How to Undervolt a Laptop (with NixOS)
Sometimes your laptop might run too hot and you want to reduce the temperatures.
Apart from cleaning the fans and changing the thermal paste, there are 2 software options available to you.
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Book Summary: The Courage To Be Happy
I recently listened to the audiobook for the above, and here are my notes (mostly from the last few chapters).
Thinking Fast and Slow summary
This is my summary of the book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, which I read in March 2024.
I mainly describe the cognitive heuristics, biases and fallacies with examples here.
Race conditions with asyncio in Python
What do you think the output of the following code will be?
Book Summary: The Courage to be Disliked
I listened to the audiobook version of this several times and here is my summary of it.
My biggest takeaways are:
- We lack the courage to be disliked, to be normal, to try, and so on. Instead, we manufacture 'life lies' (if only I could stop blushing, if only I did not have a traumatic childhood, etc.)
- Being disliked by others is necessary to achieve freedom
- Separation of tasks: do not interfere, or care about, other people's tasks
- Happiness is the feeling of contribution to the community
2023 Val Thorens, Club Med, France, Skiing
Went with Elizabeth, Benedict and Kimi from 23-31 Dec 2023. We finally skied down black slopes, and tried going over moguls, managing to explore most of the 3 valleys.
Setting up Fedora with a Windows VM
This is a short guide on how to setup Fedora with a Windows VM via libvirt, optionally sharing a RAID-1 Btrfs volume from the host to the Windows guest via SAMBA. I'm assuming you are coming from Windows.
Reasons why you might want to do this:
- Windows is quite annoying.
- With Looking Glass, you can passthrough your GPU to the Windows guest and enjoy native graphics performance.
- The Btrfs filesystem allows snapshotting, checksumming and multi-disk RAID with an unequal number/size of drives.
- You can snapshot the entire Windows VM and revert to it anytime.
On Emotional Maturity
Summarized from Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents, by Lindsay C. Gibson. Read on 2023-01-13.
Tips from A Guide to the Good Life
Written by William Irvine, and summarized below. Read on 2022-06-19.
GPU Power Crashes
For a few months, while running my Windows 11 VM with a GPU passthrough-ed, I was getting random reboots/screen hangs. There was a clear pattern - the reboots/hangs occured whenever I launched a resource-intensive application on the VM, such as a game.
In an effort to trace down the problem, I looked through dmesg (truncated for brevity) for various boots: