Brinens and Things

(I was going to say "update to this post" with a link, but I can't find any previous post discussing this. Maybe I only thought about blogging about it.)

(Edit Jun-19-2019: Found it!)

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1. The reason that the brightness level Windows is stuck on is inconsistent: it's because it's stuck on *whatever brightness Ubuntu is currently set to*. (I routinely change my screen brightness based on ambient light levels, in addition to redshift.)

2. The time-zone issues† only happen if I go to Windows from Ubuntu, not if I reboot Windows and go straight back to Windows.

3. Ubuntu, upon going there from Windows, has mirror-image time-zone issues, though it manages to recover automatically.

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I suppose that narrows down the possible causes, though I'm not sure I can be bothered to put any more effort into fixing them. Especially now that I know I can work around the brightness issue by booting into Linux and adjusting it there. And now that the Linux-based Runescape fan community has come up with a more consistently functional client wraparound, so I have less use for Windows.

(Hmm, although now I'm wondering what would happen if I told Windows (but not Linux) that I'm on UTC...)

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†Since I can't find a context link, I guess I'll explain here: Windows *claims* to be on Toronto time, but *actually* displays in UTC (which is especially disorienting given how malleable my circadian rhythm is). Manually changing the time only lasts until the next boot.

Not wanting to risk going through all the effort of coaxing Ubuntu and Runescape into cooperation only to find my hardware insufficient, I tried Runescape on my Windows partition first.

Turns out, the minimum available graphics settings for Runescape are very minimal indeed. There should be no question (at least hardware-wise) of whether I can play-the-game-at-all, only how pretty it will look while I do it.

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There's still the software issues to deal with, of course. I mean, I guess I could play on Windows? But I know from experience that rebooting twice (there and back) every time I want to play a game is annoying, and camping out on the Windows partition for the entire duration of being-in-the-mood-for-that-game is even more annoying. My Windows partition is *not* set up for long-term habitation, and I don't even really want it to be.

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(Writing these posts out, especially the first, *does* seem to be helping me sort out my thoughts on the matter.)