What is the magic sysreq combination?

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 56 minutes

I agree, or if they discover you the freaking reality bubble?? But it doesnt bother me too mich – i can suspend disbelief.

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 day

I knew there was a reason I didn’t bother fixing mine.

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 day

Nope!

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 day

I liked Endgame:Singularity by EvilMrHenry, which was ahead of its time.

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 day

I love DC:SS.

It is like a refined nethack

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 days

Thanks, I’ll try this next time

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 days

Buried in the Wikipedia article is what I remember, with a note saying not to use it any more.

So what sysreq keys do you use to recover a non responsive system with a journaling file system?

Before the advent of journaled filesystems a common use of the magic SysRq key was to perform a safe reboot of a locked-up Linux computer (using the sequence of key presses indicated by the mnemonic REISUB), which lessened the risk of filesystem corruption. With modern filesystems, syncing and unmounting is still useful to force unflushed data to disk, but is no longer necessary to prevent filesystem corruption (and may increase the risk of corruption in case the lock-up is caused by the kernel being in a bad state).^[11] The default value of kernel.sysrq in distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian remains 176^[1]^ (allowing the sync, unmount, and reboot functions) and 438^[12] (allowing the same functions plus loglevel, unraw, and nice-all-RT-tasks) respectively.

citation needed ↩︎

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 days

Ads succeed when you “tune them out” so that they enter your unconscious mind, and then when you’re thinking, “I’m hungry, what’s for dinner,” the product comes to mind.

The best defence against this kind of inception is to consciously think about the ad that’s playing, and think, “I don’t want <X>”

By using adblock, you reduce your exposure to ads, and reduce the number of times you need to consciously resist them.

Q’s take is just wrong.

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 days

Could you potentially port Hexchat to Cosmic?

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 days

I read a book called “change of heart” by a vegan animal activist, which was all about research into what actually worked in terms of convincing people to reduce animal suffering. For him, it would be ideal if we reduced animal suffering to zero. But even encouraging someone to eat less meat (e.g. Meatless Mondays) reduced animal suffering, and was a win in his book. I kind of agree with that.

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 days

I’ve heard some people say never use glue stick

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 months

I dont get it, doesn’t responsible disclosure mean the distros get the packages out first?

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 months

Which?

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 months

I am still trying to beat the first level, still seems pretty hard lol

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 months

It is also fun to try to uninstall it. (How did I install this??)

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 months

You can but it’s not worth the in game labor

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 months

I’ve been using Debian-based distros most of my adult Linux life, but I read recently that KDE has a better experience on Fedora than Kubuntu, so I want to try it out.

I already know that I won’t be able to use apt, but what other differences should I expect with fedora?

The do not have an LTS release? What is upgrading like? When should you upgrade if you want stability?

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 months

Like, English is a famously difficult language, and Spanish is supposed to be easier. But babies learn English or any language instinctually.

So do babies learn faster if the native language is easier, or do they acquire language at a constant rate depending on their brain development or whatever?

sem

What is the magic sysreq combination?

What should I expect switching to Fedora?

Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is?