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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.

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:

The Biohacker Lifestyle

Recently, I met one of my friends who, I last recall, was quite invested in the processes of altering one's diet, environment and behavioral patterns, so as to improve the quality of life (think Andrew Huberman or, taken to the extreme, Brian Johnson, a billionaire spending $2M yearly to reverse aging). This refers to maintaining a Paleolithic, low stress (both biological and mental), back-to-basics type of living in current, modern, high pressure society (e.g. Singapore).

Impersonation

Recently I read 'A Head Full of Ghosts' by Paul Tremblay. It's a novel, similar to the Exorcist, but different in that the entire sequence of events has been filmed by a TV crew for a show, and one of the protagonist is actively critiquing the theatric aspect of the show, while narrating the actual creepy events.

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Designing my own immutable OS

What an immutable OS is Fedora Silverblue

another user's experience with various customizations: https://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/silverblue_fixes.html

Ublue - customization ability with recipe.yml (startingpoint) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5exNztbXE (Jorge's Guide to the Ultimate Silverblue Desktop)

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Doctors and Bus Drivers

Are doctors more important than bus drivers?

Most people would generally agree that while all jobs are important, certain jobs are more important than others. For example, a surgeon performs operations to save lives, while a bus driver ferries people from location to location.

That being said, it is interesting to attempt to argue from the other side, and push for bus drivers being at least equal, if not more important than doctors. The focus on bus drivers here is arbitrary - bus drivers could be changed to say, train drivers.