QuentinCallaghan
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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.
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Games@lemmy.world•Report: Cancelled Perfect Dark Project Over 2 Minutes of Gameplay Surfaces Showcasing New Zones and CombatEnglish
14·4 days agoMicrosoft could have a crown jewel, but noooo…
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Suomi@sopuli.xyz•EK haluaa muuttaa perustuslakia: lisää vapautta tekoälyllesuomi
12·5 days agoKoko EK pitäisi räjäyttää.
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Piracy@lemmy.ml•A New PS5 Jailbreak May Have Just Opened The Floodgates To PiracyEnglish
10·6 days agoIt has been really satisfying to follow this development. Sony fell into hubris and shall now pay for it.
Okay, I need more context to this. N-word in any of these franchises feels something so far off.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Reminder: do not watch HBO's Harry Potter.English
251·14 days agoI wouldn’t watch it anyways, I got tired of Harry Potter in the early 2000s.
We surely live in a society.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do you all do on a Saturday?English
13·22 days agoA friend of mine has a housewarming and birthday party at the same time, I’ll go there.
Can’t help but agree with that, except I replace cats with my siblings. Cutting contact can be among the best things to do for one’s metal health.
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Games@lemmy.world•Happy 25th Birthday to the Nintendo GameCube!English
5·26 days agoAs 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.
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Games@lemmy.world•Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStationEnglish
621·1 month ago
This Bluesky user said it brilliantly.
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Science@beehaw.org•Scientists Are Making Concrete With Human Poop – And It Gets 42% Stronger
9·1 month agoSo if you add carrots into concrete with poop, it will become even more stronger?
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/08/09/carrots-concrete-stronger-lancaster-university-technology/
Concrete mixtures could be strengthened by adding nanoparticles extracted from carrots and other root vegetables, research currently underway at England’s Lancaster University suggests.
Preliminary tests by the university’s engineers found that “nano platelets” sourced from the fibres of these vegetables “significantly improved” the strength of concrete — and at a low cost.
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Privacy@sopuli.xyz•216,000,000 LG Smart TVs are spying on you - Gamers Nexus
4·1 month ago“LIfe’s Good”, more like “Life’s Grim”.
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.

This is how I would look at said bro.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What conspiracy theory, no matter how silly, do you believe in?
71·1 month agoI doubt whether the members of ZZ Top have real beards.
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Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux on September 10English
34·1 month agoUbisoft just keeps shitting on its baguettes, and the Guillemot brothers think it’s a good thing.
At least when it comes to Meta, I have nothing to delete. In 2021 I deleted my WhatsApp and in 2022 deleted my Facebook account that wasn’t used for over a year anyways.
David Cross is a great stand-up comedian.



































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