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I recently found myself working from home, and needing a lot more pixels. I have been using a 40" Sony 3DTV as a monitor (sadly it won't take 120Hz input) and it's only 1080p, which is fine for gaming or doing one thing at a time, but no good for having four windows open and having to be able to make sense of them all at once. It's true that using a television as a monitor typically gives a fairly low-fi experience, but I go back to way back and spent many of my late formative years using Amigas with a TV as a monitor, so I have a fairly high tolerance for visual blemishes.

When it was announced that Fallout 4 would be getting updates again, the community received the news with extremely mixed responses. Console players welcomed any improvement, but PC players dreaded the updates' probable effects on the modding ecosystem.

For some reason, the thumb trackball mice always seem to wake up my computer in the night. This would be understandable if there were pets involved, but there aren't. I disabled wake from the mouse in BIOS, but it doesn't seem to have done anything. My top search result for linux stop computer waking from sleep on mouse activity turned out to be an askubuntu page on this subject which contained a high quality answer. Here is a distillation:

I have been using PlayOnLinux to manage wineprefixes on my Devuan system and decided to branch out and try using Lutris today. I have been having trouble with it since I installed CUDA (plus the accompanying nvidia drivers) from deb files instead of just using the run file.

One of my on and off again Drupal projects is a food information database, built mostly around whatever the current government official database is. These days that is the USDA FNDDS, or Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies.