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Several days without full focus, much, much more researching on new problems I wasn't even aware of, multiplied by having an atomic distro, and having the blasted thing bite me again, on my wrist vein, as well as discovering that I'm missing display and storage cables — but my computer is finally built.

...now I have to do the same to my old PC lying in pieces to turn it into a NAS

..aaAAH-

Mmk, a few days later with Kinoite and I'm starting to sour

The provided environment to install non-sandboxed packages seems to be a Fedora/RHEL specific...worse version of distrobox, without a viable option to change hardcoded links to your $HOME directory.

...shit, am I really going to try to install valve-style immutable Arch??

https://pawb.fun/@LiquidParasyte/113738700008490901

Procrastination, thou foul demon

This is not the time for me to be finding so many nits to pick with my Linux distro, and yet

- Filelight, the very nice drive data visualizer, doesn't work on my root partition in this install of Fedora Atomic, only /home and lower. Which is kind of a problem as my home is only like 5-10 GB and there's nearly 100GB used on this encrypted volume already

- apparently as of 2 or 3 versions ago, hibernate on #Fedora is just ...broken, because it does not play well with Secure Boot, especially with encrypted volumes. You can effectively pick either Secure Boot and encrypted boot drives, or working hibernate, or a secret third way that may or may not work if you do it manually. Ugh.

- apparently Virt-Manager Flatpak isn't sufficient enough to make VMs, which I suddenly need to finish moving my Windows data over/handle my transition. There's apparently like 3-4 different ways to install virtualization utils but I just YOLO'd and used RPM-ostree, the thing many people say to avoid

finally, I got Virt-Manager to get the virtualization libraries up

ooh, I can add my physical GPU directly to the VM config. Let's see how this works

plasma crashes as I've done the virtual equivalent of ripping my GPU out of the running computer

woops

Well, it kinda works! Kinda

Still has the windows generic display driver, so I gotta install the amd drivers ... but adrenalin doesn't want to work

Gave it roughly half my ram and the whole original drive....but the VM is basically choking (and sending my fans into overdrive...)

Ok, finally, we have wifi

500 notifications and updates later

Oh hey, windows finally found the display driver

Ok, I have my Windows install working again, time to crack at those TikTok links before—

reads timeline

...the app gets banned

....orrrr not lmao ??

https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/113856675986854418

Shorter than Matt Mullenweg's samattical

Something to look into later — how exactly does CPU topology in KVM work? I want to crave out 8 of my physical processor's threads to put in the VM, but after booting it up it only sees 4.

If I try to mimic a physical 4 core/8 thread chip with in manual topology, it demands I feed it 32 vCPU cores.

So uh

GPU passthrough isn't as simple as I thought it might be

Even though sending the PCIe bus my discrete card is attached to through QEMU removes it from my Linux session... That doesn't mean Windows actually properly accepts it (lots of code 35 and 28s)

Turning off the VM also doesn't magically make the card come back either

Also sometimes the card freaks out and spins all its fans at full throttle

So yeah
Work in progress

Bleh

I'm trying to write a custom CPU config for KVM that will be subtle enough to not give away that I'm using a VM but also close enough that my install won't freak out when booting baremetal

But

AMD didn't make any 4c/8t chips in the same Zen 4 family that they did for all the dedicated desktop chips

Those are all in Raphael, what I'd have to go to for 8 threads is a Phoenix APU
So even if nosy ass anticheat software didn't freak out in QEMU mode
They sure as hell will when they see my CPU change so rapidly