He’s been doing that his entire life.

Crime in the US peaked in 1993… when Doom first came out. Then it started dropping until recently.

Conclusion: violent video games cause a drop in crime.

Sounds good. I wish there was something for samsung s23s.

Same here.

Yes. I wanted to do that, but when my last phone broke it was a damn emergency. I was distrustful of phone protection because I remember getting a phone that was armored up in a case and had a tempered glass screen but… it once (first time) fell flat from my shirt pocket onto the ground flat on its front screen and it immediately went black. I had it fixed. New screen, new protector, but the protector made it possible to plug it into charge… so I had to remove it in and out of the case to do so, but the screen was broken from the pressing (like fucking how? A new changed screen AND another tempered glass cover and it was still broken just a stronger finger press?) It just kept breaking. I then refused to use protection for years after that.

But the new one I got? I think it is protection that actually works.

I got a Samsung S23. Before I get a new phone I need to remove 2fa from a lot of shit so they dont have my new phone.

I want to ask a hell of a lot more questions about this, but later.

I am on linux mint on both my laptop and my desktop. I only need my phone to be degoogled and I will be all set.

As it stands right now, due to Just_Another_Person’s link (https://itsfoss.com/nvidia-linux-mint/) pretty much took care of most of the issues. There is a minor issue with using LM studio and trying to load LLMs offline (privacy… if there is anything I miss about computing in the 90s is that there was very little in terms of any outside company looking into what you were doing on your comp), but that is not a major deal for now. I can use LLMs with small context windows. The large context windows were painfully slow anyway.

Buddy, you are a lifesaver! I do believe that fixed my issues!

Thank you so very much!

I suppose I can change things… I mean I haven’t been on linux mint that long… I didn’t hear about Bazzite. Let me try to fix this before I try to use a different distro.

I went on the default driver manager and I selected the latest one there. It was Nvidia-driver-575-open. But that gave me issues and didn’t allow me to use all 3 of my monitors. The one that it says s selected now is the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.

I tried to go directly to Nvidia’s site, but I ran into some issues that it did say X server was running, then I had to go on… man, I don’t remember what that was one called, it asked for an admin username… and was it the one I chose at the very beginning? the password I am using didn’t workout for that. It is kinda weird. I’m really needing to learn a lot to get this to work properly. It’s exciting, but I’ll be very happy once it is over.

So I installed using

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525

And then ran nvidia-smi, it told me:

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

Now I am kinda worried, because I had a very hard time installing the drivers…

Really? No driver? That explains a lot…

My GPU is an GeForce RTX 4090. Top of the line shit, that’s why I want to make sure it is put to good use.

It gave the following

Command ‘nvidia-smi’ not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525 # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1, or

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-525-server # version 525.147.05-0ubuntu1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470 # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470-server # version 470.256.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535 # version 535.183.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-535-server # version 535.230.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.3

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550 # version 550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-570-server # version 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-565-server # version 565.57.01-0ubuntu0.24.04.3

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-550-server # version 550.144.03-0ubuntu0.24.04.1

Furries, queers, and genuine perverts, all of them should have a shared interest of putting conservative values into a pine box, with a bit of stake and garlic.

And facing towards the earth with their head decapitated and placed between their legs. Kudos in advance if you know what that means.