Kevin C. Wong

Diary - Aug 27 to Sep 02 2022

Sat Aug 27 2022

Sleep 0415 to 1115. (7 hours)

  • Tried DDO Chains of Flame Reaper 10. That first bridge is crazy. Trap right at the door and Iessin can't find the trap box so I'd have to jump over it every time I Dimension Door back to the entrance.

Sun Aug 28 2022

Sleep 0715 to 1515. (8 hours)

  • True20 Bundle of Holding is the core rules plus a bunch of rules supplements. I think I have the core rules (an old version, at least) and there are no adventures in this bundle so I'll skip.

Mon Aug 29 2022

Sleep 0200 to 1000. (8 hours)

  • Library to return books and check out four though turns out already read one of them (Waterloo (non-fiction) by Bernard Cornwell).

Tue Aug 30 2022

Sleep 0730 to 1230. (5 hours)

  • Ok, stayed up all night playing DDO Thorn and Paw.
  • Audible Plus doesn't seem worth it as the selection of audio books is quite limited.

Wed Aug 31 2022

Sleep 0200 to 1000. 30 min nap. (8-1/2 hours)

  • CrossOver 22.0 released. Had to reinstall DDO which now seems to run slower. Actually really slow unless I quit watching Twitch.

Thu Sep 01 2022

Sleep 0330 to 1230. (9 hours)

  • Figured out my computer slowdown problems is the GPU memory. When too many processes using GPU kernel_task spikes to 800% CPU usage and I think it's thrashing moving memory between RAM and VRAM. I closed by MBP leaving two monitors and that seems to have solved it.
  • This would not be a problem on M1 Macs since CPU and GPU use the same unified RAM.

Fri Sep 02 2022

Sleep 0130 to 0330. (2 hours)

  • Woke up and couldn't get back to sleep.
  • Playing DDO with the guys. Bluetooth cycled three times (dropping all connections - keyboard, mouse, headset - then reconnecting them) each time when I switched from CrossOver to TV app (to fast forward something I was watching). Wasn't consistently doing that though, like once every six or so times.