I was able to get the Razer Nostromo programmed to the point that I am willing to believe that I could get any Razer gameboard programmed for MMORPG use on Linux. As an addendum, World of Warcraft<\/em> runs really well on the laptop. Better than I was expecting, as it loaded with the graphics cranked all the way up. And this was with Bluemail, Firefox, and Discord all running. I have fixed both hardware issues I mentioned previously. The second set of kernel parameters I tried adding to the boot configuration has solved the random, but regular, freezes. This setting is to modify the power save settings, which were allegedly implemented incorrectly in this particular family of chipsets. The second problem, the buzzing that would begin whenever there was no audio being output through the headphone jack (and this only applies to headphone jack connection) was related. I found a set of instructions to add to the boot configuration that disabled power save on the sound chip. Since I did this the buzzing stopped. This puts the laptop at 100% usable for everything I need it for, and more usable for some things that I couldn’t do easily. The next test is to connect one of my external data drives to the laptop to see how easily it is to read and write to NTFS. I do have one lesser-used drive on which there is nothing irreplaceable.<\/p>\n
<\/div>I finally forced myself to create not one, but *two* characters to play through Wrath of the Lich King<\/em>. On the Alliance side, I created a Draenei Shadow Priest and started her in Borean Tundra. Right now I’m almost done with the Dragonblight zone, which is the area you are most directly pointed to after Borean Tundra. (You can also pick up a quest pointer to go to Sholozar Basin, but that’s much more of a side-story than other choices.) I also created a Forsaken Blood (tank specification) Death Knight and dragged myself through the starting area to Howling Fjord, the other “starting zone” in Wrath of the Lich King<\/em>. The Horde starts at Vengeance Landing on the coast. As a Forsaken, you are thrown straight into one of the most significant stories of WotLK; the new blight being developed that will wipe out the living *and* the dead. By “dead” they mean the Lich King’s scourge, but it can also kill Forsaken. The biggest thing I learned from this experiment is that Borean Tundra is a lot better than I remembered, and Howling Fjord, other than in atmosphere, isn’t nearly as enjoyable as I had built it up in my mind. And for the addendum here: I was getting super-frustrated with the questing structure, until I realized I had turned off low-level quest visibility. Which is why I stopped getting quests to help me move on as I leveled up.<\/p>\n Here’s Moiren the Death Knight.<\/p>\n I’ll be largely out-of-town for a big part of this week. Maybe some of this will end up getting talked about. But, I’ve been building up a reasonable story of the Lich King, which by necessity will involve talking about how death works in World of Warcraft<\/em>. Looking at it through the lens of WotLK will allow me to move some of the “but also” stories to the side, I think.<\/p>\n That’s it for this week, so you soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It almost seems like a year has passed since last week; most of it in the past few days. This will be short one, and I mean it this time. The laptop is still running at 100% on Manjaro Linux. The biggest thing I learned this week is, when looking for a program, use the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paige-writes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57788,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57756\/revisions\/57788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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