3x 3 day pre-season tests for the new regs

1440p for the win!

Single GPU with scripts that run before and after the VM is active to unload the GPU driver modules from the kernel.

I think this was my starting point and I had to do just a few small tweaks to get it right for my setup - i.e. unload and reload the precise set of kernel modules that block GPU passthrough on my machine.

https://gitlab.com/Karuri/vfio

At this point from a user experience p.o.v it’s not much different to dual booting, just with a different boot sequence. The main advantage though is that I can have the Windows OS on a small virtual harddrive for ease of backup/clone/restore and have game installs on a dedicated NVME that doesn’t need backing up

I’ve been 100% linux for my daily home computing for over a year now… With one exception… To be honest I didn’t even try particularly hard to make gaming work under Linux.

Instead I have a Windows VM - setup with full passthrough access to my GPU and it’s own NVME - just for Windows gaming. To my mind now it’s in the same category as running console emulation.

As soon as I click shutdown in windows, it pops me straight back into my Linux desktop.

This video of one of the rioters getting repeatedly struck with bricks thrown by his own mates is well worth a watch… Or two… Or three…

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-rioting-southport-thug-bricks-33362943.amp&ved=2ahUKEwiglLKFltGHAxUjRkEAHThnAI4Q0PADKAB6BAgSEAE&usg=AOvVaw0uamrR8Do7LsyZ53ECNnN5

len(string) passes the object ‘string’ to a function ‘len’ that returns its length.

sting.len() (edit: hypothetically if it existed) calls the method ‘len’ which is an inherent part of any object of string type.

In practice the result is the same, but the latter is the more object-oriented approach.

https://fullfact.org/online/keir-starmer-prosecute-jimmy-savile/

I had some hard to track down intermittent network issues when I upgraded from LMDE5 to LMDE6 - the solution was to get a newer kernel from backports - its fairly painless…

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=413995#:~:text=You get the kernel updates,using with command uname -v.

No experience myself, but one of the fitness YouTubers I like posted this recently: https://youtu.be/_ro-YvnLF-4

I also didn’t get on with Garmin for strength work. I moved to ‘Strong’ on Android - everything I was after is at free tier.

Of course, but his cars have won around 40% of all WDC over the past 30ish years, and his record around major new aero regulations is exceptional:

• 1998: Two back-to-back WDC from first season
• 2009: Four back-to-back WDC from second season
• 2022: Two (soon to be three) back-to-back WDC from first season

If Newey ends up at Ferrari in time to design their 2026 car, Hamilton has either lucked into a second stunning career move or he’s known all along…

Nice reference: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005725/wireless/legacy-intel-wireless-products.html

I guess my point is that it isn’t a particularly important part of the design of Wi-Fi - they included it in the very first iteration in 1997 and realised by 1999 they didn’t need it. Therefore Wi-Fi would likely have been born regardless of the invention; Bluetooth would not.

Great to recognise this invention.

I was surprised by the choice of ‘Mother of Wi-Fi’ though - Wi-Fi hasn’t used ‘frequency hopping’ as such since 802.11b was released back in 1999 - so very few people will have ever used frequency-hopping Wi-Fi.

GPS only uses it in some extreme cases I think, but I’m not an expert.

However, Bluetooth absolutely does depend on it to function in most situations, so ‘Mother of Bluetooth’ might have been more appropriate.

The real question is why did they install a system based on 5.25" floppy disks in 1998 in the first place!?

The 5.25" floppy was surpassed by the 3.5" floppy by 1988 - ten years prior to this systems installation - and by 1998 most new software was being distributed on CD-ROM. So by my reckoning, in 1998 they installed a ‘new’ system based on hardware that was 1.5 generations out-of-date and haven’t updated it in the 26 years since.

Haha, funny you should say that, my friend I often share this platter with always orders an entire dish of Unadon on the side to compensate

At Kuala Lumpa International Airport half the signs were like this near our gate a couple weeks ago…

Yep, especially surface mount lithium batteries - they’re very sensitive to the solder reflow profile being juuuust right

Just to add in case you’re not aware, the EF-RF adapters are literally just spacers that shift the lens mount to where it would have been if there was a mirror in there - optically it’s just 24mm of air, so no quality impact at all.

The only thing to keep in mind is that there is a slight autofocus slow-down with the much older lenses, but not enough to bother me.