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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Anecdotal like the rest of the posts here, but I recently built a new rig for gaming/lab testing and used a Gigabyte board for the first time in a decade after seeing good reviews and a solid sale price.

    About 3 weeks after setting everything up it just crapped out. Would reboot seconds after you pressed power. Checked and verified absolutely every other part, no luck. Tried to contact support, got the runaround for a few days until I was directed to a site to submit an RMA request.

    That was a month ago, zero movement still. About 4 days into it I bought an identical part of Amazon and “traded” em. I’m usually pretty ethical about that kind of thing but this was ridiculous and I needed the PC working ASAP.

    Who’s decent anymore? I always used to go with MSI.









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    3 months ago

    I had like 2 issues that took literal minutes to fix over the years I ran Manjaro, I know there were some silly misconfigurations years ago but I never paid much attention then the hate and it ran all my stuff just fine. 🤷‍♂️

    Built a new rig a few weeks ago and decided to check out EndeavorOS, but would have stuck with that Manjaro install for a while if I hadn’t.




  • I keep meaning to set up timemachine but just roll the dice every few weeks. I think it bit me once and it was only for the weirdo wifi driver I needed and installed the lazy way.

    The blog is probably smart to check if you see anything weird in pamac but otherwise I’ve either been very lucky or things have been pretty stable.


  • I’m going to engage against my better judgement, hopefully you’re open to a civil conversation.

    I used to feel like you do a bit, especially before he got elected. My worst case scenario in my head was he would flail around and yell about random things but congress and the judiciary would keep things ore or less the same for the country until the next guy could take over and organize once again. I remember the day he was announced as the winner my wife was freaking out and I chuckled, pointed at these checks and balances, and went on with life.

    That lasted maybe a few weeks before I started seeing state reps shift their message to align with the guy no matter what they had done or said in the past and it seemed a little off the rails for America as I knew it. Then senators. Then judges. Now it’s the norm that you toe the line with him if you’re in the party or you don’t stay around to vote otherwise. Checks and balances dont exist unless everyone in power agrees to keep them. The party strategy for years now is simply “do what the guy says” under threat of losing your position or violence. It’s only balanced in theory, and the fact people like you don’t seem to acknowledge it is the concerning thing to me. America WAS great when people could debate civily and slowly move things over a long period of time to what was popular, not when sweeping policies that directly harm immigrants, the poor, and other countries are the hot new thing that everyone jumps on while giving tax breaks to donors and throwing more fuel on the firesof hate and fear. Our country has become an international joke, believe me I traveled a lot over the last 20 years and we really slid off the moral high ground after MAGA became a thing. Make America great again man, I miss it.