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Sure - I haven't really played around with fiction since I burned out. Before that my mum and I were constantly sending each other ideas, short stories and passages from ideas for longer texts. I'll send you some notes over PM.

Thank you for sharing these, Gizmo. I'm a huge fan of written sci-fi and spent a happy bit of time reading these, and the prequals, thinking about them a bit, and re-reading a couple of times.

Whereas that would be the last day somebody worked in my industry. We simply don't allow vehicle movements without banksmen.

Thank you for sharing this, Gizmo - thoroughly enjoyed the video Definitely! Quite apart from the visceral impact of live drums, a video never truly captures the performative aspects - just how the drummers move, communicate and knit the sound together. Although a different style and...

Hah, ATi fglrx drivers, pre-takeover! They didn't improve. I used Armagetron as a sanity test, as sometimes glxgears would work but games wouldn't. Its predecessor, Blackbox, yes. Hours of fiddling with config files only to discover that the beautiful desktop that resulted was completely...

Good going - I pretty much play all games via Steam, in large part because I rarely get time to play games at all, and Steam makes it easy. I'm still playing through The New Order, though can concur that Old Blood works happily, too. All that being said, Zombie Army Trilogy is funnier!

I have indeed tried Mint - it's good for toothpaste and mojitos, and to add a little interest to a salad. As a Linux distribution, though, I've always found it a little bit underwhelming.

I figured you'd have a backup - the more it ages, the harder it'll be to restore to the point it's just not worth the effort anymore, though. I suspect it's already well past that point, hence, "lost."

Well it had many loving mothers and fathers over the years. All early desktops were fugly, but all infinitely customisable in ways that Windows couldn't be - not least because you could choose the window manager to begin with. Both KDE and Gnome (and xfce and lxde and Enlightenment and a few...

Aw D~, at the turn of the millennium, nothing computer related was beautiful. Computers were beige boxes, screens were flickery CRTs with enough UV output to damage eyesight, and all desktops - be they Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Mac OS9, and Unix's CDE, as well as outliers like Amiga Workbench...

The thing that struck me with installing RH6.2 was both how new everything was, and how sophisticated it had already become. Although the Linux kernel itself was only 9 years in development, Gnome and KDE were even newer at 3 and 4 years old, respectively. If you had supported hardware and...

One advantage of a little bit of absence is it lets me see things from a fresh perspective. As I'm looking back at old threads here and elsewhere (and remembering a few from forums now shut down), I'd just like to take a moment to point out how bloody good Linux desktops are in 2025. That's not...

I haven't played Mirror's Edge in ages! I think I have a copy on DVD somewhere. Now, if only I still had an optical drive...

Gentoo, though I'm rarely accused of being good :p

Same issue with mine on the Raven Ridge platform - no BIOS settings for gfx memory window, so I can't test personally, it was just something mentioned at the same time as the amdgpu team were looking at random lockups for raven. You might also try grabbing/building the latest firmware, mesa and...

AMD's firmware goofed on memory allocation - if you've got the option to set a specific memory window, e.g. 2GB or 4GB, set it to that, rather than to Auto, and the problem should go away. The green screens seem to happen whenever it tries to allocate itself more memory.

AMD contributes heavily to mesa3d development - AMDVLK is their test bed. It's semi-open as it's an open source wrapper around AMD's proprietary shader algorithm, that they use in their closed-source Linux and Windows drivers.Over time as AMD "sanitises" the code of differently licensed and...

I'm pretty sure we covered this in other threads - I've been using AMDGPU on the Ryzen-1/Vega10 based Raven Ridge APU for the last 2 years. Performance is good, Vulkan support for Raven Ridge is patchy as it was a fairly rushed APU, but its Ryzen 2-based replacements have a more complete...

Download the file I attached to my previous message - I think it'll go into /home/daniel/Downloads/ Then copy/paste the instructions above into a terminal. Then reboot.

I finally had time to look at this. You'll need to use the optical out as the Denon simply doesn't have ARC capability. CEC will be fine though, so you won't need to worry about remote controls. To "undo" what we did for your HiSense, we just remove the call to use the HiSense EDID. Download...