How to should I know? Stop asking internet oracles and become independent!

https://www.distractify.com/p/sticker-mule-owner

Since going political in a big public way in July, Constantino has posted a steady stream of pro-Trump content on the company’s social media pages, including a statement after the most recent assassination attempt against Trump in September.

In that post, Constantino called on Hillary Clinton to apologize for calling Trump voters deplorables, and Joe Biden to apologize for the “Fine People Hoax.”

“The sooner people come forward and issue statements to apologize for and explain that they provoked anti-Trump hate on false pretenses, often for their own benefit, the faster we’ll fix the problem and have a happier USA and world,” Constantino wrote, after reeling off a long list of celebrities he said should apologize to Trump.

At the beginning of September, Sticker Mule also released an official Sticker Mule endorsement, writing that Trump is the “max global happiness President.”

from: https://dailydot.com/sticker-mule-reddit-ban

I couldn’t remember what was fastistic about them, so I just searched on ddg and got these links for you. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sticker+mule+fashist

Hey Riddle Riddle - 3 improv masters solve riddles together.

Try visiting your local makerspace and see if any of the local people are making cool stickers on the cricut.

People are upset at sticker rule for being fashistic iirc

Fuck off with grok

Colt 45 and two zig zags

What features are important to you in a car?

Tool to give false confidence and absolve responsibility.

Kind of like hopping up Nazis on meth for the blitzkrieg.

The drive is very full and old, so upgrading storage has got to be a priority.

Not sure how to measure thermals, but I will look for a way. There should be a CPU temp sensor at least.

I can test the ram with memtest86 which is already installed and post the results.

I don’t think it is Windows Update ;)

I am using the nvidia proprietary drivers, and had to use prime-select to set them to default. I am guessing it was just a heating issue! It looks like I should add dusting it out to the regular preventative maintenance schedule. I am hoping to not have to mess with the thermal paste.

I have two monitors set up – one is connected to the discrete gpu, the other is connected to the integrated gpu. They are both using DVI to HDMI cables.

This motherboard does have UEFI. I am learning about Resizable Bar (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/what-is-resizable-bar-and-should-you-use-it) I thought it was metal for structural integrity at first. Those graphics cards are getting pretty big…

Thanks, I didn’t know that x8 pcie was a thing now… also resizable bar support – something else to research.

I cleaned up the dust and I haven’t noticed those “jerky cursor” problems for a bit, so hopefully that was it. It wasn’t even that much dust, so we’ll see how long 'til the system does it again. I am not trying to play any specific games, just trying to use the OS, file picker, etc., without lag.

The PSU is a Corsair TX750

I would like a linux desktop that “just works” ™ when I upgrade, but doesn’t have to play heavy games or pull heavy workloads. I thought a steam machine might be a decent choice for that, but hopefully this desktop has a few more years left in it.

All 4 slots are taken by DIMMs (is that the right term) unfortunately. 4 Memory Sticks.

Can you think of a way to identify what could be causing the system to thrash (? is that the right term)?

I did clean the dust out, and I haven’t noticed any problems since then. It wasn’t really that much dust. But maybe that was it!

Oh wow ok. I am not finding any other standards to look up – I guess you just have to measure with a tape measure to see what clearance is there in the case.

I couldn’t visualize how it could be compatible with ATX but also longer, but I found this site with a helpful image. https://www.cgdirector.com/gpu-clearance-explained/

The distance from the pins to the edge of the case is the same, but the distance the other way to the “inside edge” of the gfx card varies widely!

Thanks for the advice!

That is a good point! I am thinking it is a regular full size ATX? But I’ll try to find a model name and search it.

I posted the system specs here . Apologies if this is not the right way to link to something on the threadiverse. Fun thing, while I was typing this, the system hung for a sec, and then all the letters appeared really quick.

Thank you for the link to explaining computers – I’ll check it out!

$ lspci |grep -i vga 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation IvyBridge GT2 [HD Graphics 4000] (rev 09)  
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 980] (rev a1)  

For motherboard, it appears to be this Gigabyte . I found this command online: dmidecode

$ sudo dmidecode -t 2  
# dmidecode 3.5  
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.  
SMBIOS 2.7 present.  

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes  
Base Board Information  
        Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.  
        Product Name: Z77X-UD3H  
        Version: x.x  
        Serial Number: To be filled by O.E.M.  
        Asset Tag: To be filled by O.E.M.  
        Features:  
                Board is a hosting board  
                Board is replaceable  
        Location In Chassis: To be filled by O.E.M.  
        Chassis Handle: 0x0003  
        Type: Motherboard  
        Contained Object Handles: 0  

I will try to figure out the PSU soon. EDIT: Corsair TX750

Thanks, that would probably attract attention lol. I was looking at System Monitor when the stuttering happens and I didn’t see a big CPU spike, but I am at a loss.

# System Details Report (Copied from Ubuntu System Information)  
---  

## Report details  
- **Date generated:**                              2026-02-05 12:03:11  

## Hardware Information:  
- **Hardware Model:**                              Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z77X-UD3H  
- **Memory:**                                      16.0 GiB  
- **Processor:**                                   Intel® Core™ i7-3770K × 8  
- **Graphics:**                                    Intel® HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)  
- **Graphics 1:**                                  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980  
- **Disk Capacity:**                               128.0 GB  

## Software Information:  
- **Firmware Version:**                            F20e  
- **OS Name:**                                     Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS  
- **OS Build:**                                    (null)  
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit  
- **GNOME Version:**                               46  
- **Windowing System:**                            X11  
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.14.0-37-generic  

EDIT:

• PSU: Corsair TX750
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H

It doesn’t struggle with web browsing per se., just with opening and closing windows mostly. I just experienced it – I open the file browser, the system hangs for a moment or two where I can’t move the mouse. Then the mouse jerks around for a bit. Then the system is smooth again. I looked in System Monitor right after this happened and didn’t see any big spikes in storage, CPU, or memory, so I am assuming GPU.

It is probably not physically clean. I should address that first.

It is running on a Samsung SSD 830 series. I tried enabling write cache. I ran into the system stuttering problem (described above) clicking ‘cancel’ on a random dialog.

I have had a lot of problems with codecs, and video playback being choppy everywhere, which is why I am focused on getting good hardware codecs that are supported under linux.

The CPU/motherboard definitely does have a built-in iGPU. I think I could try it out with prime-select. Maybe that is worth experimenting.