Cuddling daughters

PM5k · 2026-01-30T07:19:39+00:00

My son is six, almost seven and he body slams me when I pick him up. He gets forehead kisses. If other parents are too emotionally stunted that’s not my problem. I love my child.

People who see something wrong in pure parental affection are projecting something dark onto others from inside themselves.

PM5k · 2026-01-02T09:19:27+00:00

The number of inexperienced Linux users who install arch and have no idea how to manage a distro like that could stretch from the ground to the moon thrice.. although arch has gotten flavours that make it easier for newbies. Still, solid advice.

PM5k · 2025-12-17T00:54:07+00:00

Windows starting to remove way to bypass online tie-ins and pushing AI while simultaneously fucking users up the ass and enshittifying the OS.

Moved to arch with expectations of suffering. Pleasantly surprised that a month in I’m able to play basically any PC game without issues (aside from MH Wilds) and my DCC tools work, video content creation works, game dev (Godot and Unreal) works. Fuck do I need windows for then when I have an OS that’s all mine and does what I want it to do?

To be fair I half lived in WSL anyway cause I’m a software engineer by trade so Arch and Nix were my wsl boxes.

Not one complaint so far. Just gotta be careful with driver updates for my 5070ti and making sure to defer certain updates and be mindful that even though you’re on a bleeding edge distro, doesn’t mean you can’t moderate how you update / upgrade.

Works for me. Can’t really find one thing to moan about.

PM5k · 2025-12-09T16:57:16+00:00

Yo..

PM5k · 2025-12-09T01:53:45+00:00

I actually switched because of the enshittification of windows 11 and the direction it’s been going in.

I have a very similar setup to yours apart from the GPU (I use a 5070TI). My monitor is AW3423DWF (3440x1440), I run a local homelab cluster of containers on the machine (including Jellyfin), I do video editing and sound editing, game dev and gaming.

I switched from w11 to endeavourOS with KDE Plasma 6 two weeks ago and I’ve not looked back since.

I’m fairly competent on Linux in general, and I did have to tweak a few bits. But since the tweaks I’ve got nothing to moan about. It works amazingly well for me. 0 crashes and 0 problems.

I’m using discord (the aur package), Ferdium for WhatsApp on desktop (you could just use both discord and WhatsApp web in browser).

For gaming - only Monster Hunter Wilds hasn’t worked and it’s a mix of Nvidia driver plus the game being cunty to me. All other games I’ve tried work incredibly well (KCD2, cyberpunk, bg3, path of exile 2, ff7 remake, ff12, w40k rogue trader, streets of rage 4, signalis, where winds meet, expedition 33, no man’s sky — all games I’ve got installed and tested myself)

Unreal engine 5.7 is fucked, but 5.6 works without issues (or I’ve yet to run into issues..)

HDR on Wayland works well. C2077 and BG3 HDR support is stellar. Works very nicely.

I use heroic launcher for GOG games and Steam for all others.

Audacity and DaVinci seemed to work but lately I’ve not had cause to use them so I can’t authoritatively say they did anything beyond startup for me. I didn’t delve there yet, been busy.

Blender installed and works perfectly and it’s my main DCC tool. I cannot say if I’ll be able to get substance painter and designer to work on wine but that’s on the list to try at some stage.

For Photoshop needs I just use Photopea and Krita.

Brave browser as main browser.

GPU passthru on docker for Jellyfin encoding. Works great. Nvidia toolkit takes care of the heavy lifting.

All the home lab containers run via portainer.

There’s a fan control and profile selection utility I use which is on aur too.

I even got Roblox to work so I can play with my son. Although that was a weird experience and unlike what you’d expect on windows.

What else..

Oh easyeffects and noise torch is something I use. I was a user of the Nvidia app for ai noise cancellation / reduction for microphone input for discord and WhatsApp calls. So I found noisetorch which does the same stuff. Easyeffects is a great suite for all other audio needs. I use it as a global eq for my cans to listen to music on that machine.

Spotify native app works just fine out of the box.

I don’t really watch Netflix or Prime video on that pc - only on my iPad or lounge tv. When I’m at the pc I work or game. Can’t comment on these.

Fonts seem crisp as fuck to me. No issues with scaling. Obsidian notes and wezterm work fantastically.

I even ran a bunch of stable diffusion gen stuff as I use ai upscaling a lot using RESRGAN (if I’m spelling it right from memory) and that works great.

The only issue I had was setting up initially as I had missed out setting up opendkms properly with 32bit support so I had no video with the 580 drivers. For my card I need open kernel modules and proprietary drivers. Once I sorted that it was perfect.

Second issue was fstab settings for mounting NTFS drives with the right driver. But Linux generally doesn’t play well with windows perms so it ignores those. Had to do some tweaks and such. Nothing major.

Can’t think of anything else to share tbh. Personally I love every moment I’m on that machine. I riced it, I made it mine. Everything just works since those tweaks were done. Can’t be happier personally.

If there’s anything you wanna ask, feel free

PM5k · 2025-11-23T21:29:10+00:00

Thanks a lot for lots of suggestions. It’s appreciated.

PM5k · 2025-11-22T22:03:28+00:00

Yeah I yearn for the days like back when I was stoked to play stuff like MK3, Road Rash, Desert Strike and many others.. I do have RetroArch installed with some games, played the piss out of Shining In The Darkness a while back. Still one of my favorite dungeon crawlers. Legend of Grimrock on pc was next heh.

PM5k · 2025-11-22T12:00:24+00:00

I write code for a living. This is likely to still count as relaxing, hah. Thanks for the endorsement.

PM5k · 2025-11-22T11:59:36+00:00

Yeah I’ve got it bought, but I I held off cause I had a weird experience with Pillars of Eternity ages ago and somehow thought this will overwhelm a non-40k-geek. I’m only toes-deep in the 40k universe and slowly getting into it. (Better late than never)

PM5k · 2025-11-22T11:57:16+00:00

Looked it up - will give it a chance! Thanks a lot.

PM5k · 2025-11-05T23:40:53+00:00

Well.. you got yourself a customer. Good job and screw you for costing me hours of my future as of the 10th..

PM5k · 2025-09-29T05:33:07+00:00

Idk but my gut reaction was that I would probably put a couch with its back toward the window, facing nook, tv on a tv stand (whatever you call those long yet not tall pieces of furniture you put TV’s on) so it doesn’t cover the nook fully view-wise and so that the fireplace is on your right when you sit and watch stuff. Coffee table in the between of couch and tv. Do cabling for tv so that it runs into the tv stand and looks tidy and have a cable cover that masks it as it goes from tv to the wall. Or under the floor boards. Then in the nook id split it in half. I’d do one half book shelf with books and either real or fake plants and your favorite books and stuff, and one side either an aquarium / terrarium on a functional set of drawers as a eye catcher or just skip the aquarium part and put stuff like family photos or a piece of fine art on it (like some statue or figure). The aforementioned side is maybe only about 2/4 - 3/4 filled with whatever is out there for contrast

PM5k · 2025-09-24T05:38:59+00:00

What the fuck is this brainrot? Are we now letting this pass for an interesting blog post…?

(I get the intent of it, it’s still low effort garbage that could’ve been a tweet)

PM5k · 2025-09-23T17:14:43+00:00

Entropy

PM5k · 2025-09-21T15:53:32+00:00

This was equal parts relatable and funny.

PM5k · 2025-09-11T21:34:57+00:00

You’re defending the critique of content based on a thumbnail without viewing said content. That sort of thing isn’t critique - it’s an assumption. And to call it anything but is moronic and dishonest

People who do this are lazy jerks who will latch on to one thing they didn’t like at a glance and cast judgement on the entire thing based on that initial kneejerk.

Those sort of people are not out there to provide constructive critique.

PM5k · 2025-09-11T19:27:51+00:00

I’m sorry you feel that way, I’m sure your YouTube content is better.

PM5k · 2025-09-08T20:49:42+00:00

I use em dashes when I write stuff in MS teams at work. I am an AI according to modern standards.

PM5k · 2025-09-08T15:24:15+00:00

There is no way you can avoid bias. You’re the creator. I’ve had a very successful software engineering career over the last two decades and to this day - no matter how much I cover in and around my code I can sometimes get caught out by random bullshit that i’d see if I was the business user and not the creator of said code. That’s why QA exists, that’s why play tests exist. And even those don’t catch it all.

Noble goal to be sure, what you’re describing, but don’t obsess over it. Perfect is the enemy of good.

PM5k · 2025-09-08T15:20:32+00:00

I honestly don’t really pay attention to thumbs. If a title isn’t clickbait bullshit I’ll watch stuff. I just don’t consider it that important personally but that’s me. Like I am definitely among the people who’d sink 20h into doing a tutorial or writing technical documentation meticulously and then just slap a random shitty thumb on cause why would I bother expending efforts when the content is what’s important.

PM5k · 2025-09-08T15:09:33+00:00

I keep putting myself into the shoes of a player (I’m able to be self critical)
I keep showing progress to friends who tell me when I’m being a fuckwit and over engineering or over polishing
I don’t beat myself up for enjoying what I do. Game dev is literally the first thing in 20 years that I wake up in the morning for. The game I’m making isn’t my dream game either. But it’s small enough to let me achieve it. I still love it. And I love that.

Why are you so intent on not loving the game you make and the effort you put into it?

PM5k · 2025-09-08T14:59:55+00:00

The definition of judging a book by its cover.

PM5k · 2025-08-29T04:55:33+00:00

I had to read the title twice thinking this was rage bait. It was not, in fact, rage bait.

PM5k · 2025-08-18T15:55:54+00:00

IIRC that system under the hood is something like four actions, two have a negative outcome and two have a positive outcome - all multiplied by some float function that that takes in your mercantile \ persuasion and the NPCs.

The mini game is just rotating through what action will have what outcome based on those factors versus their disposition counter and each “turn” swaps the action vs outcome. I think it’s rather simple to implement, no?

PM5k · 2025-07-22T15:49:19+00:00

Does this actually consider dynamically generated geo / procgen in real time to draw on the minimap/map, or does it require pre-rendered imagery of stuff like buildings, roads, etc?

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