#amd open source

[tilos-tagebuch]

Nach NVIDIA setzt auch AMD auf freie Grafikkarten-Treiber

Der Vulkan-Grafiktreiber von Mesa 3D wird offiziell unterstützt, zusammen mit Mesa OpenGL und der Multimedia-Unterstützung. Die proprietären OpenGL- und Vulkan-Treiber von AMD werden nicht mehr in den zukünftigen Veröffentlichung enthalten sein. - AMD -

#opensource #opengl #mesa #mesa3d #mesaopengl #amd #vulkan

Source: https://www.0815-info.news/Web_Links-Linux-feiert-Nach-NVIDIA-setzt-auch-AMD-auf-freie-Grafikkarten-Treiber-visit-11646.html

[ecrivainsolitaire]

A summary of the Chinese AI situation, for the uninitiated.

These are scores on different tests that are designed to see how accurate a Large Language Model is in different areas of knowledge. As you know, OpenAI is partners with Microsoft, so these are the scores for ChatGPT and Copilot. DeepSeek is the Chinese model that got released a week ago. The rest are open source models, which means everyone is free to use them as they please, including the average Tumblr user. You can run them from the servers of the companies that made them for a subscription, or you can download them to install locally on your own computer. However, the computer requirements so far are so high that only a few people currently have the machines at home required to run it.

Yes, this is why AI uses so much electricity. As with any technology, the early models are highly inefficient. Think how a Ford T needed a long chimney to get rid of a ton of black smoke, which was unused petrol. Over the next hundred years combustion engines have become much more efficient, but they still waste a lot of energy, which is why we need to move towards renewable electricity and sustainable battery technology. But that's a topic for another day.

As you can see from the scores, are around the same accuracy. These tests are in constant evolution as well: as soon as they start becoming obsolete, new ones are released to adjust for a more complicated benchmark. The new models are trained using different machine learning techniques, and in theory, the goal is to make them faster and more efficient so they can operate with less power, much like modern cars use way less energy and produce far less pollution than the Ford T.

However, computing power requirements kept scaling up, so you're either tied to the subscription or forced to pay for a latest gen PC, which is why NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and all the other chip companies were investing hard on much more powerful GPUs and NPUs. For now all we need to know about those is that they're expensive, use a lot of electricity, and are required to operate the bots at superhuman speed (literally, all those clickbait posts about how AI was secretly 150 Indian men in a trenchcoat were nonsense).

Because the chip companies have been working hard on making big, bulky, powerful chips with massive fans that are up to the task, their stock value was skyrocketing, and because of that, everyone started to use AI as a marketing trend. See, marketing people are not smart, and they don't understand computers. Furthermore, marketing people think you're stupid, and because of their biased frame of reference, they think you're two snores short of brain-dead. The entire point of their existence is to turn tall tales into capital. So they don't know or care about what AI is or what it's useful for. They just saw Number Go Up for the AI companies and decided "AI is a magic cow we can milk forever". Sometimes it's not even AI, they just use old software and rebrand it, much like convection ovens became air fryers.

Well, now we're up to date. So what did DepSeek release that did a 9/11 on NVIDIA stock prices and popped the AI bubble?

Oh, I would not want to be an OpenAI investor right now either. A token is basically one Unicode character (it's more complicated than that but you can google that on your own time). That cost means you could input the entire works of Stephen King for under a dollar. Yes, including electricity costs. DeepSeek has jumped from a Ford T to a Subaru in terms of pollution and water use.

The issue here is not only input cost, though; all that data needs to be available live, in the RAM; this is why you need powerful, expensive chips in order to-

Holy shit.

I'm not going to detail all the numbers but I'm going to focus on the chip required: an RTX 3090. This is a gaming GPU that came out as the top of the line, the stuff South Korean LoL players buy…

Or they did, in September 2020. We're currently two generations ahead, on the RTX 5090.

What this is telling all those people who just sold their high-end gaming rig to be able to afford a machine that can run the latest ChatGPT locally, is that the person who bought it from them can run something basically just as powerful on their old one.

Which means that all those GPUs and NPUs that are being made, and all those deals Microsoft signed to have control of the AI market, have just lost a lot of their pulling power.

Well, I mean, the ChatGPT subscription is 20 bucks a month, surely the Chinese are charging a fortune for-

Oh. So it's free for everyone and you can use it or modify it however you want, no subscription, no unpayable electric bill, no handing Microsoft all of your private data, you can just run it on a relatively inexpensive PC. You could probably even run it on a phone in a couple years.

Oh, if only China had massive phone manufacturers that have a foot in the market everywhere except the US because the president had a tantrum eight years ago.

So… yeah, China just destabilised the global economy with a torrent file.

[gainerai]

What site do you use to generate your ai images?

I don't use a website.

I run my own AI hardware at home and use open source tools.

I also did my own AI training to be able to produce these images. I don't think any website could match the quality I can produce, because they don't train their AIs on gainer porn like I do, lol.

Here are some technical details if anybody is interested:

Hardware:

2x Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs

AMD Ryzen 7950x CPU

192gb RAM

Software:

OS: Arch Linux

AI Trainer Program: Kohya_SS (used LoRA trainer)

Base Image Generator Model: Flux.1 Dev

Image Generator Program: ComfyUI

[shallyne]

Moving In Together | Feysand

9:05 AM. That's what her clock said. That morning had felt much longer but granted, her nerves had her woken up by 4 AM, it has been five hours since she packed her belongings in her ramshackle car amd drove over to Rhys's. Feyre couldn't find the source of her nerves, she loved her boyfriend, she was excited to move in with him. She knew him since forever, met each other on the playground, and they have been a couple for nearly a year now after both of them survived abusive relationships. She wanted to move in with him.

Sighing, she removed her car keys fron the ignition and stepped out, looking at Rhys's townhouse. For her, it was huge but knowing Rhys's wealth it was fairly humble. He could live wherever he wanted, and this was his chosen home. She liked it, of course she had stayed here already, she sas probably here more often than in her oen apartment since they started dating.

Grabbing the box with her stuff, she shook away the nerves and trudged up the stairs to the ebony door, pushing the bell. Rhys opened it quicker than she expected and the sight before her made the heat rush to her cheeks.

It wasn't anything she hasn't seen yet and he was fully clothed but seeing him in a tight shirt that accentuated his muscles still made her knees weak, she doubted that would ever stop.

"You're already here," he said, surprised, raising his phone. "I was just about to call the movers."

"No need," Feyre replied, nodding to the box in her hand. "I already got everything."

Rhys was silent for a moment, before asking, "What do you mean? Where's the rest?"

"This is everything." she said, "Everything else was either part of thr apartment," like the kitchen, "Or it was broken and unsalvageable. This is everything." Feyre readjusted the box in her arms. Rhys took it before she even continued to speak, "Except the dresser in my trunk. It also belongs in the trash but I just can't can't seem to bring myself to throw it away."

Rhys's eyes softened, if it was the reminder about her few belongings or the revelation about the attachment to her dresser, she didn't know. "The dresser you painted?"

Back when she was only 14, "Yes." she nodded.

Stepping aside, Rhys motioned for her to go inside. "We'll find a place for the dresser." he reassured her as she wwalked past him.

FEYSAND by me, Shallyne. It's all handdrawn and written myself, no AI used 🚫🚫🚫

For @sjmromanceweek

[neodymiumcuilz]

Updates from Gaza, the relentless bombing is getting worse, yet there is never any consequences...

source; the Electronic Intifada

Israel has bombarded areas across Gaza this week, killing approximately 670 Palestinians and injuring more than 2800. Between July 2nd and July 9th, according to the ministry of health in Gaza.

The Gaza government media office stated that on Monday July 7th that Israel has committed 59 separate massacres in 100 hours. Killing nearly 300 people 99 of whom were targeted by the Israeli army at US - Israeli so-called 'aid' distribution points.

On Thursday the 10th of July it was reported that Israel killed atleast 82 Palestinians and wounded 247 in 24 hours. Earlier on Thursday an Israeli drone strike in Deir Al Balah in Central Gaza killed atleast 13 people mostly children when they were lining up outside a volunteer charity to obtain food supplements.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported from the site of the massacre saying that "evidence of the strike is all around. This is a small but very deep hole in the ground resulting from the Israeli attack. You can see one of the shoes left by a Palestinian child. A shattered window in a nearby house. There are craters on the wall left by Israeli drone shrapnel."

Reporter Moath Al-Kahlout reported from Gaza City on Monday, where attacks on the city and surrounding neighbourhoods have been non-stop, "The ongoing Israeli airstrikes killed many Palestinians today. The last strike targeted a group of civilians in the centre of Gaza City. I'm talking to you from Al Ahli Arab Hospital, while injured people arrived to this health facility on foot, and by carts, and all of these who just arrived are reviewing treatment on the ground. What struck me and what shocked me the most is to see a little child while taking his last breath on the tue ground here. I'm talking to you while there is a helicopter is opening fire on some point here or there. I'm not sure."

On Tuesday, the 8th of July, Israel attacked the Bureij refugee camp in Central Gaza, killing and wounding Palestinians families as they slept. Just before 3 AM, Israeli air strikes hit tent shelters, engulfing the area in flames. A survivor told Al Jazeera that "The attack felt like a ring of fire. These are school children. What is it about this school? There's nothing in it except children. It shelters only kids who have nowhere else to go. These drones are targetting nylon tents where people are simply trying to sleep. I honestly don't know what why."

Another displaced Palestinian who witnessed the attack said he and 10 others sleeping in a tent suddenly woke up to the sound of intense bombing and blinding lights. "The explosions were so powerful that even our blankets were completely burned." He said, "We started checking on the children and trying to make sure everyone was okay. My hands are still covered in soot as I have been trying to salvage whatever I can."

On Wednesday, July 9th, Israel dropped an estimated 20 bombs on Gaza City's Tuffah neighbourhood using heavy missiles that levelled buildings to the ground. A baby girl was pulled from the rubble in the aftermath of an attack also on Wednesday in Central Gaza City. Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense, told reporters while holding the infant that "The bombing was on a heavily populated house. The youngest of whom inside the building is this little girl, who is not even a few months old. Most or possibly everyone who was inside the apartment were injured or martyred. There is a woman martyr, we don't know if she was the mother of this child."

In the bombings that are happening right now, it is these children who pay the price, who are targeted, killed and injured. And Israel is issuing consecutive forced displacement orders most in Gaza City amd Khan Younis. On Tuesday, the United Nations Humanitarian Office stated that; "Even the smaller areas where people are being forced to concentrate, now down to about 15% of the strip and shrinking are fragmented and lack the most basic infrastructure and services. Like the rest of Gaza they remain extremely unsafe. Across the strip, families are trying to survive this nightmare, protect their children to the extent possible, and search for whatever minimal food exists." The UN said, "Since mid March, when Israke broke the ceasefire, the Israeli military has issued 54 displacement orders, placing about 297 square kilometres under displacement. 81% of the entire Gaza Strip."

More than 770 Palestinian have been killed and more than 5,100 have been injured over the last six weeks trying of obtain meager amounts of food aid at so-called distribution points run by the GHF. This week, the GHF closed its only food distribution point in Central Gaza, forcing tents of thousands of Palestinians to travel long distances toward the South of Gaza in search of food.

Al Jazeera reporter Tareq Abu Azzoum stated on Wednesday July the 9th that GHF suspended operations at the Central Gaza site without prior notice. Adding to the danger and confusing of starving Palestinians risking their lives to access a box of food. Abu Azzoum stated that "The three aid hubs that remain operational are in the south, meaning that for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Central Gaza, the route to get aid will be a lengthy, dangerous trip on foot. This concentration of aid in the south corresponds to what Israel is outlining under it's proposal for a so-called 'humanitarian' city amid the ruins of Rafah, which would see the transfer of Palestinians from other parts of Gaza. Palestinians are saying they fear Israel might forcibly prevent them from returning."

These broad daylight plans for forced relocation of Palestinians into concentration camps in southern Gaza are part of of the Israeli government's vision that Prime Minister and war crimes fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu and top Israeli officials have been pitching to the Trump Administration this week in Washington.

And more on this concentration camp, Netanyahu is not ruling out the option of Israel running the compound set to he established in Rafah. "When the construction of the city is completed, and everyone and almost everyone has moved south, the question will arise as to who operates these zones, the humanitarian island to be established in the south," the official said. The prime minister thinks that in the short term "we should not be afraid to do the job."

A proposal seen by the Reuters news agency, notably bearing the name of the GHF, described a plan to build concentration camps called 'humanitarian transit areas' inside and possible outside Gaza for Palestinians. Reuters reported that the $2 billion plan created sometime after February 11th, and carrying the name of the US backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation or GHF was submitted to the Trump administration according to two sources, one of whom said it was recently discussed in the White House.

The plan, reviewed by Reuters, describes the camps as large scale and voluntary places, where the Palestinian population in Gaza could "temporarily reside, deradicalize, reintegrate, and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so." A slide deck seen by Reuters goes into granular detail on the humanitarian transit zones, including how they would be implemented and what they would cost. It calls for using the sprawling facilities to "gain trust with the local population" and to facilitate US president Donald Trump's vision for Gaza. Reuters added that the US State Department declined to comment on the the proposal with a senior administration official denying that anything of the sort is under consideration and claiming that "no resources are being directed towards that end, in any way."

Please, talk about this. Please, post about this. We must document every atrocity committed by Israel, so they can never lie about it in the future, for the same reason we should also bear witness and not look away.

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[andmaybegayer]

Hi, I'm back again with more computer questions: just two. The first is, is it possible to code a program in such a way that it can never be ported to a particular system architecture, even if the code is open source (i.e. if you attempt a port it won't work by design without significant work-arounds and sacrifices; my brain says no but I don't know for sure)? The second is, how do you feel about Apple, and their whole system of stuff? These two questions are totally unrelated. 100%. Promise.

In general, not really, because the capabilities of modern computers very closely approximate Turing machines and any code you can run on a Turing machine can be run on any other Turing machine.

The Turing machine is an abstract model for computation, a hypothetical machine with a long "tape" of editable symbols for memory and the ability to read, write, and make decisions about what and where it reads and writes based on the contents of the tape. If you ever hear someone say that Magic the Gathering or coconut crabs or whatever is a general purpose computer, it's because they've found some way to implement the basic rules of a Turing machine in that system.

Turing machines are the highest tier of the hierarchy of computing (pushdown automata, finite state machines, and basic logic being the successive lower tiers), there's things they can't do (see: the Halting problem) but they are capable of running any arbitrary algorithm. Even in the worst case scenario you could always fall back to implementing any computation that a computer can do as a Turing style computation on the computer's memory. The ideal turing machine has infinite memory but that's really the only way in which real computers differ fundamentally.

Now that's not to say you can't make it hard. Architecture specific features can make porting code nontrivial if that code was designed around secret or obscure features that would first have to be reverse-engineered before you can write a port, or otherwise a pain in the ass, think the PlayStation 3's Cell processor, which had both some weird but otherwise straightforward PowerPC cores plus a bunch of "Synergistic Processing Elements" which were a unique lightweight core designed for high throughput of vector operations on floating point calculations at the expense of being able to do basically anything else.

As a simpler example, when I was running the SwiftSim smooth particle hydrodynamics package it was designed specifically around the particular cache architecture of Skylake-era Intel Scalable CPU's, and was written so that a particular vendor's compiler optimizations would automatically convert some very long loops into shockingly fast cache-optimal vector operations. If you ran that code on a contemporary AMD system you'd lose more than 50% performance core for core because of the differences in cache architecture, and you'd have to rewrite significant portions of the code to retune it for a different architecture to claw back those performance losses.

But yeah if all you care about is "can this computation be implemented eventually" the answer is you can implement any algorithm on Habbo Hotel.

As for Apple? I don't really know enough to say much as a user, my main point of contact was owning an iPad 3rd gen for 10 years and I liked it, really solid tablet, kept going until the certs expired and it couldn't connect to the web.

Their marketing as not spying on you is kind of true but kind of not, they don't do as much as they could to prevent spying, but they do push back in a few places. They don't make their money on ad-sales as much as other companies so their incentives look different and they lean in on some things.

There was a time I thought that Apple had the UI mandate of heaven but that has long since gone, they've become very form over function and they don't design UI's well anymore, leaning into low-contrast, obscure interfaces that are difficult to understand without a detailed tutorial and which require a lot more memorization from their users. There's a lot of examples of this but most obviously, I've never seen anyone truly internalize which side of the screen you have to pull down on for which drawer on an iPhone, and I still see frequent iOS users struggle with the gesture UI because Apple hates the idea of "going back".

Apple's biggest strength is that they usually won't sell you something actively bad, even if they sell you something overpriced. The closest they got with selling you something bad was the iPhone SE which was really suffering with the old screen and camera but they've updated the SE now. People bitch about the Intel macbooks and they're not wrong but even they had redeeming features that made them at least not completely trash. They have sometimes sold you something actively bad but they do it a lot less than other companies.

The hardware performance of the Apple ARM processors is really quite impressive. Everyone else has been playing catch-up for the past few years and it seems like AMD is almost there now. It really was a huge kick in the rear for the mobile PC industry, which had for a long time just kind of accepted that laptops only had long battery life if you didn't do anything with them.

The Apple Magic Mouse is such an interesting example of the design philosophy. Why is the charging port on the bottom? Well at some level Apple understands users, they know that given the choice anxious users will not trust in the battery life of their devices and they will leave a mouse plugged in all the time, which will look and feel bad, so they put the charging port in a location that literally renders it useless and make you understand that if you charge it for a few minutes you can work all day. At the same time the ergonomics are trash because they want it to be a small and slim thing that aligns with their design language and they know that the people who want other mice will just go get them and deal with the limitations.

Apple ecosystem integration seems really good. It's one of those things where I've put a lot of work into getting halfway there and the seamlessness and speed with which things like airdrop/airplay and the phone/mac link work are just so smooth. It's good! I am eternally jealous of whatever the unified mDNS/specification stuff Apple is doing under the hood to allow you to Just Blast Data at a huge array of devices and have them make sense of it. My cheap-ass TV has never once accepted a ScreenCast from my Google Pixel but every iPhone that has ever tried to cast to it has worked flawlessly.

[potatoqueenpal]

Yall I'm SO SORRY for dipping on you I have no ideas and I'm still fighting to get my avior fic back.

Have filler till I think of more angst

I present to you: Shaw Pack and Mates: Incorrect quotes

Sam, filling out legal paperwork: Were you guys born AMAB or AFAB?

Sweetheart : Bold of you to assume I was born at all.

Baabe: I personally was created in a lab.

Angel: I just straight up spawned.

Sam: We call that a traumatic experience.

Sam, turning to Baabe: Not a "bruh moment".

Sam, turning to Angel: Not "sadge".

Sam, turning to Sweetheart : And DEFINITELY not an "oof LMAO".

Asher: Knock, knock.

Baabe: Who's there?

Asher: Boo!

Baabe: Boo who?

Asher: Why are you crying?

Baabe: I'm not crying.

Asher: Hello notcrying, I'm Asher.

Milo: Angel, you look deep in thought. What’s wrong?

Angel: Did you know you can look at any object and know what it’s like to lick it? Even if you’ve never touched it before?

Milo: I’m never asking you anything ever again.

David: There's nothing worse than people using big words they don't understand.

Milo: I photosynthesize with this.

Sweetheart: I’m this close to falling in love with Milo.

Asher: Your fingertips are touching.

Sweetheart: Exactly.

Asher, spraying a melted cutting board with a tiny water gun: We gotta cool this bitch down. Cool it down.

Sweetheart : I actually just put the cutting board in the oven...

Baabe, visibly confused: Okay, so they decided to put the cutting board in the oven?

Asher, spraying Sweetheart : You FUCKING DUMBASS!

Sweetheart : Dude, I forgot-

Asher: OH MY FUCKING GOD! We're trying to make Chicken Alfredo right now, and you fucking MELT the cutting board in the oven at 400 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT!?

Sam: *Watching in complete confusion while trying to process this whole situation.*

Asher: In your opinion, what is the height of stupidity?

David, turning to Darlin': How tall are you?

Angel: Sam said its my turn with the brain cell.

Asher: Square up.

Sam: And what do we say when someone refuses your offer?

Sweetheart : Suck it, boomer!

Sam: I don't know who "Boomer" is, but no.

Asher: *spits mouthful of blood onto floor* You’ve become far more powerful since we last crossed paths.

Dentist: Please stop, there’s literally a sink right next to you.

Baabe: I think my guardian angel drinks.

David: How did none of you hear what I just said?!

Milo: I've been zoned out for the past two and a half hours.

Asher: I got distracted halfway through.

Darlin': Ignoring you was a conscious decision.

Asher: Consider the fundraising over! Your hero has arrived!

Sam: Uhh… where did you get so much money from, Asher?

Asher: Well, you know, I’m pretty good at numbers. I just crunched them, I stretched them, I analyzed my accounts, I timed the market-

*police sirens start to wail in the background*

Sam: DID YOU ROB A BANK?!

Asher: Oh, come on, Sam, do you really think so little of me? *opens the bag as purple dye explodes on their face*

Sam:

Asher: …it was a credit union.

Angel: Tell them to eat shit, David.

David: Tell them yourself.

Angel: Eat shit, asshole. Fall of your horse.

Milo, gardening: Hey, can you bring me the hoe?

Darlin': Yeah, sure.

*A few minutes later*

Darlin': Here you go.

Milo:

Darlin':

Baabe: Why am I here?

Angel: Guess what I'm about to get!

David: On my nerves.

Sweetheart : That's a nice arguement, Milo Why don't you back it up with a source?

Milo: My source is that I made it the fuck up!

Sam: Aww, what's your cat's name?

Milo: Aggro.

Sam, yelling to Baabe: TRY AGGRO!

Baabe, on the computer: DIDN'T WORK!

Milo:

Sam: What's your favorite number?

Angel: I’m so jetlagged I can’t even regrender my chorf.

*Everyone stares at Angel*

Angel: I don’t even know what I was trying to say.

Angel: I've connected the two dots.

David: You didn't connect shit.

Angel: I've connected them.

And now, wholesome (amd flirty) ship incoreect quotes:

｡･ﾟﾟ･　　･ﾟﾟ･｡｡･ﾟﾟ･　　･ﾟﾟ･｡｡･ﾟﾟ･　　･ﾟﾟ･｡｡･

David : Do you want to explain the text you sent me last night?

Angel: It was autocorrect.

David : Autocorrect wrote "You're so hot. Please step on me."?

Angel: Yes.

Angel: You are the love of my life and I would do anything within reason to make you happy.

David : I would be happy if you ate, stayed hydrated and got a reasonable amount of sleep.

Angel: I said within reason, David . How about I murder that guy?

David : So murder is in reason but proper self care isn't?

Angel: Well, duh. What kind of question is that?

Angel: Hey, wanna take a shower with me?

David : I have a gun on that nightstand beside the bed. If I ever say no to that question, I want you to take it out and shoot me because I’ve obviously gone crazy.

Angel: There are 20 letters in the alphabet, right?

David : Nope, there's 26.

Angel: Ah, I must have forgotten U, R, A, Q, T.

David : Aww, that's cute, but you're still missing one.

Angel: So give me the D.

Angel: Hey, I’m getting in the shower. Wanna help me out?

David : ...Have you never taken a shower before?

David, sweating: Angel, there’s something I need to ask you-

Angel: Finally! You’re proposing!

David: How’d you know?

Angel: David, you’ve dropped the ring five times during dinner.

Angel: I even picked it up once.

David: I want to kiss you.

Angel, not paying attention: What?

David: I said if you die, I wont miss you.

Baabe: I’ve been dropping them the most insanely obvious hints for like a year now. No response.

Asher: Wow. They sound stupid.

Baabe: But they’re not. They’re really smart actually. Just dense.

Asher: Maybe you need to be more obvious? Like, I don’t know… “Hey! I love you!”

Baabe: I guess you’re right. Hey Asher, I love you.

Asher: See! Just say that!

Baabe: Holy fucking shit.

Asher: If that flies over their head then, sorry Baabe, but they're too dumb for you.

Baabe: Asher.

Baabe: You know my motto: carpe diem, carpe noctem, carpe coles.

Asher: Seize the day, seize the night, what’s the last one?

Baabe: Seize the dick.

Asher: We have a problem.

Baabe: No, YOU have a problem. I have an idiot who keeps making them.

Baabe: I'm trash.

Asher: As someone who's environmentally conscious, it's my duty to pick you up. Does 7 work for you?

Baabe:

Baabe: You smooth motherfucker.

Baabe: And yes it does.

Asher: Sorry I’m late, I was doing things.

Baabe: Hi, I’m ‘things’.

Asher: Valentine’s day is just a consumerist holiday that holds no real value other than drive people insane buying heart shaped chocolates for their significant others and pos-

Baabe: I wrote you a poem.

Asher, already crying: You did?

Milo: Being gay is a constant battle between "I wish to sit on a window bench with my lover, our legs tangling as we listen to the birds" and "Hey, let's go throw rocks at fascists" and I think that's very sexy of us.

Sweetheart : If the window's open and you time it right, you can do both.

Milo: I fell—

Sweetheart : From heaven?

Milo: No, I literally fell—

Sweetheart : In love with me the moment you saw me?

Milo: MY ARM IS BROKEN!

Sweetheart : Okay, but do you think I'm pretty? Be honest.

Milo: Okay, but what if we went to dinner not as friends this time?

Sweetheart : AS ENEMIES?!

Milo:

Milo walking into the kitchen and seeing all their limes peeled: Sweetheart , I love you but, what the h-e-double FUCK.

Sweetheart , sipping coffee happily: I love you too :)

Sweetheart : I don't know how to tell you this, but... I love you.

Milo: That's great, Sweetheart . Especially considering the fact we've been together for 6 fucking years.

Sweetheart : I’m in love with you.

Milo: We called off the prank war last night at midnight, dork.

Sweetheart : I know.

Milo: Ah. Okay. Um. Cool. Neat. Very cool. Cool. Cool. Coolcoolcool-

Sweetheart: I was going to suggest we do Marilyn Monroe and JFK roleplay, but I’d get way too into it.

Milo: What- how?

Sweetheart: You’d be like “come to bed … Mr. President” and I’d be like, “I need to increase the amount of American military advisors in South Vietnam by a factor of 18.”

Milo: Wait, what's going on? Are we all talking about how hot Sweetheart is? Because Sweetheart is a straight up sexual fox riding a red-hot nuclear bombshell right toward the yowza plaza in the heart of Babe City, Assachusetts, U S A. The last A just stands for more ass.

Sam: The stars are so beautiful...

Darlin': They're just giant balls of gas.

Sam: You know what, if you're just going to ruin this, then-

Darlin': And yet none of them are as huge as my love for you.

Sam: Oh...

Darlin': Wow, Sam, you want to hold my hand before marriage? How awfully lewd of you.

Sam: We literally slept together yesterday.

Darlin': That's NOTHING compared to the lewdness of holding hands.

Sam: I love you.

Darlin', not paying attention: What was that?

Sam: I said I’m selling you to the zOo-

Darlin': Well, Sam and I finally did it!

The rest of the squad: *gasps, shocked expressions, etc.*

Darlin': That's right... We kissed!

Darlin': What are you in the mood for?

Sam: World domination.

Darlin': That's a bit ambitious.

Sam: You are my world.

Darlin': Aww...

Sam:

Darlin':

Sam:

Darlin': OH.

Darlin': I have feelings for you.

Sam: Why? What's wrong with you? Are you sure you're okay?

Waiter: What would you like?

Darlin': Bring a milkshake with two straws.

Sam: *blushes*

Darlin': *puts both straws in their mouth* Watch how fast I can drink this!!

Darlin': You got a date yet Sam?

Sam: No...

Darlin': Well you do now! Get your ass up and hold my hand!

Darlin': Are we fighting or flirting?

Sam: I'm pinning you against a wall with my hand around your neck-

Darlin': Your point?

Darlin': I don't need to go to bed. I'm not tired, I'll be fine.

Sam: But, darling, I'll be so lonely without you. Come curl up in my arms so I can feel whole again.

Darlin': O-oh. Well. Are you trying to seduce me into healthy sleeping patterns??

Sam: Is it working?

Sam: We should get you to a doctor for a check up immediately. What if it happens again, and there isn’t anyone around to help you? What if it’s congenital? Oh my God! Was it me? Did I hurt you?

Darlin': …You realize any other person that made their partner pass out in bed would simply feel really proud of themselves, right?

Sam: Since we're in a relationship now, your clothes are my clothes too. Don't ask me why I have your shirt on, this is our shirt.

Darlin': Fine, but when I come strutting in with your fuzzy socks I don't want to hear shit.

Darlin': Come to dinner tonight. I can’t cook, but I’ll bring plenty of free wine.

Sam: Marry me.

Darlin': This date is boring!

Sam: This isn't a date. I said I was going to the store.

Darlin': Then why did you invite me?

Sam: I didnt, I specifically said "don't come with me," then you said, "fuck you Sam I'll do whatever I want!

(This is long as fuuuuck and took me a good hour, but it was fun)

[adventuringblind]

Flowers in your throat

Lando Norris x Reader x Oscar Piastri

Genre: Angst

Summary: the problems of unrequited love

Warnings: hanahaki disease, blood, coughing

Notes: idk what this is... Does anybody wanna spam my inbox with things to write over break? Logan is on the list, but I'm blanking on ideas for the boy T_T

Masterlist

Flowers. Beautiful things that each have their own meanings. One that even color plays into.

Beautiful amd deadly things, these Flowers. She can't even stomache the sight of them anymore. Not when they are the source of her current misery.

A misery she has yet to understand. Is one not enough for her? Will Lando hate her for loving more then just him? Is she really that greedy?

Her driving had suffered because of her lack of focus. She's coughing over the radio now and her engineer has started to notice. Her trainer even more so with how sick she looks.

She doesn't want Lando to find her like this. Maybe she doesn't even like Oscar and this is because of the loving looks and gentle touch he's been sharing with her boyfriend. Is she jealous? In a way yes, but she wants that from both of them. She coughs up another petal at the thought.

Hopefully Lando isn't awake. She'd been on the floor of the Hilton bathroom for at least an hour now. Her mind running through all her options. How she might be able to fix this.

Death is the easiest option in the long run. The surgery would hurt Lando as she would struggle with any kind of love afterwards. Oscar loving her back is another, but again, how would Lando react?

She'd yet to even open up to him about the idea of polyamoury. To scared from past encounters and getting hurt. Easier just to ignore anything else. The words of her last partner rings through her ears. 'It's either one or the other' but never both. How can she have such a love for two people to the point it's killing her?

The door creaks open. She panics and tries to hide from Lando's worried gaze. He still ends up on the floor with her.

"Please talk to me."

"I can't. You're going to leave me."

"Whatever this is, we'll figure it out, okay? But we can't even begin to work on it if I have no idea what's going on." And he's right. For as chaotic as he is, Lando has always wanted to work through things together.

"I'm not - well - before I start I should say I love you dearly with every fiber of my being."

"Is this a break up?"

"No!" She shouts a little to loudly and quickly. Lando looks a bit startled but calms we he sees just how panicked she is. "I don't want us to break up - I just know that you won't want me anymore."

The thoughts of Lando leaving her flood her mind. Having to watch him and Oscar be teammates while she watches from afar. Her body wracks with coughs again as another petal comes up, pretty but splatters in red.

"Is that-?"

"Hanahaki, unrequited love."

"But I do love you so then..." He takes a moments to process. "It's not me is it?"

"My parents always told me my heart was to big." She inhales shakily. "It's Oscar."

"Since when? How long do we have before-" He doesn't finish the sentence.

"A have a few months left maximum. I'm already two months in."

"Silverstone."

"I'd already been fond of him before that but watching the two of you smile together like that." Tears slip past her eyes as she tries to stop the burning in her chest. "I'm so sorry and I understand if you leave. It's not like you signed up for this."

"I'm not leaving you. I don't care who else you love as long as I'm here with you. Plus, it's Oscar, I'd be lying if I said I don't have any feelings for him." Lando Admits with a shrug.

"Really?"

"I know you love me, too much, probably. If this is what loving you means then I'll be here every damn step."

She throws herself into Lando's arms, curling into the warmth of his body. And for the first time on two months, she cries in relief.

~~~~~

On the other side of things, Oscar isn't fairing any better. The constant scratch of his throat has started in August. Over the summer break when he had to bare witness to Lando and his girlfriends pictures.

He couldn't tell who he was more jealous of, or if he was jealous at all. Both, he was jealous of both because he wants to be with both of them. It's illogical, he thinks, that he should want two partners so desperately. They are committed to each other, why would they want him as well?

Lando is once again on the podium his female counterpart part there to congratulate him. Eyes shining as they smile at each other. The itch in his throat is to much. It burns in his chest as his lungs try to fight for air.

He runs back to the garage after getting weighed. Just in time to collapse onto the floor of his driver's room. Petals fall from his lips. Beautiful and soaking in red fluid.

He's still struggling to breathe when his door flys open. Logan amd Liam swim in his vision and ears. They drag him off the floor and get him upright again.

They clean him op and sit with him until Kim comes to get him for debrief. The older male looks horribly concerned. Lando also looks at him with something he can't pinpoint while sitting through the meeting. It's enough to make his chest burn again just knowing Lando is even looking at him.

Logan and Liam come knocking at his door that night. They want answers and rightfully so. He tells them, coughing on the bathroom floor while doing so.

"Have you talked to them?"

"No, why would they want me Lo?"

Liam hands him more water and pratically forces him to drink it. "Have you seen the way they look at you?"

And no, he hasn't, only how people say he himself looks helplessly in love.

How would they look at him now? In disgust? Maybe pity?

Shame he may never find out.

~~~~~

Another hard race. Las Vegas had messed them all up in some way shape or form. She couldn't breathe knowing Lando had crashed to hard. She coughed an entire petal up during the yellow flags just thinking about how he must be feeling.

She's been coughing up whole flowers recently. Tonight was no exception. Lando, despite being on heavy painkillers, was desperately trying to help her through a few larger ones.

She was barely eating anymore. Couldn't breathe. Her teammate had even noticed the drastic change in her appearance. Max and Christian had both been on her case. Third seemed so far away now as Lando tries to get water down her throat.

"I don't want you to die."

"And I don't want to live without love."

Lando manages to pull himself off the floor to answer the door. Mumbling about how it's probably Jon making sure he's alright.

She can hear the familiar voices of Oscar and Logan through the thin walls.

Oscar sounds rough. She blames it on the long race he had. He'd looked so tired coming out of the car, hands running through his hair.

Her lungs burn again. It's more so this time. Her entire body is on fire. She can't even cough properly and wails as she has to pull out whatever is in her throat.

A stem. One with thorns.

Lando is frantically pleading with Oscar and Logan for something. Oscar is also coughing. Enough that is worsens her own.

She coughs again. Another stem feels like it's tearing her open from the inside. She wails at the stinging pain. Panic overcomes her as it seems to never end.

The door swings open. Lando and Logan drag in a coughing Oscar.

He's in the same boat as her. He's been suffering this whole time.

"Logan who is it?! Please, I need to know." Lando is begging now. The sight of what's happening can't be helping his nerves.

"It's you two, both of you I think. He didn't say exactly."

She tunes out anything else. It's them. He is feeling this because of them. She coughs up the rest of the stem and the burning starts to fade.

But then the exhaustion hits. She wants to tell Oscar everything. Enough so he doesn't have to cough up thorns like herself.

She passes out before she can.

~~~~~

Oscar wakes up in bed. One that definitely isn't his own. He tries to sit up, but his body is depleted still. Noticeably, his lungs feel lighter then they have in months. The ache in his chest has lessened, but his love for the two is still there. If this isn't the work of a surgery then-

He sits up frantically, searching for something. Someone, more like. A hand on his shoulder pushes him back down.

"Relax, we're still here." It's Lando and his partner is on the other side of Oscar. She's dead asleep and rightfully so after what he witnessed her cough up.

"Where's Logan?"

"Asleep on the couch. He didn't want to leave you."

"And you - do you and her - are we?" His words are broken. He can't think properly.

"Caught feeling a while ago, mate. Her before I realized myself. She loves hard, enough to cough up flowers, apparently." Lando crawls into the space between Oscar and the female. Oscar, in his sleepy haze, latches onto Lando. He feels better being apart of whatever cuddle pile this is.

He falls back to sleep so easily. Only to be woken up later by a few frantic coughs. Lando is immediately trying to get the female out of bed and to the sink. She claims she's fine and it's confirmed by the lack of petals.

"It's from what the thorns did." Her voice sounds wrecked. Oscar tries to get up to help only to be pushed back again by Logan. Curse his exhaustion.

The American gets everyone water. Oscar is grateful for it as it soothes his still sore throat.

"So does this mean you three are going to be together then?" Logan raises an eyebrow.

"If either of them say no after this, I'm throwing hands. After the hell they've put me through I will force them to cuddle if need be."

[artificial-ascension]

Reading through the wolrds surely most accurate source, Death Note fan wiki, I have accumulated a list of Wammys kid letters that are confirmed in some source to have an individual associated:

A- First successor of L, dead by suicide, mentioned in Death Note: Another Note

B- Beyond Birthday, number two of the first known successors behind A and a main character of Death Note: Another Note

D- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change The World film

E- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change The World film

F- Appears in the opening of L: Change The World film on a massion for L, dies via helicopter attack*

G- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change The World film

H- Sends L an email informing him of F's death in L: Change The World

I- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change The World film

J- Appears in the game L: The Prologue To Death Note, the game is unavailable in English so little is know of them, presumably a Wammys kid based on name, a separate J appears in the second episode of Death Note: A New Generation, she is not out right stated to be a Wammys kid, but she is assumed to be

K- Antagonist of L: Change The World book and film

L- If you do not know who L is why are you here, also Linda is a child who appears briefly in the manga and is responsible for the drawings of Near and Mello (I belive that is only presumed but I may be wrong, I can not remember where it was said)

M- Mello, second successor of generation four and a main antagonist of Death Note's main series and Matt, unranked member of generation four appearing as Mello's comrade in both anime amd manga

N- Near, successor of L and number one of generation four, appears in half the places L dose

P- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change The World film

Q- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change The World film

R- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change The World film, their letter is greyed out, presumably indicating they are dead**

T- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change The World film, their letter is greyed out, presumably indicating they are dead

V- Shown on L's mailing list in L: Change The World film, their letter is greyed out, presumably indicating they are dead

X- Alluded to in Death Note: Another Note as helping in a detective war with L

Y- Alluded to in Death Note: Another Note as helping in a detective war with L

Z- Alluded to in Death Note: Another Note as helping in a detective war with L

Unused letters- C, O, S, T, U, W***, possibly J as both instances of the usage are for individuals only presumed to be successors

Letters with known duplicates- L and M, J(?)

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Conclusion:

1. L: Change The World introduced a shit ton of Wammys lore for apparently shits and giggles.

2. Alot less dead Wammys kids than I expected. (Only 9/24, that's only over a third. Maybe 10/24 if you count Watari.)

3. I can understand not finding a U or V, but how the hell were there no genius orphans with S or C names??

4. It is impossible for a Death Note title to not have a : in it.

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Notes:

I got this information from the fan wiki and my brain. If it is wrong I'd like to know. I'd also love to hear of any more orphans the fan wiki or I missed.

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*I can verify that that happened. I remember it vividly. Only known Wammys kid to die from a helicopter.

**A greyed name implies death as B's name was also greyed out. However, this also implies L could readily email B whenever he wanted, which is extremely funny.

***W is often totoed as Watari's letter. However, I am not considering him a Wammys kid but this may mean some of the letters shown do not indicate successors but rather other Wammys higher ups.

[elainsgirl]

https://www.tumblr.com/bluiela/771251846025265152/eriels-would-throw-such-a-tantrum-if-elain-was?source=share

Are they joking? Cause Elain is hated far more than gwyn ever . They have been calling her boring, annoying, irritating, "good for nothing flower girl", "Azriel deserves better than someone like her", "I ship Elain with a personality", etc etc and not to mention all the tiktok reels/memes that were solely about making fun of Elain instead of about their favourite ships. Now they want to flip the narrative when we've never hated Gwyn let alone as much as they hate/make fun of Elain ?

Hey anon 🫶

Whilst I’m not denying Gwyn gets hate - I’ve seen it firsthand myself - it is NOT as casual or as common as Elain hate. And there’s a difference, Gwyn - like many of these characters may get insulted however actual hate and degradation of her character? Very uncommon and is definitely not the norm.

I distinctively rememeber Gwynriels saying How Elain didn’t go through enough trauma like Gwyn therefore can’t be w Az as she wouldn’t handle his darkness, how Elain should have gotten r4ped, how Gwyn would kill Elain or she’ll turn evil amd work w koshei - betraying her family which would lead to her exile from the NC etc etc.

Elain hate is 100x more common and normalised then Gwyn hate is. I wish this was an exaggeration but it’s truly not. You can open most acotar videos and 9/10 will come across so much Elain hate. Gwyn hate? I see so so rarely. Neither is right but to say both characters receive the same level of hate or Gwyn receives more is just a blatant lie. No she doesn’t.

Apparently to Gwynriel stans if you’re not praising Gwyn then you hate her. If you don’t ship her w Az, you hate her. If you acknowledge she is a side character, you hate her. If you theorise she can potentially be morally grey then you’re just a straight up misogynist 🤷‍♀️

They can “twist” the narrative that Gwyn is hated more but the evidence is right there and anyone can see its Elain thats truly treated disgustingly by the fandom.

[bah-inthemines]

could we request a tier 4 (or tier 3) brain-made headmate that helps with school and hygiene? It would be really helpful and give the others who are struggling currently!!! Tysm (all other details can be creators choice! I have no specific boundaries for what you can and can not do/add!!!)

Names: Roxy Eamon.

Genders: Genderfluid

Pronouns: She/her, Crypt/Cryptid + Fluctuating.

Orientation: Greysexual, Ambiamorous.

Species: Hybrid (Human, Fae, & ???? ancestry).

Age: 17.

Source: None.

Icons: one, two

Roles: Hygienist, Curacormate, Academic.

Kintypes: Mothmankin, fae, vampire, werewolf, bigfoot, cryptids in general.

Typing Style: Nice but formal, always has correct grammar. {Ex. It was nice to meet you! I hope we get to talk again soon.)

Signoff: 🎭📖

Personality Traits: Responsible, slightly formal, mysterious, quiet, well-behaved, motivated, helpful, kind, honest.

Personality Description: She doesn’t talk to those she doesn’t know much but is generally well-behaved. Crypt prefers not to make small talk or share personal details, making cryptid seem slightly mysterious. She is still very kind & very smart, always open to help others- as long as she has the time to do it. If Crypt is too busy then crypt will prioritize cryptidself.

Likes: cryptids, studying, psychology.

Dislikes: loud sounds, lying, impoliteness.

Trivia: She collects things related to cryptozoology & her collector dream in to have a 1955 first-edition copy of “On the Track of Unknown Animals”

Hex Code: #979664

Memories: None.

Outfit Style: Cryptidcore style. Striped crochet/knitted sweaters, faded graphic tees, jean shorts & overalls, tennis shoes or combat boots, baseball caps.

Birthday: January 13th.

Banner: credit

TransIDs: PermaTeen, TransCollegeStudent, TransDemiJapanese, NullWhite, TransAmputee, SpeciesFluid, CryptidRacial, TransLostFootage.

CisIDs: CisDemiWasian, CisCryptid, CisAutistic, CisDemiHuman.

MUDs: IBAD (Isolation-Based Amnesia Disorder), FID (Fantasy identity Disorder), DePD (Delusional Perception Disorder), CAD (Compulsive Archival Disorder), AMD (Accent Mirroring Disorder), AAS (Abyssal Alienation Syndrome).

[kat-124]

HAI HAI HAI HAI!!!

I followed your rbg Trio blog, and ur art there is so So cute!!!

And I wanna know more about your 'robot boombox' au cus I'm curious and honestly, that headcanon is so real for boom!

EEEEK HAII ^_^

tyuu eueu... it means alot :3

so uhhh robot boombox au is pretty much just in my brain, i havent posted abt it or anything. but ive got vague ideas about it!

im gonna put bullet points under the cut in no particular order, cause again, this is mostly just concepts, so expect a bunch of yapping

in this au boombox would be created by someone, and was made to be a sort of 'testing device' for a manufactured gear (his boombox). while also being a sort of artificial life based on mimicry.

(note, i am not well versed in robotics stuff, if something seems stupid uhhh whoops)

i havent come up with a creator or creators, but they made him with the intent of seeing if they could basically make an artificial demon that could get along with other demons well! (thats where his creators got the idea to make him a dj, or a glorified mp3 player came from.)

hes entirely mechanical, his power source is through electrical charging. he charges often, which comes across as him sleeping often.

i imagine him with a charger tail that can also somewhat extend.

his visor is literally attached to his face and would be more emotive than regular boombox phighting

i imagine he got let out to interact with other demons, he was given a lot of carefully monitored data, and even now seeks out ways to be more empathetic, and to be responsive to others emotions and to help them.

he doesnt become evil or anything like that

his 'skin' would be some kind of rubber or latex, used to protect internal components and appear more demon-like.

he has two speakers imbedded in his chest, and in the rubber skin there'd be mesh to let sound travel clearer, which happen to look like top scars ( :P )

in place of where a human heart would be, he has an internal metronome, which he can set the tempo of. it can also be heard if youre super close, like a faux heartbeat.

his horns work as a secondary charging method throughout the day, acting like low powered solar panels, (like the ones youd find on calculators).

his horns take in uv light and convert it to energy. amd they are covered with a transparent solid material (imagine something like resin) to give the appearance of a normal demons horn. however this means charging through his tail is much more optimal than the passive uv charging.

has a database in his torso containing specifically music knowledge. audio can be downloaded to there and sorted and dissected to make him work better and understand the tastes of demons

in his heads a mini computer.

his mouth is a simple metal open close rectangle shape, with small components that either make the faux-skin sides of his mouth pull up (to make a smile) or down (to make a frown)

also in this au rgb trio still a thing because i am insane abt them

i imagine skate and sling learn that boombox is a robot, but they still care for him and treat him the same as before

he doesnt 'feel' anything in a person sense, and he hasnt gained sentience or anything. his programming makes it so he's drawn to other demons, and wants to make them happy. and in return, he feels 'happy' when he accomplishes that.

he learns about friends and other relationships and such, and if he has a few people he's especially close to that he can make happy just by being around, it means he's achieving his goal.

so he does have favorites, mostly because he learned that demons tend to have favorite people, and therefore replicated that behavior

he's in a qpr with skate and sling, who r both dating eachother, theyre all very affectionate.

sometimes if he gets too many positive inputs at a time, you can hear his fans running quicker (like, example, his partners are being super sweet to him, verbally or physically.

he doesnt know who made him, nor really cares to find out

when he was made, he was given the knowledge of about a 17 year old, and the mentality of one. he counts his birthdays as aging, being currently 23.

sometimes when him, sling and skate are sleeping together, he'll play calming music directly from himself.

he doesnt sleep, but shuts off non-essential components and kind of pretends to sleep while charging. since he has to be plugged into a socket of sorts. usually during that mode hes sorting any files, or things he's collected. throughout the day

sling and skate dont know that he isnt actually sleeping, and think he's just powered off

his gear works as youd expect, able to play music and use its abilities. he's just also able to directly play music from his body

when being created, he was made first, and the idea of an artificial gear came second. which is why theres overlapping abilities that may seem redundant.

his creators are no longer alive

his creators were from playground

he would likely be 'killed' for having an artificial gear and used for parts if certain people knew (the law)

and heres some silly sketches i made in class awhiiile ago (note again that i do not make robotics or know pretty much anything abt them. im just having fun ^^')

i yapped alot, but if you have any specific questions, put them in my askbox and ill happily answer! -w-

[enarei]

I wish I was technically competent enough to convey, if not explain, what a marvel the Mesa AMD drivers are. you can't fathom going back 6 years and telling someone that something open source regularly outperforms the closed source windows drivers in the double digits margin on the same hardware

[possibly-j]

My Linux Journey

This was originally supposed to be a post on learning Linux but I got to rambling so enjoy my story about my journey with Linux. Expect a post on that topic at a later date.

~The early days~

I think my introduction to Linux was honestly quite smooth. See I'm poor and am not inclined to sail the seven seas when I can get by on a free option. And as I looked for free software I started to pick up that the safe ones were always "open source" and seemed to always support, sometimes primarily, Linux. Eventually my curiosity was piqued and I decided to look into it. I was confused by a lot of things, but I was setting up a Minecraft server for my friends and saw people recommend Linux, specifically Debian, for the job. So after unsuccessfully installing it once (I don't know how I think I got scared about formatting the drive) and not understanding how formatting works and deleting the operating system by writing it over with 0's (I keep adding comments but seriously where did I get the impression I had to do that?) and reinstalling I got it set up, downloaded everything I needed, and got it working in a few days. This taught me a lot. The command line, which I wasn't unfamiliar with but rarely used, was my new best friend, or rather only friend. I learned how to do updates, navigate the file structure, download software, and use Nano because, well, I had to. But most importantly, I like how clean everything was compared to Windows (subtle foreshadowing), and I wanted more.

~Adoption~

I was building my computer and really wanted to make the jump to Linux, so I researched and landed on Kubuntu. I installed it, smoothly this time, got some software, got confused by Snaps, opened Blender and- green bar. I had a new AMD graphics card, so driver issues weren't unexpected, but it deterred me enough to just install Windows instead. I did decide though to try on my laptop since it was older and mostly used for web-surfing. I installed Pop! OS because I thought the tiling was cool (more subtle foreshadowing) and... It worked great! I quickly got used to the nice GUI elements it provided and my prior knowledge of the terminal made it easy enough to fix odd issues that came up. However, and I'm sure everyone who knows anything about Linux sees this one coming

~Distro Hopping~

I'll save you most of the details but I think it went like this

Pop! OS, got mad at Gnome, switched to Manjaro with KDE (Which will be my DE of choice for the rest of this), wanted Arch but wasn't comfortable enough with the command line yet.

Broke something, switched to Debian, liked it on server thought I might like it on my laptop.

Wanted newer software, switched to OpenSuse Tumbleweed.

I used OpenSuse Tumbleweed for I think a year straight. It's just that good, but I can't leave good enough alone so

Alpine Linux, because I thought it was cool. Actually planning on moving back to it once I'm done needing my laptop to always be working because it meets that "clean" criteria like no other in my brain (See I told you it was foreshadowing).

And right now Endeavour OS, because I wanted something with good documentation and didn't feel like setting up Arch.

Oh and I use i3 now, to finish off the foreshadowing.

There were a bunch of short lived ones throughout that, but those are the memorable ones. Also I installed Fedora on the computer I built a few months back and now use it over Windows whenever I can.

~Where I am Now~

If it isn't obvious, I'm sucked in. I've almost built Linux From Scratch, three times, installed Gentoo a few times, and even tried expanding my horizons further with FreeBSD, which I love but the software support isn't great for my needs. Linux is natural to me and I even have my own bits of obscure knowledge on fixes for odd issues with my hardware. I have weird opinions about init systems (Weird because I don't actually care much, I just like OpenRC more than SystemD because it's simple). Windows feels slow to use, and not for hardware reasons it just takes me twice as long to do anything. I really love tiling window managers like I don't understand how I lived without them. I primarily use open source software when I can but flatpaks and web applications fill in the gaps nicely.

~Closing Notes~

I love Linux, probably a bit too much, but it's just a fun time. It works well for me and I've spent enough time in the ecosystem that it's what I'm used to. I see a lot of new Linux users on here so if you're new, welcome! Don't let the often toxic community (at least on Reddit, I don't know about here) get to you. My absolute favorite part of Linux is that you get to have choices. Make use of that, find what you like, and don't be afraid to reinstall Arch for the 10 millionth time. There's a lot to learn, and maybe my story will be of some help. To those more experienced than me, how the fuck do you understand chmod

:q!