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Linux user. Tries to keep feeding the brain with stuff. Husband and father of a young lady and a younger son who has autism/is autistic... that nut didn't fall far from this nut-tree, I'll tell ya: he gets it honestly. Now if only he'd sleep..............
I believe that God gave us the science, curiousity and intelligence to one day conclusively prove that God does not exist.
One that won't make me nervous
Wondering what to do
One that makes me feel like
I feel when I'm with you
When I'm alone with you
How about a poll for how many people want SN to continue, how many don't, how many can't live without SoylentNews, etc.
Another mass shooting, this time at a Texas outlet mall.
Shooters need to start targeting the right people: take the top 5 people at the NRA. Shoot them.
When promotions happen, take those new top 5 out.
Soon, no one would take a promotion at the NRA.
Top 5 gun promoting Governors/Senators/Republicans (don't know or care THAT much about A. political structure): take them out.
Possible other target: Top 5 people at gun manufacturing plants.
Keep doing THESE things, and support for gun control will go up, at least for shite like AR15's (or whatever). No one needs an automatic or semi-automatic for 'hunting', unless they are hunting people.
Damn: change your targets, idiots. 'Hunt' the RIGHT prey.
Legal Disclaimer: not advocating killing; just saying, if you go hunting, make sure you aim at the right target.
US Republican DeSantis calls Ukraine war a ‘territorial dispute’
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/14/us-republican-desantis-calls-ukraine-war-a-territorial-dispute
Sure, DeSantis. Let's give Russia the Ukraine! Peace in our time!
When they go for Sweden and Finland, hey, just look the other way. Peace in our time!
Poland... Germany... awww, fuck it. I'm sure that's all the Liebensraum they want. Peace in our time!
Some people are just fucking stupid.
Let's ban 'Drag shows', etc to protect the children:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/02/politics/tennessee-ban-drag-show-performances-governor/index.html
But Dog forbid we ban guns to protect the children:
https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville/sad-angry-4-year-old-dead-in-preventable-shooting/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-people-shoot-tennessee-police/story?id=85048571
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-shot-memphis-tennessee-school-juvenile-detained-n1280482
https://wreg.com/news/local/two-children-shot-in-downtown-memphis-suspect-wanted/
Guns don't kill people, people kill people
Drag shows don't turn people gay: Gay people come out as gay?
Fair play, Tennessee....what are you scared of?
RIP, Raquel, my first love.
Sigh.
;)
https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/threads/ot-raquel-welch-dead-at-82.256658/
and with my other favourite person:
https://tenor.com/view/leslie-nielsen-raquel-welch-gif-18589094
Just ponied up for a new desktop, DIY.
Gonna see if my son wants to watch and help build it (gotta watch that static, though). Last time i switched parts into a new case, he watched me for a straight hour (he was very small at that time).
Wasn't exactly what i was wanting, but there was a sudden $60-70 drop in price (through pcpartpicker.com) and i pounced.
It's been a LONG time since i bought brand new and DIY and my knowledge of hardware has diminished, so i purchased what i THOUGHT was a good buy for the money i had, but who knows...
Here's what i bought, with my mind going towards increasing the memory this Christmas, possibly.
***Edited to add prices, all in CAD***
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor $209.99 CAD
Asus TUF GAMING B450M-PLUS II Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $139.19
2 x G.Skill Aegis 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 CL15 Memory $31.99 each stick
Seagate ST500LM021 500 GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $30.99
ADATA SU635 480 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $42.99
Deepcool MATREXX 55 MESH ATX Mid Tower Case $69.98
Thermaltake Smart 600 W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply $54.99
Going to probably put Manjaro on it as the main OS, and then distro-hop like a fiend, looking at all teh non-systemd's and i hope to (again) explore LFS for the rush.
Might even try Slackware again!
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Benchmarked on Garuda linux Cinnamon
******Using sysbench*****
--CPU TEST
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time
Prime numbers limit: 10000
Initializing worker threads...
Threads started!
CPU speed:
events per second: 1922.81
General statistics:
total time: 10.0004s
total number of events: 19233
Latency (ms):
min: 0.50
avg: 0.52
max: 0.72
95th percentile: 0.53
sum: 9946.56
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 19233.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 9.9466/0.00
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--MEMORY TEST
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time
Running memory speed test with the following options:
block size: 1KiB
total size: 102400MiB
operation: write
scope: global
Initializing worker threads...
Threads started!
Total operations: 2414611 (241408.75 per second)
2358.02 MiB transferred (235.75 MiB/sec)
General statistics:
total time: 10.0001s
total number of events: 2414611
Latency (ms):
min: 0.00
avg: 0.00
max: 0.27
95th percentile: 0.00
sum: 3398.81
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 2414611.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 3.3988/0.00
********************************************************************************
--FILE I/O
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 1
Initializing random number generator from current time
Extra file open flags: (none)
128 files, 16MiB each
2GiB total file size
Block size 16KiB
Periodic FSYNC enabled, calling fsync() each 100 requests.
Calling fsync() at the end of test, Enabled.
Using synchronous I/O mode
Doing sequential write (creation) test
Initializing worker threads...
Threads started!
File operations:
reads/s: 0.00
writes/s: 13746.41
fsyncs/s: 17596.10
Throughput:
read, MiB/s: 0.00
written, MiB/s: 214.79
General statistics:
total time: 10.0009s
total number of events: 313379
Latency (ms):
min: 0.00
avg: 0.03
max: 23.63
95th percentile: 0.01
sum: 8894.69
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 313379.0000/0.00
execution time (avg/stddev): 8.8947/0.00
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Results of Passmark benchmark: looks bad (not many stars..)? And there's something about a graph, but none are there. I guess the stars are how i compare to other tests?
https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V10/display.php?id=502239247835
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I've gone, so far, with Garuda linux because it has some 'neat-o' things going on which I'm trying:
---zram swap in memory for fast swap
---btrfs file system with snapper taking snapshots: do something wrong, use install disk to just revert system to older snapshot (which excites me the most, cos i always screw something up with all the 'goofing with the system' i do, lol)
--linux-zen kernel
-----https://garudalinux.org/
Just resubscribed because things are so much better here, now.
Thanks @Janrinok(sp?) and all involved for all your hard work and for making Soylentnews more edible (see what i did there!?.... yeah, i have no life.)
In other news, my wife, son and I were going to head out to western Canada for a 3 week vacation: Got one days travel out, stopped at a hotel and tried to get my son to sleep. He just wouldn't and got really angry (he is non-verbal). While we tried to figure out what was going on, my wife noticed him hiding/protecting his thumb. His thumb was infected and inflamed.
Do we continue out west while trying to deal with lancing his thumb and soaking it in warm water and epsom salts and maybe having to get him antibiotics, or do we just go home again and deal with it there?
We went home and are dealing with it now: finally had to get him antibiotics.
Thinking maybe we'll do a trip to Santa's village and then go to Niagara Falls for a few days.
Another year of STAYCATION! Woooo!.................YEAH!
yeah
yeah.
Gob bluss Amurica
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/texas-elementary-shooting-1.6464315
I had to find my own way out. But how, when I knew that I could not trust the things I heard, saw, thought or felt?
--Michael David Crawford
And my response to him probably would have been something like: "You're a man, Frank. You're a man. Betty knows it."
My second quote:
I can slice, dice, julienne and puree. --Michael David Crawford
