I upgraded my PC for two reasons. First, the old one was having very bad network issues and was relatively old. Second, to not lose a frame in Blender under any circumstance. So three reasons.

Despite the significant upgrade Blender performance is exactly the same.

The network issues have come back, and I can't sneed.

I woke up today and my computer has identical issues to the one it replaced. No other computer in my house has network issues. My shitty 10+ year old laptop does not have network issues. That laptop's wifi card does not work, so it has a USB adapter for that. If I plug that adapter into my PC, it has connectivity issues. Neither of my LAN ports work. This is a 100% brand new PC.

I have updated every driver. I have updated the BIOS. I have set to metered connection. I have disabled searching for other networks once I am connected. I have run antivirus scans. I have run one program at a time to see if one was causing issues.

I cannot figure out what is wrong. When I get back to the house tonight I'm reinstalling windows.

Total software developer death.

If I had unlimited resources I would have the microsoft HQ's parkinglot firebombed until connection issues improved. I don't even need the internet to get my work done this weekend, I just wanted to play Hunt: Showdown and get the cool skin.

The entirety of my day has been spent trying to figure out why my ping spikes to 2000 every minute or so. The only breaks were eating or when I went on a four hour hike to scream at god.

If you have any guesses as to why this is happening, let me know.

Someone ping dixie and britbongs

A full 2 hour cover of Ted's Ph.D dissertation if any of you are curious with the first half an hour covering all the prerequisites to understanding.

I will admit even though I've taken 2 semesters of measure theory once it reaches ~1:15:00 I have no fricking idea what he is talking about.

Cool video though

!math

You're looking at the first direct image of another planetary system located about 300 light-years away around a star like our Sun. pic.twitter.com/UWoSHGpVRs

— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) January 25, 2024

https://www.science.org/content/article/our-first-direct-look-multiplanet-system-around-sun-star

I've never run Mint or Debian on my home desktop but those seem like the obvious options.

I'm not installing Gentoo or Arch because my choice of distro is not based on insecurity about my peepee size and I'm looking for everyday ease of use and a large support base.

edit: currently installing mint debian edition pray for me brothers

edit2: mint debian thus far seems better/less buggy than ubuntu without major downsides

part 2:

It would be funny if this was true and the reason nobody fucks with Earth is that it is very intimidating that we’re just blasting our signals out nonstop like “come at me, bro.” https://t.co/NcR8gWycGl

— Open Source Stupidity (OSSTU) Starfish (@IRHotTakes) January 21, 2024

This isn't drama but I think it's cool.

Encounters of the homosexual kind:

Thank you for sharing your weird porn taste with us:

This is profiling and you know it:

Just burn your equivalent of chinx and sexy Indian dudes for fuel duh:

OH SNAP:

Idk what this means but hopefully you neurodivergents will:

>inb4 this is r-slurred

Also I hate the way this guy pronounced Michelson's surname

Parts 1-4: https://www.ashbybowhunting.org/ashby-reports

She cute

Produced, directed photographed and co-written by Michael Jorgensen, this Emmy® award winning film examines the high-stakes battle between the world's largest aerospace companies as they build and fly the most versatile warplane ever created – the Joint Strike Fighter. Go inside classified facilities with the only filmmaker ever allowed inside a US weapons competition as Boeing and Lockheed Martin battle for the largest contract in military history.

boeing and lockheed were each given $1 billion to develop and build a prototype aircraft to fulfill the requirements of the joint strike fighter program, this documentary is about that competition

it's really good

!birdposters

The night sky after Betelgeuse goes supernova pic.twitter.com/A2t5dVXEKu

— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) January 15, 2024

It's honestly insane there's nobody documenting the constant sitcom that is crypto twitter. This stuff would read like a cowboy fantasy to my parents. Like, last week:

Coinbase released it's own chain called BASE. Brave early-adopters bridged funds over to try it out and…

— Lukas (computer) 🐂 (@SCHIZO_FREQ) August 7, 2023