At least Windows has more precise monitoring, it will tell you whether the process is “Windows Telemetry” or “SVCHOST.EXE”.

The OOM killer always, invariably starts off with killing the display server. Any side effects such as “the notification daemon loses its connection and closes” or “every single thing that you were working on loses its connection and closes” is incidental.

Anybody that claims to know what they’re doing with grub is a fool or a liar.

From what I can tell, Nvidia drivers only started to git gud at doing Wayland around version 555.

Big brands have the money to provide longer support, but not the inclination lol.

“Drivers” are only when you do ring 2 message passing in a hurd microkernel. Everything else is just “late-bound function call steering that happens to satisfy hardware-specific device communication and control”.

/s

If you aren’t consuming the content on a genuine Apple®️ iPod™️, then it is not a podcast.

Disable “Fast Startup” so that Windows actually shuts down when it shuts down.

*journalctl

Is anything going down in the system log when you mount a drive, or trigger an access error? If it’s (one of the many) security systems clamping down, they tend to log that.

Considering how poorly “the remarkably well supported ARM” Raspberry Pi is at playing video, I am shocked.

It’s fucking crazy how much work goes into shitting out thousands and thousands of slightly different models of android phone and tablet and chromebook. Slap together a board design based on buying two trays of some SOC. Open up the Android source, slap some NDA drivers in, build an image, burn it into a production run. Don’t bother saving your changes, these devices will never get an update. Two weeks later, change out the whole design for a different chip, repeat.

The vast majority of xz’s blobs are accounted for, too.

I thought this was pretty solid talk on SElinux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WOKRaM-HI4

If you think it’s hard to figure out GPG for yourself, well good luck finding and communicating with someone else who has also figured it out.

You can grab Kate from the Windows Store right now. Get all of the KDE apps, they’re pretty much the only good stuff on there.

It’s a shame that that the list doesn’t translate well into “what device can I go out and buy”? Every shitty manufacturer has to constantly churn design changes, and hide it all behind the exact same model number.

Is there a reason to install one(1) singular OS across multiple partitions? Is it just because that’s how our ancestors did things?

Partitions are crude buckets that tell Operating Systems that “this lump is a filesystem that you know how to read” or “you don’t know how to read this, leave it alone”. Partitions tell UEFI that it should only use this special FAT32 chunk. A partition is not a good mechanism to set quotas, as you can see from how difficult it is to expand. A bunch of partitions that are all mounted together does little to isolate against failures.

If you want to run an OS across two filesystems that provide different characteristics (one provides atomic snapshots, the other provides ??), that would have to live on different partitions. Would you be better served by putting it all on the more modern FS? Is the older filesystem only kept around because it straddles “what my OS knows” and “what my bootloader knows”? If it’s just for the bootloader’s sake, that’s why we have /boot.

First you have to make a new --user remote. Then you can list your current stuff and install it on the --user side one package at a time, (with --no-pull so it sucks the existing install). Then, you delete the --system copy of packages.

Instead of having an efficient chip monitoring the power button, they integrate that job into some 10nm chip. That chip doesn’t get to power off, so it just pisses away power on gate leakage all day long.