The real problem I had was a low limit to save history. I install a lot of software, Cachy would run the snapshot every time (good), but it only kept like 5-10. And the one I needed to restore to was further back (I can't remember the exact issue), but that was more the defaults of how cachy set it up, and my use case than btrfs/snapper itself.

Whatever tool you use to snapshot btrfs, you may wish to have a custom number of saves if you install tons of software a lot...so you can avoid having too few backups available from the boot menu. I'm sure there was a way around it but I said f it and just reinstalled instead of trying to look up on my crap tablet how to get at the old files (assuming they were still there and just not accessible from the boot menu vs being completely erased).

I do not think it was btrfs that broke, to be clear.

This was like a week before the big hack on AUR, so I wonder if I got hit by a supply attack, but it was pretty shoddy, and broke my system, thus my reinstall saved me from (possibly) a lot more pain down the road.

There it is :)

This could have just been a lucky guess, but I feel like the way they presented it my intuition understood what was happening though I can't mentally see/grok it. I think making music and messing with waveforms in synths also helps to understand this intuitively more than the actual math.

I would like to credit "The Theory of Almost Everything" by Robert Oerter for explaining it in a way I could understand 15 years ago https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/183207.The_Theory_of_Alm...

Great book with the history and explanation of a lot of quantum stuff, without being huge like Brian Greene's books (which I also love).

(pun fully intended)

Zooming in (ctrl-wheelup) on the page causes it to disappear after the dots scale to the next size. Friend pointed out I can disable and test the css, which I did. I scaled to 2, and it's gone. So it's a scaling issue.

Then tried Vivaldi, same thing, turns out, it's gotta be a scaling issue with KDE/Kwin. It also only does it with 1440, not on 1080 (or 900, which I also tested). They're all 16:9 so it must not be a fractional scaling issue, maybe density just gets weird or it's the monitor in combo.

I have no idea whey I'm sharing just found it interesting in case anyone else wonders or notices.

EDIT: This is weird. My monitor has different modes including sRGB. I had it in a gaming mode (higher contrast, etc...) and it shows then, but in sRGB it doesn't show.

I took screenshots and when viewing there, regardless of screen mode, it's rendering fine, so clearly it must be a monitor issue of some sort. Odd that it would render in every non-sRGB mode, but be fine in sRGB.

Haha, yeah.

  "Gigabit Ethernet. Even 100-Mbps Ethernet has not produced a killer app. The modern network has produced convenience and the ability to share the Internet on one connection. Some people reckon this to be a killer app. I don’t. Perhaps the networked game is the killer app here."

Another friend had a Dreamcast and had pondered getting Phantasy Star Online, but never did. Anyways, I'm glad it's still "a thing" even if it's not the same.

It'd be wild to see it come back the way Dragon Quest did with XI.

Can you imagine if everyone who had to put up with this bullshit for shit wages, did what you said. Good luck with services.