...I do manage to perform some maintenance on my vehicles. Tonight I replaced the spark plugs in my R59 mini S, and boy the old plugs looked bad. I got the old ones out easily, put some anti-seize on the new ones and they went right in. Took the mini around the block for a test drive and, call me crazy but I think the exhaust smelled a lot cleaner.
It will be interesting to see how she performs over the next week.
I am also... such a dork... I am also back on Fedora. Love Pop, but the gnome performance is terribly sketchy. I can get Nvidia drivers and non-free audio drivers installed on Fedora, AND gnome runs like butter. So ... here I am.
Other than that, not too much to report. Gotta go to bed soon. Have a 6:30 AM meeting in the office tomorrow. :)
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Thursday, January 10, 2019
Welllll you know me...
Fedora was fun. But I am back to Pop. Could not help it. It just feels better for some reason.
Different theme for me... a little bright though.
So any linux users out there who have successfully installed and run Lollypop? Any tips, because I just wanted to try it but... when I kick it off to scan my music folder it hangs my system.
I don't have to use Lollypop, I can use one of a myriad of music apps but... I had heard good things about it so I wanted to take it out for a spin.
I could try building it from scratch.
Different theme for me... a little bright though.
So any linux users out there who have successfully installed and run Lollypop? Any tips, because I just wanted to try it but... when I kick it off to scan my music folder it hangs my system.
I don't have to use Lollypop, I can use one of a myriad of music apps but... I had heard good things about it so I wanted to take it out for a spin.
I could try building it from scratch.
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Fedora 29 So Far
Been pretty darn good.
I had noted previously that it is work to get the NVIDIA drivers working, which I did get done, but because of the order of installing drivers PRIOR to installing Steam I ran into issues.
I installed the Flatpak version of Steam instead and got around the issue of starting. But then found that the Flatpak version of steam does not quite run as well as the installed version. But it works and I can game so... I am happy enough at the moment!
One thing I will say is that Fedora holds onto a surprising amount of RAM, more than I expected. It is not "lean and mean." On the other hand GNOME on Fedora is even smoother than it is on Pop!_OS. So perhaps the high memory usage is for good reason. I don't know.
Not complaining, I have plenty of RAM. More than I should ever need.
Although, that being said, I plan on doubling that with my next build. :)
I had noted previously that it is work to get the NVIDIA drivers working, which I did get done, but because of the order of installing drivers PRIOR to installing Steam I ran into issues.
I installed the Flatpak version of Steam instead and got around the issue of starting. But then found that the Flatpak version of steam does not quite run as well as the installed version. But it works and I can game so... I am happy enough at the moment!
One thing I will say is that Fedora holds onto a surprising amount of RAM, more than I expected. It is not "lean and mean." On the other hand GNOME on Fedora is even smoother than it is on Pop!_OS. So perhaps the high memory usage is for good reason. I don't know.
Not complaining, I have plenty of RAM. More than I should ever need.
Although, that being said, I plan on doubling that with my next build. :)
Rainy night, Rainy Day
Rain is so great in Arizona.
Rained all night, drizzly today, everything around us is covered in a blanket of fog. Warming up too, as this storm is sucking in some hotter air mass.
Anyway, hope everyone out there is having a wonderful day!
Rained all night, drizzly today, everything around us is covered in a blanket of fog. Warming up too, as this storm is sucking in some hotter air mass.
Anyway, hope everyone out there is having a wonderful day!
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Still on Fedora, GNOME 3... and everything is just Ducky...
Want to give it a fair shake. Just in case I did push Pop!_OS back onto my stick. But so far so good.
I've run into oddities. I had that one freeze, none since. There have been a few updates since that freeze so, not sure if it is is pure chance or something actually fixed it, or at least affected it.
The version of Steam (you saw my steam woes) I am running through Flatpak is not the same as the one run under Ubuntu. At least, I can say with certainty that games I could play I cannot, and games I had trouble playing I have been playing. So not sure what is up with that.
Have GNOME looking like I want it, so that is cool.
I think I mentioned before that I once again destroyed my good, expensive keyboard. So my new Ducky One 2 (or something like that) came today! It is not as heavy as my choice keyboard but it actually feels solid. More so than my other mechanicals. I chose the silent reds. They remind me a lot of browns, but quieter.
It has a USB C connector instead of the usual mini-USB...
Anyway, so far I like it a lot.
I've run into oddities. I had that one freeze, none since. There have been a few updates since that freeze so, not sure if it is is pure chance or something actually fixed it, or at least affected it.
The version of Steam (you saw my steam woes) I am running through Flatpak is not the same as the one run under Ubuntu. At least, I can say with certainty that games I could play I cannot, and games I had trouble playing I have been playing. So not sure what is up with that.
Have GNOME looking like I want it, so that is cool.
I think I mentioned before that I once again destroyed my good, expensive keyboard. So my new Ducky One 2 (or something like that) came today! It is not as heavy as my choice keyboard but it actually feels solid. More so than my other mechanicals. I chose the silent reds. They remind me a lot of browns, but quieter.
It has a USB C connector instead of the usual mini-USB...
Anyway, so far I like it a lot.
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