Hey, just letting you know I sorted the issue, the thread I opened about it on the mint forums is here if you’re interested in more details: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2691196#p2691196

It turned out that the base mesa and mesa (extra) packages were duplicated on my system, so just uninstalling both of them and reinstalling only one copy fixed it. It wasn’t the mesa-vulkan-drivers though, but very similar to your problem. Your information did help me to the solution.

Thanks for your help!

Okay, thanks, I’ll take a look at my options there.

And I do also have an nvidia card. Thanks for the help!

Oooh, interesting, so you’re right that when I get the lag, there’s a lot of CPU usage. Also there was definitely a system update before it started happening - although I can’t say exactly when because I wasn’t gaming on this system for a few days.

I’m on Mint 22.1 and I’ve tried uinstalling and reinstalling through the software manager GUI, and I’ve also tried:

sudo apt purge mesa-vulkan-drivers
sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers

None of that changed the problem. I also made sure I restarted the system.

Am I doing that right? Are there any other steps that I’m missing?

Thanks, I’ve found the problem, it’s in an edit.

Thanks, I’ve found the problem, it’s in an edit.

Thanks, I’ve found the problem, it’s in an edit.

I would have asked about that but I checked a few places through a VPN first.

I turns out it was my noscript addon, I’ve put more details in an edit.

Could be, but it’s hard to get any information on whether the site is actually down. downforeveryoneorjustme.com reports it as being up, but that could be just because it serves the loading icon and not anything useful.

What do you see when you go to protondb.com?

Yes, they try to prevent unwanted outputs with filters that prevent the LLM from seeing your input, not by teaching the LLM, because they can’t actually do that, it doesn’t truly learn.

Hypotheticals and such work because the LLM has no capacity to understand context. The idea that “A is inside B”, on a conceptual level, is lost on them. So the idea that a recipe for napalm is the same whether it’s framed within a hypothetical or not is impossible for them to decode. To an LLM, just wrapping the same idea in a new context makes it seem like a different thing.

They don’t have any capacity to self-censor, so telling them not to say something is like telling a human not to think of an elephant. It doesn’t work. You can tell a human not to speak about the elephant, because that’s guarded by our internal filter, but the LLM is more like our internal processes that operate before our filters go to work. There is no separation between “thought” and output (quotes around “thought” because they don’t actually think).

Solving this problem I think means making a conscious agent, which means the people who make these things are incentivised to work towards something that might become conscious. People are already working on something called agentic AI which has an internal self-censor, and to my thinking that’s one of the steps towards a conscious model.

I’m not sure exactly why but I can’t think of anything after then that properly enriches my life.

Was that around the time you moved out of home?

There are examples yes, Dr Fatima on youtube talks a lot about the philosophy of science and how it’s not such a rigid, prescriptive process as a lot of people - including scientists - seem to think.

When Pseudoscience Beat Science: Three Stories About Knowing Things

That video has three stories of phenomena that were unknown to western science until ancestral knowledge revealed them. The first two you could argue are just traditionally acquired knowledge that has gained a veneer of supernatural language, but “voodoo death” is literally named after the fact that a voodoo curse can kill someone.

I’d reccommend her whole channel if this stuff interests you. Particularly Gravity is a Social Construct, and How Galileo Broke the Scientific Method.

Edit: the downvotes on this with absolutely no explanation of what’s wrong are a perfect example of why science struggles with these concepts. Anything that doesn’t immediately fit the schema of what western respectable rational people expect gets dismissed out of hand.

I know by making this edit I’m inviting the most incurious assholes to mansplain to me why I’m wrong, but maybe someone will actually engage with the points.

Literally anywhere that isn’t lemmygrad or hexbear will usually be better. You could go to an instance with open sign up until you find somewhere else, but they tend to house a lot of closeted reactionaries, I assume because those people like the anonymity. Personally I just looked up instances to see which ones I liked. They’ll have a description of who they are and if sign ups require an application you just say why you want to join their instance. It’s not a huge deal really.

Then I don’t know what you’re disagreeing with in my first comment, since you agree that fats aren’t actually bad.

In fact, since you’ve said that you need “all” for a balanced diet, it seems like you agree that fats actually are “good”.

Everyone needs calories, if you don’t get them from fats and oils, you’re left with carbs and sugars, both of which have a higher glycemic index.

So yes, it does mean fats are good, because you need energy to live. If you want to tell me there’s some other form of energy that you know about that’s better than any of those three, please let me know.

Until then, perhaps you could show me the science that proves how bad fats supposedly are.

Those foods won’t make you feel good unless you enjoy shitting yourself into a coma.

Every one needs calories. Avoiding fats and oils means you turn to carbohydrates and sugars, both of which have a higher glycemic index.

There’s a reason the US has demonised fat for decades and over those same decades the obesity epidemic has only gotten worse.

Also, the calories in; calories out approach is a myth and probably not good for you long term:

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/07/05/its-time-to-bust-the-calories-in-calories-out-weight-loss-myth.html

Bottom line

The “calories in, calories out” formula for weight loss success is a myth because it oversimplifies the complex process of calculating energy intake and expenditure. More importantly, it fails to consider the mechanisms our bodies trigger to counteract a reduction in energy intake.

So while you may achieve short-term weight loss following the formula, you’ll likely regain it.

What’s more, calorie counting can do more harm than good, taking the pleasure out of eating and contributing to developing an unhealthy relationship with food. That can make it even harder to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.

For long term weight loss, it’s important to follow evidence-based programs from health-care professionals and make gradual changes to your lifestyle to ensure you form habits that last a lifetime.

Yes, exactly this. If you feel buzzed, anxious, jittery, pay attention to what you last ate and see if there’s a pattern.

“Pay attention to how food makes you feel” is the best dieting advice I ever got, because different foods react differently to different people’s systems. There isn’t a single prescriptive diet that can cater to everybody’s needs.

Fats and oils aren’t bad for you, that’s propaganda pushed by the sugar industry for decades.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

Eat whatever food you like that makes you feel good after you’ve finished eating, your body knows what’s good for it for the most part.

Edit: I think this comment section is pretty good evidence for how well it worked. Loads of people reflexively scoffing at the idea that fat might not be bad for you but no clear arguments as to why.

You can make cheese sauce with any hard cheese and sodium citrate. For the liquid you can use water, milk, beer or really any beverage you want. Obviously also chillis and hot sauce can be added at any point in the process.

You can also tune the recipe to be thicker or runnier depending on what you use it for.

This is the recipe that I use, they have a specific jalapeno one: https://www.cheeseprofessor.com/blog/sodium-citrate-cheese-sauce

The important part is the ratio of cheese:liquid:sodium citrate.

Yup, Behind the Bastards did an excellent two parter on forensic science in general:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-bastards-of-forensic-170035753/ https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-two-the-bastards-of-forensic-170702749/

They make a good point that real science is involved, but by the time it makes it into the police’s hands it’s mutated into essentially a mechanism to manufacture convictions. Grifters get hold of the science, and cops are like the perfect marks, because they’re just primed for anything that will confirm their existing biases, plus they’ve got massive state budgets to play with, and they’ll happily give the grifters legitimacy.