Aw, I remember coworkers had gotten corn and onion pizzas as a treat the first time I visited my remote office in Taipei (from Pizza Hut). I believe there were also shrimp pizzas, I felt very special 😊

But yes, alas it seems rare here in the US!

That’s definitely a frustrating situation you have, and I very much encourage you to take the path that feels most possible to you!

Before moving on, I would like to point to trying what u/mvirts suggested, disabling ACPI from the grub bootloader. It’s easy and great for getting an installer running and working, and sometimes the freshly installed and updated OS whisks the problem away.

But regardless of what you choose, I wish you much luck in your endeavours!

Agreed with others that this is likely a BIOS issue, and it would be good to check for a firmware update first.

In particular, this looks like it might be an issue with the USB port locations described by your BIOS ACPI. Maybe one of the embedded root hubs? You might be able to play with USB settings in the BIOS Config to see if that helps, especially loading default values. I also think it might be possible to blacklist ports from kernel parameters and that could be a good check… but I’m not very familiar with the parameters in recent years and didn’t find anything in a quick search.

As a last ditch, you can disable ACPI entirely, but it can/will cause very odd performance and configuration issues along with no power management. (This goes double for portable systems.)

This makes me feel so much better after spending a morning banging my head against some wild pointer arithmetic, thank you much much! (Ultimately the pointer incantations were successful, praise be!)

I’ve been obsessed with it!! The cooking is amazing and I love the philosophical bits that are woven through everything.

Are you worried the cooking focus might take a back seat as the current storyline proceeds?

I believe it is Paper Cassette! And yes, I feel very old.

Oh, I had no idea Shortyz was forked, I’m so glad there’s a maintained version thank you!

So this is like an Austrian Cincinnati chili?

For some reason I really want to love Vienna sausages… but I just can’t. Maybe one day!

You are not alone… Manually unfocusing my eyes is a mainstay of pain relief for me!

Well, the human ones anyway…

You are reminding me that I used to keep a copy of Nesticle (for DOS!) on an AOL floppy, along with a couple of ROMs. I saved the fancy Imation Disney disks for my data 😅

Thank you for the flashback!

It’s funny how many options you get for human tribal, but I guess that’s part of the point 😅 Do you make exceptions to your themes and include non-humans (like Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider)?

Do you like to use Jerren, Corrupted Bishop?

Agreed, themes of all kinds can be fun! I think most of my decks have a theme, although sometimes I sacrifice the theme for a little performance.

I think maybe my three favorites: Unionize - colorless, Assembly Worker tribal (took me a while to get that to work right! In particular Foundry Inspector + Self Assembler is fun) Red Wedding - black/red, vampire tribal with Edgar Markov and Olivia Voldaren (with almost all wedding themed cards) Ballroom Blitz - black/red, blitz ability aggro with graveyard return (not the most efficient but pretty fun and efficient!)

But unfortunately you can’t start it again.