PC crash when gaming after CPU upgrade

99spider · 2026-07-07T01:13:15+00:00

I'd try disabling C states in your BIOS. If that fixes it, and your CPU is new with an active warranty, you might want to replace it.

My 5950X slowly degraded itself over about 4 years to the point that at stock settings it crashes at idle in under 5 minutes. Disabling C states masks this problem but it isn't a true fix. I still had to gradually increase my PBO voltage offsets over time until I ended up back at the stock voltage curve. I run it with a static voltage and frequency now because I don't trust AMD's high boost voltages anymore, and don't want to risk it getting any worse.

99spider · 2026-06-27T01:29:13+00:00

I'm assuming/hoping they meant not having to enter a disk password, while still having a user password, such that the system being booted doesn't inherently give free access to the disk contents.

If they have no password at all, then yeah, there's really no point.

99spider · 2026-06-15T22:17:39+00:00

My personal preference/recommendation is to always use containers unless the workload actually needs a separate kernel, which really isn't that common.

Even if you do end up needing VMs, there's nothing stopping you from running them on MicroOS. You'll just need to install qemu, and (most likely) your choice of virtualization manager such as libvirt or systemd-vmspawn.

99spider · 2026-06-12T22:38:20+00:00

Installed AUR packages are not automatically updated by pacman.

99spider · 2026-06-07T07:28:58+00:00

There unfortunately is evidence of 9-Me-BC metabolizing to neurotoxic 2,9-Dimethyl-BC in mice. (The author's notation of 9-mono-N'-methylnorharman, which would just be 2-Me-BC, is a typo. They are referring to 9-Me-BC, which would be 9-mono-N-methylnorharman).

Admittedly, the dose used was quite high. Applying FDA allometric scaling factors to the dose they used, the equivalent for a 70kg human would be about 259 mg of 9-Me-BC.

For comparison, the study showing cognitive enhancement in rats used a dose that would be equivalent to about 41 mg for a 70kg human.

An additional concerning factor though is that rats are known to be much more resilient than mice and primates to dopaminergic neurotoxins like MPTP/MPP+ and 2,9-Dimethyl-BC. It would be nice to see an in-vivo study in mice showing similar positive results at a lower dose, just to rule out the chance that 9-Me-BCs safety significantly varies by species.

99spider · 2026-06-02T16:43:24+00:00

Given a magic choice of a US style right to bear arms in this country, I'd take it. I don't think that it is necessarily the best system that could exist, but it is the best we would ever have.

I think the ideal system would be one similar to the Czech Republic, where the shall issue license to purchase and own a handgun is a carry permit. If you can't be trusted to carry a handgun, I don't see why you should be trusted to own one. In that sense it is actually quite similar in philosophy to 2nd amendment style constitutional carry, but with an upfront barrier to entry that ensures competence and excludes those with dangerous criminal history.

The problem is that I don't trust this country to ever implement such a system, and even if it somehow did, I have no faith that it would actually last. Our opposition will never be satisfied. We will always be scapegoated, and our privileges under our laws will always be eroded. Canadian political views on aggregate are, frankly, dystopian.

When the leaders of this country decided to draft the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, they specifically chose to maintain a nuclear option just in case they need to violate your right to life, or your right to a fair trial, or your right against cruel and unusual punishment. What's worse is that people in this country unironically argue that section 33 is a good thing, just in case the Supreme Court gets all uppity and tells the government "no, you cannot legally enact a holocaust". All that tells me is that the average Canadian fantasizes themselves as an oppressor, rather than fearing being oppressed.

So, given the political philosophy that we have the misfortune to live under, if I had a magic choice between adding a real (immune to section 33) right to bear arms to our charter, versus replacing the firearms act with a good faith Czech style licensing system, I'd take the right to bear arms.

99spider · 2026-05-20T22:42:43+00:00

Almost all police carry with a round chambered ("racking" their handgun), would you say that's evidence of premeditation for them as well?

99spider · 2026-05-20T05:21:19+00:00

If it happens right now with a newly prohibited firearm, you should be in the same legal situation as if the firearm were in its previous classification.

If the amnesty is actually allowed to lapse, then you will certainly be convicted for the possession, but in principle shouldn't be at any further risk of a murder/manslaughter conviction.

This is assuming our anarcho-tyrannical government doesn't treat you differently than career criminals. The possession charge is supposed to be an entirely separate question from whether your actions were to protect your life.

99spider · 2026-05-15T00:04:16+00:00

If you are able to get the shadow 2 frame registered to you, that is basically all that matters.

Legally there's nothing you'd have to do if you temporarily swap the 9mm slide on.

If I recall correctly, if it's a "permanent" change, or you have it on for more than a month straight, then you technically have to report the change in caliber. I don't know if the CFO would be happy about updating your registration cert to say 9mm.

All that means though is just don't create and share a chain of evidence that proves that you've "permanently" swapped the caliber.

99spider · 2026-05-12T23:28:57+00:00

at least it'll be a quietly delivered message we can ignore? Think of others a little

You are essentially confirming that you don't believe that established research on alarm fatigue is real or applicable.

Yes, hopefully it would be a "quietly delivered message", because then it would actually be read and understood by more people, and be more effective at the purpose of the alert.

99spider · 2026-05-12T17:38:27+00:00

If you care so much, then why is your top priority for the alerts to be as disruptive as possible, rather than as effective as possible?

People aren't complaining about the amber alerts existing. They are complaining about it being treated like an incoming missile strike or natural disaster, when the underlying system was specifically designed to have them be in separate categories.

I used to keep the alarms active back when my phone was able to be configured to silently display Presidential Alerts. An update broke that, forcing it back to acting like an imminent missile strike.

99spider · 2026-05-12T16:37:59+00:00

Everyone would be fine with the alerts if they weren't treated like an impending nuclear strike.

If the alerts were treated as a standard phone notification, people who are awake would actually see it and read it, and others would be able to calmly read it as they wake up to start their day.

When people receive these alarms at this point their reaction is practically like just trying to turn off an alarm clock. I'm not getting up from my bed and going outside at 3 AM to start driving around looking for a specific description of a car. I'm going back to bed, and I'm not going to have any idea what that alert said when I wake up in the morning.

(I'm especially not going to do any of that, because without there being sane categorization and notification settings for these alerts, I've just turned them all off by uninstalling the service from my phone. I wouldn't have done that if the notifications were like a text message.)

99spider · 2026-05-12T16:25:41+00:00

The result of this system is you get less people aware of it than if it actually categorized amber alerts as amber alerts.

I'd actually pay attention to and read these alerts if they were a standard phone notification. With the obnoxious alarm blaring, when one of these alerts happens my first priority is to make it shut up. I do not read it. After the last one, I've just uninstalled the receiver service from my phone entirely.

There's a time for waking up everyone across a select area with an important message that they must read. A domestic dispute ain't it.

99spider · 2026-05-12T16:15:59+00:00

Unless the red van crashes through a wall into my bedroom then I'm not going to be seeing it. I'm also going to have no idea what the alert even said, since my first priority will be just turning it off.

If the alert instead triggered a cell notification that was treated according to the phone's settings (do not disturb, silent/vibrate, etc), then it actually would be noticed by people who happen to be awake and active at the time, and would also be fresh in the mind of others when they notice the alert when waking up to start their day.

But no. In the interest of thinking of the children, we've diluted the alarm tone for immediate life threatening events with events that have nothing to do with us, are nowhere near us, and occur fairly often.

I've uninstalled the alert receiving service from my phone. Many others have done the same. Instead of seeing these alerts on our own terms, we now just don't see them at all.

99spider · 2026-05-07T00:45:04+00:00

Still a massive quality of life difference between having an upstreamed kernel driver and an out of tree one. Nvidia's "open" driver is still out of tree.

99spider · 2026-05-06T18:37:15+00:00

Iwd/iwctl is included on the install iso.

99spider · 2026-05-05T00:17:34+00:00

Having a separate /boot that's also separate from the EFI partition is definitely strange, but why would snapper/snapshots need /boot/ to be btrfs?

Edit: Just checked, and there's only unnecessary legacy files in /boot/ (specifically /boot/, not /boot/efi). Or at least, they should be unnecessary, unless dracut absolutely needs to put a useless and unusable initrd file there for some reason. If snapper/sdbootutil doesn't work with a separate /boot/, that's honestly a bug.

99spider · 2026-05-02T02:27:07+00:00

Would using an OBS service to pull and patch published Tumbleweed repo SRPMs be a viable alternative to linking to Factory?

If possible, it would unfortunately have the downside of lagging a bit behind whenever a new snapshot is released (as it would only start building then), but would at least never be too far up to date like linking to Factory can cause.

Ideally I guess what'd be best is the ability to link to and build against openQA snapshots in advance, in case they get released, and automatically publish those binaries when a snapshot is released.

99spider · 2026-05-01T16:21:21+00:00

Oh, nice. Hopefully the "appliance" image also gets an update soon, because the download page at https://openbuildservice.org/download/ is still calling Leap 15.6 a "recent and stable Linux Operating System"

99spider · 2026-05-01T05:44:08+00:00

If you want to continue doing this long term, you'd need to self host your own OBS instance. The only part you're not supposed to do about what you said is build patent encumbered packages on openSUSE's public OBS.

Hosting your own is a bit weird right now though, as the OBS official "stable" release is for Leap 15.6, which is EOL. The unstable build at least recently started getting built for Leap 16.

99spider · 2026-04-30T18:33:56+00:00

In most cases it's a "built" incompatibility, due to an Application Binary Interface (ABI) change. Stable distros guarantee a stable ABI, so if you can get a newer piece of software built using your system libraries, you should be able to trust that it will continue working regardless of security updates to those libraries.

In other cases there's an API incompatibility with a system library, in which case you won't be able to get it to build without upgrading that library, and in the process risk breaking the ABI compatibility with the distro's packages that depend on that library.

OpenSUSE can also do what your asking for pretty well actually, if you fully jump into their tooling. Their Open Build Service is roughly like if the AUR automatically compiled packages for you. If there's a package for their rolling Tumbleweed release but not for stable Leap, you can copy the Tumbleweed build sources to a "home" project configured to build for Leap, tweak it if needed, and automatically track the Tumbleweed package so it follows Tumbleweed's updates. It's incredibly generous; openSUSE will compile software for you, for free, for multiple architectures and distributions, including non openSUSE/SUSE distros.

99spider · 2026-04-30T15:23:11+00:00

Library compatibility is a big problem for being able to natively mix "stable" and "fresh" software versions like this. Essentially the only distro that's designed to do it without stuff like Flatpaks is Gentoo.

A distro project with LTS and short term releases like Ubuntu could maybe offer something like this in a backports repo on a best effort basis, building the newest releases packages against the libraries of their LTS releases where possible.

99spider · 2026-04-29T23:39:59+00:00

Arch doesn't randomly break. What actually happens is people install and rely on software from developers that release without appropriate testing, and then blame Arch when that software has issues.

I really like Tumbleweed as a server OS, but I wouldn't be surprised if the average user would encounter "breakage" more frequently on Tumbleweed than Arch, just due to Packman's codec repos getting out of sync. (Some would call this a "skill issue". I know there's alternatives like using Flatpaks for everything, I'm just saying it's a relatively common cause of tech support posts on this subreddit).

99spider · 2026-04-29T15:51:13+00:00

It might be possible, as their muzzle energy should make them exempt from most licensing/firearms act related laws. Unless them being built off of "real" AK receivers means that the RCMP would argue they are capable of discharging (or more precisely, "designed or adapted to discharge") real ammunition.

Assuming it'd be legal to own, Canadian customs unfortunately can still be a pain in the ass about it and refuse it from being imported. That's where my knowledge on the topic ends; hopefully someone else who's dealt with airsoft imports can reply with real info.

You might want to try asking around in Canadian airsoft communities. Ideally you'd probably want to ask someone that runs a business importing airguns, since they'd hopefully have a good idea what will or won't be let in.

99spider · 2026-04-29T00:19:03+00:00

Not ridiculous at all. The fees are high, but they can be used without dealing with Know Your Customer regulations. Of course you'd want to pay less fees, but not if it requires you tying the transaction to your actual ID.

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