IngeniousRocks (They/She)

I have opinions. Some of them are terrible. For this I am sorry.

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  • If you tightly roll your clothes before packing them, then stuff them into a ziploc to do the poor man’s vacuum seal, you can dramatically reduce the volume of your clothing.

    Source: I moved everything I own with a 2002 Honda civic across the country and still had room for a passenger.

    Edit, The US specifically. Anyone can hang out in an overfilled car for 5 hours. This was an 18 hour trip.


  • I used to be friends with an EMT. They’d be carrying 80+ pounds of medical equipment everywhere they went just in case something happened and they weren’t on route. Heaviest backpack I’ve ever seen.

    Grand scheme I’m sure you’re right, but to the few people they saved by carying that bag, I’m sure they’re one of the most important people in the world.









  • Nvidia just works unless you have a some weird obscure hardware combo. It’s been like this for over a decade. Nvidia’s reputation is because their code is shit, their processes are shit, and they lack feature parity from windows that their competitors have shown isn’t an environment limitation (like changing the amount shared dram used as vram).

    Tips: Your distro maintaindr already did the hard part, get the driver from them instead of nvidia (unless you’re on Debian, then you’re on your own).

    If you are on debian (or any of the other rare distros that don’t package the nvidia driver for you) and using xorg, back up your xorg.conf because the nvidia installer will modify it and the new one may not work. If you’re not comfortable using the terminal, make sure you take note of the location of your xorg.conf to minimize time spent there, you will need it though.

    If you’re on a normal distro, it’s usually just sudo <PackageManager> <install flag> nvidia or sudo <PackageManager> <install flag> nvidia-open




  • Bud theres obviously exceptions for massive suites like that. But I’m talking about apps with built in UIs that the dev clearly threw together as a last minute thought. Apps with every single thing you could possibly have to do either burried deep in 10k submenus, or hastily packed onto a window.

    All I’m saying is there should be a clear and obvious workflow. Devs shouldn’t be afraid to say “I know better than you, do it this way”. Throwing every single tool on a toolbar like with Office suites or editing suites is awful IMO. Gimme menus, but gimme menus that make sense (looking at you Microsoft)

    Anyway, you can disagree with me, and it won’t ever effect you, that’s the beautiful thing about the open software world. My opinions can be total shit, and you get to just ignore them 🥰

    Sorry for rambling, I’m losing my mind a little bit more every day 🫡



  • A lot of devs don’t put much work into planning the flow of their GUI from a user’s perspective and it really shows.

    IMHO a UI should offer everything a user can do in a given moment, readily available, nothing hidden behind more than a single menu. If something isn’t currently possible, it shouldn’t be available, and if the dev chooses to make the option visible but unavailable, it should be clearly and visibly marked as something that can be available (grayed out text for example).

    I think devs tend to overestimate both the skill of the user, and the usefulness of their UI.