So I guess it's "all that walking", AND kicking now? I mean, let's not forget, it was Chuck that taught Bruce how to kick! 😏
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LOL, you were doing fine with the Chuck Norris clip and you just had to ruin the vibe with a clip of one of THE worst action TV shows ever made that failed miserably at conveying martial arts!
It's OK man, all in the name of humor I guess. 🤣
Colif
On a Journey
So it took the last two months to get to point where walking is easy, next "step" is to walk up some of the hills in my suburb.
3 months ago yesterday I was told I could take the boot off to sleep at night, still couldn't walk at that stage without it. It really doesn't feel that long ago. About 2 months ago I was told to stop walking in it. It almost doesn't seem real now except the boot is still in my room... need to find somewhere to put it. Doubt I ever use it again. The hydrotherapy was a highlight really. I didn't want to stop but it was becoming too easy.
Today I walked around the block, it was a struggle the last time I did it and ever since I just been going to oval. Weekends aren't ideal for the oval as every man and dog (almost literally) are down there. Lap wasn't so hard this time - I remember 2 months ago it would take me 10 minutes just to get to the next corner on my street, today I almost did lap in that time.
So flat surfaces easy, next challenge is walk to the shops. Its uphill almost right away and I think if I can walk to end of the 1st street, I just have to do distance.
Think I cheat and get lift to shops and just walk back the first few times. Its up and down hills from there - I never really thought about it before, I just accepted the challenges. Considering I used to ride way further distances on a push bike, I just ignored it. Just part of the journey. I prefer short sharp hills to long inclines. To a point. One hill in suburb was so bad I would go further to go around it.
My legs don't like the weight of all my bedding now. Or at least, ever since I walked a klm last week around the playing fields, they haven't been the same. My two feet ache at night so I just need to keep doing my exercises now.
Should really print them out, been going from memory. Its weird when the foot I didn't break this time aches in same way... big toes complain. Think I need to loosen up some muscles that didn't get a lot of use for months.
Like my brain lol - it too doesn't want my break to end 🙁
I need to stop thinking about it, still have one week or more, remaining. Maybe Amazon surprise me in that time... keep dreaming.
3 months ago yesterday I was told I could take the boot off to sleep at night, still couldn't walk at that stage without it. It really doesn't feel that long ago. About 2 months ago I was told to stop walking in it. It almost doesn't seem real now except the boot is still in my room... need to find somewhere to put it. Doubt I ever use it again. The hydrotherapy was a highlight really. I didn't want to stop but it was becoming too easy.
Today I walked around the block, it was a struggle the last time I did it and ever since I just been going to oval. Weekends aren't ideal for the oval as every man and dog (almost literally) are down there. Lap wasn't so hard this time - I remember 2 months ago it would take me 10 minutes just to get to the next corner on my street, today I almost did lap in that time.
So flat surfaces easy, next challenge is walk to the shops. Its uphill almost right away and I think if I can walk to end of the 1st street, I just have to do distance.
Think I cheat and get lift to shops and just walk back the first few times. Its up and down hills from there - I never really thought about it before, I just accepted the challenges. Considering I used to ride way further distances on a push bike, I just ignored it. Just part of the journey. I prefer short sharp hills to long inclines. To a point. One hill in suburb was so bad I would go further to go around it.
My legs don't like the weight of all my bedding now. Or at least, ever since I walked a klm last week around the playing fields, they haven't been the same. My two feet ache at night so I just need to keep doing my exercises now.
Should really print them out, been going from memory. Its weird when the foot I didn't break this time aches in same way... big toes complain. Think I need to loosen up some muscles that didn't get a lot of use for months.
Like my brain lol - it too doesn't want my break to end 🙁
I need to stop thinking about it, still have one week or more, remaining. Maybe Amazon surprise me in that time... keep dreaming.
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Maybe it's time to try Linux yet again.
Noticed just last night that my monitor on my laptop was flickering. Unsure if this was due to my hardware change in the laptop or something else, I decided to wait until this morning to troubleshoot it.
Reinstalled Intel Graphics Driver and there's no new nVidia driver for my card. Reboots, full shutdowns and tweaking power management doesn't fix it. Adjusting brightness does nothing to it either. So at this point I'm a little worried it's a hardware issue.
Grabbed my Fedora USB just now and booted a live desktop and...no flickering in Linux. Typing this from the Fedora Live USB right now and even on the white background where it's usually more prevalent in Windows, there appears to be nothing.
Another boon is that Linux just picked-up the 165Hz refresh immediately. Windows I had to do some tweaking to get it to recognize it. Maybe today I'll swap out my 2Tb disk that Windows is on and give Linux a go on this machine again. But maybe I'll just try and fix Windows...
Noticed just last night that my monitor on my laptop was flickering. Unsure if this was due to my hardware change in the laptop or something else, I decided to wait until this morning to troubleshoot it.
Reinstalled Intel Graphics Driver and there's no new nVidia driver for my card. Reboots, full shutdowns and tweaking power management doesn't fix it. Adjusting brightness does nothing to it either. So at this point I'm a little worried it's a hardware issue.
Grabbed my Fedora USB just now and booted a live desktop and...no flickering in Linux. Typing this from the Fedora Live USB right now and even on the white background where it's usually more prevalent in Windows, there appears to be nothing.
Another boon is that Linux just picked-up the 165Hz refresh immediately. Windows I had to do some tweaking to get it to recognize it. Maybe today I'll swap out my 2Tb disk that Windows is on and give Linux a go on this machine again. But maybe I'll just try and fix Windows...
Looks like I fixed it? In the Intel Graphics Panel, there's an option to set the scaling mode and it was set to GPU Scaling. Switching it to "Display Scaling" seems to have resolved that subtle flickering.
Was kind of guessing it may be something with the Intel driver, given I haven't seen that in games and I just installed the new Intel graphics driver about a week ago, but haven't used my laptop much since then, so I wouldn't have noticed.
Was kind of guessing it may be something with the Intel driver, given I haven't seen that in games and I just installed the new Intel graphics driver about a week ago, but haven't used my laptop much since then, so I wouldn't have noticed.
Actually, I'd be tempted to switch to one of the many Linux OSes if it gets to the point where they fully match W11 on performance in every game I play. Windows for some time has just had a lot of problems with everything from lack of proper surround audio support, to HDR issues, to quirks in updates every now and then that cause black screen and a need to uninstall them until they're fixed. It's a very bloated OS even if you turn off all the telemetry.
Most often, in the games I tested about a year ago on Linux Mint, the games performed better in Linux than they did in Windows. Fewer frame drops, higher FPS overall. It was pretty impressive.
Only reason I switched back is because I got tired of troubleshooting the little things, but switching to using AI more frequently for troubleshooting Linux issues has been a god send and has me thinking about switching back sooner than later. We'll see if this flickering issue continues to be solved, but if not, I may do that switch and see how it goes.
Every time I've switched, I've always tried Linux Mint, but recently I've dabbled with Fedora with Gnome and I like it quite a lot, so that's probably the direction I'll end-up going if I do that.
Colif
On a Journey
Surround sound has been missing in action since Win 10
I seem to be immune from windows update problems. This is not a new thing, same thing used to happen when I was on Tom's. Lots of problems reported but I seldom had any.
Windows bloat amuses me as most of windows isn't running all the time, it just exists on the drives. Up until recently storage wasn't expensive, and I have plenty empty.
Bloat is more a concern for mobile users. Its not so much on PC.
I seem to be immune from windows update problems. This is not a new thing, same thing used to happen when I was on Tom's. Lots of problems reported but I seldom had any.
Windows bloat amuses me as most of windows isn't running all the time, it just exists on the drives. Up until recently storage wasn't expensive, and I have plenty empty.
Bloat is more a concern for mobile users. Its not so much on PC.
What kind of games do you play though? In the last checking I did, even the Linux OSes most suited for gaming were running on average 25% lower performance than W11. Those are mostly recent or current gen games with advanced graphics though.
I was definitely including the drive space it takes up when I said bloat. Even if you're diligent at uninstalling Windows update bloat like I am, Windows still slowly eats up your drive space to ridiculous levels. One of THE most appealing thing about Linux to me is how much more streamlined it is vs Windows. No comparison really.
Colif
On a Journey
its selective support. Prior to 10 it worked everywhere but now its likely to only work in movies or games that support it. I was restricted to dual stereo mode in music and desktop settings.
It might be my speakers as since going to Digital sound, I rarely hear anything from my centre speaker. Mostly defaults to stereo now. Have to use digital as new motherboard didn't support analog connections on back.
Linux can run on a potato so its a given its smaller than 11. Whereas 10 was designed to suck all the users of 7 and 8 onto one OS, 11 shut door on many of them. II get why they did that but it made a lot of people angry that their 20 year old PC won't keep being upgraded... MS would have been under pressure from hardware makers to stop supporting all their old stuff as well.
The only time windows install size has been a problem to me in the last 10 years was when I had a VM which only had 30gb of storage space and it getting too small to run windows updates in. I fixed that by making a new VM with 100gb of storage space.
Drives generally aren't that expensive. Normally anyway. Windows folder is 40gb on my C drive, but total space used on C is only 300gb and its 90% free. I have 8tb free still... windows usage is such a small percentage of space available.
I don't want to learn a new OS. I know what to avoid doing in windows to point its not a problem to me. Starting again into a OS which has too many different variants isn't something I plan on doing today.
It occurred to me earlier that I have sat on my bed for almost the entirety of Summer, Broke foot at end of November, Summer started Dec 1 and recently just ended March 31. Spent half that time unable to move.
Its only now in Autumn I have to get up again and be normal... and I don't want to. Never been normal, just ask anyone who knows me lol.
Next years summer probably hotter, we due for one. Just in time for new windows.... we only been getting those for two years now. August is getting closer...
Starting the year in 4th month means I will be run over by rat race. I still in relaxed mode, the regret that my break is almost over period. The sadness.
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Sorry it's not more readable, but here are some images from games I Benchmarked between Linux and Windows.
In all cases, the higher scores are the Linux scores (you can see on the Windows, most of them are labeled, all Linux ones are labeled such on the window itself)
But, first column on the left:
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Linux)
Cyberpunk (Linux)
Hitman (Linux)
Second column:
Red Dead 2 (Linux)
Everything on the right hand side is Windows
The only game that performed worse on Linux was Forza Horizon 4, but at the scores it achieved in either case, that's not likely to be noticeable.
Zloth
Community Contributor
That might be a source thing. Is the music in 5.1, or is it stereo? I know all my music is stereo (at best). Desktop sounds are just .wav files, which are mostly mono or stereo. It could be that older versions of Windows just checked to see if you were in mute or mono, found that you weren't, and played it all in stereo.
Colif
On a Journey
I would say that yes, most of it was stereo. Still is.
That could be the reason. It changed in 2015 or so, before that I would get sound out of all speakers. Now I have to use double stereo to get rear speakers to make sound. Only really use them for watching Youtube now, they are the easiest option. I have others but after using speakers for 26 years, its hard to change.
That could be the reason. It changed in 2015 or so, before that I would get sound out of all speakers. Now I have to use double stereo to get rear speakers to make sound. Only really use them for watching Youtube now, they are the easiest option. I have others but after using speakers for 26 years, its hard to change.
I finally figured out that Linux is going to straight-up be a no go on my laptop. I keep trying and trying and this time I decided to mess around with Fedora rather than Mint; while I got everything setup correctly (with the help of Copilot. Zed will be pleased), I had the issue I've had in Mint in the past where some games just don't seem to be running right and performance is half what it is in Windows with my fans not spinning-up.
This time with the help of Copilot, I discovered that it's because for my laptop, Linux lacks the software needed to dynamically move power around from the GPU to the CPU and the firmware is locked down, so I can't change that.
Basically, I'm doomed to a 2Ghz CPU speed in games that are more GPU heavy, because the GPU sucks up all the available wattage and there's no offloading some of that to the CPU in compromise.
This basically just means that Linux is never going to work correctly on my laptop. Ah well. At least I didn't reformat anything, so I just needed to pop my Windows NVMe back in.
But it does make me think that next time I buy a laptop, I should make sure it's more compatible.
This time with the help of Copilot, I discovered that it's because for my laptop, Linux lacks the software needed to dynamically move power around from the GPU to the CPU and the firmware is locked down, so I can't change that.
Basically, I'm doomed to a 2Ghz CPU speed in games that are more GPU heavy, because the GPU sucks up all the available wattage and there's no offloading some of that to the CPU in compromise.
This basically just means that Linux is never going to work correctly on my laptop. Ah well. At least I didn't reformat anything, so I just needed to pop my Windows NVMe back in.
But it does make me think that next time I buy a laptop, I should make sure it's more compatible.
So you hear.
I also hear Thinkpads (which mine is) are supposed to be extremely compatible with Linux. And to be fair, if I was just a programmer or only surfed the web, it probably would be no trouble at all. But the fact that I want to play games and the firmware is locked down without the use of special software to negotiate wattage between the CPU/GPU, means it's just not going to work for me, I guess.
I am very curious to try it out on my main desktop, since I'm all AMD there and that is supposedly more compatible. That said, I'm not chomping at the bit to do that, because it means a lot of new setup and configuration, since it also acts as my server.
Colif
On a Journey
locked down laptop bios is a problem even for windows, though if its got drivers that can talk direct to hardware, there is that advantage.
on linux, Intel P-State (intel_pstate): Handles CPU frequency scaling and power management for modern Intel CPUs, often interfacing directly with the hardware to balance performance and power usage.
The kernel and other system drivers should balance it, shouldn't need to go into bios.
Asks AI (lol)
linux files should be able to manage power switching. Its sharing I can't find
VGA Switcheroo (vga_switcheroo): A kernel subsystem used for switching between graphics cards (especially older hybrid setups).
sysfs interface: Power states and performance levels for GPUs are managed through sysfs files (e.g., /sys/class/drm/card*/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level
I don't know linux lol. I should stop there.
on linux, Intel P-State (intel_pstate): Handles CPU frequency scaling and power management for modern Intel CPUs, often interfacing directly with the hardware to balance performance and power usage.
The kernel and other system drivers should balance it, shouldn't need to go into bios.
Asks AI (lol)
linux files should be able to manage power switching. Its sharing I can't find
VGA Switcheroo (vga_switcheroo): A kernel subsystem used for switching between graphics cards (especially older hybrid setups).
sysfs interface: Power states and performance levels for GPUs are managed through sysfs files (e.g., /sys/class/drm/card*/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level
I don't know linux lol. I should stop there.
Yeah, I tried several different distros and each time, the Firmware itself is locked down to the point where I can't change power management. My attempt was to lower the GPU wattage to something reasonable so the CPU could pick up the extra, but it just straight-up wouldn't let me on any given Distro.
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