Zelda @Zelda@sunbeam.city

amazing thing about this motherboard is that i can physically switch off pcie slots. incredible motherboard, really lucky i only paid $100 for it.

went onto english wikipedia and the first thing i see is j.k. rowling. went onto esperanto wikipedia and immediately see corn, communism, and sex.

the older i get, the more i think ubuntu was onto something with unity

kinda glad i didn't go with gentoo; compiling just arctic fox took 11 minutes, and i have a reasonably powered machine lol. granted, that's a web browser, and i remember from the good old days of running freebsd on my grandparents' computer as a teen that compiling ports = time for a tea break, i've just grown too comfortable with speed.

close https://taha-mcp.github.io/terminal-wiki/

terminal emulator called titty when?

they are trying https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/catgirl/catgirl.1.en.html

my new cpu cooler is very performant but i'm sad i had to front mount instead of top mount; it is rather loud

i can fix this

using mate, this is a very pleasant experience

debian just booted like no problem. no black screen with amdgpu. i know they were trying to fix that with 11 (i tested 11.0, no beans) but it looks like they've actually done it now (11.3). beautiful.

i broke xorg somehow without directly touching it, hmm. that's okay tho, i was just gonna download and install Unbreakable™ debian so i can have ms teams running all good and well by the time i have my interview. i really like dragonfly tho, definitely wanna keep a dragonfly vm as a pet.

i'm just gonna spend the $10 for an old radeon and be happy with my life, that's what it all comes down to

i do plan on investing in a few more ssds so that i can install whatever the fuck i want and slowly work on getting them all up to speed at my own pace, tuned just how i like them, while always having something to fall back on in case i need the amenities of another OS. but that's a lot of money i don't have atm.

ngl the lack of documentation is kinda killing dragonfly for me. i just need a graphics card that doesn't rely on amdgpu. radeon gpus are a dime a dozen and work great. but i like having dp 1.4 (as i run 3440x1440@144hz). i like to put myself in predicaments huh. well, i did just get an email about an ms teams interview, so i either gotta set up my windows drive or just switch to debi-- [breaks down sobbing as the cycle continues and i fail to commit to anything]

i gave up on linux because it's bad, now i'm on dragonfly with xfce and it's good. only problem is the desktop is very slow; i think i'll need to tweak/handcraft some xorg.conf stuff to play nice with my gpu, which was never my speciality. i tried adding the modesetting stuff as per https://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2022-January/404934.html but no beans. or rather, xorg thinks there's no screen, which i think means i actually have to make the rest of the xorg.conf stuff. but i presume it's fixable. also ran into two bugs with netsurf, so i should probably mention something about those. my main goal is to get a pale moon-esque browser onto here eventually. i don't like having to use firefox.