ME was weird, I never had an issue with ME, and I was dual booting with Ubuntu at the time. Boxes running ME were going up in flames all around me. And yet, I never had problems with it. A surreal time for ME, (pun intended).

You handle it because your boss says so…

Is that with or without the malware?

./jk

It’s a couple commands and laid out cookbook style. Fedora has a very good document page on installing nVidia drivers. And the installation is generally very smooth.

The biggest hang up for first time users is understanding that you need to wait for everything to build before doing sudo systemctl reboot. How long do you need to wait? No one really knows. There is no progress bar or any other notification that the building is done successfully. You just wait and then take a leap of faith into that dark abyss and hope for the best.

Typically, it’s recommended to wait “at least 5 minutes”. Maybe more. I always waited around 10 minutes, (or one cup of tea) to be sure. But some users reported needing to wait was much as 20 minutes for everything to build. YMMV

The most frictionless distro to install nvidia drivers is Aurora. As you get ready to download the ISO, it will provide a couple of drop down menus to select your gpu. Intel/AMD is one and the other lists nvidia gpu’s by card to add the correct driver to the ISO. You should be able to install the ISO and boot into your shiny new Plasma desktop with your nvidia gpu working just fine.

And you get the atomic goodness of Fedora Kinonite.

I had the exact same reaction…

Obviously fuel taxes do not cover the whole cost of road maintenance, and they haven’t for decades. Where are those EVs paying road use taxes beyond registration and license fees? The more you drive an ICE car, the more fuel tax you will pay. And that’s fair. Shouldn’t EVs pay for the mileage they drive on the roads too? Is it OK that an EV that doesn’t drive many miles a year should pay the same flat tax/fee that another EV that gets driven 3x as many miles?

I’m all for EV use, I’d own one if I could afford one for sure. But the prices are a bar to ownership. In any case, states ARE looking into chiseling into the lost revenue that EVs are currently ducking. They want the revenue stream.

The thing about fuel taxes is you pay based on how much you drive. More drive, more fuel, more taxes. And I’m sure you don’t drive all that many miles every year. But, what about someone that drives their EV 2x what you do. Which causes 2x the road wear and tear that you do. Is a flat tax fair to you?

A serious question. Are you paying a road tax to drive on the roads with your EV yet? In the US, some states are now starting to look into how to charge EV owners a road use tax. ICE cars pay that tax at the pump and the more you drive, the more tax you pay. EV owners that charge at home, (and who wouldn’t do that), currently pay no road taxes because they buy no or very little “fuel”.

I’m interested to know what the states think is a fair tax amount. Particularly since EV owners tend to be wealthier than most people. And what EV owners think of paying such a tax.

No offense to you, but why does that handle conjure up a vision of someone with a “Karen hairstyle” wanting to speak to the manager?

Yep. I’m old enough to have 2 such email addresses.

I don’t know myself. I don’t think anyone really has an answer.

What you do requires skills. And most people don’t have hose skills. I perhaps view what you do as being a craftsman. You take things that others have shaped and then assemble them into something that is different and more desirable. And there can be craftsmanship and artistry involved by everyone along the way.

I was a toolmaker. I designed and built tools. I sat at my desk and designed the tool in a CAD program, generated tool paths in a CAM program. Then used CAM to create all the G-Code needed. I then sent the program to the machine. I loaded the code and fixtured the piece of steel. At the push of a button the machine did the work as I stood there and watched. Not much different than AI in some ways.

If one sets aside the ecological disaster that AI is for a moment, (and this is the biggest evil IMO). I start wonder if AI is in and of itself “evil” or is it just a tool we haven’t mastered the use of yet. I honestly go back and forth in this. I don’t like AI generated art that is passed off as “real”, but I can understand and be impressed by the skills it took to manage the tool to make that art. I certainly don’t have those skills. But I’m all for the AI currently looking at my MRI scans for signs of cancer cells that even the most skilled radiologist might easily miss at the early stages.

It’s a fuzzy and hazy world. And the older I get, the less sure of the answers I thought I had.

You missed the one about the minor aged boy being responsible for child support if the rapist woman gets pregnant and has the baby.

Games are mostly just applied maths with pretty colors.

That’s an interesting take. It does beg the question: What is “from scratch?”

Does a potter need to go to a river bank to dig the clay he will make into a beautiful tea pot? Or is it still “from scratch” if he buys prepared clay? The question can apply to a woodworker. Does the use of power tools to make a chest of drawers less of a creative endeavor than someone that uses all hand tools to make the same chest? Do you need to fell the tree and mill it in to boards yourself to fit your definition?

Where does “from scratch” begin, and where does it end?

Let that be a lesson to ya.

(Fuckin’ Quadra-Jets)

Let me know when they can block my paper road atlas.

Peanut butter can have extra sugars due other ingredients. Natural peanut butters do not. Interestingly enough, Walmart brand (which is about as cheap as you can get) peanut butter has 4g sugar. So 4g sugars for Walmart vs 1g sugars for organic 100% peanuts. It’s more, but not a whole lot more.

Yep. It’s the recommended substitute if you have no tahini on hand. There is a slight change in flavor profile, but if you add enough garlic, no one is likely to notice.

For a good while now I just felt old. But not today. Today I feel fucking old.

Two weeks ago I had an MRI to see if I need knee surgery. Tomorrow I get to talk to Ortho about my impending knee surgery-- A lateral tear of the meniscus in the cleft with some degeneration of the joint. I’m sick of walking with a cane and wearing a knee brace.

Saturday I drove 360 some miles to get an MRI to see if I have prostate cancer. No results yet, but I have my suspicions based on my PSAs. The question is: Is it the slow cancer or the fast cancer?

Thursday I need to drive another 100 miles to talk to another doctor about what is now a very minor issue.

So yeah, I’m mother fucking old today…

***Oh, and yes I remember Bardot vividly from my youth. And a host of others you may or not remember. From Marilyn Monroe to Jane Russel to Maureen O’Hara.