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[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Fusion used to work but autodesk changed the redirects in their login system, so it no longer does...

Tragic. Especially since there's no reason Fusion couldn't be a webapp or PWA, autodesk already made it annoyingly cloud-focused.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

Can second this: direct heating of anything is always going to be more efficient. Also, only ~25% of incident energy on a PV cell is actually captured as electriciy (see here for theoretical backing), and the rest is lost in a lot of ways, but much of it is converted to heat at the PV cell, and if you're capturing that you're using direct heating anyhow.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Can confirm that the asusd and and asus-linux work fine on Bluefin and Ubuntu/mint; the Devs dont support X11 (which Mint is still on), but you can build it with the X11 flags on the GH repo and it works fine.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Is that true? I thought that pairs of USB-A ports shared the same PCIe lanes, and USB-C each got their own set?

Edit: thinking about it a bit more, I suppose it could depend on how the SOC/chipset allocates those lanes, but in my experience when writing a single USB I'm usually limited by the thermals of the USB, and writing well below the speed of the port. I suppose if you were writing many at once (or if your USBs were nice) that could bottleneck on the port speed.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

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[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ummm or the authors are concerned about retribution because stallman and the FSF are very powerful in the FOSS community, and I think it's reasonably likely that they would be sued (seemingly with poor grounds) or harassed online for publishing it.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago

Good point. Though, the vast majority of ML training and use is tensor math on floating points, so largely dot and cross products, among other matrix operations.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago

I think you're thinking of the famous fast inverse square root algorithm from Quake.

With respect to the top comment, the only reason 3d graphics are possible (even at 850W of power consumption) is due to taking a bunch of shortcuts and approximations like culling of polygons. If its a reasonable shortcut it either has or will be taken.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

Good question. Odd not to include one.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

I mean you can do HTML -> TeX -> PDF with Pandoc, or to any other format pretty much. I would say writing markdown and passing it to TeX or directly to PDF is the most practical.

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

No worries, it's pretty hard to keep track when their naming scheme is "it has a K in it"...

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

Can you unmount it? You may not be able to change the boot flag while it's mounted.

If that doesn't work, you likely can't remove the boot flag while the system is booted. Try booting from installation media and changing the flag there.

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To deal with all this Intel CPU disaster, I've been having to manually check MSI's website for mobo updates. It occurred to me that keeping BIOSes and other drivers that aren't delivered through your OS's update manager of choice is such a pain, and it's common knowledge that a lot of critical BIOS updates just don't get applied to systems because folks don't check for updates unless there's a problem.

Thinking about that, I realized that it would make life a lot easier if you could just have section in your RSS reader for firmware updates, and each mobo manufacturer published BIOS update announcements as an RSS feed. All your updates are in one place, and you're notified promptly! Of course, this would also apply to NVIDIA drivers, so you can get automatic updates on Windows without having to download Geforce NOW bloatware, but of course that's very intentional on NVIDIA's part.

Does anyone know of other easy ways to passively keep track of BIOS updates?

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