Hi there! Welcome to the first post in what I hope will be a series about neat music. This series will mostly focus on music and things related to my specific tastes as a learning DJ-slash-whatever who grew up listening to way too much electronic and Japanese music.

Quick note, not all of these are recent releases and I don’t think all releases in these posts will be. These posts are meant to be focused on what I’ve discovered recently and think is worth paying attention to now, and in the future. And obviously, it means I like it! I’ll try to include (DRM-free, if possible) US purchase links for everything I can, and streaming links for everything else.

Terminals are cool, tiling is amazing, electron sucks, DEs suck and KDE is for psychopaths.

“Want to come check out my neofetch? Where are you going?”

It’s been 3 years since I switched to running Linux full-time on both my desktop and laptop. Of course, the first year or so was marred by a sub-optimal experience with an uncooperative set of laptops, trying to get them to do things they just weren’t designed to do.

I didn’t need to write this post, but I did anyway, because I felt the need to document my ~2 hours of ferocious searching to figure out why something went wrong.

I wanted to test WebGL and VA-API hardware acceleration on Wayland on Firefox, new in FF 75. VA-API has been implented on Wayland before (!) X11 (bug), which gives me a sliver of hope for the future of Linux, and I suppose shows where priorities lie.

This blog post describes how to enable WebGL, and the ArchWiki explains how to enable VA-API, but there are a few more bumps in the road, as it wasn’t all plug and play for me.

I had a grand idea, as I usually do, and decided to execute it swiftly. My wallet feels pain when my mind gets on its singular track, but there isn’t anything that can be done to steer it off.

2020 is quite possibly the year of the Linux gaming desktop. Let’s explore.

What’s an appropriate operating temperature for a CPU under load? 70C? 75C? How about 95C? That’s what Lenovo apparently thought when designing the T480s.