Returning it is what OP should do. He paid for a working card, he should not be dealing with firmware flashing. Though I’d try using GPU-Z on a Windows machine to be sure first. Technically you can only be 100 % sure after reading the laser print from the GPU die but that might make returning harder so I wouldn’t bother.
What’s wrong with 2 PSUs if both of them are connected to the same ground? I thought multiple PSUs is common in the server space too.
Nobody is stopping you from discussing it. So far your only contribution to the discussion was bitching about others bitching.
If we limit the discussion to the selfhosted realm, I agree with these people bitching. Nextcloud is too bloated and slow, while not providing many benefits over individual services. You would at least expect it feature ease of use over having individual apps but nope because when you install an update, there is high chance of breakage. End to end encryption has been losing people files for years. Which is imo a big deal in “private cloud”.
I guess my point is that the “bitching” is our discussion and you and people who upvoted your comment are free to join it and perhaps provide some examples of your Nextcloud setup and why you think it’s good. I’m sure most of us will be nice and won’t tell you to keep your comments to yourself.
The point is that they have recently focused on better binary package availability. Sure they always had support for binary packages but most software needed to be compiled.
That comes down to the “they are being out-everything” from your earlier comment. Europe needs to start spending much more money on the war, but that wouldn’t be popular amongst the Europeans and therefore won’t happen, sadly.
imo the time for offensive was never. The offensive should happen “naturally”. If they had enough resources, they would be slowly pushing Russia back just like they are being pushed back currently. The whole “spring offensive” was just as dumb as Russian plan to conquer Kiev in 5 days or whatever insanity they had in mind.
Yep the problem is that people don’t play enough Age of Empires. Basically the worst thing you can do in that game is to send a knight to the enemy’s base, wait a bit, then send another knight, wait, send next one, … etc. One by one each of the knights dies without achieving anything because he will be massively outnumbered. The correct thing to do is to muster a group of the knights and then send them all at once. That way you will have the advantage and have an actual chance of winning.
Going back to the real world Ukraine “The West” is almost comically stupid. They are arguing over how much help should be sent to Ukraine and always sending just enough to get by but not enough to give Ukraine an advantage. Instead of spending a lot of money during a short period of time to actually get some results, “The West” decided to slowly throw away money in the infinite pit of frozen conflict.
The way I, the self proclaimed internet war expert, see it, there are 3 possible solutions for “The West” to the Ukraine problem.
Decide to send a lot of money to flip the tides. (that won’t happen)
Decide that they aren’t stupid to feed an endless war and decide to exchange half of Ukraine’s territory for Ukraine’s membership in NATO. Kinda crap but honestly better than the 3rd option.
A nothing burger. AKA doing what they are doing right now. The optimistic vision is that over the next decade “The West” will get rich enough that even with these small scraps here and there Ukraine will be able to win in the end. The realistic one is that the scraps won’t be enough and Ukraine will slowly but surely lose territory, ending with some kind of crap treaty including Ukraine both losing a lot of territory and not being in NATO. “a lose-lose”
LearnLinuxTV is a pretty good YT channel for noobs
I recommend getting familiar with the following software:
A comment on the open format part:
I got insanely pissed off by recent news (even though I usually laugh at bad news) that the Czech Government cannot have an interconnected eGovernment system between different organizations because each part is made by a different supplier. Jeez just make a fucking github repo, it’s not that hard. I just don’t get how they can be this stupid, especially considering part of the Government is the Pirate party, The supposed IT guys. These “suppliers” aren’t supplying airplane parts, it’s merely software.
rant over. I tried to keep the f-bomb count to one, but I’m telling you, it was f- insanely hard. Writing this comment and remembering that atrocity reignited my rage.
edit: explicitly added “eGovernment” system
How do I install word? https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=LH-6tp-KBuQ
Alright thanks.
From what I’ve read you need an intel core i-* to run VMware so I wouldn’t meet their CPU requirements, yet alone the OpenGL 4.5 GPU requirements. For some reason they don’t support AMD GPUs and Intel GPUs aren’t even mentioned, which is pretty funny.
Well I’ve run the fedora installer and it seems to kinda work. Although the guest core is still at 100% all the time, the scheduler assigns about 70% to the useful apps and the total host usage maxes at 90 % (usually is between 70 and 80 %) so I can still use the linux computer. Maybe I was just dumb and did not run the installer, or maybe it was just placebo. -it should be placebo, because I don’t think I would be able to boot with virtio otherwise.
Anyways thanks for your comment, virtio without openGL is kinda usable-ish. It’s at least better for excel than wine + software rendering. Doubt I will use it to view autocad files but that’s to be expected.
Thanks for your reply. I’m using it this way because the quickemu windows does not boot with qxl without virtio-vga and if I use virtio with “vga none”, the host core gets maxed out and both linux and windows are unresponsive. I’m guessing the virtio drive requires virtio-gpu too?
How do I install the display only driver? I found this:
https://github.com/utmapp/virtio-gpu-wddm-dod
but it has no README. Is that part of the fedora installer? I would be surprised if it wasn’t included in the default quickemu installation. I’ll try running the fedora installer (when I get time for it) and reply to you again when I’m done.
Sway is probably meh because it’s a manual tiler. I use sway-autotiling in laptop mode and don’t bother with switching the layout in tablet mode.
But generally the question should be “How does a stacking window manager even work with touch?” The answer is “like shit”. Instead of having your windows automatically placed on the screen, you have to drag them around with your stylus.
I used to use KDE Bismuth (tiler for Plasma) and it was the best experience on a touchscreen I could imagine. I mainly used 2 tiling layouts. The usual Master+Stack for regular use and when watching lectures I used a layout which is almost stacking but makes the windows slightly smaller than full screen, so you can grab the window on the bottom easily. I had a keybind which reduced the opacity of a window making it see-through. That way I could have my lecture over almost the full screen while still being able to write over almost the entire screen.
Plasma also has the option to do something when you drag from a specific screen edge. I used that to launch the app launcher, to select workspaces and lock the screen.
The other one is for the host. I want to use virtualization so that I can have both linux and windows running at the same time. If I let windows have both cores, the system would be at 100% all the time and would not be responsive. I could give it both cores but that would not solve much if it still idled at 100%.
They are just showing you that you don’t need to spend $2000 on Autocad and other listed software, because Zorin has all these open source tools bundled in it.
Though tbh replacing Autocad or office365 with FOSS alternatives are bold claims because these alternatives just aren’t viable in a commercial environment.
Thanks for your reply. Honestly what I’m asking for does not really exist. You have to pick from features, open source and plug-and-play-ness. Usually you can get 2 of the 3 but it’s hard to get all three. So although I wouldn’t buy this PC, it’s a pretty good recommendation for stumbling on this post in the future.
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I don’t think the Orange Pi 5 Plus is mainline Linux ready, or at least the RK3588 is not there yet so it seems to me that it’s more of a hacky board. I don’t think the Zimaboard is open source but it seems pretty good although I personally would buy a coreboot compatible small form factor PC if I went x86.
Thank you very much! This is probably the best answer.
For anyone from the future reading this: From my understanding almost every SBC does not really work with “Linus Torvalds’ Linux” which is why one often sees HW manufacturers also providing their own Linux image with the computer. This is fine for development but honestly not something I would want for self hosting stuff. There are few exceptions like the Raspberry Pi but that one is not that much open source. So imo the best option is to look at https://ubuntu.com/download/risc-v where Ubuntu provides “official” images for few RISC-V boards. (The Visionfive 2 is what lead me there.)
It’s easy to misdetect the card. You just need to flash broken firmware on it that pretends it’s a different card. This is definitely not a 2070 because 1) Powercolor does not make nVidia cards and 2) RTX 2000 GPUs don’t have DVI ports.