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I bought a laptop with an RTX 5060 in it a year ago. It has been, until recently, completely unremarkable — no weird crashes, no thermal bullshit, no gremlins. A full year of just fucking working. Then I put Omarchy on it, and in under a week I owned a laptop with half an RTX 5060 in it, and didn’t know. Here’s the thing about a hobbled GPU: it doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t throw an error. It just quietly does less work than it’s capable of, while you sit there thinking “huh, this feels a bit sluggish for the hardware” and blaming everything except the actual cause, because the actual cause is invisible unless you go looking for it with a multimeter’s worth of paranoia. ...

So I built this whole site the other day. Hugo, PaperMod, a custom stylesheet with colours I sampled straight out of the banner image, a hero banner that behaves itself when you shrink the window. Took hours. Committed it to git twice, felt very pleased with myself, went to bed. Then I reinstalled my distro. You already know how this ends. The part where I find out Fresh install, home directory looked fine. My notes vault was there. Pictures were there. Downloads, full of the usual crap, also there. My Projects folder was sitting right where I left it, containing exactly two things, both belonging to a different project entirely. ...