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  • If the CPU clocks are dropping to ~200-300 MHz while the temps are 40-45C (like in the screenshot) then it’s not thermal throttling. The clockspeed would go back up when the temps go down. And it would only throttle enough to keep the temps under the desired temp.

    I would investigate what performance profile the CPU is using.

    There is a tool called cpupower that will list out all the information about the CPU clock states.

    I have a Ryzen CPU so the desired governor is going to be different than an Intel laptop, but for example, the output of cpupower frequency-info for me:

    analyzing CPU 13:
      driver: amd-pstate-epp
      CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 13
      CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 13
      energy performance preference: balance_performance
      hardware limits: 600 MHz - 5.76 GHz
      available cpufreq governors: performance powersave
      current policy: frequency should be within 2.98 GHz and 5.76 GHz.
                      The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
                      within this range.
      current CPU frequency: 4.39 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
      boost state support:
        Supported: yes
        Active: yes
      amd-pstate limits:
        Highest Performance: 166. Maximum Frequency: 5.76 GHz.
        Nominal Performance: 124. Nominal Frequency: 4.30 GHz.
        Lowest Non-linear Performance: 86. Lowest Non-linear Frequency: 2.98 GHz.
        Lowest Performance: 18. Lowest Frequency: 600 MHz.
        Preferred Core Support: 1. Preferred Core Ranking: 231.
    

    Which you can see lists the hardware clock range, the current governor’s policy frequency range, the actual current CPU frequency, and how it picks different frequency ranges.

    I used to use cpupower on an old laptop to force it into the performance governor, because it would not clock up high enough without it. This obviously does negatively affect battery life, but i was plugged in most of the time anyway.

    But either way, look into cpupower for determining the governor/power profile and also figuring out which governor you should actually be using.


  • bisby@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemaths rule
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    2 days ago

    6 of this product with 200 sheets each (1200 total) = 8 competitor products with only 150 sheets each (1200 total).

    They are missing a ×200 and ×150 in their equation. They are trying to remind you that this isnt shrinkflation! … So they can normalize 6 rolls per pack and shrinkflate later


  • The word LORD in Bibles is actually the same thing as when people put G-d instead of “God”… Anywhere LORD appears in a bible in block capitals, the original text actually had יהוה - the tetragrammaton. Which is “god’s name”, and they decided that printing the name would be using it in vain, so they replaced it with something else, so people could read the bible without sinning.

    It wouldn’t surprise me if “Lord יהוה” appeared somewhere in the original text and just got written out as “Lord LORD”… but again, actually knowing anything about religion isn’t actually the point of using religion as a bludgeon for controlling the masses. Why proof read your sign when you need to get out on the streets to let people know they aren’t doing things your Jesus’s way.

    Or it’s possible they just wanted it to be taller without being wider. and couldn’t figure out font sizing, so they just doubled it up.

    Or they think that doubling a word adds emphasis or something.

    Or they’re just complete morons. It’s probably this one.

    And either way, I dont think repeating a single word erroneously would make an an aneurysm.


  • bisby@lemmy.worldtoAneurysm Posting@sopuli.xyzKanyes new album
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    6 days ago

    This isn’t aneurysm and is just poorly laid out mixed with old timey language.

    Why call ye me “Lord”, and do not the things which I say?

    “Why call ye me Lord” is the same question verb/object ordering of when someone says “what say you?” … “why do you call me Lord”

    “Do not the things which I say” is just replacing “don’t do” with “Do not.” It’s really weird in modern english. But you don’t need a second do to make sense. Heck, the previous sentence didn’t need a “do”… “You need not a second do” is a perfectly valid sentence, that’s just not how colloquially we form sentences anymore.

    But more to your point, anyone who has a sign this big on their car is probably more concerned about the time Jesus said “homosexuality is a sin” [citation needed], and less about the time he said “love thy neighbor” [Mark 12:31].




  • AMD doesnt have any software for controlling RGB on windows. They don’t make graphics cards, they only make the GPU chip that goes onto the card (and the GPU chip doesn’t have any LEDs on it).

    The LED controllers on the cards are per brand. If you have a Sapphire card, it’s Sapphire software that controls the RGB. XFX card -> XFX software, etc.

    I have an XFX 9070xt, and it doesnt have any RGB on it. so I haven’t had to disable it.

    OpenRGB is going to be your best bet for Linux RGB management. Sometimes they dont have every device supported (especially newer ones), so you might not be able to change everything immediately. But it’s mostly just a “scan devices, set color values” once it’s working.

    And the iGPU you can probably disable in the UEFI config.


  • A lot of the things he says about space are fun as thought experiments. Whether or not they work out or are good ideas. Terraforming Mars sounds interesting. Using a methane evaporation blanket to cool starship during re-entry without a heat shield? sounds SUPER neat. Even landing and re-using a booster was deemed impractical, or not financially viable. That’s the thrill of exploration part. Getting all belligerent when proven wrong makes it hard to get excited about things. It turns into “If this doesn’t work out, Elon is going to have a crybaby fit over it.” instead of “Oh wow, thats a super cool ambitious idea.” Part of taking moonshots is that sometimes you’re wrong, but his ego is too out of control to ever admit he is wrong.

    Personally my enthusiasm for space exploration was killed by how mediocre KSP2 was, but Elon definitely didn’t help.






  • My current system was installed as manjaro, but i immediately started having AUR issues, so I just changed all the repos out to the official arch ones and over time everything manjaro specific has been updated or removed.

    The first lines in my /var/log/pacman.log are from early 2015, and ive fully rebuilt my computer since then, including swapping hard drives (dd’ to clone old drive onto new drive). So at this point my PC is a hardware and software ship of theseus.


  • Back in october I travelled for a lan party. I didnt bring my linux desktop with me, and just brought my steam deck and dock, and when I got there, borrowed a keyboard/mouse/monitor.

    Then i swapped it to desktop mode, and the people I was with all commented on “Oh wow! it’s just like a regular computer”

    One of them has explicited said they were fed up with microsoft’s BS and would swap their gaming PC over to steamOS once it’s formally released for desktop (they were uninterested in Bazzite and wanted an official Valve release for their gaming PC).


  • It’s immutable (you can’t break the core OS, there is no deleting system32). You can’t install packages (like you would from AUR), but have access to flatpaks.

    Firefox is preinstalled, but anything from flathub is also available.

    So yes, it has all the things most people need from a desktop OS, and is harder to break, and is supported commercially.

    It has a desktop mode, I’ve never looked into whether you can boot to desktop by default. But I would imagine if they released a desktop friendly version, that would be an option.


  • SteamOS has a web browser.

    It boots by default into Steam Big Picture mode, which is the SteamOS/HTPC style “intended to be used with a controller” layout.

    In the power menu, it has a “switch to desktop” button that drops you to KDE. Firefox is pre-installed, and immediately available for use.

    But also, it’s just an immutable OS with plenty of things installable via flatpak in KDE Discover. Which means Slack, Discord, Zoom, Chrome… all of the “desktop” things most people need are available.


  • bisby@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.worldInstalled Mint
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    If those personal photos and videos are important to you, you should have them backed up anyway. If you ever spill anything on that laptop, or it gets dropped or broken or lost. All those things are gone.

    But as others have said, you can sometimes resize a partition from gparted if the drive isnt mounted (ie, use the live USB).



  • Counter point… Both are generating perfectly valid JSON, so who cares?

    Python 3.13.2 (main, Feb  5 2025, 08:05:21) [GCC 14.2.1 20250128]
    Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
    IPython 9.0.2 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
    Tip: IPython 9.0+ have hooks to integrate AI/LLM completions.
    
    In [1]: import json
    
    In [2]: json.loads('{"x": 1e-05}')
    Out[2]: {'x': 1e-05}
    
    In [3]: json.loads('{"x":0.00001}')
    Out[3]: {'x': 1e-05}
    
    Welcome to Node.js v20.3.1.
    Type ".help" for more information.
    > JSON.parse('{"x":0.00001}')
    { x: 0.00001 }
    > JSON.parse('{"x": 1e-05}')
    { x: 0.00001 }
    

    Javascript and Python both happily accept either format from the string and convert it into a float they are happy with.