<2023-05-15T03:32:32.000Z> graf: just checking in to make sure everything is okay friend
<2023-05-15T03:37:05.000Z> pinemarten: oh no worse than usual.   Thanks!
<2023-05-15T03:41:35.000Z> pinemarten: Seems like you and the GF are really back together so that is really good news. 
<2023-05-15T03:48:50.000Z> graf: yeah im trying my best
<2023-05-15T03:48:53.000Z> graf: glad you are still with us friend
<2023-05-15T03:48:59.000Z> graf: just wanted to check up because i worry about u
<2023-05-15T03:49:01.000Z> pinemarten: thanks
<2023-05-15T03:49:12.000Z> pinemarten: well I really appreciate it.
<2023-05-15T03:49:20.000Z> pinemarten: I'm pretty isolated most of the time. 
<2023-05-15T04:01:50.000Z> graf: me too the more i think about it. i have my mom and brother close but i dont spend much time with her and i cant stand him. i look forward to when gf comes but for that like month and a half or two months she was gone it was not okay
<2023-05-15T04:01:56.000Z> graf: you can always reach out if you want to talk friend
<2023-05-15T04:02:03.000Z> graf: i am busy as hell but i will make time to talk with u
<2023-05-15T04:02:18.000Z> pinemarten: OK thank you very much
<2023-05-15T04:04:45.000Z> pinemarten: I spent all day procrastinating on cleaning the cat poop off the bathroom floor. 
<2023-05-15T04:05:51.000Z> graf: oh shit you just reminded me tuesday is garbage day and i have to clean out my cat litter i t otally forgot
<2023-05-15T04:05:59.000Z> graf: ive been so busy all day trying so hard to get us off cloudflare
<2023-05-15T04:06:09.000Z> graf: what ive been working on for like two weeks wont work because we cant support websockets that way
<2023-05-15T04:06:15.000Z> graf: so i have to start over tomorrow maybe
<2023-05-15T04:06:46.000Z> pinemarten: OK let's both deal with the cat waste before bed or TV.
<2023-05-15T04:07:02.000Z> graf: ill go do it right now, i have to wait for my beer to chill anyway haha
<2023-05-15T04:09:14.000Z> pinemarten: ok good call
<2023-05-15T04:18:34.000Z> graf: all done for me, I wash the litter box out every time i do a full litter flush since there's two cats so it's drying. when i grab my beers from the freezer in maybe 20-30 mins ill fill it up
<2023-05-15T04:18:37.000Z> graf: thanks for the inspiration friend
<2023-05-15T04:23:28.000Z> pinemarten: You are more thorough than i usually am
<2023-05-15T04:25:46.000Z> graf: the poast datacenter guy called me the "mexican agriculture worker of tech" 
<2023-05-15T04:25:57.000Z> graf: i guess it extends to cat litter too
<2023-05-15T04:25:59.000Z> graf: lol
<2023-05-15T04:29:50.000Z> graf: you know we have quite the community in matrix, in the kinoplex channel in specific. we all help eachother through everything. you're in there, you should join us more
<2023-05-15T04:30:08.000Z> pinemarten: OK I'll get it going on my new box
<2023-05-15T04:30:35.000Z> graf: howd that work out anyway
<2023-05-15T14:36:59.000Z> pinemarten: Eventually AMD technical support told me that their graphics driver only works with a specific version of Ubuntu, so I had to wipe the previous Mint install and start all over.    So now I'm on Ubuntu which feels very dated and clunky.  Next task to to compile a version of ffmpeg that actually can call the graphics card. 
<2023-05-17T05:01:34.000Z> graf: you feeling okay today friend
<2023-05-17T05:01:35.000Z> graf: ??
<2023-05-17T05:01:54.000Z> graf: I cleaned out the litter box but never took out the organic waste bin so its never left
<2023-05-17T05:01:54.000Z> graf: :(
<2023-05-17T15:10:13.000Z> pinemarten: Oh I'm OK.   Overslept and late to a work meeting.    My 'morning mustelid' is usually a timed poast.
<2023-05-17T17:48:18.000Z> graf: glad you're still with us friend 
<2023-05-24T02:47:51.000Z> graf: checking to make sure everything is okay with you
<2023-05-24T02:47:53.000Z> graf: how are you doing friend
<2023-05-24T02:58:12.000Z> pinemarten: Oh I'm fine thank you.   Work all day.   Struggling with new PC all night. 
<2023-05-24T02:58:26.000Z> pinemarten: Thank you.   Hope you are also well. 
<2023-05-24T02:59:33.000Z> graf: whats wrong with pc?
<2023-05-24T03:00:41.000Z> pinemarten: just lots of hangups.   Some app called "portal" preventing saving to local disks from browser.   xnview image viewer won't launch.
<2023-05-24T03:00:48.000Z> pinemarten: little stuff
<2023-05-24T03:14:36.000Z> graf: weird, ubuntu? ive never used it on desktop other than something like popos
<2023-05-24T03:15:09.000Z> pinemarten: Ubuntu was the only thing that my graphics card driver would work with.
<2023-05-24T03:16:13.000Z> graf: what gpu? radeon ?
<2023-05-24T03:16:14.000Z> pinemarten: I had Ryzen envy so I bought a bleeding edge box, put together by local shop.  
<2023-05-24T03:17:14.000Z> pinemarten: ASUS TUF RX7900XTX graphics, Ryzen 9 7900x CPU 12 core
<2023-05-24T03:17:42.000Z> pinemarten: Sometime I like to transcode video, and also do technical work related stuff.
<2023-05-24T03:23:10.000Z> graf: you should pop a drive you dont care about in that machine as a boot drive and install popOS. it's designed for this stuff (and gaming)
<2023-05-24T03:23:35.000Z> graf: pop.system76.com/
<2023-05-24T03:23:43.000Z> graf: its ubuntu but designed for use in high end machines
<2023-05-24T03:23:50.000Z> pinemarten: huh
<2023-05-24T03:24:10.000Z> pinemarten: maybe the AMD gpu driver will work with it then
<2023-05-24T03:24:19.000Z> pinemarten: thans
<2023-05-24T03:25:19.000Z> graf: it should be supported in anything that uses the new linux 6.x kernel 
<2023-05-24T03:25:23.000Z> graf: phoronix.com/review/rx7900xt-rx7900xtx-linux
<2023-05-24T03:25:26.000Z> pinemarten: ok
<2023-05-24T03:25:39.000Z> pinemarten: Mint with kernel 6 did not work
<2023-05-24T03:25:43.000Z> graf: all you need basically is the firmware, kernel 6.0 and the Mesa 23 (or higher) software package
<2023-05-24T03:26:42.000Z> graf: im not sure if it will completely solve your issue but Pop OS is known to be like, super out of the box user  friendly for hardware
<2023-05-24T03:26:50.000Z> graf: dont download the nvidia iso tho it blacklists amd drivers
<2023-05-24T03:27:04.000Z> pinemarten: ha