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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.