COTD: Spoil choice in two ways (6)

Why is it >!DEFACE!<?

We've looked up the answer and neither my father nor I can work back why it's correct. Both of us solved it from the definition and crossing answers.

reddit.com
u/BeardedBaldMan — 1 day ago
▲ 1 r/DIYUK

Tracksaws - Which one

I have sheets of OSB that I need to make long straight cuts on, as well as boards I need to cut.

What's the cheapest but usable track saw out there? Or is it just more effective to buy a circular saw and clamp a bit of wood in place as a guide?

reddit.com
u/BeardedBaldMan — 4 days ago

Cheating in Spec Racing

I spent a bit of time playing spec racing online and the cheating is rampant. I can normally beat the AI on a decent difficulty but in spec racing I'm aiming for fifth due to the sheer speed of the leaders.

The cheats can be broadly categorised as

  • Being better at driving

  • Not being in the wrong gear on corner exit

  • Causing me to accidentally press rewind

  • Having faster reactions

Seriously PG, get this sorted.

reddit.com
u/BeardedBaldMan — 15 days ago

Potentially ridiculous theory, but I'd like your input

I grew up in the north of England around a lot of border collies, both working and pets.

All of them were exactly like one would expect from the breed. A bit neurotic, high energy, they'd herd everything, they had the classic stance and waiting position etc.

Then I moved to Poland and the border collies around me are nothing like that. They look the same and share some of the same traits in regards to intelligence, but they don't stalk and seem far more biddable while being a bit less energetic.

My theory is that the dogs in England had working dogs far closer in the family history, while where we are in Poland with its complete absence of sheep and very few cows the dogs haven't been used for herding for generations.

reddit.com
u/BeardedBaldMan — 1 month ago

GNOME - Troubleshooting a dead session - What could I have done better?

While working my entire system froze and required a hard power off. On restarting I could get to the graphical login screen but entering Gnome would cause a hard freeze preventing me from switching to tty3.

Logging in from tty3 and looking at journalctl wasn't showing any obvious errors.

Creating a new user and then logging in gave me a working Gnome session so it had to be something to do with Gnome or a component. No updates had been performed.

In the end I reset the configuration with dconf reset -f / and this allowed a successful login. Then when re-enabling extensions Copyous as soon as it was re-enabled would hard freeze the system.

Extension removed and looked around on github and saw that others had similar issues with a corrupted clipboard.db but when I tried to find the error in my logs I couldn't

I've wasted 30 minutes tracking down the problem and am a bit vexed that I couldn't find the actual error in the logs using journalctl.

My question is: What should I have done to more quickly find the source of the error?

reddit.com
u/BeardedBaldMan — 2 months ago

I'm looking for something which has 32-48GB of memory, 512-1TB of reasonably quick storage, 13-14" screen and is ideally not nvidia based.

It's not for playing games, it's for work and while I don't do AI stuff anything which could be useful for local models could be useful.

The two obvious contenders are the Framework 13, System76 Lemur Pro or the Lenovo Thinkpad.

My main questions are Intel vs AMD and whether or not the AI focussed chips are worth it and finally if there's another option I miss.

I appreciate the logic of you don't need loads of RAM just run everything in the cloud, but I have enough of a local workflow that a decent amount of memory makes sense.

Current laptop is a HP Elitebook 845 G7 which is showing its age but has been a perfectly decent machine so far

reddit.com
u/BeardedBaldMan — 2 months ago