I’d like to encourage the author of of this to leave the line- and paragraph- breaks in the source text. This is impossible to read as is.

A new Linux OS may emit unfamiliar sounds if some network app is still running and set to use them for notifications. Quitting the (sound-making) app(s) and/or the network connection will can avoid that problem. Of course you can just turn the sound volume all the way down.

Suspended OSs may sometimes ‘wake up for no reason’ if some vibration causes the mouse, for example, to jiggle around enough.

Logging out of your user account before suspending/sleeping the machine will stop that stuff without having to dig thru settings. Faster to log back in than to reboot.

This is the ongoing story of Microsoft since it started.

Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes.

Over time, started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.

Unlike the guy the history books call ‘Alexander the Great’. A drunken mass-murdering King who never stopped sharing his misery until the day he died. Some hero!

There might be a slim chance. But in the words of mid-20th-century writer Robert Anton Wilson,

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. We have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. We have never seen a totally sane human being.”

Eventually there has to be one, so try to hold on to that idea.

you are prolly fuxored

That’s a LOT of money. Can I use a stick to tie the 10-inch knife to? Then encourage him to hang around the INDESTRUCTIBLE hut while he dies of a thousand wounds?

It’s hard to be humble and eat a little crow without trying to explain a little. Going overboard isn’t hard when you’re flustered. Happens. Watch for those face softens then stop. Nobody’s perfect.

Good point. Messages sent, images taken, and ‘things happen’ in cars.

I think the last time I installed Mint (21.2) it DID create a swapfile. Don’t use it, so commented that out in /ETC/FSTAB.

When I started with Linux, I was happy to learn that I didn’t need a bunch of separate partitions, and have installed all-in-one (except for boot of course!) since. Whatever works fine for you (-and- is easiest) is the right way! (What you’re doing was once common practice, and serves just as well. No disadvantage in staying with the familiar.)

After I got up to 8GB memory, stopped using swap … easier on the hard drive -and- the SSD. (I move most data to the HD … including TimeShift … except what I use regularly.)

I use Mint as well; for me this keeps things as simple as possible. When I install a new OS version (always with the same XFCE DE) I do put THAT on a new partition (rather than try the upgrade route and risk damaging my daily driver) using the same UserName. A new Home is created within the install partition (does nothing but hold the User folder.)

To keep from having to reconfig -almost everthing- in the new OS all over again I evolved a system. First I verify that the new install boots properly, I then use a Live USB to copy the old User .config file (and the apps and their support folders I keep in user) to the new User folder. Saves hours of reconfiguring most things. The new up-to-date OS mostly resembles and works like the old one … without the upgrade risks.

And a LOT risky

Already lots of irons in the fire…

Oh oh. I’ve been barely able to resist so far, but this is getting really hard to.

even the best communication in the world isn’t enough to overcome the inertia of a fossil-fuel based system

Wrong. People’s sense of the reality of the situation can overcome that inertia … and that sense was carefully tended to by the communications of the oil and gas companies … and an economic system that has widely communicated for decades the idea that growth - based in unending consumption of resources - is the end-all and be-all. Their communication was the best in the world … for them, and to the detriment of all the rest of us.

Your mama.

Good move. I’d bet that the number of Morsers has seriously declined. If the 2.8k users stay away from the bottom 100K of the bands, that’s probably enough BW to handle the CW demand.

I prefer them; this afternoon I had bad luck with ALL Invidious and Piped servers. Maybe it was local. Working for me now.

Gotta have those pontoons

For scientific research purposes, guaranteed to be a consistent ‘standard’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQyYGezS7c