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  • Paper towels are able to absorb water because of cellulose’s natural gaps and spaces:

    Most bacteria are about 1 micron, and these gaps range from around 1-10 microns.

    Especially if damp, it can be argued that they don’t stop the transfer of bacteria. It’s possible that your bacteria transfers through it and vice versa. This is all before the fact that paper towels can already harbor bacteria on their own.

    That being said, paper towels do block some. You just shouldn’t think of them as sterile or a magic blocker for bacteria.
















  • My partner’s computer was running bazzite on a 2080 super and it gave her nothing but problems, especially with Wayland. Switching to AMD immediately fixed the Wayland issues, and also completely stabilized her system. It could be that it was a problematic GPU, I suppose. I admit that I haven’t personally used an Nvidia GPU since ~2020, however I did see the issues she had for sure.


  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todaytoLinux@lemmy.mlI'm thinking of building a PC - any advice?
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    Whatever you do, do not get an Nvidia GPU. I’ve only ever had problems with Nvidia drivers on Linux. Meanwhile, the AMD drivers (both the ones baked into the kernel and proprietary) work nearly flawlessly.

    Intel’s most recent generation of CPUs were also frying themselves and Intel (at least last I checked) were not accepting RMAs from affected customers. Something to consider for your CPU at least.