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Look into the cheap Sceptre displays. They make non-smart panels with decent resolution and performance, so long as you have external speakers and use the optical audio output instead of the output from their garbage DAC.

Time will tell, but in theory the Volts should last a really long time also. The generator only directly powers the drivetrain at highway speeds, and in the gen-1 they were really conservative with allowed pure electric range on the battery.

I'm planning to drive mine until it dies, and suspect that salty winter Midwestern roads will render it unsafe/broken before anything else does.

"Error: cannot start (no connectivity). Please call a licensed repair technician to service your vehicle."

More than possible, it's common as an attack: cryptojacking.

I did, but had trouble getting it to work. It was a while ago though, and the image I was working from was old/unmaintained even at the time. Linux guest. Do you have any examples to hand?

Is there something specific about the AMD drivers? I have a decent Nvidia card (I know, I know…)

I do kill it, but I’m in and out of meetings all day, so it’s easy to forget.

I found the video quality and responsiveness to be far worse, and I have to teach and work over Zoom. I tried running the desktop client virtualized as well, with similar results.

So… sketchy it is. I find myself wondering what it’s doing with 15% CPU when not in a meeting. Feelsbad.

It does keep running and using CPU after exiting though, so I always have to ‘pkill -f zoom’ it.

There’s a desktop Zoom client. Also, the web office 365 Word works… okish.

Yeah, I was thinking of the workshop.

I’ve been playing with GPGPU on Julia lately also, and it really seems like things have come a long way in the last few years. Check out the Juliacon 2021 talk on GPU compute if you’re interested.

> I think you're confusing Arch with Gentoo or something - the Arch package manager is not from-source, it ships binaries just like apt. Perhaps you're thinking of the AUR

Sorry, what I meant was: when I need to manage the version of something carefully, I just compile it from source and that's OK with me. My understanding is that people use the AUR for this on Arch, and the pains don't seem worth it.

> The main thing that people like about it is the rolling release model

Fair enough, though I've been pretty happy with the pace of update from, for example, Fedora.

> That's very much a "cover-your-ass" type disclaimer, like a ToS that says you have no right to expect anything to work.

Fair enough

Yeah, exactly. Why?

Can an Arch person explain to me why their approach is worth it over something with a more comprehensive package manager like apt or dnf? I don’t mind compiling programs myself when needed, but for most things I’m happy to not have to hand-hold my OS when it comes to updates.

From the wiki:

> Before upgrading, users are expected to visit the Arch Linux home page to check the latest news, or alternatively subscribe to the RSS feed or the arch-announce mailing list

Like… why?