unlikely it survived.

If you have your encryption key backed up, you have a chance to decrypt it still. It’s also possible, but unlikely, the key somehow survived the ISO write and it was written elsewhere on the drive, allowing the key to be recovered. I would only trust such with a professional. (There is basically a smaller encrypted section that your typed-in password decrypts, that section contains the encryption key the rest of the drive uses.)

Honestly though, if you have your stuff backed up (you do have your stuff backed up elsewhere?!?), just restore from your backup and call this a loss.

If you don’t have a backup, this was your wakeup call. Always have a backup going forward.