How the great have fallen

It is very possible to have a full smart home setup with zero dependence on Teh Cloudz, with fallback to physical dumb switches when something goes wrong, but from what I’ve seen it’s far less effort to have one that depends on external stuff

We definitely are, Valve has single-handedly made Linux a viable gaming platform, but in the process became indispensable. Thanks to Gabe they’ve been rather good in that respect. However, whoever replaces him might not be as good as him.

After installing it, a tiny but relevant point is to get a nicer icon that “app name in a square”, Organic Maps had a nice, RECOGNIZABLE icon, CoMaps will be glossed over when looking for it a bunch of times because of it’s super generic one. I imagine it’s coming since they’re just starting but hope that someone does have it in mind.

Thanks!

Given that as i mentioned elsewhere i did not separate the /home into it’s own partition like I’ve been doing since the 90s, formatting this thing right now would likely lead to losing stuff, i need to organize the files first before i do the nuclear option: A full reformat/reinstall. If that makes no difference in the end, I’ll have to consider the possibility of getting a new one. No idea how long will each step take so not the foggiest on when will i do each thing, and that’s even without taking procrastination into consideration… 😅

I keep insisting he’ll kill us all one day, and it’ll look freaking awesome for the milliseconds before we go blind then die in laser fire 😂

At this point, I’m starting to fear that either this might be the case, or that it broke in some way i haven’t been able to diagnose, and for both the solution is “replacement”

Always, this laptop was initially installed with i think Mint 15 and had been upgraded several times

Will try those htop settings, kinda had forgotten it even had any settings 😅

It’s happening with whatever is the heaviest process at the moment and has happened for months, MANY reboots since then. Usually the heaviest process is the browser, but not always

Nope, that’s what i suspected but no, half of the 32Gb of RAM and zero or very little swap are in use when it happens, very good part of why i’m stumped

Ah shit, forgot to mention that, will add it to the post. Yes, it’s SSD.

This one extended a little with a great literate addition 😂

As someone who loved it, this was it. We waited forever for the next release which promised a full desktop environment, it never happened, we moved on to stuff that actually existed. I understand there IS ongoing development and even forks, but i frankly have no idea how is it these days. If i found out you can just apt-get a full E-based DE tomorrow i would definitely consider dedicating time to test it, specially if it’s still considered to be among the lightest, because man, when it was at it’s best it was very much the promise of a Hollywood Hacker style desktop, it was awesome and you could do nearly everything on the keyboard, plus it had a gazillion themes.

I’m also on Mint and X11, and intended to stay there for the moment specially since reading the latest David Revoy fully Linux FOSS guide for artists, which showed that many things are still behind in development, this may have changed since then but at least back then i decided to let it cook more before trying it out. I hope development has advanced enough that you can switch to it full time already but honestly i have no idea if it’s there yet.

A study years ago found that the ideal time for copyrights to recover the investment and all that was something like 14 years or something like that (don’t recall exactly), can you imagine if anything older than like 20 years automatically fell into the Public Domain? The kind of wild crazy awesome shit that would be out there?

Didn’t they just elect a right-wing pro-Russia president? Or am i thinking of somewhere else? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence… /s

First i hear of it, is there some sort of diplomatic situation that leads to this?

Well, there’s a niche genre of so-called “Dungeon Core” books, usually a subgenre of the also niche LitRPG genre, where the main character is just that, a dungeon, usually a former human soul that got turned into the core of a dungeon but not always, more books than i expected when i heard of it for the first time not too long ago, i guess that needed it’s representation on tabletop RPGs