(He / Him) 'The Fixer of things'
Gen-X IT Nerd, who likes tinkering with small computers, regular-sized bicycles, playing video (and latterly tabletop) games and learning interesting things. What is 'interesting' changes on a daily basis. macOS and Linux user but tries not to be an insufferable c-word about it. Showing me Windows might make me grumpy though.
Took it to heart when someone told me "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional".
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@Larvitz Nice ... might tempt me back from Cachy on my laptop. Desktop is still Fedora 43, so that will upgrade when the time comes.
Hmm, only ROCm 7.1 on 44?? That's a shame, but I appreciate ROCm is a fast moving target right now.
Taking the #Fedora 44 Prerelease for a spin on the ThinkPad (Ryzen 7840U / Radeon 780M) and the KDE Plasma Edition is looking absolutely phenomenal!
A few shiny upgrades making me very happy right now:
Plasma Login Manager (PLM) replacing SDDM. 1.25x fractional scaling is finally flawless right from the login screen!
DNF5 + PackageKit integration making Discover incredibly snappy.
Native NTSYNC kernel module loaded and ready for even better performance in Proton gaming.
@badnetmask I know the keyboard I want, but it seems they don't actually make it anymore.
I've got an ANSI layout Nuphy Air 60 with brown switches, and it's pretty good... not too loud, 60% size, low profile, hotswap Cherry-style switches in case I fancy a change, does multiple BlueTooth connections, has a 2.4Ghz dongle and even does USB-C wired connection!
However switching between the ANSI layout on that and ISO layouts on all my other devices is bending my brain (there is an extra key on an ISO layout, so I'm missing some punctuation that's normally easily accessible) so I want an ISO version.
Whilst they do list a UK ISO layout on some parts of their website, it's never in stock and I've never seen one on Youtube or anything. Shame as it's a reasonably dope keyboard and sensibly priced.
@hacks4pancakes And yet those of us in Europe are being peppered with adverts with:
"Would you like to live and work in the USA?"
"Visit California/Florida for a holiday of a lifetime..."
Meanwhile, we're all reading newspaper reports of our citizens being detained for weeks at a time, without access to legal representation or communication with their families ... DESPITE having all the correct documentation for travel within the US.
So, um, no. Thanks, but very much no.
Bashing #Apple ... number 473 in a series.
Why, oh why, does macOS only enable HiDPI mode for certain monitors?
I recently bought one of those cheap portable monitors to use when I'm away, and connecting to my MacBook it looks great at native resolution (but it's 2560x1600 so text is too tiny!) and the other resolution is 1280x800 ... which looks good but modern apps assume larger real-estate, so it's not usable.
Switching to other mods left a blurry mess ... until, the BetterDisplay app! Which, for the most part, I'm just using to enable HiDPI mode on the display... and now it looks great at 1600x1000!
Why can't i do this without a third-party app?
@iandunt.bsky.social Totally aligned with management in large Organisations though... they never listen to the employees who are at the metaphorical coal-face... because implementing anything they come up with is too difficult... it's much easier to instead hire one of the big four to oversee a multi-million pound re-brand where the only thing that really changes is the logo, and then only a little bit.
Job done. /s
Of course, if I was really some sort of guru... I'd have suggested Nvidia.
2010 - Today
£1,000 = £744,522!!
Insomnia does terrible things.
I ran out of things to read so I ended up checking out the stock markets... (the Dow, the Dow right now... I don't know why you're laughing...) and remembered a conversation I had with a friend back in 2010 sometime... at the time they were paying for a course on day trading and I was sure it was a scam. I remember telling them "if I had any money right now..." (which I didn't, sadly) ... "I'd just buy as much APPL stock as I could..." ... I can't recall why in particular I reckoned this was a good idea, but it had the iPhone 4 on the market and the App Store had been out for a couple of years ... I'd probably seen something cool on their WWDC keynote or something.
Anyways, if I'd bought £1,000 of APPL back then, it would now be worth almost £27,500 ...
I should listen to myself more often.
Larvitz 
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