Alesis Turbo Mesh

Childhood and music I used to play piano as a child, but I had difficult learning it to the point I had to use color-coded notes. Later on, around the 7th grade, I picked up the classical guitar, but due to lack of interest by myself and a not so meaningful selection of songs to learn from my teacher and what not, I ended up dropping those instruments (I also envied my brother who had an electric guitar lol). ...

April 23, 2025 · 7 min

Single GPU Passthrough on linux with AMD

Hello, here are the steps I had to take to get single GPU passthrough working on Arch Linux with QEMU and an AMD GPU (specifically, a PowerColor Red Devil 5700XT 8GB), the problems i had to face and the solutions I found to said problems. But first, why? Well, dual-booting Windows has always been a bummer to me. Sure, it works wonders in terms of performance for gaming, but having to reboot the computer and dedicating a specific amount of space for it always rubbed me the wrong way. With that being said, I’m no expert, there’s plenty of other reasons for using a VM instead of dual-booting, lots that I probably forgot and lots that I just don’t know about. ...

September 9, 2022 · 7 min