[03:27] <cmaloney> NVidia?
[06:33] <Scary_Guy> Probably, though they all tend to suck
[13:54] <cmaloney> Also I would put opencl as something for desktop Linux.
[13:54] <cmaloney> s/would/wouldn't/
[13:54] <cmaloney> unless I'm missing something
[13:54] <cmaloney> (note: I'm living in the past)
[14:01] <jrwren> AMD
[14:01] <jrwren> i did finally get clinfo to show the AMD device, but xmrig still doesn't see it.
[14:01] <jrwren> It is worse than I would have guessed.
[14:43] <jrwren> it is 2021 and old kernels still aren't automatically removed. sometimes I think the linux world isn't even trying.
[14:47] <cmaloney> iirc they are under 18.04
[14:47] <cmaloney> I haven't had to purge old kernels in quite a while
[15:08] <jrwren> running impish here. just purged.
[15:09] <jrwren> do you have byobu installed?
[15:09] <jrwren> i know it includes purge-old-kernels. not sure if it is called regularly
[15:10] <jrwren> oh, i guess apt-get autoremove does do it. silly me.
[15:11] <cmaloney> I don't use byobu. I use tmux. :)
[15:33] <jrwren> Good morning. I would like to share with you about how I am a fucking moron.
[15:34] <jrwren> for years I’ve used explicit ssid names on wifi at home so that I could be sure that I am on 5Ghz v. 2.4Ghz.
[15:34] <jrwren> it was only a few days ago that I learned that dual band wifi has features to move you between the two as needed and that I shouldn’t worry about being stuck on 2.4 when 5 is available, but that they have to have the same SSID name for this to work.
[15:55] <greg-g> huh, TIL, I do the same (open2.4 and open5 are my ssids)
[16:09] <cmaloney> Are you kidding me?
[16:09] <cmaloney> I do the same thing too
[16:10] <cmaloney> FFs
[16:12] <cmaloney> Apparently we're all in good company
[16:21] <jrwren> thanks guys. you make me feel better.
[16:22] <jrwren> yeah, it is called "band selection". my tp-link AP has it on by default under "Dual Band Selection"
[16:23] <jrwren> it only effects 2.4Ghz clients and moves them seamlessly to the 5Ghz.
[16:28] <cmaloney> Funnily enough this guild says to do the opposite: https://learntomato.flashrouters.com/setup-dual-band-router-tomato-firmware/
[16:28] <cmaloney> so I think the dual band selection is newer
[16:30] <jrwren> could be
[16:31] <jrwren> that is also for tomato. it is possible tomato doesn't support it.
[16:32] <jrwren> also possible that whoever wrote that article was as clueless as us.
[16:32] <greg-g> no way, we're pretty clueless
[16:42] <jrwren> aka band steering if you are searching things.
[16:42] <jrwren> https://www.maketecheasier.com/24ghz-5ghz-band-steering/
[18:29] <cmaloney> Interesting
[18:29] <cmaloney> I'm not seeing that as an option so will need to do some more digging.
[18:42] <jrwren> what kind of AP?
[19:03] <cmaloney> Tomato
[19:03] <cmaloney> on a Netgear something something (would have to check, WNR3800 sounds right.
[19:05] <cmaloney> Feh, that's not right
[19:05] <cmaloney> R6300
[19:06] <cmaloney> v2
[19:19] <jrwren> i don't recall why, but I gave up on tomato many years ago. :(
[19:19] <cmaloney> The maintenance got complicated
[21:35] <Scary_Guy> Lol tp-link, bottom of the barrel for me.  Got a router once, sure it was cheap, but I tested the cable that came with it with the blinky thing and you'd expect them all to blink.
[21:35] <Scary_Guy> They did not, in fact, all do the blinky thing.
[21:36] <Scary_Guy> I mostly got it for a friend so she could connect to her laptop with her tablet at shows and control a lightshow from anywhere.
[21:38] <Scary_Guy> Also the first time I'm hearing about the dual band thing.  Not that I trust anything to work as it should.  Also if I want 5g, I want 5g.
[21:38] <Scary_Guy> I use OpenWRT, maintenence is stupid easy with it
[21:54] <jrwren_> I prefer tp-link to dlink, linksys, or netgear. asus is too rich for me.
[21:55] <jrwren_> openwrt has never been easy for me. it was always a giant pain in the ass. That siad, I haven't looked at it in at least 10yrs.
[21:55] <jrwren_> whiterussian? ugh. noty.
[22:03] <Scary_Guy> https://routersecurity.org I guess we are all plebes :/
[22:03] <Scary_Guy> Linksys is good, and kind of idiot proof.  I love the backup firmware option so I can just switch and restore.
[22:04] <Scary_Guy> It was made to work with *WRT so it's really hard to brick it.
[22:04] <Scary_Guy> Not that I trust a lot, and it's probably still backdoored in the hardware so whatever three letter agency wants in can get in.
[22:28] <jrwren_> i don't use wifi routers as routers, only as AP
[22:31] <Scary_Guy> Fair enough.  Still probably doesn't help much.  I was thinking of getting another for the IoT home automation stuff I want to do.  Maybe yet another for a security system.
[22:32] <Scary_Guy> I've got four ports on my mo...  oh wait I don't anymore.  Took tha back to stop paying the rental fee.
[22:32] <Scary_Guy> Also got rid of a WiFi that I wasn't using too.
[22:33] <jrwren_> that's always good.
[22:35] <Scary_Guy> Yeah, less saturation of the airwave frequencies is nice.  Still pretty saturated though.  Seems like everything has WiFi these days
[22:35] <Scary_Guy> Routers, phones, IoT...
[22:36] <cmaloney> MUG tonight (mug.org)