Almost disjoint family on a regular cardinal ($A\ne B⟹|A\cap B|<\kappa$)

A family of size-$\kappa$ subsets of a set is almost disjoint at $\kappa$ when distinct members have intersection of size less than $\kappa$. Graphs of a long chain under eventual domination give such a family of size ${\kappa }^{+}$ on $\kappa \times \kappa$. Transport by a bijection gives a family on $\kappa$ itself.

Any at-most-$\kappa$ subfamily of an almost disjoint family on a regular cardinal becomes pairwise disjoint after deleting fewer than $\kappa$ points from each member. Enumerate it in length at most $\kappa$ and apply the displayed trimming. Each removed part is a union of fewer than $\kappa$ small intersections, so regular cardinal arithmetic bounds it below $\kappa$.