Yeah I am also boycotting Brewdog after the takeover farce. Finding alcoholic alternatives is no problem, but they are very good at the AF stuff.
And we’re also trying to avoid all Coke/Pepsi owned products, which is almost everything sugary in a pub - fine for me as I’m not into sweet drinks, but leaves my wife on lime and soda often.
Non-alcoholic gin and tonic can be pretty good, but is often a rip-off.
Guiness 0% or the Brewdog AFs are pretty good. My favourite was Nanny State, but it’s hard to find.
37 to about 45 was my era.
However, the first ones Insaw were 8 and 11 in my parents vinyl collection. I may have them at my house now, not sure.
Sorry, I oversimplified, I can’t use my router with Sky. 😞
Even having switched it over to open-source FW and having dug around inside it over SSH, I couldn’t find a way to get my Nighthawk R7800 to do the Option 61 thing.
It’s not a particular great router, but it otherwise does everything I need it to do and is all setup, so still I figured I’d put up with the white box for a year and then switch again… That was probably nearly two years ago now 😅
We were with Virgin for over a decade. The quality of the fibre service was very good. Probably had about 3-4 brief outages in that entire time. Left because I got fed up with the mid-contract price increases that the government specifically tried to outlaw and then they found a way around it again (it’s not a change of contract if we say in the contract we’re going to change the contract…).
So I rage quit and went with Sky Fibre a year ago, which is BT Fibre and is also very good. Sky were about the only BT Fibre provider when I looked that at least waited until the end of the contract before cranking the price up.
Downside with BT is they force you to use their massive white router, which shouldn’t be necessary.
I don’t think I’ve ever had particularly good customer service from either, but if you get something that is Virgin or BT Fibre to Premises then it should be good quality and hopefully you won’t need customer service too much.
Based on how you’re observing the loading move from 100% CPU ro 100% GPU, I would suggest that it is “working” to some extent.
I don’t have any experience with that GPU, but here’s few things to keep in mind with this:
When you use a GPU for video encoding, it’s not the case that it’s ‘accelerating’ what you were doing without it. What you’re doing is switching from running a software implementation of an HEVC encoder on your CPU to running a hardware implementation of an HEVC encoder on your GPU. Hardware and Software encoders are very different to one another and they won’t combine forces; it’s one or the other.
Video encoders have literally hundreds of configuration options. How you configure the encoder will have a massive impact on the encoding time. To get results that I’m happy with for archiving usually means encoding at slower than real-time for me on a 5800X CPU; if you’re getting over 100fps on your CPU I would guess that you have it setup on some very fast settings - I wouldn’t recommend this for anything other than real-time transcoding. Conversely, it’s possible you have slower settings configured for your GPU.
Video encoding is very difficult to do “well” in hardware. Generally speaking software is better suited to the sort of algorithms that are needed. GPUs can be beneficial in speeding up an encode, but the result won’t be as good in terms of quality vs file size - for the same quality a GPU encode will be bigger, or for the same file size a GPU encode will be lower quality.
I guess this is a roundabout way of suggesting that if you’re happy with the quality of your 100fps CPU encodes, stick with it!
Yelp still exists!?
Who is finding a McDonalds location on their phone’s map app and then thinking “I’d better cross-check this against Yelp first”!?
1440p for the win!
Note that New Scientist was acquired by the Daily Mail in 2021…
Single GPU with scripts that run before and after the VM is active to unload the GPU driver modules from the kernel.
I think this was my starting point and I had to do just a few small tweaks to get it right for my setup - i.e. unload and reload the precise set of kernel modules that block GPU passthrough on my machine.
https://gitlab.com/Karuri/vfio
At this point from a user experience p.o.v it’s not much different to dual booting, just with a different boot sequence. The main advantage though is that I can have the Windows OS on a small virtual harddrive for ease of backup/clone/restore and have game installs on a dedicated NVME that doesn’t need backing up
I’ve been 100% linux for my daily home computing for over a year now… With one exception… To be honest I didn’t even try particularly hard to make gaming work under Linux.
Instead I have a Windows VM - setup with full passthrough access to my GPU and it’s own NVME - just for Windows gaming. To my mind now it’s in the same category as running console emulation.
As soon as I click shutdown in windows, it pops me straight back into my Linux desktop.
This video of one of the rioters getting repeatedly struck with bricks thrown by his own mates is well worth a watch… Or two… Or three…
“Mr Edwards left the BBC in April.”
len(string) passes the object ‘string’ to a function ‘len’ that returns its length.
sting.len() (edit: hypothetically if it existed) calls the method ‘len’ which is an inherent part of any object of string type.
In practice the result is the same, but the latter is the more object-oriented approach.
I had some hard to track down intermittent network issues when I upgraded from LMDE5 to LMDE6 - the solution was to get a newer kernel from backports - its fairly painless…
Obviously the one that’s in better condition 😅
No experience myself, but one of the fitness YouTubers I like posted this recently: https://youtu.be/_ro-YvnLF-4
I also didn’t get on with Garmin for strength work. I moved to ‘Strong’ on Android - everything I was after is at free tier.
Not OP, but two big issues for me having actually been a fan of them and an ‘Equity Punk’ (just one share) back in 2020:
CEO accused of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power.
Despite huge popularity and their drinks taking over every supermarket, somehow managed to fall into administration leaving suppliers and original investors out of pocket.
I think the takeover deal stinks - the worst kind of capitalism - leave all the small guys short changed and hand a massive multinational brand to another company with no obligations to make it right.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59957485
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70dv0eg9yko