Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

The New Defense Secretary

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Highlights from an interview with The Economist:

I think his book was a key reason for the pick. He’ll be an antidote to all of the woke nonsense that rose during the Obama administration.

Business, Economics, Law, Political Commentary, Technology and Society

This Seems Like Sort Of A BFD

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If SCOTUS upholds this, it can only be fixed with legislation. I expect SpaceX (and other people who want to build things) to go pedal to the metal now.

Administrative, Technology and Society

New Software Problem

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When I rebooted my computer into Fedora this morning, it’s not talking to my right monitor. I don’t think it’s a hardware issue, because the BIOS sees both monitors, but when it boots, the monitor says it’s not getting a signal. When I go into settings to look at the display(s), the OS thinks that it only has one monitor. Any ideas?

[Afternoon update]

Apparently it was due to a kernel update. I backed up to the previous kernel and it seems to be working now.

[November 4th update]

Well, I’ve updated kernels several times, and this weekend I upgraded from Fedora 40 to Fedora 41. The problem persists. The OS is clearly having trouble seeing the second monitor. Do I need to replace the video card? How should I diagnose this?

[Bumped]

[Veterans’ Day update]

Well, I got no response from the Fedora Forum. This is what I get when I ixni:

inxi -Fzx

System:
Kernel: 6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 2.43.1-2.fc41
Console: pty pts/0 Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: X570-A PRO (MS-7C37) v: 3.0
serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: H.K0 date: 04/27/2023
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3596 min/max: 550/4208 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3596
2: 3596 3: 3596 4: 3596 5: 3596 6: 3596 7: 3596 8: 3596 9: 3596 10: 3596
11: 3596 12: 3596 bogomips: 86403
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450
/ R5 230 OEM] vendor: XFX Pine driver: radeon v: kernel arch: TeraScale-2
bus-ID: 2e:00.0 temp: 62.0 C
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
driver: X: loaded: radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600
gpu: radeon resolution: 1920×1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.6 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
renderer: AMD CAICOS (DRM 2.50.0 / 6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 LLVM 19.1.0)
API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check –recommends.
Audio:
Device-1: C-Media CMI8738/CMI8768 PCI Audio driver: snd_cmipci v: kernel
bus-ID: 2a:00.0
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Caicos HDMI Audio [Radeon HD
6450 / 7450/8450/8490 OEM R5 230/235/235X OEM] vendor: XFX Pine
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 2e:00.1
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 30:00.4
API: ALSA v: k6.11.6-300.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.6 status: off
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000
bus-ID: 27:00.0
IF: enp39s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac:
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.05 TiB used: 1.08 TiB (52.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Patriot model: Viper M.2 VPN100
size: 238.47 GiB temp: 27.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD20EZAZ-00L9GB0
size: 1.82 TiB temp: 31 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 231.3 GiB used: 38.79 GiB (16.8%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 515.7 MiB (53.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-4: /home size: 1.79 TiB used: 1.04 TiB (58.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 62.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.26 GiB used: 21.5 GiB (68.8%)
Processes: 479 Uptime: 5h 22m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
Packages: 16 note: see –rpm Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32
inxi: 3.3.36

I’ve seen some people say that they solved the problem by upgrading Nvidia drivers, but would that work for a Radeon? Or should I upgrade Radeon drivers? Which one?

History, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Day One

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Fire them all.

I would love to see Milley recalled and court martialed, and stripped of all that nonsense chest candy.

More (a lot more) on Trump’s planned opening moves. It’s a good start. Worth noting, though, that he’s not actually going to be signing any laws on Day One.

[Update a while later]

They’re trying to get me to vote for him again (assuming I had the first time): Dismantling the FBI.

History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Calling Trump “HItler”

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…has seriously damaged the moral realm.

I love how Biden and Harris congratulated Hitler on his victory last week. And how their acolytes, who thought he was Hitler, are confused after being told now, “Everything will be OK, we’ll have another election in a couple years.” It’s almost as though it was all a lie. Which blew back on them. Funny how telling people that they’re fascists, or garbage, or fascist garbage, doesn’t persuade them to vote for you.

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