Rub head on roughcast

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diff --git a/guides/sysadmin/machines/amdahl30/killing-time.org b/guides/sysadmin/machines/amdahl30/killing-time.org
index 971f24a..97f1597 100644
--- a/guides/sysadmin/machines/amdahl30/killing-time.org
+++ b/guides/sysadmin/machines/amdahl30/killing-time.org
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ For the modest price of [[file:maintenance.org::*Our protagonist sets forth][a B
 initializes successfully without me having to mess with
 {{{glitch(Overclocking Settings)}}}.  Welcome back =amd_pstate= 🤝
 * Sᴇᴠᴇʀᴀʟ Wᴇᴇᴋꜱ Lᴀᴛᴇʀ
-- [[https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/5475/page=1/][ridge reports]] "bad frame pacing on ADMGPU",
+- [[https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/5475/page=1/][ridge reports]] "bad frame pacing on AMDGPU",
   - when vsync is turned off: a non-factor in my testing,
   - lots of useful information in that thread though and
     interesting-sounding pointers,
@@ -447,12 +447,41 @@ Then confirmed absence of strays with ~zypper packages~ (with
     Nevermind then!  Moving on.
 ** Time to come clean
 There was one other thing I changed on this reinstallation: I used XFS
-instead of BTRFS for my home partition.  Not sure why; [[https://old.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/3dambq/why_btrfs_for_but_xfs_for_home/][some folks say
+instead of Btrfs for my home partition.  Not sure why; [[https://old.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/3dambq/why_btrfs_for_but_xfs_for_home/][some folks say
 it's a good idea?]]
 
 And /of course/ there is [[https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202349][a kernel bug]] showing that somehow "sustained
 write operations with XFS" conflict with "GPU creating memory
 pressure" or something.  /Of course/.
+
+tl;dr
+
+- backed everything up
+- wiped the main disk; re-installed with Btrfs for root & home
+  - left XFS on the secondary disk (NVMe, Samsung 980)
+  - [[https://forums.opensuse.org/t/boot-broken-after-fresh-install-fstab-tweak/183405][tripped over SELinux 🤦]]
+  - no changes in framerate
+  - so XFS exonerated?
+- let's exonerate the Kingston SSD while in there 🤷
+  - unplugged the SATA SSD
+  - wiped the NVMe disk
+  - re-installed on the NVMe disk (full Btrfs)
+  - no changes in framerate
+** 😐
+- XFCE
+  - by default: much worse
+  - with compositing disabled: on par with plasma
+- =PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1=: "Renderer creation failed. Pleaes ensure
+  your graphics card meets the minimum rqeuirement."
+- [[https://discord.com/channels/456889434672201729/1229836992829984830/1350397520718598154][discord, I guess]]
+- noticed =d3d12_device_init_workarounds: AMDGPU broken kernel detected=
+  - =VKD3D_CONFIG=skip_driver_workarounds=: no changes
+  - vkd3d-proton issue
+- proton-ge?
+  - installation docs point to [[https://github.com/lutris/docs/blob/master/InstallingDrivers.md#amd-1][Lutris driver installation instructions]]
+    - of all the packages that should have been installed automatically,
+      was missing =libdrm_radeon1-32bit=
+    - installed; no changes
 * This is insane
 Selected subset of moving parts; "testability" considering ease of
 clean reverts: