I had an old laptop with GeForce 8600M GT card, but it would only work with Linux Kernel versions up to 5.4.

Well, I haven’t yet tried actually using it.

It seems supertuxkart can reliably freeze Plasma.
After entering a game, the screen briefly freezes, then Plasma displays “Desktop effects were restarted due to a graphics reset” accompanied by following logs:

[ 2346.824555] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:hangcheck_handler [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0: hangcheck detected gpu lockup rb 2!
[ 2346.825327] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:hangcheck_handler [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0:     completed fence: 59486
[ 2346.825920] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:hangcheck_handler [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0:     submitted fence: 59494
[ 2346.826698] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:recover_worker [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0: hangcheck recover!
[ 2346.827442] msm_dpu 1a01000.display-controller: [drm:recover_worker [msm]] *ERROR* 5.0.6.0: offending task: supertuxkart (/usr/bin/supertuxkart)

The game will run, but Plasma remains frozen.
The only fix is to SSH into the phone and restart plasmashell using systemctl restart --user plasma-plasmashell.

Web browsing mostly works, though in this case, the phone only handles YouTube playback up to 480p.

Oh, one more interesting observation: Cloudflare CAPTCHA causes Firefox to freeze with 100% CPU usage (single-core). So entering websites like lemmy.world is not possible.

how did you unlock the bootloader

Yeah, the official way. It also required a SIM card and connecting over mobile data.

Intel UHD Graphics 💪

Shouldn’t classic rock be something like Little Richard?

on chinese stores

Wrong. It’s on items purchased from any non-EU countries. So it also includes the Irish purchasing from UK.

Can it be trusted to not connect to unsecured nearby WiFi network if such shows up?

Metadata might be a challenge

I am more worried about dealing with files increasing in size, file deletions, and dealing with fragmentation.
Really, this is closer to a Tar archive. You can append just fine, but other than that, it starts to become a problem.

What if, hear me out, they changed the format a bit to supply 2 separate audio tracks. One for voice, one for effects. Then we could adjust it ourselves.

2nd hand mini PC running Linux?
https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ looks nice, though I haven’t used it.

Kitty mouse cursor

Sorry if it’s too much yapping. AABOC

1. Position

C and D would be awkward because… genitalia. Especially if it decides to rise.
B is just weird. If I’d be the one on the couch, it feels like the 2nd party is being treated as a lesser being. If on the ground, it’s just legs.
Therefore through the process of elimination I get A.

2. Blanket

Blanket’s cool, but trying to just share one not so much. In theory it might sound good, but adjusting your share will affect the other party, possibly negatively.
One small detail as an example, I like the feel of fabric between my fingers. Therefore I need 4 well positioned creases for one hand. Even slightly pulling on the blanket will screw that up.
I am working under the assumption that “one for me” implies “one for each” (if desired, of course), as otherwise that makes no sense.

3. Blanket texture

A and C are too vibrant, B feels classic.

4. Drink

Water. Even if there was another drink, I’d still need water to flush my mouth. And water can be good (depends on composition and temperature).

5. Activity

I don’t really game aside from occasional CODM/PUBG on my phone (by which I mean bursts with several months in-between). I don’t care enough to set up extra software on my PC, it’s not worth money, and I don’t even trust the software in the first place. When it comes to consoles, go back to money point.
But if it’s an easy already set-up option, sure.

Alternatively, you’re not even told the password requirements and are forced to play the password game.

Surely it’s too hard to upload a spreadsheet on the internet.

I just changed r1beta5 to r1beta6 in the repo manager, which worked.
I don’t know how wrong that was though.

Finally. I played with it some 2 days ago, and despite promoting Beta 5 as latest, that repo was already removed and I couldn’t even update it.

Power is Molex in from separate adapter.
No way a regular USB can power this.

I did more testing. I tried a different adapter, the IDE -> SATA one. With this, it now doesn’t work at all (yellow light with blinking red).

Furthemore, I went to try the USB IDE adapter with a different IDE drive (ASUS). It fucking died. It does not cause issues with Linux (it loaded a CD for the 30 last seconds of its life), but it’s only spinning up in bursts. I also tried giving it a different power source, because that sounded like it was dying, but it made no difference (and the voltage was fine while running).

The more I touch, the more breaks. Perhaps not surprising that a drive made in 2003 stopped working in 2026, but god damn.

Edit: I could only think of 1 thing - look at the caps.
Well, there’s one ribbon cable in the rear, going through a hole in the board that needs to be disconnected before I can access the top of the board. But even after removing all the screws, it wouldn’t move.
It seems like their mounting method is taping it in (or did thermal pads turn into glue over time?).

Anyway…
Good news: The capacitors look fine (I couldn’t safely remove the board anyway).
Bad news: The capacitors look fine (the issue isn’t obvious).

Virtualised on Linux host, USB passed to guests. Linux guests acted the same as host, and I only ever tried Windows as a guest (where it works).

Just high school.
I didn’t manage to keep a good score during the first year, so I got kicked out, and I have to wait a year to get back as I have to go through admissions same way as a brand new student (and also none of my passed subjects will count except for English…).
That was computer science.

As for what I’d be interested to learn and get into, and why:

• German (better job opportunities)
• Ukrainian (I struggled with communication on a dorm as most students living there were from Ukraine)
• Linux Kernel development (Mostly due to interest in mobile Linux.)
• Software reverse-engineering (Could help with above, static malware analysis, and just overall curiosity.)
• Assembly - RISC-V, ARM, AMD64 (The above 2 points, as well as having more control over what software does.)
• C++ (Making my own GUI programs utilizing Qt. I’d also like to modify cdimage to generate shorter tracks, improve the UI and integrate it into K3b. I think it should be possible to put it into pregap on audio CDs (K3b already has support for that bit), as well as combine it with data in “Mixed mode” CD.)
• Digital signal processing (Due to my interest in SDRs.)
• RF circuit and antenna design (For UHF and above.)
• Mobile telecommunications (sharetechnote.com has some interesting info, and I’d like to understand it and know more)
• QEMU (I’d like to at least partially replace my reliance on VirtualBox and be less stupid around Proxmox)
• Management of *BSD and Solaris (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenIndiana, Oracle Solaris)
• Networking (We did CCNA in high school, but it got boring, especially with no purpose aside from national competitions I attended thrice. I need to revisit CCNA-level info and move up higher.)

I don’t think that’s a complete list, just what’s on my mind.