u/UnitLoose47

While browsing this subreddit, I've seen multiple mentions of browser based games as being ideal for low spec gaming. What are the commonly recommended websites that host browser games? Recommendations for certain titles would also be much appreciated.

Thanks for any info! =)

Does anyone here have any experience with the Acer CB342CU or previous versions ultrawide monitor? I can't seem to find aany information about this monitor besides what Acer has on its website and no reviews either.

Does anyone else think that it would be cool if the Path to Nowhere homescreen had a small skip current track/ost button on it? Sometimes I'm not in a mood for the particular song that's being played even if I like the song in general and want to keep it on my playlist.

Background info: Location USA. I live in a townhouse in a small townhouse complex of 6 townhouses. The townhouse has 3 kidde brand smoke detectors hard wired into the ceiling and there are a bunch of sprinklers for the automatic fire suppression system.

The Situation: Overnight, one of the smoke detectors started beeping and I figured it was the batteries (2xAA) so I bought some at lunch break for work. When I went back to the townhouse, the smoke detector had started saying "batteries low" after the beeps. I replaced the batteries, but it kept beeping and saying 'batteries low'. I tried multiple batteries from the pack of Duracells and nothing changed. After hitting the 'test' button, the smoke detector stopped saying 'batteries low' but still keeps beeping.

Does this indicate that the smoke detector is now faulty? Is it safe to disconnect the smoke detector from the hard wired connection if it is faulty and I need to buy a replacement? (I don't want to keep listening to constant beeping while I wait for the replacement in the mail from Amazon and I can't see what the model number of the smoke detector is while it's still hard wire connected). Could disconnecting the single smoke detector cause the remaining two to sound the alarm? Could disconnecting the single smoke detector cause the automatic fire sprinklers to go off? (This is my biggest fear)

Thanks for any help!

I've installed Ubuntu 24.04 on a Thinkpad P15 Gen 1 and noticed that the fan runs all the time at around 2800RPM no matter what the laptop is doing. This made me search for fan control software for linux and I came across this:

https://github.com/Swmarakis/thinkpad-fan-control

This seems like a newish project that claims to basically be exactly what I'm looking for. Does anyone here have any experience with it? Does it work? Any red flags given that the project is so new and appears to only have a single release? I am somewhat concerned about security of random software without a long history.

I appreciate any thoughts and info.

I read that the Intel 13th gen CPUs were a mix of new Raptor Lake designs and rebadged 12th gen Alder Lake designs. For the i5-13500H that I have in a laptop, linux (via lscpu) reports that the stepping is '2'...does this indicate Raptor Lake or Alder Lake?

Thanks for any info!

I read that the Intel 13th gen CPUs were a mix of new Raptor Lake designs and rebadged 12th gen Alder Lake designs. For the i5-13500H that I have in a laptop, linux reports that the stepping is '2'...does this indicate Raptor Lake or Alder Lake?

Thanks for any info!

Hi,

I'm looking to dip my toes into trying out local LLM. I've used various free cloud versions so far, but figured I want to give local LLMs a try. I want to start on a laptop with a i5-13500h and 4GB RTX 3050 running linux to tinker with first. What models are recommended for usage with the primary use case being writing linux shell scripts and coding? Secondary usage is the standard web assisted summaries of news and other topics (not sure if there is a specific term for this).

Is installing ollama and running models through that the recommended route or are there other software frameworks that are recommended for this low end hardware?

I understand that the hardware in question is very modest so models will be far less capable than the bigger versions that run on 16GB+ VRAM GPUs. If all goes well on the laptop, I do plan to try local LLMs on my primary desktop later on.

Thanks for any suggestions!

OS: Ubuntu 22.04 with KDE

Is it normal for lynis to run by itself? I installed it a few months ago to audit my system to look for areas of security to improve, but haven't manually run it since then. However, I just happened to notice 3 processes calling themselves 'lynis' running while looking through my system monitor process list. They existed for a few minutes and then disappeared. This seemed odd so I looked around online and wasn't able to really find any information about whether Lynis is supposed to run by itself or not periodically. Is there any chance this could be some sort of malware calling itself lynis? (the lynis I installed before was through synaptic so I assume that has to be legit)

While figuring out what Thermalright CPU cooler to get for my brother's PC, we found that some of the Thermalright CPU cooler listings are from a company called 'IHTP'. Does anyone know if IHTP is a legit seller of Thermalright products? I've noticed some other sellers who are clearly offering Thermalright clones (spelled ThermalRLght) so I am wondering if IHTP could be doing the same thing, but not being as obvious about it.

If anyone has direct experience with IHTP, I would also be very grateful to hear about it.

Thanks for any info!

I didn't see 160 digicash in the mailbox today. Did Seasun mention stopping that? I don't recall reading about it in-game, but I could have missed something.

EDIT: Looks like Seasun started disbursing the 160 Digicash again. Check your inboxes! Thanks, Seasun!

I normally have my Pixel 6a set to silent for keyboard sounds and notifications. However, it just turned on keyboard and notification sounds by itself sometime in the last few hours when I wasn't looking. I've had the phone for like 3 years and don't recall this happening before.

Is this something that Android is known to occasionally do? Should I be concerned about malware? I ran scans with AVIRA and Malwarebytes, but they didn't report anything.

I normally have my Pixel 6a set to silent for keyboard sounds and notifications. However, it just turned on keyboard and notification sounds by itself in the past couple of hours when I wasn't looking. I've had the phone for like 3 years and don't recall this happening before.

Is this something that Android is known to occasionally do? Should I be concerned about malware? I ran scans with AVIRA and Malwarebytes, but they didn't report anything.

I normally have my Pixel 6a set to silent for keyboard sounds and notifications. However, it just turned on keyboard and notification sounds by itself in the past few hours when I wasn't looking. I've had the phone for like 3 years and don't recall this happening before.

Is this something that Android is known to occasionally do? Should I be concerned about malware? I ran scans with AVIRA and Malwarebytes, but they didn't report anything.

Looks like we'll be in a holding pattern for a while longer. New hotfix update in-game notice is up:

Bubu Specular Soul + Weapon Banner 7/16-8/20

Mini Events:

Chain Assault 7/16-7/30

Let's Go, Heimdall! 7/20-8/3

Anchors Aweigh 7/27-8/10

Seven-Day Carnival 8/3-8/17

Joint Purge 8/6-8/20

Let's keep our fingers crossed that there's a new event and patch after this period.

I just bought a Radeon 7800XT and have been tinkering with undervolting the videocard, but the Adrenalin software feels limited compared to what I was used to before when I had a RTX 4060 and was undervolting using MSI Afterburner. For some reason, I thought I read somewhere that MSI Afterburner didn't support AMD GPUs, but now I look online and some old posts said there was actually support for AMD GPUs added a while back.

I would appreciate any info on whether MSI Afterburner supports the Radeon 7800XT. If it does, do I need to uninstall AMD Adrenalin or can it coexist with MSI Afterburner? I kinda like the AMD Adrenalin overlay monitoring more than RTSS that is bundled with MSI Afterburner so it would be nice to keep using that as well as keep using AMD Adrenalin to control the fan curve while using MSI Afterburner for undervolting.

Thanks!

I've been using ubuntu for years now and just today noticed that there is now a process running on the ubuntu 24.04 system that is called dart:firmware-n which I have never seen before this. It definitely has not appeared in the past when i've opened up system monitor to look at the process list every so often (maybe once or twice a month?)

I'm not technically that proficient in linux and my searching online hasn't cleared up whether this process is a safe one and whether it's supposed to be on ubuntu 24.04 and what it even does or what package it is associated with. I looked in synaptic and don't see dart installed. I don't recall installing any packages that are firmware related even as all i do is browse the web and do basic office work type stuff.

I would be grateful for any information and guidance. Thanks!

I've been using ubuntu for years now and just today noticed that there is now a process running on the ubuntu 24.04 system that is called dart:firmware-n which I have never seen before this. It definitely has not appeared in the past when i've opened up system monitor to look at the process list every so often (maybe once or twice a month?)

I'm not technically that proficient in linux and my searching online hasn't cleared up whether this process is a safe one and whether it's supposed to be on ubuntu 24.04 and what it even does or what package it is associated with. I looked in synaptic and don't see dart installed. I don't recall installing anything that is supposed to be firmware related as all i do is browse the web and do office type stuff.

I would be grateful for any information and guidance. Thanks!

I'm looking at converting a HP prebuilt desktop to run Ubuntu and moving completely off of Windows. What's the driver situation like on Linux nowadays with regards to the 3 following options? Intel A750, Nvidia RTX 4060, AMD 7600XT? I've found random threads all over reddit stating good and bad things from all of the 3 discrete GPU manufacturers across the past few years so I'm pretty confused as to what the current situation really is like.

If possible, I'd love to find out how well supported these 3 GPUs are and how full featured their drivers in Linux are nowadays. Stuff like being able to change a bunch of options like in Windows, being able to undervolt, control power limits, etc.

The system currently has a RTX 4060 in it, but I'm okay with switching to an AMD or Intel GPU if it means much better drivers in Linux.

Thanks for any info!