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whoever designed the new apple tv logo has never experienced the horror of a magnet swiping too close to a crt monitor
It certainly seems that Australia has plenty of social cohesion - and it's Minns and NSW police who are falling short. Unless they backtrack hard and fast, I can't see this ending well for them.
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@seanpm2001@techhub.social there's a lot to unpack here - lots of different symptoms, which could be caused by a bunch of things or could be caused by a cascade of failures from one single problem.
If it were me, I'd start with two things: run dmesg and look for error messages (I/O errors, driver errors etc), and also you could try booting from e.g an Ubuntu live USB.
The latter will help figure out where to look. If a live USB boots and runs OK, then it's probably the hard drive or your OS installation that is faulty. On the other hand, if things are playing up even when you're running a live USB then there's likely something else going on with hardware, like faulty memory or GPU or something.
You could try installing and running something like memtest to help rule out system memory as being a problem.
But having said all that, if you're hesitant to reboot again, then dmesg is probably the first place to look for hints/errors. Also check your free space using df -h in case you've run out of space or something - that can always have a fun variety of side effects...
The world would be better off without AI.
That's really the only point that matters to me. I don't really care if you think it 10x's your productivity. I have yet to see any argument or combination of arguments that remotely comes close to negating that statement. The world would simply be better off without AI.
does angus taylor have the numbers to crush the liberal party once and for all
I'm mesmerised by the word-play of "united indifference" vs "united in difference", and wish i had the art skills to make something of it.
Something where the former shows what happens when evil is ignored and allowed to fester, whereas the latter shows the beauty strength and solidarity of celebrating peoples differences across all the spectrums.
I think i'd be willing to commission something along those lines if i could find someone with a matching style but I've no idea where to start on that - for now i just want to get the idea out there for anyone who might want to use it to depict something meaningful to them... (preferably without AI, i feel like that sits squarely in the "indifference" side of the picture)
"Social cohesion" does not, should not, and must not ever mean collective indifference
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@meluzzy@woof.tech as an aside, I suppose according to this format, your definition of TZ=UTC+06:00 (for example) is "incorrect", in that the intention of this format is to define the timezone you've named - so my understanding is that correct usage would be something like TZ=CST+06:00.
(This is made clearer if you add %Z to your date format...)
@jee@hostux.social you should be able to do this by adding the "tries=N" option to its entry in /etc/crypttab (crypttab also has a manpage if you want more details).
You'll also need to regenerate the initrd with dracut (the command I keep in muscle memory is dracut --regenerate-all -fv) to get the new crypttab into the early-boot environment.
Just an additional note to be careful with these things since it can be challenging to recover - try to avoid typos etc :)
@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social mounting with the sync option can have a pretty big impact on performance though, and probably won't achieve much that unmounting (which will wait for the filesystem to sync) doesn't already do, just something to keep in mind if it's behaving abnormally slow.
The other thing to consider here is that the disk itself may have an unwritten cache. I've done something like this previously and had to use the sg_sync command before powering the disk off, i was seeing data loss otherwise, even with a filesystem sync/unmount beforehand. (This might be specific to the type of disk, and blockdev --flushbufs might achieve the same thing but more generally, maybe?)
As to the latter point of getting the name of the disk automatically... if your version of lsblk supports --filter you could do something like lsblk -dno NAME --filter 'ID == "blah"' and use lsblk -o +ID to find the id of your disk (then substitute it for "blah")
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@crankylinuxuser When spellcheck gets to the point where it uses an unfathomable and unsustainable amount of resources and spreads dangerous misinformation to millions of people in the blink of an eye while it makes a few antisocial techbros obscenely rich off other peoples' work, you can expect to see a very similar post from me about how the world would be better off without it.
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@crankylinuxuser when one of your pid loops gets to the point where it... (etc etc, refer to the above)
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@ThankGodItsFriday and your physical address
(edit: apologies for the sarcasm. at this point i'm so done with companies hoarding data they don't need.)
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@awb things i make sure people are familiar with when they're doing shell scripting:
Showing how shellcheck can highlight errors as well as common/subtle mistakes and can encourage defensive coding would be a good addition - shellcheck can find potential problems before you run your script
Starting (bash?) scripts with set -euo pipefail can help catch unexpected problems at runtime before they cascade into weird/unexpected behaviors
Clarifying what return codes are (whether for functions or running commands), and the meaning of the value: 0 being "success" and nonzero indicating errors.
and using set -x when all else fails and you really need to see exactly what your script is doing
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oh and also, a slightly more "advanced" thing (but fine for an engineering focused talk) would be using something like bats as a simple way to implement tests for your scripts if/where appropriate. (This also encourages breaking the script into functions etc that can be individually tested which can only be a good thing...)
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@stone@goblin.camp sounds like a resolution or scaling issue, but I'm guessing those settings aren't accessible until after the first-boot setup stuff.
You could see if gnome's "zoom" function is available by pressing alt+win+8 (you can then use alt+win and the +/- keys to zoom in and out). Hopefully that can help get you far enough to change the display settings...
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@regendans@todon.eu Hmm, systemd-tmpfiles might be able to be used to clean /tmp, but most distributions mount /tmp as a tmpfs - it exists entirely in memory - which is how it normally gets cleaned on reboot.
It might be useful to know which distro are you using? Is there an entry for /tmp in /etc/fstab?
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@meluzzy@woof.tech this is probably a bit circular, but specifying the timezone like that in $TZ is a more complicated format which allows specifying daylight savings offsets and dates.
In this format the offset "...specifies the time value to be added to the local time to get Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)"
(From tzset(3) manpage @ https://linux.die.net/man/3/tzset)
I realise it's a pretty circular answer to your question - it's reversed because that's how it's defined - but being part of a more complex specification maybe helps make sense of it!