Ugh. this version of slack is odd.. any way. I can't delete the extra post. It appears some k3s folks mention:

K3S needs cgroups to start the systemd service. cgroups can be enabled by appending cgroup_memory=1 cgroup_enable=memory to /boot/cmdline.txt

How would I go about adding this in k3d? Since k3d is abstracting k3s?

I got it to work by doing this hack

[wsl2]
kernelCommandLine = cgroup_no_v1=all

from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73021599/how-to-enable-cgroup-v2-in-wsl2 I don't really understand exactly what I just did and if it's going to break something else. Didn't have to do this yesterday or for the last months on win11 or win10

well.. I take it back. it got k3d to install but now wsl is fatally crashing

ugh