The Renderfarm

5:27 AM

@gandalf3 You could add it and maybe also a note to the problem with libdrm on Arch.

5:59 AM

Could the mods that put this question on hold please review it? Its now heavily reworded. Please also have a look at the comments. Pinging @DuarteFarrajotaRamos, @VRM, @X-27, @RayMairlot and @GiantCowFilms.

Question: blender.stackexchange.com/q/120136/42495

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7:01 AM

@Ignatiamus I've left a comment:

According to our current rule this would still be off topic (it's more likely about hardware/driver compatibility with the kernel than blender). That said, I think this could fit here, even if it's not normal Q&A material but more of a "list all the things" team effort. We actually already have a such a canonical post for common GPU problems, so perhaps this could be merged with that? — gandalf3 ♦ 17 mins ago

Looking at the canonical post in question, I think it could use some refactoring. I've made a proposal:

Q: GPU post maintenance

It's been a while since we made Canonical posts for hardware questions?, and a few things have changed since then (opencl support has come a long way, but also has more than a few issues worth documenting). As the main answer is already quite lengthy, I propose splitting it into separate answers ...

discussion

We talked about doing something like that a while back but never did

@TARDISMaker You wrote the debian section, right? ^^

7:37 AM

@gandalf3 Sounds good to me. I'm not running after rep so do whatever you want with the list but it should be somewhere at least, so when a desperate user searches for something like that he finds it :D

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Duarte Farrajota Ramos

11:07 AM

@Ignatiamus voted for reopen

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David

2:04 PM

feels like just yesterday I posted one of those. :)

David

2:19 PM

ouch. our tags...

been too long since I did a big clean up in there.

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4:07 PM

@gandalf3 Added you to the list (https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/120835/42495), but formatting looks a bit weird now.
Feel free to edit/fix it :-)

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7:07 PM

@gandalf3 I think so. It looks sloppy enough to be me back then :P

> First, become super user by typing in su and entering in you password when it asks for it, or by preceding all commands with sudo (will still ask for password the first time), assuming you set it up.

That's so bad...

I would edit it, but I don't want to bump that up if we're thinking about completely changing all of it

I should have just put sudo in front of everything

Anyone who doesn't have it will already know to use su or sudo su before doing that stuff anyway...

@gandalf3 Nice!

Looks good

Right now I'm messing around with making a custom vim theme

The tools could be better but it's starting to come along

Right now all my colors are coming from my terminal which is a bit awkward

I want to try figuring out 256 colors, but I can't find a good way to browse the available colors

The best solution I'm aware of is cycling through until you find something that works

I really wish I could just use hex colors but it isn't supported...

@gandalf3 Just took another look at your screenshot. Pines of Rome!

I actually got to play that last year

It was pretty cool

My music collection is much more limited

At this point it's mostly public domain music from imslp.com

Not the greatest performances ever

2 hours later…

9:52 PM

@gandalf3 I just found out that I can theme with 24bit colors!

Both termite and neovim support it

All of the articles talking about 256 colors made me think that it wasn't possible with the exception of colors you set specifically for your terminal

@TARDISMaker ncmpcpp actually has a sampling at the bottom of its f1 menu, but I too would like a better way..

@TARDISMaker yes!

@TARDISMaker I know what you mean..

@gandalf3 Have you checked if ncmpcpp is stuck with 256 support?

I think it is, but termite's true colors to the rescue

@TARDISMaker nice!!

@gandalf3 Yeah, My preference would be an option that brings you to the closest color. For now that won't be an issue though

I think tmux supports it too

So until I find a program that needs more than 16 preset colors that only supports 256, I'll be fine

@TARDISMaker I mean, you can reassign each 256 color to a 24bit color in termite

10:01 PM

@gandalf3 I didn't realize that

Does it work the same as assigning colors normally?

So I would just assign 16 to be #FF0000 or something?

color<n> = #FFFFFF

where n is 0..254

Okay, cool

Once I finish my vim theme I might set that up with the key colors

apparently the last one isn't assignable for some reason

Huh...

10:34 PM

@TARDISMaker nice

@TARDISMaker My dad has a fairly extensive collection of classical music CDs.. I should see about archiving it before CD players go fully extinct. My current desktop already doesn't have an optical drive..

@gandalf3 That would be a really good idea

I actually have a couples cd's that I haven't put on my computer yet...

People are starting to give them to me because I make it a bit too well known that I like classical music...

heh

Do you know if there is a terminal based way to nicely move the files?

Would mv do it do you think?

As in still keep all the metadata

I've not actually looked at a CD before, I assume they are just normal files on a filesystem

But I have no idea

Come to think of it, there's no guarantee they have intact metadata to begin with..

@TARDISMaker I mean, right now the idea is just to re-organize what's there. Go ahead and edit it now if you like, I thought perhaps you might want to have the honors splitting it into a separate answer (though the nature of the splitting seems to be subject to debate still, so I'm not planning on doing anything just yet)

@gandalf3 Okay, sure

I might as well clean it up and then wait for the decision before splitting it.