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  • https://cherryxtrfy.com/mice/mz1-wireless/

    This mouse is designed to be extremely light weight. So the battery is small (500 mAh is less than half a AAA battery).

    And it’s designed to handle up to 50g of acceleration (ie, fast FPS twitch movements), so it has to be doing a lot of tracking.

    So between higher power consumption than normal mice and a smaller battery than normal mice, it only advertises 75* hours of use (* Depending on Hz, lighting on/off and playstyle).

    I could absolutely get a mouse that lasts much longer. But not one that meets all the other criteria I have for a performance gaming mouse. I wasn’t attempting to come in hot about “wireless bad” or anything, just sharing my experience.


  • The batteries are my main issue.

    12 hour battery? I charge every night.

    4 day battery life? I forget to charge until it dies, and then it dies in the middle of using it.

    The mouse I have is only wireless for the “less drag while gaming” aspect but the cable is actually super nice, so I dont even mind the cable… I just leave it plugged in now.


  • I use ethernet for everything, so even now I don’t use WiFi. I only figured out it worked because my internet was out a few months later and needed to connect to a hotspot, and was pleasantly surprised that it was not crashing. I also don’t really mess with RGB or bluetooth, so I cant really comment on those either. The motherboard itself always worked, it was just the integrated chips (it was new wifi 7 chip) that I wasn’t actually using anyway. It may have been fixed in days, weeks… who knows, I wasnt testing it.

    tl;dr - sorry, I don’t have a good answer. The board always “worked” for my use case.









  • The strong irony is that when high core count and asymmetrical multi-CCD chips started rolling out, they were having CCD pinning issues in windows. But since Linux has a scheduler that has been NUMA awareness for ages… Linux was actually just fine with these things.

    Linux was actually better for bleeding edge hardware for once.


  • I built a new 9950x3d + x870e system last year. trying to use the motherboard’s wifi would kernel panic things. couldnt turn bluetooth on and off. couldn’t control the RGB.

    Now, WiFi works great. Bluetooth works great. OpenRGB supports the RGB. Things are great. Took time to get here, but we got here.




  • And from what I can tell based on the callout at the end… This is a line from connector which is a compatibility layer that allows running Fabric mods on Neoforge.

    Which means connector is going to be included in every stack trace, regardless of how related it is to the problem. It will be the one to raise the errors that couldn’t be caught and managed… But AI will see connector being the one probably flagging the errors and be more likely to tag it as a “suspected” mod. I wouldn’t be shocked to find out that AI has a tendency to shoot the messenger.


  • Now isn’t the time to start being pedantic about rules.

    edit: the prompt says “Circle the smallest number” and not “Circle the smallest number that appears below”. What is the smallest number? 0 (at least by magnitude, negative numbers are just bigger numbers in the negative direction). So the prompt effectively says “Circle the zero”

    If we’re going to work off the “that appears below” assumption. then the smallest number is “1” and not 1, 2, and 3. So circling all 3 is incorrect.

    If we’re going to work off “that appears below, not including the categories” then the number to circle is 15 specifically. Not the “2.” in front of it.

    And if there is a “circle the category indicator number for the category that includes the smallest number below” implication, then it’s truly just a bad question. Make it clear what you want.




  • Desktops can be installed on any ubuntu release. you could install xfce on kubuntu, or kde on base ubuntu. And what DE/WM you are using doesn’t matter in a quite a few scenarios, so it’s not worth bringing up in the same way that I don’t mention “Im using cachyOS niri wm”

    I personally preferred xubuntu over kubuntu back in my *ubuntu days. etc etc. there are a lot of spins of ubuntu and when the only differentiator is DE (which you can also just install on base ubuntu), it’s easier to just talk about them all as a single overaching entity/family … ubuntu.

    Talking about kubuntu inherently requires talking about KDE and ubuntu both, so people just skip the KDE discussion.

    “Too many distro options” is already a complaint of a lot of non-linux users, so specifying every last spin can just drive people away.


  • Doesn’t Ubuntu disable the root user out of the box and expect these actions to be performed via sudo/polkit. There is clearly a precedent for not needing a root password and being able to use your own user’s password for these kinds of things. So it is a monumentally stupid idea to require the system-wide root password, but not one that is done by all of linux, and seems to be a decision made by your distro to not use the modern solution.

    The fact is though, you’re right and the pain point is that distros are still doing things the silly way.

    • Distros should be using sudo/polkit/anything other than root user password to do things like this
    • Modifications to the sudoers file should be easier
    • The distro setup process should just be able to have some prompts about smart default things (“Passwordless updates?”) even if they include strongly discouraging comments.

    If I can sudo apt install without requiring a password, I could generate a package that installs a custom sudoers config file that allows me to do anything, so “passwordless sudo, but just for apt” is potentially easily exploitable to gain full access. But that also still assumes A) you care and B) someone has access to your account anyway (at which point you may already have bigger problems)