@BalarkaSen Meh, not too much. As I said, I'm bored :P

Do you wanna check a calculation of mine and spot my error? :P

Nah

What are you calculating though?

Chern classes

It's not a lame calculation---if you don't already know how to calculate the cohomology of a projectivized bundle at least the first part will be instructive

go ahead then

I already typed it up so I guess it's better if I just send it to you. It's about two pages.

alright then

I don't think I have your email address.

Small question: Oganesson-294 is the only isotope synthesized. Why, then, do so many sources seem to reference ununoctium-293?

Former Lawrence Livermore physicist begins jail term / physicsworld ... qm computing research fraud! o_O

Too bad the fission products of 286Fl aren't listed anywhere, the isotope is so esoteric :(

@DanielSank Grumpy fan-haters, obviously.

For future note, never try to install Windows and Linux on the same machine but on different drives

it's a mess

@BernardoMeurer I've done exactly that, it works great for me

@BernardoMeurer Ive been there

it drives you crazy

@DavidZ How? I'm using UEFI and GPT drives

I cannot get GRUB on /dev/sda to recognize Windows on /dev/sdb

Also, there are EFI partitions on both sda and sdb, because Windows creates it automatically

@BernardoMeurer Are you using os-prober?

if I won the lottery the first thing I'd do is to buy six or seven dishwashers

@DavidZ Uhum, let me show you what it does when I just run os-prober

@BernardoMeurer I'll take that as a "yes"

wtf

it saw Windows now

wat

Well

It's the magic tech support aura

though this is the first I've heard of it extending through the internet

Hahaha, indeed

Well, it works now

weird, but cool

@DavidZ I installed Gnome 3 this time

with Wayland

it's pretty cool

I might be dropping KDE for this

Well, if that's what makes you happy

I'm looking forward to Wayland but when I did my last reinstallation it seemed too complicated

When was that?

All I had to do was a small hack to allow Xorg based apps to run alright

Couple months ago, I think

@BernardoMeurer I think I had problems with Steam with Sway, so I'm still on i3.

@alarge Really? Let me try now

Steam is kind of crappy on Linux

github.com/bemeurer/fix-steam

Reason I had to make this

@BernardoMeurer To be fair much of it is not Steam's fault, but the way how Linux is distributed. So Steam has to carry all the libraries in it etc.

I've never seen anyone use .bash extension, just .sh and have it shebanged to bash

@alarge True

Worked out of the box here

wat

I haven't tried for a while, and didn't bother looking in detail. If it does work out of the box for you, maybe it was my setup then. Good to know. Will be looking to transition to Wayland soon then

@alarge That script I posted fixes the usual issues in my experience

Wayland working nicely here, finally free of Xorg

@BernardoMeurer I think your script just deletes the shipped libraries so that the system ones will be used. I think Steam has a flag to use system libraries for everything.

So you probably needn't delete anything

@alarge Nowadays there is, at least on Arch when you install Steam it comes with two versions, Native and Runtime

I think it was NATIVE_RUNTIME or something

I forget

Right

one uses system libraries the other the packaged ones

But I've had issues where the Native one would not work somehow

So you've now transitioned to Arch? Or maybe it was someone else asking about distros a year or so ago.

I have been using Arch for about a year, maybe more. Perhaps it was me :)

Very happy, love the distro

@BernardoMeurer It's the only one I've run for any length of time. In the beginning I think I tried a couple of others and have tried Ubuntu every now and again but it just never works the way I want it to

I absolutely hate Ubuntu

It's so broken

A friend of mine wanted to get into Linux recently. I set her up with Ubuntu, it was a horrible experience and she hated it

Later on I switched her to Antergos with KDE (which she liked the looks the best) and it's been a sweet road

Cool

@BernardoMeurer why?

I mean, what made it a horrible experience for her?

@DavidZ I don't remember with much detail off the top of my head, but if I recall it had to do with lack of support for some stuff she uses that is new

I gotta ask her

Ah, it's not that important

That's always a risk with any system

Also, not being rolling release drives me nuts

and I hate apt

Sure, that's your preference

You run Gentoo, right?

Yeah, mostly

That's a nice distro

It generally works for what I want it for, so yeah, nice for me, but it's definitely targeted at a certain type of computer user

@DavidZ "a certain type of computer user"?

you mean geeks? nerds? geeky nerds?

@BernardoMeurer wat? That sounds like the easy way...

@BernardoMeurer Ubuntu isn't that bad.