A number of the the troll farms and ai bot farms are paid work. Cut out of pay, and the employees will do other things.

How does one do that? Take out the sources of money, of which there are likely a few.

From “the monitor goes dark”, it would be helpful to split monitor issues from computer issues. When the computer becomes unresponsive, do any “non-monitor” functions still work? Does the DVD-drive tray eject or does audio continue to play? Any other details? Do any other lights on the computer stay on, like keyboard and mouse lights?

If the issue is primarily the monitor, then splitting between the physical monitor and the video card would also be helpful.

How old is the hardware?

When you say “nothing is logged”, is the hard shutdown logged or anything after the time of the event? Or does “nothing is logged” mean the normal items are logged, but nothing of interest is logged? Some issues, especially hardware ones, stop the computer from logging.

Story: I once had a 15+ year old computer do something similar. The screen would go dark, but the lights on the keyboard stayed on. I had to hard power the system off and sometimes on boot the monitor wouldn’t work. A monitor swap didn’t fix the issue, but a USB video card did. The video card had failed. (Looking up what I think the interconnect was, the system may be 20 years old at this point.) NOTE: The system was not functional long term with a USB video card due to how the BIOS in the system handled the two video cards.

I dislike it.
I have been surprised at the coworkers with that stream their daily activities.
Seems to be a symptom of a failing economic system (i.e. too many people have access to too little money). The minimum wage needs to go up.

Highlights from the very short write-up for visibility. Bolding is my own. Read the full ten paragraphs.

… A working knowledge of data protection, in particular the GDPR, is essential. In practice, the workload has been low: the team handled four requests in 2025. Additional proactive work, such as improving the privacy policy or advising teams on data-handling workflows, is welcome but optional and can be shaped by the interests of the volunteers.

This is a role which requires trust. An established track record within the Debian community is therefore important, and it may be difficult for someone who has only very recently become a Debian Developer to take on this role immediately. Since formal delegations can only be made to Debian Developers, this status is a requirement for the role."

Local news covered it in MN. Multiple of the identified day cares were inspected this year. A few haven’t had licenses are not known to be operating. (All daycares are inspected annually.) No one knows what the fuck the YouTuber is on about, and they did not share any methodology. (I.E. Could have filmed over a weekend. No one knows.)

Edit: Daycares are now being broken into and records of children stolen.

“Universal Blue”

Thank you, I had never heard of it. https://universal-blue.org/

I am alone in this, but I would love to see a note about what kind of a thing the seemingly endless random named things are. I was not up on the topic enough to know “Fedora Atomic Images” are a thing. (Though at an early step, that can stop. No need to define Fedora, Atomic, nor image. But enough to know programming library, Linux distro, streaming service, or program.

Like:
Bazzle (a Fedora Linux Atomic Image) has seen a massive jolt in growth over the holiday season, surpassing 50k active users. The Fedora Atomic image has gained 38.8k users total in 2025 since it began counting in April 🥳

Likewise, I burned a Debian install DVD about 6 months ago. A FreeBSD install disk about 9 months ago.

The number of post install steps to de-bloat Win10 is staggering.

There are multiple meanings of “routine”. From your description I see you want to add variety.

To spice things up, I usually get a coffee from the shops. When that gets boring, I go to a different shop or at a different time. There are dry erase dice that one can write actions on the different faces of.

For those looking to break a habit, I usually do it by adding something, nearly anything early in the day. No reason to get a coffee at the shop if I am holding a coffee from home.

Perhaps.

Of course, the creators of the security modules could build tools to help them be used better. Maybe not on first release, but at least after other complain about the difficulty. AppArmor did attempt some tools, and is far better than SELinux. Still not great.

A list of Linux Security Modules is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Security_Modules

List of Linux Security Modules

AppArmor
Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE)[6]
Landlock[7][8]
LoadPin[9]
SafeSetID[10]
SELinux
Smack
TOMOYO
Yama[11]

As a long time SysAdmin, but not your SysAdmin, I have used two of these. Both had terrible documentation for which many “must use” paid software vendors advise disabling the Security Module as a first step.

If random software vendors’ lowest paid intern cannot figure out the settings for arbitrary Linux Security Modules, then the first line of the directions will always be to disable the security module. This leads to them not being used in many cases where the security module would be helpful.

I agree with Linus.

Interesting! FYI, not all Doctors require the constant monitoring, so some people can keep using the same machine longer.

theres so many things to do with a pc that i dont know where to start

Pick the first project that you think of and chase it down. If it sucks, then reformat the drive and do something else. Video game systems and file servers are great. So is installing a different OS on each, just to experience the differences side by side.

Do NOT continue “analysis paralysis”.

Have to? No.

Should you? Yes. The theatrics really liven up the day.

This is the way.

Blood sacrifices used used to be needed; but now that the congregation is large, candles and incense are preferred.

I might pay to watch Techmoan install Gentoo. (I am a big fan. Loved his dashcam reviews.)

The steel of the case melted long ago… I guess the carpet is ruined.

There is a book Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn’t Cook from Scratch - Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods, by Jennifer Reese

I think, but cannot be certain, that is includes some energy cost.

It really is excellent.

USA Supreme Court. USA courts.