Notices by Min (minneyar@fuzzyfox.social)

Did you know that it's #FoxgirlFriday? Here's a slightly darker illustration of Yomiko by 🎨okina. :neofox_floof__w_:

#oc #OCFedi #うちの子 #FediArt

It's been a rough week, so let's have a second #FoxgirlFriday post. Here's a lovely Yomiko by 🎨kawarage, enjoying the winter weather! It's still 81 F outside where I am, but I can close my eyes and pretend there's snow here.
#Furry #FurryArt #oc #ケモノ #うちの子

@silver_huskey@fandom.ink Yikes, I had not seen that.

Oh yeah it's #FoxgirlFriday!! Here's a cute portrait of Yomiko by Luxar. :neofox_floof__w_:

#FurryArt #oc #うちの子 #ケモノ

I haven't done much drawing yet this year, but here's some face sketches just to make sure I don't forget how

@silver_huskey@fandom.ink I'm similarly back to work today, except it looks like many of my clients did not take time off and so I've got a huge backlog of e-mail to go through :neofox_sweat:

#2024年自分が選ぶ今年の4枚

I'll probably color and render this, but sometimes I just really like pencil hatching

#wip #oc #OCArt #FurryArt #うちの子 #ケモノ

@silver_huskey@fandom.ink I've got a little VirtualBox VM on my work laptop just for when I absolutely have to use Windows for a client, and I dread every time I have to open it up

We definitely should talk about cutting government spending, but as a reminder, any politician who isn't talking about slashing the military's budget isn't really concerned about spending.

14% of the government's budget--$179 billion--goes directly to the military, and you could cut that to a third and the USA would still have the largest, most powerful military in the world. An extra 6% goes to the Department of Veterans Affairs, which could be similarly cut if the military didn't recruit so many soldiers that it then has to support forever.

Draining just a bit of the military's budget would be enough to provide universal health care and public education, and you can't trust any politician who claims to care about the budget but still votes to increase military spending.

All right, here's one for @silver_huskey@fandom.ink!

#FurryArt

@silver_huskey@fandom.ink This is insane. :neofox_shocked: Hopefully the thief at least walked away with some serious bruises...

I didn't have quite as much time for art as I was planning on this week, but here's a grill for @literalgrill@sakurajima.moe!
#FurryArt #grillsona #oc

@silver_huskey@fandom.ink Oh jeez, that's awful. I hope insurance is at least a little helpful.

It's still #FoxgirlFriday and I got a drawing of Yomiko from 🎨 おのさん!! I really love their clothing designs... :neofox_floof__w_:

#oc #うちの子

I've got a single computer still running Windows, a PC I use exclusively for gaming, and I've been wondering if I should just switch to Linux on it rather than "upgrade" to Windows 11... And lately I've been seeing a lot of people recommend Bazzite, a SteamOS-like Linux distro, and I realized I've got a spare NVMe drive in that computer that's mostly empty, so I figured, why not give it a try?

And hey, it's actually working pretty well! Installing it was pretty smooth, hardware drivers all worked with no issues, and I've only tested it with Dragon Quest III and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous so far, but they both just started up and worked immediately. Pretty slick, maybe I can finally give Windows the boot for good.

I've only had a few issues. The first is purely because I've got a really weird setup; I've got a 4k/120Hz TV connected to a 5.1 speaker system through an AV receiver, which doesn't sound too weird, except my receiver doesn't support passing through 4k/120Hz to the TV, and my TV's eARC port doesn't pass 5.1 channel audio to the receiver and downmixes everything to stereo. So I've got one HDMI cable running from the PC to the TV for video, and another HDMI cable running from the PC to the receiver for audio; but because HDMI audio is a kludgey hack in the first place, you can't send audio without video. That means the PC thinks it has two monitors, one at 4k/120Hz and another at 1080p/60Hz, except nothing should ever use the second one. Steam on Linux seems to have issues with this when running in big picture mode and has really awful performance. Disabling the second "monitor" fixes the issue, but also means right now I'm only getting stereo audio. I can "fix" this by just getting a USB-to-SPDIF adapter and using that to send audio to the receiver instead, but that's annoying because I'll have to buy more hardware...

Second issue is that by default, Bazzite puts the PC into suspend mode after 15 minutes, and keyboard and mouse events do not wake it up. That's annoying because I have to walk 8 feet and reach under my TV to hit the PC's power button. I easily fixed this by writing a udev rule to flip the flags on the USB devices to enable my keyboard and mouse to wake the PC from suspend, but I admit that is way beyond the skill level of anybody who's not a Linux nerd.

Third issue is another thing that won't bother 99.99% of PC, which is that I have a custom water cooling loop that is connected to both the CPU and GPU. The pump and fan speed should be controlled based on the water temperature, but... I haven't found a way to do that. There's a GUI that seems like it's supposed to be able to control fan speeds, but my fans don't show up there. It seems like they're being controlled based on the CPU temperature, which is maybe fine, but there's the possibility that something that is hitting the GPU really hard but not the CPU could cause the water temperature to rise to dangerous levels because that wouldn't result in the fans ramping up. Dunno if this is really a problem, but I might have to go digging through documentation to see if I can figure out how to control my motherboard's fan speeds properly.

On the other hand, suspend/resume work way more reliably in Linux than they do in Windows, switching audio devices is easier, and I can do cool things like set the DPI of games individually to adjust text/cursor sizes, which is a little awkward but isn't even possible in Windows, so that's a win.

I know a lot of amazing artists, and if I'm not careful, the more I learn, the easier it is to look at their work and realize how amazing it is and be discouraged because I've still got so far to go.

Instead, I think it's better to compare to my own work, so here's one from exactly a year ago. Man, look at the difference! I can do this! Just wait and see where I'm at in a few more years!

2023 <----- -----> 2024

:neofox_cool:☀️

#MastoArt #oc #kemonomimi #うちの子 #けもみみ

It's still #FoxgirlFriday!! Had enough time to sketch Yomiko wearing the latest meme outfit, plus shorts because I often find myself thinking about "How would you wear shorts with a tail?"
#MastoArt #oc #kemonomimi #うちの子 #ケモノミミ

Decided to change some details and yeah, I think that's going pretty well
#wip