You might be interested in an immutable distro. Like Bazzite or other Silverblue / Ublue flavoured system. They are recent but not bleeding edge, deploy well tested images that apply as all-or-nothing. Very stable, very featurful :)

For actual advice:

• run memtest to verify RAM. Do multiple passes, at least overnight.
• Check cooling? RAM and other things can overheat and cause locks, not just CPU.
• Can you throw a couple of different distros on there, to try different permutations of kernel and drivers, old and new.
• journalctl --follow (with sudo), dmesg -w. I ran these over ssh from a remote machine. Even better if you can run it on a local 2nd monitor. The point is to have them open the whole time since it’s too late to change once the system is locked up

I had / have a similar issue that started at some point on my Ryzen 7 laptop with Kubuntu 24.04. I haven’t tried REISUB yet, but otherwise same symptoms.

RAM is the usual suspect. I ran memtest for 24h++ with no errors Also tailed dmesg and journalctl to a remote machine, and checked journalctl after reboot. No errors reported. Presumably because the system hard locked before it had a chance to log the error.

I never found a root cause, but after I changed the KDE Power Profile from Eco to either Balanced or Power (I don’t remember which) the random freezing reduced from 1-3 times per day to once every few weeks of continuous uptime.

So my guess is some kernel driver bug relating to power states of the CPU ( or GPU nVidia 3060 with 590 drivers)

Doesn’t work in my experience, or I’m typing it wrong. I can use the journalctl boot filter to show the current boot, the 2 boots ago, but not the previous boot where the system crashed.

So I end up filtering by time instead with --since

Tldr: don’t let Perfect be the enemy of good

I don’t know about Codebergs policy on the matter, but morally I think there’s nothing wrong with putting open-source mods for closed-source games on Codeberg.
I always use FOSS software whenever possible, even if they’re lacking in some aspects compared to closed-source alternatives, but have no problems with closed source games. Games are entertainment, not utility. Games have a short lifecycle compared to utility software. Games are often a one-time experience, and when you’ve finished a game it’s done. (Nobody ever “finished” their use of Notepad). Meanwhile developers gotta eat.

There’s also some precedence for open-source projects that can only be fully accessed with closed source software, like open-hardware using Eagle for PCB and schematic design (before KiCAD truly took off), or Fusion360 for CAD ( FreeCAD development is accelerating though)

Well put, thanks for sharing. I submitted many of the same arguments as you, but not as eloquently or thoroughly :)

“Europe is the American tech sector’s biggest market after the United States itself. It all depends on trust. Trust requires dialogue,” Smith said.

Trust has been destroyed from the top. Trust is easy to loose and hard to gain

That’s neat :) I like the concept of a collection of warm&fuzzies symbols

How are you making the stickers? It looks like each sticker is composite of multiple snippets of art?

Dune3D is a relatively new 3D CAD for Linux. https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/ I haven’t tried it, but it looks very promising.

Personally, I use FreeCAD, which is leagues better than it used to be, and improving quickly

I had the same happen on the root folder on a SATA SSD. The SSD was dying (don’t remember if there was SMART errors, but the dmesg log showed write-errors. I cloned old SSD to a new SSD and haven’t seen the problem since. That was years ago.

When there are multiple consecutive write errors, Linux will re-moumt the partition as read-only to protect the data. (There usually a statement along the lines of “on-error:remount-ro” for the partition in the /etc/fstab file)

For jpg’s, no they will not get smaller. Maybe even a smidge bigger if you zip them. Usually not enough to make a practical difference.

Zip does generic lossless compression, meaning it can be extracted for a bit-perfect copy of the original. Very simplified it works by finding patterns repeating and replacing a long pattern with a short key, and storing an index to replace the keys with the original pattern on extraction.

Jpg’s use lossy compression, meaning some detail is lost and can never be reproduced. Jpg is highly optimized to only drop details that don’t matter much for human perception of the image.

Since jpg is already compressed, there will not be any repeating patterns (duplicate information) for the zip algorithm to find.

There’s nothing wrong with Mint, it’s solid. If it works for you don’t stress about it

The only thing is that it’s based on Ubuntu LTS so it’s packages can be a bit old. Doesn’t really matter much unless you have very new hardware and need the hardware support. Then something Fedora based like Bazzite would be better.

For getting newer software you can use flatpak/Flathub.

Bazzite is also “immutable” which makes it harder to break on a system level, but also harder to tinker on a system level. Mint is a “normal” distribution in that regard. Mint does have Timeshift for taking system level snapshots, on the off chance that an update or your tinkering breaks something. Its worth checking that Timeshift is set up for automatic snapshots

Also its probably a lot easier to handle for performing testing on equal conditions through the tests for all their cards. Sounds like ideally they want to freeze all their versions for at least a quarter of a year or more

I think Mint does this out of the box, but check if Timeshift is set up for automatic backups. It’s meant for system-level snapshots (basically everything outside the HOME-folder), so you can easily revert if an update or something breaks the system.

Also consider some form of periodic external backup of her files and documents in the home folder, to protect against hardware failure.

Oh good point, these are modern times, exFAT is a thing now.

I remember years ago having issues that Ubuntu could mount exFAT, so avoided it ever since. But that was many years ago, with an old kernel.

The day after seeing this post I came across the exact same format searching for something unrelated on DuckDuckGo. The AI Sloppening is real

Word of warning on “Safe removal” of external harddrives: You really want to click “Eject” or “Safe removal” every time before unplugging. This is much more important than on Windows, due to the way Linux handles buffers and caching. A copy operation will be “finished” but still live in the write-cache and not securely written to disk.

NTFS is no problem (But as mentioned earlier in the thread the permission system is different). I usually format all my external devices with NTFS so they’ll work on both Linux and Windows machines without any fuss.

On the other hand, seeing this symbol more and more on other random videos outside that bubble does give a very nice sense of “I am not alone”. It does more for users to find eachother than it does damage to big corpos.

But choice of the symbol itself is questionable… Why use a big tech symbol to protest big tech? -__- And not just any big tech, but super evil 90s monopolistic giant Microsoft

There’s a nice cartoon in this thread we’re clippy is if he could have, he would have harvest all your data.

Did you look in to Zim Desktop Wiki? https://zim-wiki.org/

It stores articles in zim (plaintext) files rather than .md (plaintext) files, but otherwise it’s an excellent FOSS cross platform

Edit: never mind, zim also doesn’t have an Android client. The closest is https://github.com/gsantner/markor which understands Zim syntax

No and kinda yes. Duckduckgo has its own webcrawler, but also adds in results from other sources including Bing, Yahoo and others.