I installed CacyOS on my MSI laptop with Nvidia m2060 + igpu and Intel CPU a couple of months ago. I can play genres through Steam just fine. It performs better than it did on Windows 11.
I'll be honest, I was amazed I had no issues getting it running. CachyOS has sone great tools to set things up and their wiki is excellent. I just followed the steps in there to set up GPU switching. I disabled secure boot, since that can get in the way of drivers loading, but they have instructions for that as well.
Wi-Fi worked out of the box. I even have a luks encrypted root.
The main issue I had was MSI specific hardware, like battery charging control, normally managed by the Dragon Center. I found an open source replacement for that.
I can't speak to the battery performance since I always use it plugged in. It's a few years old so it's probably not great anyway.
Your mileage may vary. It's probably going to be more off a struggle with hardware specific to the model of laptop rather than Nvidia.
This is the first time I've heard of siphon jet backup pumps. That looks like a really great option and I wish I had known about those years ago when I put in my own battery backup.
Yep, it eventually dawned on them that it wasn't smart to force everyone to take off at the busiest time of year, so they started using the employee's work anniversary instead. But, by that time I already had one foot out the door.
Yeah I had that in my previous job, but they didn't call it PTO. Also we didn't use PTO for our official holidays. It was really stupid: we would get 12 months worth of time off on January 1st and all of it expired December 31st. This naturally caused everyone to basically take December off, which meant our busiest months of December and January were super fun.
In my current job, PTO is earned for each working hour at a rate decided by your seniority, so you gain more PTO per hour the longer you work there, and you can bank up to a certain amount and the excess is lost. It's a pretty big bank, so I think it's an okay-ish balance between stealing our PTO and encouraging us to use it. I guess it could be worse.
This is different from when I lived in Norway, where I had "unlimited" sick days, all bank holidays off, and an additional 5 weeks of time off a year + vacation bonus in the summer, plus time and a half for any overtime beyond 37.5hrs/wk with double pay on Sundays and holidays.
Sort of. There is no legal requirement for any time off in the US. But PTO is a very common arrangement.
It is what it sounds like: Paid Time Off. Basically you have some hours available your will be paid for but you don't have to work. You earn PTO at a certain rate for every hour you do actual work, so you have to earn it.
You don't have the right to use them whenever you want; that's up to your boss, usually. You usually have to trade any kind of time off for your PTO: vacation, holidays (even mandatory ones), sick days, etc. There is usually a minimum amount of hours you have to take at a time, so you can't always take an hour here and there, but sometimes you can agree to make up time with you boss.
For extended time off, like if you have surgery, you can usually work with your employer to use a reduced rate of PTO to make it last longer, like get 40% pay. When it runs out, you don't get paid. You may still be able to keep your job, within the rules of FMLA (12 weeks), but you have no income. I am not sure what happens to insurance at that point, but I think you're covered as long as you're employed and pay premiums.
Of course this is not legally required and it's rare that it's even offered if you're part time or work for a small company, since those aren't required to offer any benefits.
I don't work in HR, I'm not a lawyer or doctor, my experience is my own, this is not legal advice, your state laws may be different, etc, etc. YMMV.
Yes, but Perl 5 did not, except for constant functions. Either way, the effect of that was outweighed by several orders of magnitude by the rest of the WTFs in that code.
All that is a bit beside the point I was trying to make, which is write readable code.
Use your own judgement to find a balance between readability and performance. Use profiling tools to find hotspots where performance is a concern and optimize those. Base your practices on evidence not dogma.
Yeah there is some overhead with a function call, but for our use case (low-traffic web and batch jobs) that wasn't a big deal. And the rest of their code wasn't exactly tuned for performance either.
Yes, it was the dogmatic approach to it that was the most infuriating.
I once, many years ago, worked with a programmer who had a strict rule of not introducing any functions unless the block of code was used at least twice.
Every code base they were the main developer on had source files thousands of lines long with if-statements nested to the 9 levels of hell.
We worked mostly in Perl and Deplhi (Pascal). Reading old code was... interesting. It's wild when your Perl code is more readable than your Pascal.
I'm happy to say I don't work with them anymore.
So yeah, break things into functions and name your functions and variables sensibly. Your future self will thank you.
Kanskje litt tidlig på dag for de fleste nordmenn akkurat nå, men jeg kan begynne.
For min del gjør det ikke noe at du skriver på dialekt, så lenge det er noenlunde forståelig (så langt går det bra selv om jeg ikke er trønder). Jeg skriver på bokmål og ikke på min dialekt, men det er et personlig valg for hver enkelt.
Du trenger ikke å spørre om lov til å legge ut ting. Det er bare å gjøre det. Folk vil svare på og stemme på det de liker. Det er best om du bare finner noe interessant å snakke om og legger ut noe om det. Kanskje en hobby eller særinteresser som du nevnte. Husk at dette er et diskusjonsforum, så prøv å holde deg til det formatet.
Hvis andre også liker det så blir det bra. Hvis ikke, så ikke ta det altfor personlig, men prøv igjen med noe annet.
My guess is that it changed from open source to a proprietary license. From Wikipedia:
Initially, Paint.NET was released under a modified version of the MIT License, with the exclusion of the installer, text, and graphics.[9] However, citing issues with the open source code being plagiarized by others that had rebranded the software as their own and bundled user content without their permission, the availability of the source code was restricted, in December 2007 Brewster announced his intent to restrict access to components of the program (including its installer, resources, and user interface).[10] In November 2009, the software was made proprietary, restricting the sale or creation of derivative works of the software.[10][11]
It's an older model Lowepro. The closest thing I see on their website is the Slingshot Edge.
What's nice about it is that it fits my camera and some accessories while being small enough to fling around to the front so I can get my camera out without taking the bag off my back. If I'm careful I can even change my lens without setting things down.
Depending on how I pack it I can cram my camera with a 400mm mounted + a smaller lens in the top compartment with a spare battery.
There's really no room for a bottle, but I've strapped one to the outside before with Velcro straps. It has built in straps for a tripod but it would be a very small one.
I also just use it as a regular backpack sometimes when I want my hands free, like on a bike ride, but I don't need a big backpack.
Yeah that's excellent. I have a sling bag that works great for photography and urban hiking, but I wish it had a way to attach my tripod. I may be looking for a mid size backpack soon. I'll keep that brand in mind.
Good advice. I would suggest when looking for a carrying bag, that you think of it as a backpack that happens to have room for camera equipment. When you're out taking photos you'll appreciate having room for that water bottle.
For tripods, I recommend spending a little more on carbon fiber. The weight difference is worth it. However, tripod is not the first thing you should get. Protect your gear and get extra memory cards before that.
I also recommend checking out Simon De Entremont (sp?) on YouTube. He has great advice for photographers on gear and techniques.
You're right, of course. I don't, but next time I will. I grew up with A4 and can usually tell from the aspect ratio by eye, but yeah I'm not paper size Rainman either, so it's possible I've never noticed.
A4 is the closest thing to US Letter. I don't think there is anything close to US Legal (aspect ratio is all wrong). I've never received a single A-sized government letter, but I would love to be pleasantly surprised someday.
You could even go as far as saying it would be a fantastic voyage
I'm afraid the Transatlantic Express is going to be sub-par.
Shopping cart theory
I installed CacyOS on my MSI laptop with Nvidia m2060 + igpu and Intel CPU a couple of months ago. I can play genres through Steam just fine. It performs better than it did on Windows 11.
I'll be honest, I was amazed I had no issues getting it running. CachyOS has sone great tools to set things up and their wiki is excellent. I just followed the steps in there to set up GPU switching. I disabled secure boot, since that can get in the way of drivers loading, but they have instructions for that as well.
Wi-Fi worked out of the box. I even have a luks encrypted root.
The main issue I had was MSI specific hardware, like battery charging control, normally managed by the Dragon Center. I found an open source replacement for that.
I can't speak to the battery performance since I always use it plugged in. It's a few years old so it's probably not great anyway.
Your mileage may vary. It's probably going to be more off a struggle with hardware specific to the model of laptop rather than Nvidia.
This is the first time I've heard of siphon jet backup pumps. That looks like a really great option and I wish I had known about those years ago when I put in my own battery backup.
Yep, it eventually dawned on them that it wasn't smart to force everyone to take off at the busiest time of year, so they started using the employee's work anniversary instead. But, by that time I already had one foot out the door.
Yeah I had that in my previous job, but they didn't call it PTO. Also we didn't use PTO for our official holidays. It was really stupid: we would get 12 months worth of time off on January 1st and all of it expired December 31st. This naturally caused everyone to basically take December off, which meant our busiest months of December and January were super fun.
In my current job, PTO is earned for each working hour at a rate decided by your seniority, so you gain more PTO per hour the longer you work there, and you can bank up to a certain amount and the excess is lost. It's a pretty big bank, so I think it's an okay-ish balance between stealing our PTO and encouraging us to use it. I guess it could be worse.
This is different from when I lived in Norway, where I had "unlimited" sick days, all bank holidays off, and an additional 5 weeks of time off a year + vacation bonus in the summer, plus time and a half for any overtime beyond 37.5hrs/wk with double pay on Sundays and holidays.
Sort of. There is no legal requirement for any time off in the US. But PTO is a very common arrangement.
It is what it sounds like: Paid Time Off. Basically you have some hours available your will be paid for but you don't have to work. You earn PTO at a certain rate for every hour you do actual work, so you have to earn it.
You don't have the right to use them whenever you want; that's up to your boss, usually. You usually have to trade any kind of time off for your PTO: vacation, holidays (even mandatory ones), sick days, etc. There is usually a minimum amount of hours you have to take at a time, so you can't always take an hour here and there, but sometimes you can agree to make up time with you boss.
For extended time off, like if you have surgery, you can usually work with your employer to use a reduced rate of PTO to make it last longer, like get 40% pay. When it runs out, you don't get paid. You may still be able to keep your job, within the rules of FMLA (12 weeks), but you have no income. I am not sure what happens to insurance at that point, but I think you're covered as long as you're employed and pay premiums.
Of course this is not legally required and it's rare that it's even offered if you're part time or work for a small company, since those aren't required to offer any benefits.
I don't work in HR, I'm not a lawyer or doctor, my experience is my own, this is not legal advice, your state laws may be different, etc, etc. YMMV.
Yes, but Perl 5 did not, except for constant functions. Either way, the effect of that was outweighed by several orders of magnitude by the rest of the WTFs in that code.
All that is a bit beside the point I was trying to make, which is write readable code.
Use your own judgement to find a balance between readability and performance. Use profiling tools to find hotspots where performance is a concern and optimize those. Base your practices on evidence not dogma.
Yeah there is some overhead with a function call, but for our use case (low-traffic web and batch jobs) that wasn't a big deal. And the rest of their code wasn't exactly tuned for performance either.
Yes, it was the dogmatic approach to it that was the most infuriating.
I once, many years ago, worked with a programmer who had a strict rule of not introducing any functions unless the block of code was used at least twice.
Every code base they were the main developer on had source files thousands of lines long with if-statements nested to the 9 levels of hell.
We worked mostly in Perl and Deplhi (Pascal). Reading old code was... interesting. It's wild when your Perl code is more readable than your Pascal.
I'm happy to say I don't work with them anymore.
So yeah, break things into functions and name your functions and variables sensibly. Your future self will thank you.
Kanskje litt tidlig på dag for de fleste nordmenn akkurat nå, men jeg kan begynne.
For min del gjør det ikke noe at du skriver på dialekt, så lenge det er noenlunde forståelig (så langt går det bra selv om jeg ikke er trønder). Jeg skriver på bokmål og ikke på min dialekt, men det er et personlig valg for hver enkelt.
Du trenger ikke å spørre om lov til å legge ut ting. Det er bare å gjøre det. Folk vil svare på og stemme på det de liker. Det er best om du bare finner noe interessant å snakke om og legger ut noe om det. Kanskje en hobby eller særinteresser som du nevnte. Husk at dette er et diskusjonsforum, så prøv å holde deg til det formatet.
Hvis andre også liker det så blir det bra. Hvis ikke, så ikke ta det altfor personlig, men prøv igjen med noe annet.
The "what about second breakfast" meme comes to mind. Thanks for clearing that up!
My guess is that it changed from open source to a proprietary license. From Wikipedia:
It's an older model Lowepro. The closest thing I see on their website is the Slingshot Edge.
What's nice about it is that it fits my camera and some accessories while being small enough to fling around to the front so I can get my camera out without taking the bag off my back. If I'm careful I can even change my lens without setting things down.
Depending on how I pack it I can cram my camera with a 400mm mounted + a smaller lens in the top compartment with a spare battery.
There's really no room for a bottle, but I've strapped one to the outside before with Velcro straps. It has built in straps for a tripod but it would be a very small one.
I also just use it as a regular backpack sometimes when I want my hands free, like on a bike ride, but I don't need a big backpack.
Yeah that's excellent. I have a sling bag that works great for photography and urban hiking, but I wish it had a way to attach my tripod. I may be looking for a mid size backpack soon. I'll keep that brand in mind.
Good advice. I would suggest when looking for a carrying bag, that you think of it as a backpack that happens to have room for camera equipment. When you're out taking photos you'll appreciate having room for that water bottle.
For tripods, I recommend spending a little more on carbon fiber. The weight difference is worth it. However, tripod is not the first thing you should get. Protect your gear and get extra memory cards before that.
I also recommend checking out Simon De Entremont (sp?) on YouTube. He has great advice for photographers on gear and techniques.
You're right, of course. I don't, but next time I will. I grew up with A4 and can usually tell from the aspect ratio by eye, but yeah I'm not paper size Rainman either, so it's possible I've never noticed.
A4 is the closest thing to US Letter. I don't think there is anything close to US Legal (aspect ratio is all wrong). I've never received a single A-sized government letter, but I would love to be pleasantly surprised someday.
Look, it's not called transport for nothing