My latest GPU issues updates
What has been happening with my GPU: After a fresh installation of Pop OS, I discovered that Nvidia drivers from the Pop OS store caused system freezes.
Now that I see the Pop OS store was what caused the issue (from what I can gather) I’m thinking of ditching Pop OS altogether in favor of Mint, my favorite classic, or maybe try for Xubuntu again. Warranty and support work only with Pop OS though.
Now that my games have been wiped, I am thinking of only installing three games at a time. One for just playing and having fun, something light (Helldivers 2), something that is story-based (trying to get back to Signalis), and one… well, we’ll see.
After wiping my Pop_OS desktop and starting fresh, I was able to update the NVIDIA drivers without issues - that is, until I tried to install a newer version from the Pop_OS store, which caused the computer to freeze again. So that’s what caused it.
I ran into another issue with my System76 desktop – and this time, it doesn’t seem like there’s an easy fix. The GPU crushes every now and then, and updating the drivers causes this to happen immediately. If wiping and starting anew doesn’t fix it, I’m told I’ll need to send it for repairs 😖
I think I found my new avatar🦉📷
The Terminator, 1984 - ★★★½
The Terminator is a classic, but I don't think that should automatically earn it high ratings. After all, the idea for the movie is redundant (even back then), and the skinny plot is a rough skeleton meant to serve the action scenes. But there are a few gems in this movie.
I was surprised by the attention to detail they took. There is a quick scene where Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and Reese (Michael Biehn) escape the police station and hit the Terminator with the car. It's only a second, but you can see their bumper is all bent from hitting him since he is made of steel. Earlier, the Terminator gets his face burned lightly, and it took a while to understand that the "something is weird about his face" was the lack of eyebrows he lost in the fire after that scene, going forward (until he put on the sunglasses). Some details in the background and people seem so natural in LA because, well, as it turns out, James Cameron shot some of these scenes raw, without asking permission and without warning people who were captured on the camera without knowing.
Watching the film also made me realise that it really is about The Terminator, not about Sarah Connor. As for Reese, I forgot his name entirely until I watched this movie again today.
The Terminator is one of the best and few examples I can think of where the sequel is even better than the first. In order to see and understand it fully though, it's best to watch the first. I'm glad I got to watch it again today on a whim.
A year later, I still stand by what I wrote about Photoshop then and Darktable before that.
Adobe is still a shit company that creates great software.
In case you don’t know, it’s very hot 🔥.
Yesterday, I went to see The Muppets Take Manhattan at the Museum of the Moving Image. The Muppets are ageless and always relatable, as were the people who came to the viewing - all ages, colors, and sizes - just like the muppets themsleves.
As Pete said, “We’re all just people.”
