[12:57] <daftykins> mornin', well... about time to say goodbye to September
[13:38] <zxmpi> the pumpkin spice season is upon us
[14:31] <daftykins> hehe
[15:04] <zxmpi> the spice must flow
[15:04] <daftykins> speaking of flowing, i just got back from the opticians where i had a very funky procedure once again of having my eyelid glands squeezed with tweezers, my my
 i hurt my thumb earlier today so hopefully i can still do this
[15:05] <daftykins> D:
[15:06] <zxmpi> thankfully my hiccups seem to be over :-P
[15:23] <zxmpi> last episode of ubuntu podcast on media player. end of an era.
[15:38] <daftykins> oh it's ending?
[15:38] <zxmpi> tis over now.
[15:38] <zxmpi> was a good podcast
[15:42] <daftykins> i understood they're quite good for those that commute etc, but it's not a medium that works for me
[15:42] <zxmpi> i use them for evening walks to get my 10000 paces of exercise a day
[15:42] <zxmpi> not really to be encouraged if cycling in traffic
[22:14] <m0nkey_> Sup folks, I got a Nvidia GPU question.. is there a way to set a power limit on a Nvidia GPU in Ubuntu? For example, I want to limit my GPU to 97% (it's a shitty Gigabyte GPU that runs way too hot if I don't knock it down a notch).
[22:16] <daftykins> you tried redoing the paste?
[22:16] <m0nkey_> Yeah, I need to do that.
[22:17] <m0nkey_> Knocking down the power limit drops my idle temps by 10C
[22:17] <m0nkey_> Plus I don't lose any FPS
[22:17] <daftykins> i spy 'nvidia-smi' being a thing
[22:17] <zxmpi> seems there's a util for windows https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=60006
[22:17] <zxmpi> wow that's 10 years old :-)
[22:18] <daftykins> m0nkey_: this any use? https://justin.palpant.us/monitor-and-maximize-nvidia-gpu-performance-on-linux/#sw-power-throttle
[22:18] <zxmpi> https://db.tannercrook.com/limiting-nvidia-gpu-in-linux/
[22:34] <m0nkey_> Thanks
[22:34] <m0nkey_> Just preparing for migrating my main workstation to Ubuntu
[22:35] <m0nkey_> Got another box I'm currently testing with. I've verified that MS Flight Sim works.. so super happy about it.
[22:35] <daftykins> that's the critical stuff out of the way ;)
[22:36] <m0nkey_> As long as VMware Workstation, most of the games I'm currently playing and MSFS works, that's all I need.
[22:36] <zxmpi> last version of that i played was version 4 installed from 5.25" disks on dos 3.3 :-)
[22:36] <m0nkey_> lol, that was the first version I played
[22:37] <zxmpi> was pretty impressive for the time
[22:39] <daftykins> i wonder if you still have to regularly re-run vmware-config.pl to generate and load modules on each kernel update like in my Uni days, that'd be sad but amusing
[22:40] <m0nkey_> it uses dkms these days
[22:40] <daftykins> makes sense :D
[22:40]  * daftykins mumbles something about Uni being 16 years ago
[22:41] <zxmpi> when i went to school the computers were commodore 64s. when i went to college they used amstrad pcs with no hard disks and 5.25" drives :-)
[22:41] <zxmpi> but we still learned to type on commodore pets as they were more serious computers :-)
[22:44] <daftykins> :D
[22:47] <zxmpi> and coding was done on a dec mini computer on a proper vt100 terminal 
[23:03] <zxmpi> i think my oldest phone the nokia e61 is from 2005 or so :-)