I ran a 3x3 grid configuration for a long time as well -- until I finally realized I needed more than that and upgraded to a 5x3 grid! π οΈ
I use the center desktop for a maximized browser window and the most important stuff is usually in a plus shape immediately adjacent to that with less important things further away.
I have nuanced opinions about AI and, personally, I don't really care how you make your memes if they're interesting -- though I will strongly discourage you from paying anyone for AI as a service to do it...
The "in 10 seconds" bit makes it really easy to flood communities with slop though, and that's one of a number of reasons why people push back on it. There is a lot of boring AI generated stuff out there. Repetitive, same-y content is not fun -- novelty is fun. If you can figure out how to push AI to do something unusual or amusing, I say have at it... but the haters are going to hate here regardless.
We had a subculture here for a while back in 2023 or so that played with AI memes. Someone would come up with an amusing idea -- like Sailor Moon as a giant insect -- post an AI generated picture of it, and then people would riff off it with variations of the idea until it became stale. I think those comms are basically dead at this point -- and if you tried to revive them back you might get shouted off the platform given the amount of toxicity around AI now ποΈ -- but there was some genuinely entertaining stuff in there occasionally!
RTX 3080-Ti Laptop AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX
If I understand correctly, does that mean you had two GPUs in the system? (Integrated GPU in the AMD chip + a separate NVIDIA GPU?) If so, were you maybe running on the wrong GPU? Also, did you install the NVIDIA proprietary drivers or just use the out-of-the-box open stuff? For NVIDIA usually you want the proprietary ones, and for AMD open is fine, but the kernel you're running really matters in my experience...
The narwhal bacons at midnight; the lemming beans at dawn.
Seems like the easier option is to get another SD card and switch out cards depending on what set of games you want to play. A 256GB micro SD is ~$40 US right now.
The Steam Deck already has a built-in microSD card slot -- are you having problems with it or something?
Yeah, I figure scurvy is probably most likely followed by some sort of issue with not enough fat, but I'm not a doctor.
Wheat is a grass, so... yes? You can live on just wheat products (and water) for a fair while, but it's not nutritionally complete by itself -- so you'll get some sort of nutritional deficiency eventually if that's all you eat.
Factorio - Every so often I still get a craving for this even if the space age release really took a lot of the shine off it for me personally.
I played it about six months ago and sometimes get the craving too. Does Satisfactory scratch that itch or is it too different? (Haven't played it but was thinking of picking it up next time it's on sale -- or the itch gets itchy enough...)
It's a modern tech company trend to make your logos look like ass. ποΈ
See also: https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
If you're on linux with X11, you can run
xset dpms force offto turn the monitor off. Either call manually in a terminal or add to scripts where needed. (I assume wayland probably has something similar too, but I don't know what it is specifically.)Most desktop environments already have a GUI-based way of setting an idle time-out if that's what you're looking for; this is a way to call it immediately.