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20:53:22
gingerale
PincerAttack: shinmera: I added Eberron specific SWADE book to NAS with a bunch of character options.
21:24:56
suntmc
shinmera: i considered manjaro, endeavour and garuda. people were complaining about manjaro holding back packages for 'stability' but creating dependency problems. garuda seemed very edgy and their 'chaotic aur' dunno. kinda cringe
21:26:20
suntmc
plus their own added repo for smaller utilities like nvidia-inst that'll just install the correct drivers
21:26:40
suntmc
and then tell you that you gotta change something in GRUB or you won't boot anymore :)
21:28:09
suntmc
but apparently kernel 5.13 and newer has issues with PCs running intel 11th gen CPUs and newer
21:29:05
suntmc
"nvidia may not boot on Linux 5.18 (or later) on systems with Intel CPUs (likely only of 11th Gen and onward) due to FS#74886/FS#74891. Until this is fixed, a workaround is disabling the Indirect Branch Tracking CPU security feature by setting the ibt=off kernel parameter from the boot loader. This security feature is responsible for mitigating a class of exploit techniques, but is deemed safe as a
21:30:11
suntmc
then again, the experience so far is way better than ubuntu where i had constant mouse cursor flickering and random updates just nuking the nvidia driver
21:30:50
suntmc
i don't get it. like it updated the nvidia driver, but didn't really. so in the end there was no driver
21:31:50
suntmc
but yeah, i forgot how often you gotta do stuff manually on arch. but at least if something doesn't work the solution is quick and easy to find
21:32:07
suntmc
unlike ubuntu where all proposed solutions are usually 10+ years old and not relevant anymore
21:33:11
suntmc
what was fun is realizing what chosing no swap space in arch does if your ram happens to be full
21:34:02
suntmc
and then the laptop just freezes for x amount of time. and when it's back, a random amount of open apps are closed
6:13:44
isoraqathedh
Hey, remember when Kik (the messaging company) strong-armed some Turkish guy's package called kik off of that name? Well they have since been sued by the SEC and their package has been removed apparently because they have malicious code.
7:34:55
gingerale
No worries, it was just a few moves in. I was thinking I should remind but didn't want to bother