Hey, there’s another one on the forums, they actually fixed their system: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/a-start-job-is-running-for-dev-disk-uui-running-for-5min/80783

There are mods to convert it to Pathfinder 2e… But then I’d rather just go play one of Owlcat’s Pathfinder games

If you do switch back to Linux I’ll note that Endeavour and other Arch forks have moved away from older NVIDIA cards because NVIDIA stopped supporting open source drivers. There’s community-maintained solutions out there though. I forget exactly how old, but my 1080 got the boot, and then I had to gety Grover’s from AUR for a bit, right before that security breach. That contributed to my decision to upgrade to a new AMD card.

Agreed. I was under the impression mine was a graphics card issue, but the apparent failure of my hard drive is puzzling.

Holy shit, are you me?

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/boot-stuck-at-a-start-job-is-running-for-dev-disk-by-uuid-uuid-not-familiar/80086

One minor update I have from this experience, after building a new rig and restoring from a backup of the original system, I tried plugging in my SSD to my new computer and it isn’t even recognized in BIOS. I was under the impression my drive failed.

I love that Cock-of-the-Rock was their choice of thumbnail. They’re the weirdest looking birds (apart from Shoebills, but those aren’t passeriformes, the main focus of the study)

I have been dealing with NVIDIA driver issues on my Linux PC because my 1080 was good enough to play my favorite games. A very sincere fuck you to NVIDIA.

I chose EndeavourOS initially because I was relatively new to Linux (I tinkered with Ubuntu in grade school) and wanted out of Microsoft’s environment. The support community is amazing and newbie-friendly. They’ve helped me through a few bricked systems.

Now I’m at a crux because I own a 1080 and am tired of mistakenly breaking my installation because NVIDIA stopped supporting open source drivers for old cards. I felt uncomfortable building my own driver packages and was relying on AUR, but the recent security breach has me skittish.

Rather than switch to another distro (Mint being the top contender), I decided to replace my graphics card and stay with Endeavour because it seems the Arch distros are the only ones staunchly against age verification laws. I’m fortunate enough to be in a position to update and stick with Endeavour. Maybe when I actually get good at Linux I’ll switch to pure Arch.

Holy crap, you’re right! Fixed it

I can’t get any banking apps to work. I just use their web version in a pinch. Only loss I’ve experienced.

X4 is an economy simulator masquerading as a flight simulator. It also goes on sale regularly!

Me and two friends were coincidentally summoned at the same time - 3 different counties across two states. Mine and one of my friend’s summons were cancelled, and my other friend just got sent home yesterday from a case as he wasn’t needed. But the position has tenure for 3-4 months so we might have to go back.

Ebird’s website, which has a checklist app (eBird) and a bird identification app (Merlin)

PIs are trained on science that is likely outdated by the time they become professors, rewarded to churn out as many grants as possible, and never given a day of managerial training. Switching to industry after my PhD was a breath of fresh air.

Monster Train 2. I have 1 more challenge run left before reaching 100% completion of those. Then I might finally pick up the DLC and try to finish 100% of clan combos at max crucible level.

Only then will I allow myself to pick up Slay the Spire 2. I try to avoid early access games, but will make an exception here.

In MT1 last month, I beat 100% class combos at C20. The challenges were less fun because they required you to play at C20, and I felt like that difficulty permanently limited what strategies were viable. Challenges in 2 are zanier and most are at a lower difficulty, so it’s altogether more fun.

Academic publishing was definitely a contributing factor to why I left academic research.

I also believe we should incentive peer-review. Maybe every researcher should be evaluated on how many articles they peer-review each year, relative to the amount they publish. I knew some researchers who would publish dozens of articles every year, would peer-review zero of them, and then complain about poor quality peer review.

+1 for Endeavour, apart from the unfortunate update of legacy NVIDIA drivers (10xx series of cards losing mainline support) this December I’ve had 0 issues

This just in, hearing aids are woke?

Here’s the original press release for anyone interested: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/long-term-use-of-melatonin-supplements-to-support-sleep-may-have-negative-health-effects

The most important sentence: “They were matched with peers in the database who also had insomnia but never had melatonin recorded in their health records. People were excluded from the analysis if they had previously been diagnosed with heart failure or had been prescribed other sleep medications.” There are a few other sentences describing how well the control group was matched. I think it was a well-designed study.

I think there is still a risk of bias present, though, because people who decide to take melatonin might have more severe insomnia compared to people who just decide to just “live with it” and are not using sleep aids.

The next step should be a randomized clinical trial looking at heart failure rate in patients with insomnia dosed with melatonin versus placebo and/or a different medication. Until then, correlation does not mean causation. I don’t think such a study will be done in the US because melatonin is considered a dietary supplement and is not subject to the same degree of regulation as medicine. Maybe in the UK, since melatonin is prescription only?

Tiny castle or big banana?