Nobody is both that bored and that motivated. Unless paid.
Nobody is both that bored and that motivated. Unless paid.
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This is all I’ve run across on reverse engineering, so far but it is quite interesting.
https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3kowjkx2njy2b
Some of the trust comes from eyes on the project thanks to it being open source. This thing got discovered, after all. Not right away, sure, but before it spread everywhere. Same question of trust applies to commercial software too.
Ideally, PR reviews help with this but smaller projects esp with few contributors may not do much of that. I doubt anyone has spent time understanding the software supply chain (SSC) attack surface of their product but that seems like a good next step. Someone needs to write a tool that scans the SSC repos and flags certain measures like the # of maintainers.
PS: I have the worst allergies I’ve had in ages today and my brain is in a histamine fog so maybe I shouldn’t be trying to think about this stuff right now lol cough uuugh blows nose
Is there really anything they couldn’t collect?
This doesn’t seem that much worse than American rules that have already been in place for a long, long time.
Do you really want to be like the US, though? I think maybe that’s not a great idea. (Source: am from US)
Totally agree. Have been there and done that quite a few times too.
And if you can’t find an answer for a mint problem on a mint forum you might find an answer on an Ubuntu forum. In other words, add Linux mint to your search first and if that fails try Ubuntu instead. At least that has worked well for me over the last decade plus.
Hopefully people with more of a clue than me will chime in… Meanwhile, my best swag is the filesystem had issues and had to do an fsck? If that’s the case it would boot quickly next time assuming a clean shutdown.
Were there any errors during boot?
Fastboot enabled in BIOS or no? (Not sure if this has anything to do with anything I’m just trying to look useful)
PS: the weird active time could maybe somehow be related to the filesystem being borked needing fsck? I’m not sure.
Load average of 400???
You could install systat (or similar) and use output from sar to watch for thresholds and reboot if exceeded.
The upside of doing this is you may also be able to narrow down what is going on, exactly, when this happens, since sar records stats for CPU, memory, disk etc. So you can go back after the fact and you might be able to see if it is just a CPU thing or more than that. (Unless the problem happens instantly rather than gradually increasing).
PS: rather than using cron, you could run a script as a daemon that runs sar at 1 sec intervals.
Another thought is some kind of external watchdog. Curl webpage on server, if delay too long power cycle with smart home outlet? Idk. Just throwing crazy ideas out there.
Not op. I installed windows 10 on my custom built desktop and my kids custom built desktop, on VM, etc. Have not had a problem and it was pretty simple overall. I’m sure some folks do have issues, though. Shit happens. Is windows 11 shittier for install? I’ve never had the desire to try :)
I’ve also installed various Linux distros on the above and a few other computers (Mint, Nobara, Fedora). Aside from Mint not working with my AMD RX 6600, no problems there either, really. And these distros installed easily.
Again, ymmv. I knew Mint would probably fail because the 5.19 kernel does not seem to like my GPU. That’s why I switched to Nobara in the first place (iirc the 6.x kernel wasn’t available at the time)
Totally agree.
Ok, folks, one of us needs to do a PR on this app to implement this fella’s feature request!
Maybe in my old age, I have mellowed out and realized, like everyone else, I can be a dummy at times. And so I am a hell of a lot more patient with users who don’t know everything (or much of anything). I also have become more interested in human factors (mostly as a spectator…or victim).
Looking at this I am actually kind of curious what their specific workflows are. While “cut” might do the trick if I had to cut and paste files to a bunch of different directories I would want to bash my head in. (Of course I would be using Linux, btw, and would do it at the shell prompt lol) But seriously, there is a better way to reorganize many files to many directories in a UI than cut/paste.
When I was 25, and an insufferably arrogant IT nerd, I would’ve downvoted you and mocked this hapless individual; I hang my head in shame thinking about who I used to be. :( I’ve come a long way. I’m not as arrogant… I’m just insufferable! \o/
What a great use of my tax dollars.
Good to know. Well I have 16G now that should give me plenty to spare.
I will have to try that once my ram upgrade gets here.
Well, you’re not wrong. I was away from my desktop when I commented and forgot btop looked so fancy.
For now I still prefer htop because I can see at a glance the stuff I’m most interested in (mem & cpu and process sort).
I’ll have to play with some of the other suggestions in the post…
I also am starting to play around with cockpit a little more for remote monitoring.
Here. 150,000 transistors. Get to work.
If I was that memory- and cpu-constrained I would be using other tools such as memstat, iostat, and cpustat.
Mint is a good recommendation. I’ve used it for most of a decade because I just want my system to work.