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So, I've installed the new Radeon driver with Chill, ReLive, and such.
My Fury X's fan RPMs keep going to max (3,000) even though the GPU is at sub-30 Celsius.
Setting the fan's speed to a range from 500 to 1,500 RPM in WattMan works but only temporarily. Around a minute later, it starts slowly working it's way back to 3,000 RPM.
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My experience with the Steam Controller so far: It's pretty good. Not perfect. Not great. But definitely good.
Now... to actually play a game with it. -
I'm converting a BTRFS drive to a RAID 1 with another drive. I've never done it before and BTRFS is kinda "different".
>risking over 2TB of data
:sweating:
I mean, it's just media and backups. Even if I lost it, I'd only know what I lost thanks to the tree I make of my files.
Still, it'd be very annoying. I don't have another drive to push it all to.
>90% complete mirror
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Tried out Gentoo.
Would not recommend. You basically have to use Arch's wiki if you don't already know how to install the OS because the Gentoo wiki, at least for anyone who intends to do things slightly different, is unusable for that purpose.
I'll just stick with Arch I suppose. May try Slackware one day just because.-
Sorry, I still don't see it. Why even bother with a source-based distro for installation convenience or to just use a "stock" setup? (That's so pointless I don't even). I wouldn't ever bother with a distro like Arch or Gentoo if I *wasn't* going to customize the kernel, configure options for packages, and so on. Might as well just use a binary distro at that point.
But I can see being annoyed with Gentoo based on the installation process. Arch has a more streamlined base installer, while Gentoo presumes that you want to do practically everything yourself. It's an apples or oranges comparison, frankly, but I don't think Arch does "better", it just holds your hand a bit more on the presumption that you don't want to customize things as much as makes a source-based distro really shine.
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There are multiple reasons I can think of for using Arch when I don't want to customize things.
The primary reason is so I can learn so I can eventually customize things. Like, you gotta learn things in steps imo. i.e. first learn how to install the OS yourself. Even if it's automated, you learned more than you knew before. Then start looking into why you'd customize things. Then actually customize them.
The only reasons I've found for myself to customize things is so I can use the software I want to use. But I haven't got very far with that.
Gentoo doesn't really make the first step easy. Part of a distro is learning what's available for it and what it does differently that makes you want to use it over other distros. In the end, it's all Linux, so that is what matters since you could technically get anything on any distro.
For example, now I want to use OpenRC in place of SystemD. So I didn't come away from trying Gentoo completely empty handed. But I still need to learn more about it and why I'd want to use one over the other.
If I can't get into the system to see the benefits of why it does the things it does, I may as well not have bothered trying to use it.
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I recently watched a ThioJoe video where he mentioned what the new WiFi standard 802.11ad was about. It's a 60 GHz WiFi signal that can't go through anything (basically), but is very fast and has basically no latency.
One example he gave was that it might be used for VR, where you don't have a tether, and just have the headset with a battery. Or you could use it for TV without an HDMI cable.
Well, there is some credence to the VR statement. I'm watching Valve's Dev Days youtube videos and for the VR section, they specifically stated they had invested in a company that was using a 60 GHz WiFi signal to produce a tetherless head mounted display and they liked what they saw in the demo so far.
So yeah. It's basically happening. Between that, and their prototype controller that allows gripping for the gripping function (i.e. you grip the controller to grab things in VR), I'm very excited for the future of VR. If you let go of the controller, it doesn't fall out of your hand.
Just.... all my yes. VR is the future. And even if it feels like it's stagnating atm, their video states that there are 1,000 new VR users every day on Steam with 600 apps (over 100 have made $1,000,000 so far).
The future looks bright.