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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • After building my new machine. I swapped from Windows to Bazzite, then now CachyOS. It’s been pretty smooth.

    My current things are:

    • Ring timeouts on my 9070xt. I feel like I’ve tried everything. Seems like this is an issue with directX 12, swapping to 11 works for the most part.

    • Wayland shenanigans. I want to use PTT in discord. If I use the x11 environmental, it works, but that then means I can’t PTT when using my browser. Using the git that everyone recommends works globally, but seems to be adding Ctrl or alt to my press after starting a game, which breaks my in game keybinds. For now it’s the env fix and swapping to voice activation if talking while browsing.

    • Hyprland stuff including keybinds to open on my other monitor when my first monitor has a full screen app. I can launch the apps and set full screen properties via window rules, but need to toggle full screen in order for it to work the way I expect. Oh and then there is also the problem with the wallpaper swapping forcing my workspace back to 1, even if I am on another workspace using an app.

    Most other stuff has been nice. I don’t miss Windows in the slightest. These are just the last few bits to bother me and are by no means show stoppers.















  • A teaching seminar was held in one of the classrooms that I took a class in. Students came in the next morning to see a username and password on the whiteboard. It didn’t take long for us to test it on school computers.

    The account had admin level access and could go into any student’s directory. This led to rampant cheating on homework and labs.

    I used it on my physics labs in senior year. I, and a few others, were caught and had to make up a few of the labs in the early morning in order to be able to take our finals. Also had detention for weeks.

    A year later, after I had graduated and was in college for CS, I applied for a job at the school as a system administrator. The guidance counselor was in the room when I was talking to the IT admin. When I left, she brought up how I had broken policy and accessed files via that breach. The IT admin found me in the hall and asked me about it. I explained that I had taken my punishment, made up the labs, and didn’t feel that it would affect my work at the school, but would withdraw my application anyway.


  • I wish I could have this. Two of my players take notes, but only one takes them in enough detail to piece things together. I recently gave a the not-so-great note taker a dream (full text was provided in a message) with a bunch of bread crumbs for their character to follow. It was to encourage them to talk with the other player characters and try to solve this mystery together by utilizing connections that the other players have. In this dream, I gave them:

    • A very uncommon first name of an important NPC they can seek out. The NPC is the Empress of one of the opposing countries.
    • A description of an area, including geographic markers that they could use to pinpoint its location. This place is very unique. If they ask someone in game that studies any sort of geography, they will likely be told where to go
    • A description of another set of the mcguffins that the team had just gathered. This is literally their main quest right now

    The response I got back from the player was “Yeah… i don’t know what i need to pull from this”. This is from the player that keeps contacting me after the game saying that they want to interact more with the world and do more RP. When pressed with “well you could ask one of the other characters for help” I got a “nah, I want to do this on my own”.

    Please send help…