<p>years of broad experience has left me with the ability to relatively rapidly diagnose shit like this, but all it does in the end is leave me slightly more in despair</p><p>perhaps ignorance really is bliss</p>

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<p>usually i pull &quot;the embedded controller has decided that the power supply isn&#39;t good enough and throttled every CPU to a 17x max turbo multiplier instead of 30x. without telling anybody&quot;. this happens whenever the power cable i&#39;m using is worn out and i get unlucky</p>

<p>today&#39;s &quot;why does my nominally fast laptop feel incredibly sluggish&quot; gacha pull: whenever i terminate an X11 session with Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, a plasmashell process gets left over in what appears to be an infinite loop (at least, it&#39;s not doing any syscalls, who knows what it might be up to at that point. no i didn&#39;t attach a debugger)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.vierkantor.com/@1" class="u-url mention">@<span>1</span></a></span> Y</p>

<p>PC port of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Ship of Harkinian, gets a huge Randomizer upgrade <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/pc-port-of-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-ship-of-harkinian-gets-a-huge-randomizer-upgrade/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/pc-p</span><span class="invisible">ort-of-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-ship-of-harkinian-gets-a-huge-randomizer-upgrade/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zelda" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Zelda</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OcarinaofTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OcarinaofTime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PCGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PCGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nintendo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a></p>

<p>Sonic Rumble is Steam Deck Verified ahead of release <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/sonic-rumble-is-steam-deck-verified-ahead-of-release/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/soni</span><span class="invisible">c-rumble-is-steam-deck-verified-ahead-of-release/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SonicRumble" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SonicRumble</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamDeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamDeck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SONIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SONIC</span></a></p>

<p>SteamVR Beta 2.10.2 released with a Linux VR fix and a controller and physics improvement <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steamvr-beta-2-10-2-released-with-a-linux-vr-fix-and-a-controller-and-physics-improvement/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/stea</span><span class="invisible">mvr-beta-2-10-2-released-with-a-linux-vr-fix-and-a-controller-and-physics-improvement/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SteamVR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SteamVR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gaming</span></a></p>

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