Wait, a steam game with vertical aspect ratio??

Maybe that once every 2 years when you upgrade to major version it does it automatically? You save 15 mins every 2 years?

Central Italy here. For the first time in this decade I found ice on the windshield. I remember in the 90s it was thick ice for 3 months and I was always late for school because it took too much time to scrape it

Already before the LLMs for me it was the last chance before I would post over there. The desperation move. It was too toxic and I would always get pissed to get my question closed because too similar or too easy or whatever. Hey I wasted 15 minutes to type that, if the other question solved the problem I wouldn’t post again…

In the beginning it wasn’t like that…

I went to watch my stack overflow account and the first questions that I posted (and that gave me 2000 karma) would have been almost all of them rejected and removed

I liked hyprland for about one month this August, wasted a lot to make the configuration how I liked. Then they changed the config suddenly without warning. Installed GNOME as a fallback because I needed to do actual work, wasted another weekend to fix the configuration. Nice, I used it for some other time and… broken again within a month. At least deprecate the configuration and give one version of tolerance…

False, it’s made in China, but from Renault itself as Renault kze

You need to mount / as /mnt/disk in the VM to have the trick work

Preview of tickets incoming in the next days:

“Do I have Copilot included?” “Is it the same as Copilot in Word?” “Do I need an extra license?” “Where is the Office app?” “Can you install Microsoft Office for me?”

They really have a massive talent. It’s not easy to have such a consistent record in choosing stupid and confusing names, rebranding stuff with no reason.

Even the older Windows XP managed 50 tabs, and that’s because it kept crashing past that number because of its paging file failing to keep up, not because it had hit the 5GB memory ceiling.

Windows XP 32bit can’t hit 5gb memory ceiling, the 32bit memory addresses don’t allow that

yes, and I agree with it being TOTAL TRASH

• it takes two boots to start, first boot can’t see any drives connected (sata, nvme). If you boot from usb some OS installer, the installer won’t see any drive until reboot.
• it has no support whatsoever. BIOS update? LOL you get the alpha “if it compiles, it ships” version
• the bios is in engineering mode and has like 15 pages of incomprehensible options
• even if the bios has 15 pages of ultradetailed engineer-only options, it’s missing basic options like “numlock on at start”, “WOL”, fan control, and other stuff that i forgot about (or maybe they’re buried somewhere under some weird acronym)

I wonder also. I’m guessing maybe a bad lot?

The story starts two years ago when I bought them in a kit with 4 16gb sticks from micron. When installed all four the motherboard, I installed Linux and it crashed (froze) when running a VM with KVM. Tested with memtestx86 and it will always fail at the 5th test (after around 20 mins of crunching) and at reboot the bios would reset to default. Because it was an AMD Ryzen and all the web results said so, I assumed it was some kind of incompatibility and removed two sticks. With two sticks, it passed the test. I swapped the two sticks and it passed the test again. So I left those 2 16gb sticks in the Ryzen and used the other 2 16gb sticks with the Intel. Both passed the test.

Fast forward 18 months, in the Intel I’m copying a file from the nvme to the HDD and it tells me Input/output error.

I start diagnosing the btfrs filesystem, find corruption in the counter, scrub finds uncorrectable errors in the virtio-win.iso file, the one I wanted to move. I assumed it was some btrfs bug, deleted the file as I could download it again, moved on. After a few weeks a flatpak app wouldn’t start. Read the dmesg, see a btrfs message about some corrupted inode or something like that. I use find to find the file at that inode, it was the flatpak. Again assumed it was a btrfs bug, reinstalled the flatpak and moved on.

Then yesterday the system froze. This time I tested with memtestx86. It failed immediately within seconds. Took out one stick, swapped them, no change. I went back and swap them with the other two sticks bought in the same lot, those would pass the test.

i wonder if it was the motherboard sending wrong voltage or something like that. What are the chances of TWO modules failing AT THE SAME TIME (although it’s the same kit, identical memory, so maybe it could be damaged silicon and i never noticed before)

wow i’m running linux, so it might be perfect

though i’m a bit scared that it will get worse over time. Today i got a freeze that forced me to test the ram with memtest86, but since september i got some random corruption in the btrfs filesystem (luckily always “useless” files like flatpak or docker stuff that i could delete and download again in seconds) and i assumed it was a btrfs bug, not hardware problem

No it’s some kind of hybrid bastard mobo from AliExpress where they use a soldered mobile CPU but with desktop memory in microATX form factor

No, even tried to run them at 1866…

Harder to find? When I accidentally go to Facebook I exclusively get scam ads (I disabled ads personalization, though)

Most cars are basically bricks without the main unit, for example the air conditioning is set using proprietary commands on the can bus from the fancy touchscreen. Or setting all the options of the adas, sensors and so on

Yes. Luckily I did a snapshot then copied on a separate drive using btrfs send.

I shut down everything, there’s no activity… that’s why I feel weird to see all this rebuild activity, yet so many hours passed…

A scrub usually takes less than an hour…

I notice that you used the free interface without registration. While a bit of a hassle to register, I saw that behind the registration wall they use longer contexts/bigger models. Without registration it’s more prone to abuse so they might condense/truncate responses from chats: by design, the bots have zero memory, so the whole chat history needs to be appended at every question => long chats lead to expensive API calls => free users get history truncated or condensed.

Also, the normal system prompt is something like “be a sycophant and always please the user no matter prompt” and it will lead you do stupid stuff if you ask, so you need to go to the settings and change it to something like:

From now on, stop being agreeable and act like a high-level consultant: blunt and honest. Don’t validate me, don’t soften the truth, and don’t flatter me. Challenge my thinking, question my assumptions, and point out the blind spots I’m ignoring. Be direct, rational, and unfiltered. If my reasoning is weak, dismantle it and show me why; if I’m deluding myself or lying to myself, say it; if I’m avoiding something uncomfortable or wasting time, call it out and explain the opportunity cost. Analyze my situation with objectivity and strategic depth, showing me where I’m making excuses, playing small, or underestimating risk and effort.

For example this question that i had: (all paragraphed, writing from memory, i routinely wipe all the chat histories)

can I bypass gpg verification on fedora when using dnf?

gpt-5-mini from chatgpt free:

it’s absolutely possible! just use the --nogpgcheck flag

gpt-5.2 from api with the previous system prompt:

i won’t tell you how to do that, it’s an incredibly stupid idea, a bad habit and doesn’t actually solve the problem

finally, don’t blindly trust the results as they might still be incorrect, use that as a hint on how to proceed