NOTS Network Update - December 2020

Tune into my Not an Extra Life Stream this weekend, starting at 10am MST on Saturday, 12 December 2020 and continuing for 24 hours! Watch at live.nots.co and donate at extralife.nots.co.
Also, watch Episode 2 of Displaced: Season 3 at displaced.nots.co.
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[@jbloodwo]

I like the new look Jacob. Good luck with the stream...

[@jimmihenry]

Hey Jacob, saw your Installation of Arch. It was dope, thank you! Maybe you could explain how to install the AMD video driver? I installed Arch 2015 on a virtual machine, guess some parts of the inst may differ? One last question that i have is about the (echo LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf) echo commnad and how to use it? Would make things faster since minority of Arch beginners know how to operate nano or vim, well at least i had to look it up while installing. Thumb up nice how to :)!

[@NerdOnTheStreet]

The AMD graphics driver is built into the Linux kernel (which is possible because it's open-source), you don't install it separately like you do with NVIDIA. OpenCL does require either AMDGPU-PRO or ROCm, but I don't think you were talking about OpenCL since you referred to it as a "video driver."

[@jimmihenry]

@@NerdOnTheStreet Thank you very much for clearing this up! :). I am a big fan of Opensource since it allows everyone to take advantage of modern technology. Linux was always on my mind since the late 1990, finally as the software got simpler to setup i started a little Linux adventure in 2015, it went not so smooth but i managed to run Puppy Linux on a old Win98 laptop and Arch Linux in a virtual machine (Arch wen't lot smoother than Puppy for me, no joke!). Back than i installed a mesa driver i believe it was a video driver. (I do not have a clue what OpenCL is, guess Google is my friend here). Cheers.

[@brianpohl8748]

Man you really want that T-shirt! Hope you are doing well man.