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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
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I fear not so. Maybe for easy stuff. But when it comes to actual troubleshooting, Lemmy is severely limited by its tiny user base.
(There's only about 40k monthly active users on Lemmy, and that number includes bot accounts. For comparison, that's fewer active users than the Crackberry forum or the LTT forum. Reddit has over a billion of daily active users, so around 25 000x as many as Lemmy.)
Chances are there's nobody on Lemmy who uses the same hardware, the same distribution and the same DE as me, so if I need help debugging an issue that's specific to my combination, I'm out of luck.
Even on Reddit the same is true for many issues. While there might be someone with my exact combination who might even know the answer, that person first has to stumble across my post among the millions of posts that are created every hour on Reddit.
So chances are if you ask a deeper question than "How do I copy files" you will not get an answer. Instead you likely will just get snark and "RTFM noob!"
In fact, even though I have been using Linux for well over a decade now, I ran across a problem I couldn't debug: Games would run fine on my 4070 today, but they'd randomly slow to a crawl (multiple seconds per frame) the next day. I'm a Linux software developer, so I know how to go about this. Reboots and all the usual stuff didn't help. Logs didn't show anything relevant. Google didn't help either. I asked on Stackexchange, but the question was closed as duplicate to an entirely unrelated question. By the time I got it reopened, it was so far down the queue that it didn't get any answers. Asking on Reddit just got me "Lol, noob, RTFM, works on my machine"-type of answers.
So I bit the bullet after about a year of getting nowhere and asked AI, and the first answer got me to the right track.
Turns out, flatpak keeps its own copy of the Nvidia driver. This version needs to be identical to the system driver version. If it's not, the GPU isn't used at all and instead it falls back to software rendering. So if I do
dnf updateand it updates the GPU driver, it breaks the performance. Runningflatpak update && rebootfixes it again. So any time I randnf updatewithoutflatpak update && rebootafter it, it would break the performance. And I often ranflatpak updatefirst.AI reall can help debugging weird issues.