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I’m pretty sure that if you use elevated privileges to run commands you don’t understand, you can break Windows just as much as you can break Linux. Windows might pop up an extra “Are you sure?” box or two though. It’s been a while since I did anything on that OS.

All the people saying she looks like Scully and her surname is pretty much the same as the actress who played that character? This idea practically fell into the laps of the people behind these photos.

Frankly, I would not be surprised if she had it as an office nickname before this even occurred to them.

Any conclusions drawn from a child’s personality can’t necessarily then be applied to a parent. Hannah Montana Linux was ultimately a Debian, but it was so far from stock Debian that the comparison makes no sense. The same, I assume, applies with the Arch-derivative that runs on Steam decks. We’re not in Arch-kansas any more, Toto.

The closest to “Windows with nerdnip” is probably Linux Mint, but even then that’s a fairly unkind comparison.

I use LMDE, btw.

.13

Well there’s your problem.

(Not 13 specifically. Just the odd numbered sub-version in general. But 13 if you’re superstitious, I guess.)

Instead of compiling a kernel, try to make do with what your distro provides whenever there’s an update. Yes, there’s compilation, but it’s all done automatically. Then come to realise that the last two updates have had a subtle problem that caused the graphics driver to have a debilitating stroke whenever you try to watch a video in VLC, and have the whole system to go unresponsive as a result. Everything else works fine. YouTube. Games. But a cat video downloaded from Discord because (foreshadowing) the video won’t play in-browser for some reason? Too far, man. How dare.

Booting with another of those kernels is when you find out that’s also broken despite having used it for a while previously. Learn that, by sheer luck, one still-good kernel is still installed.

Hope that someone with more brains and energy with a similar setup will be able to report the problem properly to wherever that needs to be reported so that the next update doesn’t have the same problem. Things like this have been magically fixed before. You wait.

(Search the error message from the logs online. No close matches. Learn a bit, but the only advice was “try a different kernel”. You already thought of that)

In the meantime, remove the problem kernels and update GRUB with boot USB on standby in case you hose the system. Manage not to need it.

macOS is a derivative of BSD Unix. Linux was a from-scratch Unix-alike. The fundamental core, including the literal kernel, are different even if they act the same in many ways.

If you’re using “kernel” in a non-standard sense to mean “share some common tools, mindset and behaviour” then maybe, but that’s stretching the definition a long way from what technical people would expect.

Yeah, I really should. I’ll have a piece of hardware to install soon, so I might test it before I do that. Gotta switch off anyway so might as well.

LMDE Cinnamon user here. There’s a setting in the power options that tells the computer to switch to hibernate if it remains in suspend for a certain amount of time. Hibernated computers suspend to disk rather than RAM and are basically switched off, so need to POST to come back online.

It took me a while to find that setting, and it might be the same case with whatever you’re using.

What’s more, it only took effect if I used the GUI to put the computer into suspend mode. I usually use a keyboard combo to suspend the computer at night, but occasionally I’d use the GUI and come back in the morning to a hibernated computer.

Thought I’d been taking crazy pills or that there was something wrong.

My main gripes are that inconsistency between suspend methods and also that there’s no setting for how long to stay in suspend before hibernating. I have no idea if that’s a UEFI thing or something that could be set elsewhere, but I’d probably use that feature if I could set it.

As it is I’m giving the hybrid option a try. Basically it suspends like normal, but also sets up a hibernated restart for if the power goes out. That hasn’t happened yet, so can only assume it’ll work when the time comes.

Late edit: The delay between suspend and hibernate is set in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf with the setting HibernateDelaySec=. Manual page reading is required, but even so, this feature is not well documented there or out on the Internet.

There may be syntax available to specify other units of time with a suffix. For example, my computer’s related SuspendEstimationSec= option is given as 60min in the example and not 3600.

Whoa. Seeing it written that way, and without the L(inux) in front, had me misreading it as “Mint Desktop Environment” and not “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Super weird, especially since I’ve been on LMDE since v4.

Being dangerously close to the truth is a hallmark of certain kinds of humour. I appreciate it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Most days it isn’t mine either.

He died of drugs. Priscilla was 14 when she met Elvis. Lots of bands do unspeakable things with groupies. I am deliberately not connecting any dots there.

The dog thing, I have no idea where I got that. Probably one too many cartoons as a kid or exposure to horror tropes because I’d be horrified if someone did that for real.

That’s the smile of a man who did something incredibly illegal and all the other guys are trying to get him out of there ASAP while worrying about the consequences if anyone finds out.

As for what that illegal thing was, well, this is just me putting a concept to a picture that might have had no illegal acts preceding it whatsoever, but you know. Drugs maybe. Full on making out with an underage groupie who was loving the experience, but then their dad entered the next room looking for them, necessitating a rapid getaway and a s**t-eating grin. Grabbing a dog’s tail from the inside and, roink, turning it inside out or making an audacious internet comment with a sound effect like “roink”. Those sorts of things.

Relevant, but also not relevant at all: The North Pacific Deckpecker

And the big question is: Which will happen first; Linux being adopted by the masses or fusion becoming a viable power source?

Spelling DOS as DoS is either a cunning joke or one heck of a Freudian slip.