Meanwhile:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/entertainment/nicki-minaj-speech-nigeria

Yep, the famously devout Christian and most definitely not famous for being psycopathically narcissistic and materialistic and petty Nicki Minaj recently represented the US, in the UN, on behalf of the Trump Admin, to talk about the plight of Nigerian Christians…

Meanwhile, thousands, tens of thousands? of Nigerians are facing HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, because Trump’s USAID cut off removed $600m, 1/5th of the country’s entire healthcare budget.

… So basically, Nicki Minaj is the most perfect envoy of American Christianity one could concieve of, pretty much a perfect hypocrite.

… Her entire net worth is approximately the same as the recent stop gap funding measure Nigeria passed to shore up their health system (~$200m).

She, on her own, could just donate half her wealth, still have ~$100m dollars, and that’d get Nigeria from covering 1/3 of its healthcare budget hole, to 1/2.

Now… I ain’t saying she’s a gold digger, but…

Oh, wait, right, Kanye fucking lost his mind too, uh, uh, nevermind…

I am genuienly sorry you had to learn the hard way, but hey, so did I (repeatedly, because I am apparently a moron)… once bitten, twice shy, eh?

But yeah, if you’re looking for a fairly low spec GPU? Yeah I mean I’m generally more of an AMD fanboy, but the beefier of the Intel cards are doing pretty good for a low budget range.

I can’t say I have any idea how well they run Linux though, not via direct experience anyway.

Edit: I was typing more but figured out it’s the graphics card that’s bad 🥲

lol.

Welp, that probably doesn’t help solve the problem, but … it is identifying the problem.

Yeah… I’ve been burned too many times buying used GPUs, even managed to get some from Amazon, that had been burnt out on BTC mining, and then (shoddily) repackaged, sold as new.

Never doing that shit again, not unless I can like, drive over to someone’s house and actually see it working.

Ok, ok, explain this to me like I have no idea what is going on.

So, step 1:

What OS did this hardware originally run?

Windows… 10? 7? XP?

Did you ever get comparable like, total screen lockups, hard crashes from it?

???

Step 2:

What different Linux OS’s have you tried to install on this HW, what happened when you tried to install each one?

Which ones worked as a LiveBoot, but failed on bare metal, or vice versa?

Step 3:

Which of those installs did you try with which MoBo firmware versions, and what BIOS/UEFI settings?

There are a ton of variables going on here, and… yeah I have no clue what the proverbial spreadsheet from combining steps 2 and 3 would look like.

The pstate 19 error seemingly always has something to do with CPPC firmware being borked in some kind of way on various MoBo models…

But you’re saying sometimes you can actually get to a working bare metal install, on Garuda, though only in 720p via DVI?

Ok so, intel gathering:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305924

Same error for an Arch user, who says (about his HW and situation):

It’s AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics (Integrated), HP Laptop 15-ef2126wm. I have to use IOMMU, otherwise sleep doesn’t work (It get stuck after waking up from sleep, s2idle)

https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/amd-pstate-failed-to-register-with-return-19/8214/8

Same amd_pstate 19 error, this time in Cachy OS

Just ran into this same situation on the same chipset but different board, an Asrock A520M-DHV, but the issue is the same. The latest BIOS from 2025 breaks AMD CPPC and results in both the errors the OP posted as well as no amd_pstate governing (higher core usage, more heat/power, etc.) Downgrading to the last BIOS from 2024 (version 3.52) fixes the issue.

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/amd-pstate-driver-steps-and-discussion.118873/

This may also be relevant.

So… so far, my guess would be that your motherboard firmware and/or BIOS/UEFI config are having some kind of problem, and maybe possibly it is specific down to either or both the IOMMU and CPPC systems.

Maybe you can try checking the setting for CPPC? If it is toggled off, try turning it on?

It seems like this error has been a recurring issue amongst varying systems and varying kinds of Linux… I am not sure from what you’ve written if this is only happening to you with Bazzite…

… but uh, yeah, it looks like just a lot of MoBos have been having trouble with specifically the AMD CPPC part of their firmware, when running seemingly any kind of Linux.

I don’t know if this is very helpful or not, but maybe narrowing down to either CPPC or IOMMU could be an idea?

It at least does make sense that you’re getting hard crashes with graphical glitches, even without a gui… if the CPU itself is fundamentally locking up and being unable to execute commands, that would fit, I would think, with CPPC or IOMMU systems being the culprit.

Ok ok!

So… Caves of Qud.

That game seems very much like a MUD to me… what I think of as the general style and kind of gameplay… but it is not MultiUser, its a bit fancier than totally text based… but it does very much do a whole lot of basically ‘deep world simulation’.

I did actually play a tiny bit of Everquest, waaaay back in the day, maybe thats where I’m remembering the ‘graphical MUD’ term from?

Christ, was that before RuneScape even existed?

Oi, lol.

I’ve done that, and found the same.

But, this person asked for less unethical.

Not ‘and also, of similar competence.’

At this point I really do think we need to be forming something like Mondragon-esque, worker governed co-ops, collectives.

Unions aren’t enough, back to anarcho-syndicalism, but digital this time!

Yeah I mean, at this point, I can very easily see someone saying that either very genuienly, or very sarcastically.

Hence why I asked / phrased it as a two pronged response.

Glad to know you were indeed doing a bit, but uh yeah, I’m autistic enough that I just ask, because I have encountered a large number of people who would just ssy things like that, entirely seriously.

Ooooh ok.

So, maybe this is a bit of a stretch…

But would the modern, open source, Fallout Online, which basically takes FO1/2, rebuilds them libre from the ground up, and makes them multiplayer… would that maybr be closer to a MUD, like a ‘Graphical’ MUD, with sprites instead of ASCII?

I’ve not actually ever played DF, but I have seen that nowadays, there are… basically ways you can translate all the ASCII into sprites or tilesets.

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Graphics

I get that the MU is multi user, I’ve just also never actually played DF, did not realize it had not network able capacity, derp.

Or you could maybe even say that with like, PokeMMO, which roughly smashes all the GBA era pokemon games into a massive online framework… thats a sort of ‘graphical’ MUD?

Yeah as I said, I’m too young to have ever played an actual MUD, thank you for clarifying!

No.

We won’t.

We will get movies designed as either patriotic/honorable, wildly unrealistic, aspirational lifestyle glamorization … pure cope/hopium, saccharine, hero/success fantasies for adult children to live vicariously through… and warrior hero stories where the plot is incited by external or seditious threats.

That’s very roughly what happened to German cinema when the Nazis took over.

We will just have machines making the slop, instead of demented sycophants.

… there won’t be any money for things that cause people to maybe actually think!

You want to program compliance and shame into people, not curiosity, not disobedience.

Fight Club was not an initial success, and it largely tricked people via its marketing, into making people think it was going to be something closer to Rocky, but edgier… than a psycho-social critique of basically all of society.

Fight Club is an anomaly.

You might try some kind of open source non profit.

No guarantees, but likely at least less evil.

Correct.

A person who knows about evil and continues to participate in perpetuating it?

That is the definition of complicit.

You either quit, become a hypocrite and coward, or embrace and justify the evil.

Left, liberal, conservative.

Thats pretty much how USAmerican terminology for politics/society works.

“I’m just a willing cog in the machine that produces death and destruction, for my own personal benefit.”

“I’m just doing what I have to do to get by.”

I very much hope you are joking / doing this as a bit, because if you are serious, you are a hypocrite and a coward.

I literally quit Microsoft in large part because I could not morally myself justify working for such a manipulative, lying, exploitative company.

And that was a decade ago.

Yeah, yeah if you work MSFT, you have less moral character than I do, you are certainly aiding and abetting evil; even if you’re not directly doing the super evil shit, you’re helping the gears keep grinding along.

Oh look, its literally everyone who works in HR and Marketing, tech industry or not!

HR: You gaslight workers.

Marketing: You gaslight consumers.

Yep.

You can avoid having to do something like a total refactor that takes half the year, if you do the rough equivalent of a sanity check / clean up pass, when any new system or feature set is added, and make that habitual.

Its… kinda like how if you just do a bit of regular shopping, regular meal prep, regularly do the dishes, whatever, everything just flows easier in general.

The longer you run lean, move fast and break things… yeah it can improve output in the short term, but medium to long term, you’ll run yourself ragged, and things will break and fall apart.

Its likely a mix of Garry and maybe 2 to 4 other coders, who Garry assigns to develop various subsystems off of his broken core systems.

Thats exactly how he did it during Garry’s Mod.

If you were to talk like this in any job I’ve ever worked at, you’d be fired in about a week, maybe faster.

Same with writing emails with this language.

And you’re missing my point that if you made your own functions… and they don’t work right, … you should fix those functions, rework them.

Not doing that is how you get technical debt, spaghetti code, which is bad for you, bad for what you’re trying to do, bad for anyone else trying to help you do it.

Commenting on a bunch of slapdash fixes is like covering holes you punched in your wall with framed graffitti about how frustrated you are.

If you saw that in a date’s home, you’d hopefully recognizr that as a red flag and nope the hell out.

If everybody else is too busy to actually fix the code, you have inept project management.

You as well have clearly never worked in an actual professional software dev environment, if you think this is reasonable or defensible.

Garry’s Mod. Rust (the game, not the programming language).