I am giving you the credit, thank you for the help

progress: now wifi networks show up (i didn’t change anything) but i cant connect to them lol

edit: i am connected to the internet, lmao wtf

yeah, I was using the card so that I could do PCI passthrough back when I was using a VM for VR, since usb passthrough wasn’t working, the motherboard has like 8000 ports, yeah. I’m not doing VM anymore, so I thought I’d just take it out. You might be right that it could be a power management issue, but I don’t really need it right now so :shrug: I bet the card is fine

Asus B450M A-II Prime has a combo PS/2 jack :3

wow that’s pretty cool actually, damn

everything is fixed in linux, but windows pretends it doesn’t know what wifi is, so i’m off to figure out which service i accidentally disabled lmao (It Was Working A Couple Weeks Ago)

ok so I figured it out - get this, the PCI-E USB card that I had in there was causing problems, apparently. Worked last week. Removed it, suddenly wifi works, and so does everything else.

You might be on to something with this, since it appears that my problem was too many USB ports. Maybe the correct number is 0 after all. Return to PS/2 (do they still make mobos with them in them?)

i was so mad before, but when i read your post i couldn’t stop laughing, idk why. thank you haha (I’m finally feeling calm enough to go back in again, but yes return to PS/2 never failed me…)

that’s cool, how would a classical music/ambient/shoegaze/vg music person get into those? where would you recommend this hypothetical person start?

Bleak weather makes some music sound better to me too

Totally. I’ve listened to the Frostpunk OST a bunch in the past week, haha. (it was raining yesterday, so even better)

I take Vitamin D3 which is supposed to help, but still some days are tough until I get used to it.

same, but the snow, cute tights, warm lighting, hot drinks, and bundling up usually make it worth it for me. But some days are tough

damn, thats awesome on all counts

I’m not a psychologist or a counsellor, so this is like, just my opinion, but …

I think these parts, the part you’re calling “pattern recognition” is meant to protect us. I don’t think we can stifle them, or give in to them completely. I try to compromise with mine - ‘what would it take to be honest to this person about how i’m feeling right now?’ ‘What if you just allude to it?’ ‘Could we just send one message and not wait for the reply?’

These parts get stuck when we get hurt, according to my therapist, at least.

watching Partner play World 6 of Yoshi’s Island rn and I was previously convinced that I had beat the game when I was young, but definitely not now. Wow, world 6 is rude lol

thank you, good post. I was going to make a sassy comment about Winamp being “source-available” (derogatory) but it’s helpful to have you explain this instead, appreciate it. (I am a software dev, but I struggle with licenses etc.)

yes, that license is unfortunate… i am not a license expert, but “private use only” modifications is sad to me. i mean, the difference with the GPL is just that contribs need to be upstreamed, right? that seems like a better balance, if so?

this, this is mine ^

thats a good plan honestly

True, I just haven’t spent the time to properly learn it since I dont do much graphic stuff.

yeah totally, knowing it won’t warm up again helps - you really need that steam level research then, it’s pretty cool, i just get some weirdness around the numbers like “-60? I’d be dead, it doesn’t matter what I’m wearing…”

i love me some same sex romance in media, every game should have a gender (at least) and sexual preference (if theres romance) slider tbh