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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • Also: Garmin recently enshittified by simultaneously adding an AI slop component that works by taking all of your recorded fitness and location data and doing gods know what with it, as well as a paid subscription tier to their obligatory smartphone app – the latter after explicitly promising for many years that they wouldn’t. So not only is their hardware expensive (and their owners are now rightly pissed), they’re also liars. I would not give them any money until they shape up, if I were you. Assuming they ever do…

    Gadgetbridge works with most Garmin models. I have the Instinct 2 Solar and have never created a Garmin account or downloader the app.




  • Simunitions are a type of round that has a small bead like an airsoft pellet instead of an actual bullet. The weapons are outfitted with a smaller barrel to accomodate.

    The benefits to this is you can have the real weight of the weapon with real cycling of the slide or bolt as you fire. It’s non-lethal and leaves bruises similar to paintballs.

    I think they leave a mark from dust when they impact (hence the “paint” part)



  • I had some weird issues with my 3080 Ti on Fedora 41 and 42 and have recently switched to a 9070 XT.

    Most games ran fine, but other programs acted strange while games were open. Space Engineers, Escape from Tarkov, and a couple other titles wouldn’t allow me to use other programs. The cursor would stay the same as in-game, even when alt-tabbed, and the Discord UI would become unresponsive.

    I had several strange issues with my monitor flickering that didn’t resolve until I uninstalled and reinstalled my drivers.

    I had a horrible issue with Minecraft and other OpenGL games that caused a strobing white screen while playing. I forgot how I resolved that one.

    I had to reinstall drivers several times. I don’t know how much of it was self-inflicted or just how it goes on Linux.

    None of these issues have come up while on my 9070 XT.