Kenneth Steimel @ksteimel@scholar.social

#introductions Hey everyone. I am a PhD Student in Computational Linguistics. My main research interest is computational linguistics for under resourced languages. I am particularly interested in computational linguistics for Bantu languages because of the extremely complex morphology that they bring to the table.

I am also doing research in sentiment analysis on stance detection and irony/sarcasm detection. Most of my research is on machine learning approaches.

Big Red II will be replaced by Big Red 200 while Big Red II+ will be replaced by Big Red III.

It feels like IU is taking naming cues from nvidia.

plasma 5.17 adds support for fractional scaling on wayland. Looking forward to having that in my repos. Wayland's fractional scaling is much better done imo.

Got that rx550 and it works flawlessly. I can even play some games like universe sandbox.

Had to unplug one of the fans though because the bearing was going out and it was really annoying. GPU is still cool and silent now.

One thing I didn't realize was that the optiplexes have a 35 watt limit on the pcie slot power draw instead of 75. The 550 seems to function fine on that much power though.

Got opensuse shirts in the mail!

I forgot how much windows boops at you out of the box.

I can install dnf on opensuse? Apparently so!

dnf is fedora's package manager (i like it better than zypper though because it's considerably faster).

when your 8 core server is slower at transcoding than your 4 core laptop.

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Yes! My model is training successfully!

it's nice when you have a setup like Lenovo where they provide isos for upgrading your bios as a standalone thing. No windows required 😎

Adding the iommu=pt boot parameter and upgrading my bios has fixed the issue!

just kidding! It does, it just took longer to show up this time.

Hey! the 5.2.11-1 kernel doesn't have tearing for amd vega gpus!

Running 4k on opensuse plasma with a single monitor is not bad at all.

However, it feels really weird and thick because the integrated gpu in this machine can only do 4k@30 and the difference between 30 and 60 is definitely noticeable.

Now I'm trying to figure out if it makes sense to get an rx550 to put in this old optiplex. There's apparently some issues with compatibility...

beautifull dog