Finnish guy

Founder and admin of sopuli.xyz

Mastodon: Rynach@mstdn.io

Matrix: @rynach:matrix.org

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Cake day: February 1st, 2021

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  • Back in March I upgraded Pop OS and after that, weird performance problems started popping up. When trying to play Proton games, weird performance spikes started appearing, frame times were all over the place. This affected also regular software run using Wine, I got audio stuttering with Guitar Pro. I reinstalled Nvidia’s drivers and even downgraded the kernel, but nope. I tried all kinds of performance tweaks, but nope.

    Then I looked at udevadm’s logs, and my computer’s 20-year-old DVD drive appeared far too often. I shut down my computer, removed the drive and BAM – all those performance problems disappeared! Even Pop OS booted a lot faster! As the drive is connected through an IDE-SATA adapter, it may have created constant messages to the OS, even if it wasn’t in use. That in turn strained the system.

    Now I can finally game on my PC again and use Guitar Pro, feels as if a world is opened again.




















  • As a kid I got GameCube as a reward for learning the multiplication tables from 1 to 10. The first game I got for it was Super Smash Bros Melee and I played the shit out of it with my friends. On my birthday we had a big tournament, and four controllers of course. Metroid Prime, 007: Everything or Nothing, Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time… that console is my all-time favorite.










  • So this FediHood looks like to be similar to Jodel, “the hyperlocal community” app that is popular here in Finland, or Yik Yak that served as its inspiration. Good thing! Some time ago I thought that a Fediverse version of that app would be great. Might as well try to establish some Finnish prescence on FediHood, because why not?

    By the way, that markdown link isn’t working, I am getting an error page on my home instance.