FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Joined May 2019
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oh sweet jesus, they handle displaying the splashscreen by busy-looping the CPU for 4 seconds.
I KNOW PROGRAMMERS WHO CARE ABOUT MULTITASKING AND THEY'RE ALL COWARDS
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IT'S CRASHING ON BOOT BECAUSE THE BOOLEANS ARE TOO SMALL
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some punk 31 years ago was tired of dealing with "correctly matching const char* vs char*" so they just did
#define CONST
and now it's my problem
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there should be a word for that specific experience where you need to do a computer task you've done a couple times before, but it turns out they've made it way more annoying since the last time you did it
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going to my vm host, bowl in hand, going "please ma'am, can I have some more cores?"
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In a surprise to no one who has looked at the economics of cloud services before, I think a *lot* of people are in for a rude awakening. It's almost like these bigco's were acting like dealers all along...
TIL about pivot tables
Used it to turn my habit tracker data into a table showing my HRT dose
It worked!
For some reason the nouveau driver still loads but I set the option modeset=0 on it and now it doesn't grab the GPU, and then the nvidia drivers load
Ok, so I've attempted to disable the nouveau driver another way now, time to reboot
I'm listening to the matrix soundtrack while doing this, Really adds to the tension
Ok, I've restarted, it's still not running the nvidia drivers, looks like the nouveau drivers still grabs the GPU first, even though I think I've disabled the nouveau driver
Found this discussion thread, I'm going to try this
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/after-install-fedora-44-nvidia-drivers-failed-to-load-and-it-falled-back-to-nouveau/189884/16
Ok, so it appears that my graphics card is now so old it's out of support, so I need to install the old drivers instead of the newest version
This time it worked like a charm! Now I just have to fix the nvidia graphics drivers
dnf system-upgrade will continue until morale improves
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This entire report from the Ontario government on genAI systems is worth a read, but the review of healthcare scribe accuracy is pretty devastating, imo. This has to work for the tech to be worth anything. If the notes in the chart are wrong, the whole thing falls apart.
https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/specialreports/specialreports/en26/2026_AI_EN.pdf
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Joined May 2019
