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Captain Aggravated

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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

  • Do you think standard batteries like A, AA, AAA, C, and D, 9V etc will eventually become obsolete?

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  • Carbon-Zinc batteries are basically impossible to find, yes. They were pretty much entirely superseded by Zinc Chloride batteries, which are fairly easy to find. They're often marketed with the phrase "heavy duty" though they're lower in capacity to alkalines.

  • AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT outsells entire combined NVIDIA RTX 50 series GPUs at German retailer

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  • A couple generations back, Nvidia was the obvious choice and AMD just couldn't compete. Nvidia had real-time ray tracing, AMD didn't, Nvidia's hardware video encoding was great, AMD's sucked, Nvidia had CUDA, AMD pretty much didn't, Nvidia had their DLSS frame gen technology, AMD either didn't or it wasn't very good.

    Well, in most of those places, AMD has caught up, and they offer more VRAM in their lower tier products, at better prices.

    Oh, and I've been hearing through the grapevine that Nvidia is dropping the ball with drivers. That used to be AMD's bag, but AMD's drivers are more solid these days.

    Oh, and Nvidia's weird new power socket keeps catching on fire. I've got a 7900GRE that attaches with two good old 8-pin PCIe connectors that offer a distinct lack of combustion.

  • AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT outsells entire combined NVIDIA RTX 50 series GPUs at German retailer

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  • I think they had to make that change because there was a Radeon 9700 back in the ATI days or something. I just wish they hadn't done the RX thing. Because those charts where people compare GPU performance will have legends like:

    RX-7600 RTX-5060 RX-9060XT TXT-6060RXT TVX-5040T RTX-4060

    and you say "There's no consistency with generation or manufacturer and I'm pretty sure one of those is the part number of a cylinder head for a Toyota Tacoma.

  • None of this "what are you thankful for" shit today. What's something you hate?

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  • People who hurt cats. If you hurt a cat, may you be paralyzed but awake and not numb for the entire duration of an open heart surgery.

  • Do you think standard batteries like A, AA, AAA, C, and D, 9V etc will eventually become obsolete?

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  • I Hope C cells specifically do.

  • What are mundane actions we get to do everyday with technology that would be a superpower to people from before say.. the 1600s?

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  • I have a flashlight in my pocket.

  • JPEG XL is Dead. Long Live JPEG XL

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  • Or would they demand it in Go? Or have they abandoned that?

  • It's official: 64GB of DDR5-6000 RAM now costs way more than a PlayStation 5 console

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  • My PC has 32GB of RAM. I can run a video game while having a fuckton of browser tabs open. I could probably get away with 16.

  • functions

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  • If you want to do anything of any scale with Python, you need to understand OOP because that's how modules work, but you can use it without.

  • Just installed Linux mint on my moms desktop

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  • Modern day Quickbooks has gone the way of Office 365 hasn't it? It's just their website?

    That's something that has me hesitating starting a business, is Linux business software. I've heard of Odoo, and it's allegedly open source but kinda not...?

  • functions

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  • AFAIK the syntax seems to be the same.

     
        
def sayHam():
    print("Ham")

sayHam()

    works when typed into the Python console, no class needed. I program as a hobby, I'm no expert on the language, but does Python even differentiate between functions and class methods internally? Other than just scope? There's a possibility I'll learn something today.

  • Would you try a FOSS dating app?

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  • What it would look like is a badly themed badly optimized front end that isn't in the App store, was recently removed from the Play store, with a rape awful name like CLIT or CL Isn't Tinder or LibreMeetCute and a nonsense icon. It would rapidly become recognized as the engine used by the huge number of extremely sketchy personals sites that popped up all of a sudden that contain only virtual prostitutes. It would also be the engine that powers Truth Romance. It would have the worst Github issues page in human history.

  • How close have you ever been to a lightning strike, or related situation caused by a lightning strike?

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  • I was in late middle school, like 11 or 12 years old, walking down the street with my friend Chris, and there was a bolt of lighting right near us. I don't know how close it was, I saw white and heard the loudest sound I've ever heard in my life. It felt like it struck 10 feet up the road. I think that's the fastest I've ever run.

  • functions

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  • Python: def :

    derpface.jpg

  • Valve says the Steam Machine is better than what 70% of PC gamers have at home

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  • I'm willing to believe that. I figure there are going to be a lot of Steam users who "also game" on a machine with integrated graphics, or their 5 year old Inspiron laptop, or a mid-tier enthusiast machine they built six years ago, or a dumpster dove Optiplex with whatever low profile GPU the scavenger could find that week.

  • My nightmare

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  • surprised its not just Conky.

  • oregano bitch

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  • No, that's an opossum. An orgasm is a formal speech given at a formal occasion.

  • You have the option to absolve all of Chair or all of Table for the rest of eternity from the fabric of reality. Which would be easier to live without?

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  • Or is that a stool?

  • Why Hitler off’ed himself

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  • she said smell ya later boy.

  • cats @sh.itjust.works
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    Humans can't purr and cats can't laugh

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Science nerds of Lemmy: Is there an upper limit on the volume of a "confined gas"?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Writing was invented before reading.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is the inane song you have written for your cat?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Locked

    How do we get the makers of FreeCAD to document their fucking software?

  • sh.itjust.works Main Community @sh.itjust.works
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    Anyone else getting Nicoled a lot lately?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Recommendations for home media infrastructure esp. software?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's a good email provider?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Do the old Greek, Norse or Roman gods take godhood of modern concepts?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Distro/software for living room/TV PC?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Have you ever made up a movie after only seeing the trailer?

  • cats @sh.itjust.works
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    My air purrifier

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What's your personal little conspiracy theory?

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
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    My town is apparently holding a book tasting this month

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The only feeling worse than "Why didn't I think of that?" is "I thought of that, but didn't do anything about it!"

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Do I actually need to do anything to go from GeForce to Radeon?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Journal keepers of Lemmy: Do you go back and re-read old entries?

  • sh.itjust.works Main Community @sh.itjust.works
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    Pictures posted to Lemmy: Does exif data survive?