Edward elric mouse pointer

Hi,
About a year ago I sought advice here on how best to get my old A1200 back up and running. Thanks to the great advice, I've now completed the project and thought I'd report back.
I started with my original A1200HD that I'd hacked about and shoehorned various 2.5" and 3.5" HDDs into in the past. Sadly those drives are now dead, but everything else including my Blizzard A1260 with 16MB RAM was still working fine.
I opted to make the following mods to bring it into the present (some weren't strictly necessary, but were the right thing to do to best preserve the hardware). Feel free to AMA about my choices.

• Motherboard cleaned and recapped with FPU added, timing fixed, and RF module removed by the amazing RetroPassion
• Double CF adapter with internal primary drive and external swapable drive in the expansion port.
• OS 3.2.2
• Internal clock
• Gayle PCMCIA hardware fix
• Indivision AGA Mk3 Flicker-Fixer / Scan-doubler
• 3rd-party HDMI port adapter for the Indivision to go in the former RF port
• MouSTer USB mouse/joystick adapter
• PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet card
• New power supply
• Replacement backplate and insulation layer to replace the old shielding entirely
• Replacement posts and screws

A few lessons were re-learnt along the way, especially with how easy it is to bend the old-school header pins, and some new ones like how brittle the sun-affected upper-case has become and how careful I need to be with it (Sugru to the rescue...).
As you can see in the photos, it makes for a very neat and compact install that I am very happy with, that fits very neatly into my usual computer desk space. I feel it makes for a nice balance between staying true to the original hardware, and gaining modern conveniences that mean I will use it regularly.
Now, I just need to start the long journey of customising the OS to be how I like it, which is taxing my memory on how the OS works, but I'm getting there! Any advice or pointers to guides on what a 'modern' OS install should have added to it are welcome.
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Core Theme:
Sarcastic and intelligent teenagers proficient in a mystical science with an immortal, absentee dad and a dead mother that face off against a parental godly being and their children.
Connections:
-Witty and sarcastic teenagers who are very proficient with a mystical and inventive science which they can use in battle or in creation, repairs, or research (Alchemy and Magical Tinkering). They also picked up this talent at an incredibly young age.
-Among their peers who practice the same mystical science as them, they have a rare and unique ability (Ed can use Alchemy without a transmutation circle unlike other Alchemists, and Leo can control fire unlike other children of Hephaestus).
-They are exceptionally intelligent, and usually rely more on strategy and tactics to win fights than brute force alone. Additional personality similarities include impulsiveness, having a comedic “ego”, struggling to stay still/in one place and do nothing, and of course are selfless and very caring to those close to them.
-They are also notably short amongst their peers, a trait which they’re often teased for and are sensitive about.
-Both save their best buddies from dying by giving them a new body, then eventually return them to their original bodies (Ed saves Alphonse by putting his soul in armor then returns him to his human body in the end, and Leo saves Festus by using his consciousness and parts of his body to build the Argo II, then returns him to his bronze dragon body in the end).
-Both of their fathers are immortal beings who abandoned them for most of their youth (Von Hohenheim and Hephaestus). However, they would eventually reconnect, learning that their fathers always cared about them and were proud of them despite having to be away, and they would fight alongside them in their respective wars.
-Both of their beloved mothers die while they’re young, and both characters suffer trauma and a guilt complex from not being able to save their mother with their powers (Ed fails to bring back his mother with Alchemy, resulting in his brother losing his body, him losing an arm and leg, and making him believe he caused his mother to suffer more; Leo couldn’t reach his trapped mother, and accidentally burned down the building she was trapped in, making him believe he killed her).
-Their love interest (Winry and Calypso) is a kind hearted, caring, down to earth, and feisty, and is often teasing and squabbling with them. Both of them specifically make promises to these love interests before leaving them to finish their mission to take down the big bad, and they would eventually return to them only after taking down said big bad.
-The big bad they both face is a parental, godlike being (Father and Gaea, Mother Earth), who is the parent of the immortal, major antagonists they face across the story (the Homunculuses and the Giants). Both characters also deal the final blow to these big bads.
Fight Potential:
There’s quite a bit to work with and go over here.
For one thing, both have decent sized kits you can work with for plenty of action. You can get some hand to hand/close quarters combat, primarily with Ed’s sword arm/spear against Leo’s hammer and wrench. And you can get some great clashes of Ed’s alchemy molding the earth against Leo’s flames. This would be a great opportunity to show Ed’s superiority up close and Leo’s ranged advantage.
On top of that, Ed’s alchemy is also obviously rather versatile to allow him plenty of different options in combat (including barriers, giant hands, pillars, etc.), and Leo’s tool-belt would allow him to pull out his various supplies as well (it’s like a bag of holding that let’s you pull what you’re thinking of or stuff you’ve stored with some limitations) and you could likely give him some of his gadgets. Plus they can both potentially utilize their environment, with Ed’s alchemy manipulating his surroundings often and Leo being able to control machines. Suffice to say, I think there’s plenty to work with combat wise and their kits bounce off each other pretty well.
The potential banter between these two is also amazing in my opinion. They could easily be quipping, teasing, and gloating throughout the fight in some very witty dialogue. You could also tap into their more serious sides, primarily having them strategize to get the upper hand on each other, and thinking through the situation.
There’s also a few ways you could set up the fight, primarily through misunderstanding. You could have Ed falsely believe Leo’s fire is flame alchemy at first, but upon realizing Leo uses no components, assume he’s using a philosophers stone, or potentially even be a homunculus. And since Ed’s alchemy primarily uses the ground and stone, Leo could falsely assume Ed is a minion of Gaea. And Leo taking a jab at Edward’s height would also be in character, which could cause a scuffle where the misunderstandings occur. So I think there’s enough potential reasons for them to get into a fight.
All in all, I think there is plenty to work with here for a great fight.
Debate Potential:
Despite each of them holding a number of advantages, Leo should win relatively easily.
That’s not to say Ed doesn’t have some major advantages though. He’s more well versed and capable in combat, alchemy is generally more versatile than Leo’s kit, and he’s physically tougher than Leo (debatably, since I believe Leo’s flames should scale to the higher stuff but not his body). Meaning if he can get in close, Ed has the advantage and should be strong enough to hurt Leo.
However, Leo’s flames scale way higher than Ed’s physical strength/durability (his fire scales to the continental feats from Khione’s), and scaling to Jason/Percy means he should be lightning timing speed wise. So realistically, Leo should just blitz one shot with his fire.
There are some arguments for higher speed Ed, potentially getting him to Lightning speed as well, but I’ve yet to see the calcs and sources other than the electricity from Alchemy, which seems to be a debatable source.
So all together, it could be closer depending on speed scaling, but Leo’s flames one tapping Ed remain a major advantage that should net him a win.
Credit to u/Classic_Breath_4381 for the Track Art!

I decided to try and give Fedora a try and do a fresh install on my machine and setup dual boot with Win11. I have several experience with fresh install linux (mostly debian-based) so the first thing I've done after install booting to fedora is to update the system using : sudo dnf update
All goes very well in here after the update, restart the system, everything still normal, then I notice it's running on wayland after I try to run echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE and since I'm using NVIDIA gpu I think that I need to install the nvidia-driver and x11. Then first I install the plasma-workspace-x11 and all it's dependency, restart and I can see the switch option to x11 on the bottom left screen login perfectly fine, great!
Immediately after that I then install nvidia-driver following this tutorial on installing nvidia-driver from RPM Fusion (method 2 on the article). After install complete, try to restart then this happens.
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Very weird because I can still move my mouse and the computer didn't turned off after 10 minutes of waiting, so I have to press the power button to force it to shutdown. I try to boot again, it boot perfectly fine then try to run nvidia-smi to check if driver is installed, then it did tell that driver is installed. Tried to restart it one more time and it still the same behaviour, screen goes blank but I can still move the mouse pointer.
I notice that using wayland solve the issue, but the problem with wayland and while still using my gpu is when I type to anything (start menu, browser, discord, etc.) it's very laggy and result in many typing errors. The only way to really make the system shutdown (when using x11) without blank screen I've found is using terminal and run sudo shutdown --poweroff
I'm not sure whether there's something that I've done wrong when installing the x11 and nvidia-driver, or there might be missing package, or misconfiguration somewhere, but if anyone have experienced this, please enlighten me on how you guys solve the issue.
Or you know...if you haven't encountered this issue and have a really smooth experience on fedora 40 using x11 and nvidia-driver, please also share how you setup your fedora :)
Thanks!

Hi! I recently rescued a ball python, who was not being kept properly at all. She is skin and bones, where you can feel her ribs and spine. I fed her the day after I got her, but I didn’t know if she would take it due to it being a frozen mouse and also the fact that she was probably stressed. She ate it happily, but it wasn’t big enough for her at all, as it was only a medium mouse (I feed those to my corn snake and it was all I had on hand). I’ve been trying to handle her (only now realized that was a stupid idea not to wait a few weeks), and she had bit me once, which I expected, though it was a quick strike. Well, today I held her again, and I was holding her in my lap with a blanket on my lap. Well, i don’t know why but she decided she wanted to eat the blanket, and she also bit me through the blanket. She even tried to constrict it and eat it and I had to use ice on her nose to get her to let go. Any idea why she did this? Was it purely her being hungry or..? Sorry, I’m very new to ball pythons and they’re quite different from corn snakes haha. (Also, planning to feed her tomorrow) Any pointers for beginners as well would be amazing! Thank you all in advance! Also picture attached of her.

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