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Alyssa 🏳️🌈
Just your garden variety nerd, as in, I love my garden and am a nerd. Would love to connect with you.
I'm also trans, poly, and pan. Allegedly in my 40s. Resident of northern Aotearoa.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈I've set up a ko-fi link where you can contribute to my projects if you would like.
Times are a little tricky. I'm keeping the basic expenses covered but have very little available to keep projects like the garden, the building, and other DIY shenanigans moving forwards.
Please don't give if you can't afford, but if you have the means any contributions are greatly appreciated.
https://ko-fi.com/alyd
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🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈I've set up a ko-fi link where you can contribute to my projects if you would like.
Times are a little tricky. I'm keeping the basic expenses covered but have very little available to keep projects like the garden, the building, and other DIY shenanigans moving forwards.
Please don't give if you can't afford, but if you have the means any contributions are greatly appreciated.
https://ko-fi.com/alyd
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🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈Girl goes in to social situation with plan.
Girl is asked many questions and panics.
Girl leaves situation having done entirely the opposite of the plan.
Girl is confused.
#ActuallyAutistic
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈I just stepped on the three prong plug for the iron in bare feet, which caused me to fall and stubb my toe on my other foot.
Such adult.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈Oh it's sore too. Small sprain I guess?
Lesson: Housework is dangerous. Do not attempt this at home.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈I just stepped on the three prong plug for the iron in bare feet, which caused me to fall and stubb my toe on my other foot.
Such adult.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz It's kind of a deep rabbit hole, see e.g.
https://dchambers.github.io/articles/driving-multiple-monitors-on-an-optimus-laptop/
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz Additionally, this is a problem that money solves fairly easily. Alas...
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz If you can tell me how to do that that would be great. I have tried, I promise.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz It's kind of a deep rabbit hole, see e.g.
https://dchambers.github.io/articles/driving-multiple-monitors-on-an-optimus-laptop/
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz OK, I'm no expert here but, from what I understand...
Systems may have a mux, which allows routing of graphics signals between cards and ports. In that case you have options.
Lighter more portable laptops are likely muxless. In this particular setup with integrated Intel graphics, and an NVidia Optimus discrete card, it is probably wired so that the discrete card passes its signals though the integrated card to display things. So when you disable the integrated you lose access to the extra ports. This is cheap, light, and efficient.
Windows will choose for you which card to use for which task, and it uses the integrated graphics for basically everything unless something like a game engine specifically asks otherwise. This saves lots of power since it doesn't need to run the discrete card.
Again, great for going to meetings and taking notes, but my burning need is to compile so so many tiny JS packages.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz I haven't done numbers, but running two 4K monitors definitely feels like it hurts the laptop's performance in big way.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈Happiness in the garden this morning.
#permaculture #garden #winter
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz Yeah, none of these has really "won" the battle to be THE Windows package manager unfortunately, but I should try them more.
I've learned a lot more about the makeup of the typical Windows laptop now too and it's just not the right platform for heavy dev workloads. I am surprised how heavy the node stack is though.
For the moment, the laptop manages better if I remove a monitor from it.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz Which, IMHO, gives away how unsuitable it is.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz also the release .NET stack has been around in some for since 2002. The core libraries are really well baked and don't need that much change. The number of depandabot alerts for tiny packages that come through on node vs C# is a little alarming.
🌱 Alyssa 🏳️🌈@aurynn@cloudisland.nz I think I'd like to see node get more boring, and dotnet get less boring. A best of both worlds.