you know what they say, the more things change…
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Nvidia tends to have better driver and software support, due to larger market share. Not really AMD’s fault, but it is noticeable at times.
AMD certainly could invest more in making better drivers, the quality of their software is 100% their fault
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New iOS is delightful, feels like getting a Mac in 2006 again.
I want the expanded pencil support copied into Win10 ASAP.
our current suite of iOS devices is my iPhone X, 2018 MBP, and an ancient iPad 2 I use with duet (and also to get iMessage notifications when at my Windows desktop, which is an underrated side benefit of using duet on Windows), and my wife’s 2013 Air / Mini 2 / 2016 SE, and she’s due for a whole buncha upgrades pretty soon, I’m excited that Pencil finally does what it should
Yessss
FWIW it runs fine on an A10 as expected (iPad 6).
My surprise when it was revealed to me after many years that my wife’s personal laptop (because she mostly just uses her work laptop which is a Mac) is in fact some kind of gaming laptop and not the shitty little netbook I remembered her having from back then.
I uh, I guess she never really uses it much.
Meanwhile I was thinking about trying to disassemble my laptop so I could try to blow out the fans but there are about 142 components that need to come out first and it’s far too likely I’ll fuck that up.
So how well do you think it would work to just run a vacuum cleaner over the fan vents lol
I was able to update windows to the latest version trying to get death stranding to work but apparently that just fixes it for recent cards that had the problem I was having, my card is just too old to run the thing at all. oh well. but docker wanted me to switch to wsl 2.
I thought dockers whole deal is it’s supposed to be some lightweight efficient thing and this wsl 2 thing is supposed to be even better for it but now VMMEM immediately consumes every piece of ram it can get its hands on until it has it all. genius shit
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Wsl2 is definitely going to use more ram because it’s just a VM
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a little overdue but here’s a release
the flow control is hacky as hell but I got it working! yay javascript
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I’d suggest maybe getting a canned CO2 spray to dislodge the dust first, then run the vacuum cleaner. I suspect the vacuum doesn’t have enough suction force to extract a lot of it directly from where it’s settled
y’all have to read README.HTML, jeeeeez, luckily i am here to help!
A traditional VM experience can be slow to boot up, is isolated, consumes lots of resources, and requires your time to manage it. WSL 2 does not have these attributes.
If someone had told me, i’d just have done it right from the get-go…
seriously though,
WSL 2 uses a lightweight utility VM on a real Linux kernel with a small memory footprint. The utility will allocate Virtual Address backed memory on startup. It is configured to start with a smaller proportion of your total memory that what was required for WSL 1.
That’s where it starts to get interesting, unfortunately i didn’t have the time to Update my win10 installations to test wsl2 yet.
would expect this to be a configuration setting for the kernel, to grab memory like it does in linux. on a systemd image, there was the option of setting a limix for memory usage for a process, e. g. like this
I’ve realized there’s a complicating factor (possibly) there’s big old copper radiator fins behind the vent opening (presumably over which the fans blow for heat dissipation purposes) so I feel like there’s not much of an opening for suction to work on.
Hey folks, I gave my one good and capable laptop to my mom so she could work from home, and now I’ve got a simple but capable Ryzen Lenovo laptop coming my way.
I bought a 1 TB SSD for it (because, hey more is better, right?) and originally planned on making it a 100% Pop_OS machine, but now I’m thinkin’ that since it comes with a Windows key anyway, I may as well make it dual boot.
Anyway, uh…is it dumb to just allocate the Windows/Linux sides of it 50/50? I’m mostly just gonna fuck around on it, do some drawing (included stylus!) and (ideally, in a world where I have free time and my brain isn’t too friend and depressed to try to learn new things) try to learn…god I dunno. Pico-8. Maybe Unity. Some sorta programming. Make stuff.
I know I can do all this on Windows, I just wanna be able to add “familiarity with Linux OS” to my resume in case the USPS goes under.
So! 50/50! Is that…reasonable? A bad idea? I dunno! Maybe you do! Lemme know!
I would just run Linux in a VM if you’re looking to learn it and don’t mind Win10 as an everyday OS.
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three partitions: one for W10, one for Linux distro and one large common shared space organized for documents and the like that way you’re always organized regardless of what you’ve booted into
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Is it worth using a Linux boot for day to day web browsing etc. and having a secondary windows boot just for gaming? I’m fed up with how much Windows 10 constantly bugs me about everything, but I don’t know if switching to one of the more user friendly Linux distros is going to improve my experience or just be another flavor of the same thing. FWIW I used Ubuntu about 10 years ago but haven’t messed with it much since then.
Docker runs on WSL2 now, fwiw.
WSL2 is neat because you get native linux fs performance within your distro’s fs paired with a clean bidirectional interchange between your linux fs and your windows fs (at a performance cost). Makes a big difference if you’re working on a web project and having webpack monitor and serve your site in dev.
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yeah docker will generally behave nicely under any full Linux environment because docker under Linux is just a chroot whereas docker under Windows or Mac is a virtualized kernel
generally speaking I think there are fewer reasons to run baremetal Linux in 2020 than there were in 2014 (or in 2001, its previous heyday) but it is a good thing to get familiar with if you’ll be doing any server or virtualization work otherwise
(webpack works fine for me under msys on native windows with choco install npm && npm i -g yarn though)