Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

uuuugh I still can't believe my computer's PCI Express topology is such a lemon

can't really do anything but just... not shop Intel, which I already was planning anyway. This wouldn't have even been a problem to begin with if their IGP wasn't such a hot mess

@noelle technically true in my case! Discord had the nerve to include 420 in my tag by default when cannabis smoke gives me terrible migraines. A tragic irony

ah who am I kidding, I'd probably have a panic attack if I ever had it anyway

@mintey@chitter.xyz oooh! That looks great! I was thinking of playing around with a similar idea, and was contemplating heavy duty foil isolated from the boards with a strip of copper tape as a heat spreader

@k I don't know what the market is like, whether midrange stuff is still on the table or not, because I don't need a LOT... Just something that isn't a complete disaster with ACS, which is to say not an Intel system

@k heckie

I've been getting by on an i7-4790k but my attempts to virtualize while dealing with my IGP (memory IO bottlenecking, DMAR faults) keep running into issues, up to and including that my entire PCI-Express expansion bus is tied to a CPU and thus I can't even put a separate discrete video card between my host and guest without ACS overrides, which my tests have discovered lead to astonishing amounts of video memory corruption!

...Ryzen is still the current AMD architecture, right? ;;;;

Does anyone have any recommendations for Ryzen hardware that I could pursue? Gonna need a decent CPU and a motherboard with dual 16x slots + proper IOMMU isolation between them.

@Zest @rezzish waaaa, a Zest closeby? :o that'd be amazing

Well, this has been a whole buildup to nothing. Turns out the problem I'm running into is rooted in the CPU, and there's... nothing I can really do except replace half my computer .-.

I could go on an endless tangent of expletives at my computer but I am just... tired

@traabot 🦀🦀🦀🦀

@Lenalia moth orbs!

Sleepy but hype for morbs

Also while cleaning I had an idea of what kind of base design I wanna pursue, so I'm looking forward to working on that in blender

My 3D printer's giving me some grief again, so I may have to replace the FEP, but I found a good streamlined cleaning strategy! So I've got a lot of otherwise-failed prints with good detail that I can use to test Contrast-style paint formulations on