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Hi, first time poster. I bought a MBA M1 entry level with just 37 charging cicles for 500 bucks like a month ago. I feel like it was such a bargain, and i’m very pleased with it. I’m currently learning and getting used to macOS because been windows user my whole life. But now, well I just find (without looking for it, actually) another one, in mint condition, with just 7 charging cicles for the same price. But I already own one. I should buy another one? Maybe for selling it for 600 $? I’m not a seller. Idk, dont wanna let the chance pass. Any advice?

so I've had this problem for about 3 weeks now , it started when I was playing Helldivers 2 and the audio randomly started stuttering and lagging like hell, I didn't really care bc it was pretty rare and not that bad, but at some point it just started affecting other games and just about anything.
I tried to look around and fix it and have tried several tips and tricks to get rid of it (I use a laptop btw): -disabling the Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller driver (helped a lot after this it stopped stuttering at all times) -followed everything here https://www.reddit.com/techsupport/comments/13avw59/fix_for_high_dpc_latency_wdf01000_ntoskrnl/ -tried this too
View: https://youtu.be/2KUz8J8PRSI
-tried this
View: https://youtu.be/S8pmiwLfMlg
-Disabling the WLAN driver does not do much plus I need it so can't get rid of that -disabling high precision event timer (kinda did nothing idk) -The Bios is already up to date (it was that way when I checked) -I didn't mess around in Bios yet if that matters -chipset driver is already up to date -I even tried the whole Interrupt Affinity Policy Tool, but that only made my computer worse so I just reverted back to normal
I also use Voicemeeter Potato which I noticed that it does increase latency a bit but it's not the core problem as I still get stuttering even without it running.
So at this point there's no stuttering when using the computer for normal things YT etc but once I start playing a game no matter how performance heavy it is the stuttering will happen at some point.
Laptop specs: Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz 2.69 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU iGPU Intel(R) UHD Graphics
Latencymon out of games:
View: https://imgur.com/r884npL
Latencymon while gaming:
View: https://imgur.com/wzl8hD1
Latencymon report: CONCLUSION _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. At least one detected problem appears to be network related. In case you are using a WLAN adapter, try disabling it to get better results. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates. LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for 0:54:50 (h:mm:ss) on all processors.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYSTEM INFORMATION _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Computer name: IDK OS version: Windows 11, 10.0, version 2009, build: 22631 (x64) Hardware: ASUS TUF Gaming F15 FX506HC_FX506HC, ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. BIOS: FX506HC.311 CPU: GenuineIntel 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz Logical processors: 12 Processor groups: 1 Processor group size: 12 RAM: 16106 MB total
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU SPEED _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reported CPU speed (WMI): 2688 MHz Reported CPU speed (registry): 2688 MHz
Note: reported execution times may be calculated based on a fixed reported CPU speed. Disable variable speed settings like Intel Speed Step and AMD Cool N Quiet in the BIOS setup for more accurate results.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ MEASURED INTERRUPT TO USER PROCESS LATENCIES _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The interrupt to process latency reflects the measured interval that a usermode process needed to respond to a hardware request from the moment the interrupt service routine started execution. This includes the scheduling and execution of a DPC routine, the signaling of an event and the waking up of a usermode thread from an idle wait state in response to that event.
Highest measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 2141.50 Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs): 10.106213
Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 2080.10 Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs): 4.051279
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ REPORTED ISRs _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Interrupt service routines are routines installed by the OS and device drivers that execute in response to a hardware interrupt signal.
Highest ISR routine execution time (µs): 367.754464 Driver with highest ISR routine execution time: Wdf01000.sys - Kernel Mode Driver Framework Runtime, Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total ISR routine time (%): 0.021302 Driver with highest ISR total time: Wdf01000.sys - Kernel Mode Driver Framework Runtime, Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in ISRs (%) 0.021363
ISR count (execution time <250 µs): 551197 ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0 ISR count (execution time 500-1000 µs): 32 ISR count (execution time 1000-2000 µs): 0 ISR count (execution time 2000-4000 µs): 0 ISR count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ REPORTED DPCs _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DPC routines are part of the interrupt servicing dispatch mechanism and disable the possibility for a process to utilize the CPU while it is interrupted until the DPC has finished execution.
Highest DPC routine execution time (µs): 2895.738839 Driver with highest DPC routine execution time: dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation
Highest reported total DPC routine time (%): 0.036152 Driver with highest DPC total execution time: Wdf01000.sys - Kernel Mode Driver Framework Runtime, Microsoft Corporation
Total time spent in DPCs (%) 0.152295
DPC count (execution time <250 µs): 2867912 DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs): 0 DPC count (execution time 500-10000 µs): 29967 DPC count (execution time 1000-2000 µs): 146 DPC count (execution time 2000-4000 µs): 3 DPC count (execution time >=4000 µs): 0
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ REPORTED HARD PAGEFAULTS _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hard pagefaults are events that get triggered by making use of virtual memory that is not resident in RAM but backed by a memory mapped file on disk. The process of resolving the hard pagefault requires reading in the memory from disk while the process is interrupted and blocked from execution.
NOTE: some processes were hit by hard pagefaults. If these were programs producing audio, they are likely to interrupt the audio stream resulting in dropouts, clicks and pops. Check the Processes tab to see which programs were hit.
Process with highest pagefault count: avp.exe
Total number of hard pagefaults 92433 Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process: 26407 Number of processes hit: 233
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ PER CPU DATA _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s): 153.016915 CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs): 244.198661 CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s): 6.338876 CPU 0 ISR count: 508177 CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs): 2895.738839 CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s): 34.144313 CPU 0 DPC count: 2332420 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s): 46.672745 CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs): 367.754464 CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s): 1.733128 CPU 1 ISR count: 39005 CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs): 2470.526786 CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s): 8.634517 CPU 1 DPC count: 59384 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s): 38.284653 CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs): 259.622024 CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s): 0.360766 CPU 2 ISR count: 4012 CPU 2 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1187.750744 CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s): 2.028144 CPU 2 DPC count: 50305 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s): 26.907453 CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs): 181.504464 CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s): 0.003805 CPU 3 ISR count: 35 CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1415.736607 CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s): 0.400013 CPU 3 DPC count: 9659 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 4 Interrupt cycle time (s): 38.320740 CPU 4 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0 CPU 4 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0 CPU 4 ISR count: 0 CPU 4 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1544.733631 CPU 4 DPC total execution time (s): 1.524181 CPU 4 DPC count: 76999 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 5 Interrupt cycle time (s): 26.617423 CPU 5 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0 CPU 5 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0 CPU 5 ISR count: 0 CPU 5 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1457.822173 CPU 5 DPC total execution time (s): 0.796222 CPU 5 DPC count: 22235 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 6 Interrupt cycle time (s): 167.894278 CPU 6 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0 CPU 6 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0 CPU 6 ISR count: 0 CPU 6 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1500.904018 CPU 6 DPC total execution time (s): 5.632684 CPU 6 DPC count: 167201 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 7 Interrupt cycle time (s): 30.226556 CPU 7 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0 CPU 7 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0 CPU 7 ISR count: 0 CPU 7 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1382.883929 CPU 7 DPC total execution time (s): 0.768749 CPU 7 DPC count: 24288 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 8 Interrupt cycle time (s): 35.408687 CPU 8 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0 CPU 8 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0 CPU 8 ISR count: 0 CPU 8 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1709.463542 CPU 8 DPC total execution time (s): 1.125550 CPU 8 DPC count: 31608 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 9 Interrupt cycle time (s): 29.257713 CPU 9 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0 CPU 9 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0 CPU 9 ISR count: 0 CPU 9 DPC highest execution time (µs): 821.176339 CPU 9 DPC total execution time (s): 0.793745 CPU 9 DPC count: 14617 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 10 Interrupt cycle time (s): 36.044704 CPU 10 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0 CPU 10 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0 CPU 10 ISR count: 0 CPU 10 DPC highest execution time (µs): 1023.575149 CPU 10 DPC total execution time (s): 3.208692 CPU 10 DPC count: 95016 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CPU 11 Interrupt cycle time (s): 29.180704 CPU 11 ISR highest execution time (µs): 0.0 CPU 11 ISR total execution time (s): 0.0 CPU 11 ISR count: 0 CPU 11 DPC highest execution time (µs): 987.518601 CPU 11 DPC total execution time (s): 1.085984 CPU 11 DPC count: 14296 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I’ve been banging my head for the last week trying to sort out an issue I have with a Windows 11 VM slowing down to an unusable state after a day or so of uptime. Anything that might point me towards a fix is greatly appreciated.
My server has a both a Tesla P100 in the top PCI-E slot and a Radeon Pro WX 2100 for video out in the bottom PCI-E slot. The P100 passes through as a vGPU to a Windows 11 VM.
When I have the P100 passed through to the VM, it slows to a crawl within a day. If I restart the VM it returns to normal and is as snappy as I expect. This only affects the one VM with GPU passthrough and does not effect any other VM/LXC on the host. I also have a TrueNAS VM that has a SAS card passed through to it and doesn’t cause me any issues. Nvidia drivers are installed on the VM and I can run stress tests no problem while it behaves for the first day.
Server Specs: Dual Xeon e5-2696 v2 128GB ECC DDR3 Nvidia Tesla P100 running vGPU AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 Proxmox VE 7.4-17 Kernel 6.2.16-20
VM Config: 2 Sockets, 4 Cores, 8 vCPUs - host,numa=1,cpulimit=8 8GB RAM - balloon=0 OVMF (UEFI) q35-7.2 VirtIO SCSI single scsi0 - cache=writeback,iothread=1,ssd=1 hostpci0 - 0000:03:00.0,mdev=nvidia-148,pcie=1,romfile=p100.rom
I haven’t tried swapping the slots I have the two GPU’s in, it was something I thought about but wasn’t sure how much of a difference it would make. Without the GPU passed through the VM works perfectly.
If you made it this far, I appreciate your time even if you don’t have a suggestion I thank you. I’m hppy to provide any information I’ve left out.

After using VMware for over a decade, I just had a terrible experience with a new install of Workstation 17 on a Windows 11 host. My old VMs were unusable on 17. Support was not good. If I could’ve figured out my issue, I would’ve just kept using VMware.
Now, I am looking for an alternative. I’ve been reading through posts and there’s an incredible amount of detail available. I’ve been lucky enough apply VMware in a simple/utilitarian way hasn’t required all that much knowledge. I’ve always been able to figure out how to map drives, connect hardware, etc without help. Virtualization is not my core competency but that’s where VMware fit in for me.
As for finding an alternative, I have a very unsophisticated use case. I used VMware to virtualize physical machines so that I can still access old software platforms. I also keep clean VMs for new installations.
-The host is Windows 11. -I need to virtualize Windows XP/7/10 physical machine(s) in a way leaves the software licensing(not just Windows) intact within the VM. -I need to create a clean Windows VMs and duplicate them for installs where I need to keep versions separate.
I like the idea Proxmox being FOSS. Seems like VirtualBox is second to VMware in installed base. But frankly, I’m not equipped to evaluate all these products.
I could use some advice.

One of our twins (they just turned 10 months) has been waking up quite early (between 4:50 and 5:45am) everyday for the past few weeks. Her crying then wakes the other twin up. She doesn’t stop until I come in to breastfeed her. Then they sometimes go back to sleep for a little bit but usually not. How do I ameliorate this situation?
They have been tending toward taking one nap the past few days. Is it too early for this?
I have tried pushing their first nap time later and earlier bed time but it hasn’t helped much. Their room has been on the warmer side, low 70s, so we have had them sleeping in their diaper with their sleep sack.
I have attached yesterday’s sleep schedule. I would appreciate any feedback or advice!! Thank you.

Let's talk about the pills, there is Red Pill, there is blue pill. There's Linux (yes I'm more of a Linux fanboy than Windows) and there's Windows. Even though my liking towards Linux, I can't reject the existence of Windows, matter of fact, my primary OS now is Windows, simply due to it's software support. Yes, yes, there are open source "alternative", and even on windows I continue to use them simply because I am more familiar with them. However, their "alternativeness" isn't that much. Lots of feature missing, some not being updated in years, bugs and so on. And then there's Windows - simply put, it's an horrendous mess. The greediness from Microsoft is just growing, invading everything. The reason why I'm finally even posting this thread is because of the recent shithole the MS is creating - Windows' having "Photographic memory" which will snapshot your screen after some duration. Are you even being real here? What's the necessity? Who cares about this feature? How do you think this will appeal to public? They even admitting "well, we can't stop taking the snapshot of password or banking information." Then why? Just freaking why? And then there are rumors of Windows 12 being cloud based. What the hell man? On one hand - we have a buggy family of OS (except for Linux Mint, which is somewhat stable and does shit as expected) and then on other hand - we have... Windows.
And truth to be told, I really don't have any solution that I can even think of. If we want Windows to continue as our primary, we need to stop what they are trying to do, which is not possible, because it's a fking corpo. The only way it seems like we need to put all of our money on funding Linux projects - which is probably something that we can think of in an utopia.
Can we go back to the days of Windows 7 now? Please?

I remember a game from the windows 95 - windows xp, possibly 7 era, about people that looked like bananas or may have been actual talking bananas. The only thing I remember is an option to go to the top of a building, I think via a ladder then getting chased off by birds, I think seagulls. I think it had 3D ps2 like graphics. It had a mobster-ish vibe too, the game starting off by talking to other banana people in a fancy looking office.

Does the wood crack if exposed to a lot of heat and humidity? I'm talking about them staying at home but in an environment where my window unit air conditioner won't be on 24/7 for my places 5-7 months of summer.

Hello everyone.
I need help fine-tuning Llama3 to analyse exception messages from log files generated by a Windows application.
I created a dataset in huggingface with a lot of possible inputs, which are the exception messages, and the outputs, which are divided into 7 categories:

• Coding issue
• Network issue
• Database issue
• Infrastructure issue
• Memory issue
• Service issue
• Irrelevant

However, the dataset is very small and when I'm testing the model I'm noticing either wrong answers or a lot of hallucinations.
I'm also using Unsloth and the Colab code to fine-tune Llama3.
The dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/agoncalves/log_excp_messages . There are only 146 rows as I can not find anymore examples to feed the model.
Important to note that the only thing I've changed in the Colab code was removing the "instruction" variable, adding temperature=0 and changing the dataset from alpaca to mine.
Should I change something else? Or perhaps changing the dataset? I'm still a beginner and there are a lot of things I don't understand.
Any tips are welcome.
Thank you

Tô prestes a fazer 18 anos e vou fazer um pequeno curso de informática, e nesse curso eles oferecem as seguintes coisas (windows 7, Windows 10, Microsoft word, Microsoft excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, internet, Excel empresarial, aplicativos comerciais, shop control 8.0, operador de caixa, técnicas de vendas e auxiliar administrativo).
Eu não sei oq essas coisas podem conseguir me proporcionar e queria saber se vale a pena e oq eu realmente vou conseguir fazer com tudo isso.

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Hello! Sorry for any grammar mistakes in advance, I'm Hungarian. So I've been dealing with this problem since last October. I bought an Asus TUF RX 6900 XT near the end of 2022 and it worked flawlessly for nearly a year then these random black screens started to appear. I shouldn't even say black screen because the monitor just doesn't get any signal. My MSI motherboard does the 1 long 2 short beeps that indicates graphics card issue according to their site. After this I have to power down the PC. The reset button doesn't work. I tried so many things already:
- Changing the cable, trying both HDMI and displayport in different ports on both the monitor and the card - Did a DDU session, even resinstalled Windows and upgraded to 11 from 10 - Updated the drivers many times since the issue started to appear.
-I updated the motherboard chipset drivers as well and even the BIOS in my desperation - I took out the card, cleaned it, plugged in different power cables after re inserting it - Checked the temps while gaming and they are completely fine. Edge temp is barely above 60 and hotspot is around 75. - I did a VRAM test and everything was fine - Undervolted and underclocked the card
- Run different stress tests: Built in Adrenalin, Furmark and Furmark 2, Superposition but these never produced a crash even after half an hour. If you think the PSU might be at fault, well not very likely. Even after I used MPT and let my card pull 410 watts while I also stress tested my overclocked Ryzen 5 5600 that also pulled nearly 90 watts, my Thermaltake Toughpower 850W platinum was doing just fine. Meanhwile crashes still happen when my card only uses about 200w in certain games. Funny thing is I managed to overlock my card to get 12414 points in Superposition 1080p extreme which is among the best air cooled RX 6900 XTs LOL.
- I changed my 4x8 Gb Corsair ram kits to 2x16 G.skill - The warranty is still active but guess what? All they did was running a 3D Mark stress test for 10 minutes and of course that didn't crashed so they said the card is fine...
So about the games. Some games are straight up unplayable like the new Indika or Horizon Zero Dawn and crashes happen after a few minutes or even seconds, meanwhile Death Stranding (that uses the same engine) has never crashed. There is also a middle ground with other games like Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate 3 or Fallout 76 that can run for hours but still produce a crash sometimes. Some of these games use different launchers and they are on different SSD's. One SSD is NVME the other one is SATA. So quite a lot of things are already ruled out.
Next I'm planning to change the CPU to a Ryzen 7 5700X but I highly doubt that would solve the problem.
Any ideas what else could be done?

After much work, I finally got a system running without issue (knock on wood) where I can pass a GPU, Ethernet device and NVMe disk to the guest. Obviously, the tricky part was to pass the GPU as everything else went pretty easily. All defvices are released to the host when the VM is not running it.
Hardware: - Z790 AORUS Elite AX - 14900K intel with integrated GPU - Radeon 6600 - I also have an NVidia card but it's not passed through
Host: - Linux Debian testing - Wayland (running on the Intel GPU) - Kernel 6.7.12 - None of the devices are managed through the vfio-pci driver, they are managed by the native NVMe/realtek/amdgpu drivers. Libvirt takes care of disconnecting the devices before the VM is started, and reconnects them after the VM shuts off. - I have set up internet through wireless and wired. Both are available to the host but one of them is disconnected when passed through to the guest. This is transparent as Linux will fall back on Wifi when the ethernet card is unbound.
I have two monitors and they are connected to the Intel GPU. I use the Intel GPU to drive the desktop (Plasma 5). The same monitors are also connected to the AMD GPU so I can switch from the host to the VM by switching monitor input. When no VM is running, everything runs from the Intel GPU, which means the dedicated graphic cards consume very very little (the AMDGPU driver reports 3W, the NVidia driver reports 7W), fans are not running and the computer temperature is below 40 degrees (Celsius)
I can use the AMD card on the host by using DRI_PRIME=pci-0000_0a_00_0 %command% for OpenGL applications. I can use the NVidia card by running __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command% . Vulkan, OpenCL and Cuda also see the card without setting any environment variable (there might be env variables to set the prefered device though)
WINDOWS:

• I created a regular Windows VM, on the NVMe disk (completely blank) when passing through all devices. The guest installation went smooth. Windows recognized all devices easily and the install was fast. Windows install created an EFI partition on the NVMe disk.
• I shrank the partition under Windows to make space for MacOS.
• I use input redirection (see guide at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Passing_keyboard/mouse_via_Evdev )
• the whole thing was setup in less than 1h
• But I got AMDGPU driver errors when releasing the GPU to the host, see below for the fix

MACOS:

• followed most of the guide at https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM and used the OpenCore boot
• I tried to reproduce the setup in virt-manager, but the whole thing was a pain
• installed using the QXL graphics and I added passthrough after macOS was installed
• I have discovered macOS does not see devices on bus other than bus 0 so all hardware that virt-manager put on Bus 1 and above are invisible to macOS
• Installing macOS after discovering this was rather easy. I repartitioned the hard disk from the terminal directly in the installer, and everything installed OK
• Things to pay attention to: * Add USB mouse and USB keyboards on top of the PS/2 mouse an keyboards (the PS/2 devices can't be removed, for some reason) * Double/triple check that the USB controllers are (all) on Bus 0. virt-manager has a tendency to put the USB3 controller on another Bus which means macOS won't see the keyboard and mouse. The installer refuses to carry on if there's no keyboard or mouse. * virtio mouse and keyboards don't seem to work, I didn't investigate much and just moved those to bus 2 so macOS does not see them. * Realtek ethernet requires some hackintosh driver which can easily be found.

MACOS GPU PASSTHROUGH:
This was quite a lot of trial and error. I made a lot of changes to make this work so I can't be sure everything in there is necessary, but here is how I finally got macOS to use the passed through GPU: - I have the GPU on host bus 0a:00.0 and pass it on address 00:0a.0 (notice bus 0 again, otherwise the card is not visible) - Audio is also captured from 0a:00.1 to 00:0a.1 - I dumped the vbios from the Windows guest, sent it to the host through ssh (kind of ironic) so I can pass it to the host - Debian uses apparmor and the KVM processes are quite shielded, so I moved the vbios to a directory that is allowlisted (/usshare/OVMF/) kind of dirty but works. - In the host BIOS, it seems I had to disable resizable BAR, above 4G decoding and above 4G MMIO. I am not 100% sure that was necessary, will reboot soon to test. - the Linux dumped vbios didn't work, I have no idea why. The vbios dumped from Linux didn't have the same size at all, so I am not sure what happened. - macOS device type is set to iMacPro1,1 - The QXL card needs to be deleted (and the spice viewer too) otherwise macOS is confused. macOS is very easily confused. - I had to disable some things in the config.plist: I removed all Brcm Kexts (fro broadcom devices) but added the Realtek kext instead, disabled the AGPMInjector. Added agdpmod=pikera in boot-args.
After a lot of issues, macOS finally showed up on the dedicated card.
AMDGPU FIX:
When passing through the AMD gpu to the guest, I ran into a multitude of issues: - the host Wayland crashes (kwin in my case) when the device is unbound. Seems to be a KWin bug (at least KWin5) since the crash did not happen under wayfire. That does not prevent the VM from running anyway, but kind of annoying as KWin takes all programs with it when it dies. - Since I have cables connected, kwin seems to want to use those screens which is silly, they are the same as the ones connected to the intel GPU - When reattaching the device to the host, I often had kernel errors ( https://www.reddit.com/NobaraProject/comments/10p2yr9/single_gpu_passthrough_not_returning_to_host/ ) which means the host needs to be rebooted (makes it very easy to find what's wrong with macOS passthrough...)
All of that can be fixed by forcing the AMD card to be bound to the vfio-pci driver at boot, which has several downsides: - The host cannot see the card - The host cannot put the card in D3cold mode - The host uses more power (and higher temperature) than the native amdgpu driver I did not want to do that as it'd increase power consumption.
I did find a fix for all of that though: - add export KWIN_DRM_DEVICES=/dev/dri/card0 in /etc/environment to force kwin to ignore the other cards (OpenGL, Vulkan and OpenCL still work, it's just KWin that is ignoring them). That fixes the kwin crash. - pass the following arguments on the command line: video=efifb:off video=DP-3:d video=DP-4:d (replace DP-x with whatever outputs are connected on the AMD card, use for p in /sys/class/drm/*/status; do con=${p%/status}; echo -n "${con#*/card?-}: "; cat $p; done to discover them) - ensure everything is applied by updating the initrd/initramfs and grub or systemd-boot. - The kernel gives new errors: [ 524.030841] [drm:drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* No EDID found on connector: DP-3. but that does not sound alarming at all.
After rebooting, make sure the AMD gpu is absolutely not used by running lsmod grep amdgpu . Also, sensors is showing me the power consumption is 3W and the temperature is very low. Boot a guest, shut it down, and the AMD gpu should be safely returned to the host.
WHAT DOES NOT WORK: due to the KWin crash and the AMDGPU crash, it's unfortunately not possible to use a screen on the host then pass that screen to the guest (Wayland/Kwin is ALMOST able to do that). In case you have dual monitors, it'd be really cool to have the right screen connected to the host then passed to the guest through the AMDGPU. But nope. It seems very important that all outputs of the GPU are disabled on the host.

Hello all, as it says in the title I'm looking to build my wife a PC. She has recently opened her eyes to the wonders of PC gaming. She's always been a console player (Was terrified of mouse and keyboard) but after playing Hogwarts Legacy on PS4 she thought she would like to try Baldurs Gate 3 which I had on PC. Safe to say she enjoyed that and now has a backlog of games she wants to play which is longer than my arm. This is great but we only have one PC and no laptop which means that if she's on my PC I can't use it and vice versa. This, in her own words, has become; "An untenable situation.". We don't own a laptop and we're not too keen on going down that particular route.
Onto the topic of the build! We know we would like the build to be a MicroATX as the space that the PC will be going isn't really suitable for a Mid or Full tower. We'd like the PC to be able to comfortably run games like Hogwarts Legacy, BG3 but also have a some scope to play upcoming games at 1080p. Not as interested in building a fully futureproof 1440p beast that will break the bank.
It's been a while since the height of my PC building era and having come back into it, in a formfactor I'm not used to, after a several year hiatus, I feel overwhelmed. I've tried wading through the quagmire of forums, reviews, tech YouTube channels and opinions and I've arguable come out in worse shape than I went in with. So with all that being said, I'd really appreciate if those of you who were willing and able would cast your savvy peepers on the below list and give it some constructive criticism. Feel free to ask any questions!
I'm trying to keep the build in the ~£1,000 range, ideally below as we do have some peripherals to buy.
TL:DR: I need help building a MicroATX PC, I've got the draft list below and would appreciate constructive criticism. I have an old PSU but don't know if it's of any use for this build:
PCPartPicker Part List: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/HKrmTY
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor (Stock Cooler) (£121.32 @ NeoComputers)
Motherboard: MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£104.99 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory (£38.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Crucial P3 Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£69.99 @ Ebuyer)
Video Card: Asus DUAL OC Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB Video Card (£333.53 @ NeoComputers)
Case: Cooler Master Q300L V2 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (£53.97 @ Amazon UK)
PSU: TBC (I have an old Corsair RM650W Fully Modular 80+ Gold, from 2015, too old to reuse?)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 11 Home OEM - DVD 64-bit (£108.98 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £831.77

I have 2 fur babies one is M(7) and the other is F(5). They have lived together for 4 years, and until I moved in with my boyfriend a year ago, they have been fine with one another. Now my M cat is starting to get grumpy, and will occasionally pee on my bed while I am at work. I took him to the vet and they gave him an all clear medically, it was just behavioral. He doesn’t like when I give any attention to my other cat, and will chase her off when she try’s to get pets. I have bought 2 separate litter boxes and they are in separate rooms. I scoop them every other day and change out the litter weekly. They have 2 separate stainless steel water fountains, and 5 separate stainless steel food bowls around the house. I have a scratching post in every room, and they have perches in most of the windows. I don’t know how much more attention, or accommodation I can give him to make him feel comfortable in his environment. I’ve tried the feliway cat plug ins for multi cat household, and I’ve tried calming chews. I’ve tried wet treats in the morning, which makes him feel entitled to wet treats daily and if not received, pee is in my bed when I return home. I am not looking to rehome either of them. I just want to make him happy again. He’s my little cuddle bug. Any advice would be much appreciated!!