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  • Older Nvidia GPU not working under Kubuntu 26.04 / Plasma 6.6

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  • The trouble with Nvidia cards and Linux is that Nvidia decides to stop supplying the BLOB drivers at, seemingly, random. Obviously once that happens any hope of distros supporting that card with an Nvidia driver vanishes fairly rapidly. You may find the non-Nvidia driver works well enough, you may not.

    Fundamentally it's an NV problem, not a Linux one - I got caught out many moons ago with a truly ancient Quadro card.

    You could argue that a distro should check your driver and refuse to install/update if it's not going to be supported but that isn't going to happen soon, or ever, because it's not a distro problem it's an NV one...

  • TIL steak Canadian was not invented in Canada and almost no one in Canada knows what it is.

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  • Never heard of it. Lived in England/Wales for 59 years... Will ask wife, who was a chef.

    Ok. So now I know it's what is used in steak sandwiches.

    I have never heard or read its name before - mostly because it is sold in places I don't frequent (or by food wholesalers) but also because I don't often have steak sandwiches.

    Every day is a school day I guess.

  • I'm annoyed my androids google translate doesn't do Klingon.

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  • Close...

    The original "This day is good in order to die" is better though in context - the present is a Bat'leth pizza knife so addressing the pizza such is both a statement of intent (killing the pizza) but also I n the Klingon historical context the beginning of a mating ritual!

    Thank you so much for the inspiration.

  • Is the Paris mayor really going to turn the ring-road périphérique into a park?

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  • If he does it won't make much difference to traffic flow - it's usually at a standstill!

  • I'm annoyed my androids google translate doesn't do Klingon.

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  • I am too. I have a birthday present that needs a Klingon message...

  • Red Hair distribution across Europe

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  • Because the Vikings settled and formed The Russians around Ukraine, from where they spread and eventually formed Russia.

  • What the Hell is this Bull shit ?

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  • What a small volume... Should have stuck to English measures when you escaped back along 🤣

  • What the Hell is this Bull shit ?

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  • 68ml short of a Pint in my book. Dunno where they got the idea that 500ml is 1.05 pints

  • French inventions are different

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  • They do that in Germany too.

    There is even specific chocolate you can buy in any supermarket, in many different flavours. I am guessing the sweet chocolate and sourdough is what makes it so nice.

    Sauce: my mouth is scarred from over consumption!

  • The House on the Borderland - Chapter 22 - William Hope Hodgson

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  • Not bad for a translation of the English original into Spanish and back to English again....

  • NATO approves the iPhone and iPad for classified use

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  • Err NATO-Restricted isn't one of the highest security ratings. It's one that's sorta kinda a problem if it gets released rather than a "omg oh noes I am so dead if the leak gets traced to me" type problem.

    It's also actually a caveated protective marking. The NATO bit tells you that only NATO eyes can see the materiel which itself is marked Restricted.

    The trouble is there are at least 3 classification/protective marking schemes that I know of and in one Restricted is used to describe materiel that is called Confidential (or is it Secret? It's been a while) in another.

  • Not gonna lie, I kinda like it

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  • Dude, get your B12 levels checked. Was feeling old and tired, so I went to drs for something else, he ran bloods just to make sure. Came back ok except B12 deficient. Now I get a B12 jab every 12 weeks and top up with high dose B12 pills every day after 4 weeks. Tiredness gone, cold feet at night gone, visual migraines gone grumpy old git moods gone. Oh and fucking around in a good way is way more on the cards!

  • How to fix this crack in the shower wall?

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  • There was no mold - the crack wasn't there long and there was a relatively thick adhesive bed which stopped the water getting to the cement board.

  • How to fix this crack in the shower wall?

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  • Had a crack like that... The wife said "it's only a 5 minute job"

    Sadly the (correct stuff - we rebuilt the bathroom side of the wall when we moved in) wallboard had cracked for some reason so 5 minutes to yank out a tile and stick in a new one turned into a mission - chasing the crack in the wall board, cutting the damaged bits, repairing with new pieces then replacing 4 tiles instead of one.

    It hasn't cracked again so I must have done something right (or the wall has decided to stop moving)

    What's the moral? Do not expect it to be a simple job. If it turns out to be simple, fix it, get a beer and chill. You will probably need to get a bit more involved than just replacing the tile.

  • What is something you can't do with 100M dollars but can do with 18 dollars?

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  • Take the cash on an commercial international flight without prior arrangements being made.

    Obviously you could fly it around in your own 747 if you wanted to, but border controls invariably get twitchy when comparitively small sums of cash are transported.

  • Good budget walkie talkie?

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  • The T82 extremes are what we use at work... We have 10 of them and, despite being used by generally incompetent users, seem to survive day to day abuse in a high school. We have had them for nearly two years and have no casualties yet. Other schools in the area also use them - with no reported issues.

    I know a couple of multi-band, so not specifically pmr, Baofeng users but can't comment on their ruggedness or longevity other than to say I haven't heard bad things.

    Another popular brand to look at might be Hytera; possibly a bit out of budget for you. We did look at those, instead of cheaper handsets, but price won in the end.

  • Good budget walkie talkie?

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  • I am a Motorola fan. Used to use their VHF kit back in the day and it took a lot of abuse.

    At work we have their averagely rugged yellow things T82 iirc that work out about €35 each

    At home, for the goblins, we have a pair of yellow Motos T72 iirc similarly rugged €60 the pair.

    Both models have good range and are easy to set up. Work ones do group programming so you program 1 bung the rest on programming mode and transmit the config. Boom. 10 radios programmed identically in less time than manually doing 2.

  • Las Vegas Police Touted New “Bulletproof” Cybertrucks. The Only Problem? They Aren’t Bulletproof.

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  • They are just about as bullet proof as the cars are self driving. Dunno why anyone might think that they would actually be bullet proof, given Musk's track record...

    /s

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    A question for those who have a partner, how did you manage to do it and how long did it take?

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  • My wife is an introvert. It took 7 years of very innocent twice a year meeting at camp and someone else shoving us together for us to think about becoming an item. Been married for 8 years now (together for 13). Sometimes these things just happen. Top tip is not to try too hard.

  • According to http://20minutos.es, 8 broadcasters have requested a secret vote on Israeli participation in #Eurovision 2026, exceeding the required threshold of 5.

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  • Seems, from the same place, that the EBU have voted to add some weasel words to the rules and also allow Israel to take part. Spain Ireland Netherlands won't be there with options for Iceland and Slovenia also not to attend.

    Germany said they wouldn't attend if Israel were barred. Kind of strange that, n'est pas?

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