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I tried out element/ matrix a few years ago. It is a good discord alternative. It's End to end encrypted so it tickles my security bones. At the time (I don't know if it's better now) the ux was horrible. It also lacked a sense of community for me)

Welcome to the dead model club

Ive tried this a few years back with no luck. I want to move away from mainstream email providers, but some services are actively blocking proton. has made it almost impossible to escape.

KDE NEON Linux desktop running VRChat

finally got around to setting up my VR again. Steamlink works pretty well on linux.

The performance is terrible, but i'm confident it's just because of the sad CPU i had to downgrade to. RIP 7800x3D

as it stands i no longer need windows anymore

settled on KDE Neon.

it's okay to be cringe. actually it's encouraged.

Ran out of peppermint tea. 2026 sux. 2027 will be my year!!1!!1 💯

In all honesty it was a bit foolish to recommend it, as I haven't actually finished it fully (I've got 2 chapters left tbf). But from the point I'm at, it got me thinking about how much I consume, in terms of low effort, high reward stimulus. Which I thought was a good enough reason to recommend it.

I think its a good read to get your foot in the door regarding overconsumption of dopamine. But yeah, you're right it's a bit pop sciency.

Yeah, detoxing is a myth. Even if you did detox, chances are you'll overstimulate yourself on your return.

I'd argue dopamine has been weaponized against our own minds. Virtually turning us into zombies. Except instead of brains we're hungry for our next dopamine hit.

With each hit of dopamine, our tolerance goes up, so we need more to feel the same. Eventually nothing will be able to satiate us.

I see you've been talking about dopamine in a couple of your posts. I highly recommend the book Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke. It goes into our mentality regarding dopamine and the overconsumption of dopamine related activities.

Happy Christmas buddy buddyworks

mandatory hyfetch

found a shitty old motherboard and CPU to tie me over for a bit.

just went through the trouble of installing linux mint, but sadly it's using mesa vulkan just a little bit older than what i need.

i would go back to arch, but i'm sick of having an unstable OS.

Update on my pc issue: Its seems like my CPU died alongside my motherboard.

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"Experimental Linux Support
Steam Link VR Uses Vulkan Video, and driver support for Vulkan Video is only available in the newest drivers. Please use NVIDIA drivers 575.64.05 or newer or if AMD, please use Mesa drivers 25.2.2 or newer."

huge W.

Deleting discord off my phone was probably one of the best decisions Ive made recently.

Debating putting Linux back on my machine when my new motherboard arrives.

If steam link works on Linux, I'll make the switch back.

Thank you puppy

From now on I will always keep my BIOS pup to date.

Thank you. I have just realised that I never deleted the account I bought the motherboard on which I thought I did. Going to attempt to RMA. Also I've only had the board 11 months apparently. I've never had a piece of tech fail that hard on me in such a short span of time.

Thanks pup.

I think I'll grab the MSI pro b850m-p.

Has everything I need. And it's a reasonable price.

Oh that's good to know.

Don't really have a price point tbh. I just want something that works and won't explode my wallet lol.

7800x3D

Feels a bit wrong matching that CPU with a cheap motherboard xD

Also my current case has about 4mm of clearance for my GPU iirc.

For the mobo I'm eyeing the A stock b850 pro a. It has the features I need while being inexpensive.
Case I'm looking at Jonsbo D32 pro. Honestly it's mostly because I like the way it looks

It's just a draft tho. Still looking around

No, but I think I'm going for an MATX board as it gives me an excuse to change my case. Reason I want to change case is my tempered glass is touching my CPU cooler unless I barely tighten the screws that hold the glass. I've got an old coolermaster h212 (the silver unpainted one) it's a bit sketch

I think what I'll do for now is buy a new one on Amazon (don't like Amazon but it's easiest to refund on for me), if it still doesn't work, I'll return it and reconsider all my life choices.

Thanks for your help with this. It means a lot ^^

This is what I get for going back to windows 😭

But yeah even using the bios flash tool gives me the same outcome as before.

I think this confirms that it's the board causing the issue. Must have just delt the final blow to the board while troubleshooting earlier.

I hadn't considered that I had potentially corrupted the bios. You might be cooking there.

I'll perform the bios upgrade and let you know how it goes. ^^

Yeah, I've checked the CPU pins.

I do have a spare flash drive, I haven't tried a flashback before so I'm not too sure how it works. Can I perform it if I can't get to bios?

Yeah I've tried swapping the ram to all possible configurations.

As well with my GPU out

My brother has a machine. I just don't know if it's am4 or 5.