Linux is slow at killing apps when you run out of memory because it was designed to also run on low spec hardware even if very slowly (making the ui totally unrensposnive) due to swapping.

This comic is about the kill command, how Linux kernel is handling force stopping apps vs (old?) Windows when if App frozed it was hard to close it. Now with modern apps and hardware you very rarely see that as most apps are designed to have asynchronous logic that is correctly handled, but it’s still more or less relevant.

No Arch? Strange…

For VR, if you have a Quest headset and good WiFi, you can try ALVR with SteamVR, it works just fine for me while playing BeatSaber but depending on games your milage might vary.

Matrix

But you have a lot of cold air to cool it down, and on a side note it makes your room warmer which you might want in that cold region 😅

(But the energy savings is hard to argue with)

Funny :)

Hard to be sane with so many broken hardware implementations… 😅

Cudos for the Linux developers!

In the last I had very little success rate of those uninstall tools to actually do their job in full. A lot of time they delete some data but almost always they leave some trash behind.

And in the first place, I stopped trusting those external uninstall binaries, they could be designed to remove not only app data but remove your personal data, steal data from your PC or infect it (even if just to investigate why you are uninstalling).

One of the reason is that apps can place their files in any place they want so the app manager is not aware of those locations.

Even if it would know then the user still would need a way to remove the app without deleting data, imagine installing Developer IDE or chat app and uninstall process would remove your chats or projects. Imagine app dev accidentally set the “directory that store app data” to /home, it would be bad.

I not once uninstalled app to install different (for example older) version due to bugs in new one.

Having the logic allowing to optionally delete data would introduce additional complexity so most old package managers never introduced that feature.

But I agree that we should slowly introduce a way to to that. Some app managers that manage flatpaks now allow to delete user data after uninstalling app, this now could be done universally because apps installed using flatpak store their data in their own separated/dedicated directory that flatpak engine know about so (unless you give permissions to access other location) thw manager know where the app store data so can offer easy way to remove it.

Container is just a term for a set of isolation solutions bundled together.

Like file system isolation (chroot), network isolation, process isolation, device isolation…

One of them is ofc chroot, yes container use exactly the same chroot functionality.

So to answer your question, no, you don’t need full isolated container. You can use only chroot.

You just need to pass all required devices ( and match the driver version running in kernel with your files in container and (avoid) more than one app having full unrestricted access to GPU as that would result in issues (but dont know the details so can’t help you with that)).

You can use wayland in container but the easy way probably would require to give whole GPU to the container (but my knowlwdge is limited)

What I do know that this project is doing that: https://games-on-whales.github.io/

That also came up in search results that could help: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/359244

The only reason ssh client would “hang” without any output is when it’s waiting for external key storage to allow access. It’s designed that way to give user some time to approve access to key storage.

It sometimes happen that the installed key storage is broken in a way that it fails to show user modal, for any reason (showing on wrong screen, wrong desktop, wrong activity, wrong framebuffer, …)

One solution (that you already did) is to change the SSH agent env variable to point to different key storage.

Another would be (if possible) to uninstall the broken key storage if you don’t use it. But it is sometimes needed/used by other apps.

It’s overall good to notify/open bug on your distro issue tracker to notify that some packages are missconfigured (maybe have missing dependencies) or conflicts with other ones.

(No internet =} no download = no failure

You can even host repo mirror locally, that will still work without internet ;)

How to have internet without power?

• Mobile hotspot
• Router and AP using UPS

I move unsubscribed emails to different folder, so next time they send me email I don’t feel bad in any way as I can confirm that I did tell them not to send me emails.

I only regret I can’t flag it as spam double time.

Gauguin - Sudoku-like game for Android (on F-Droid)

The instructions are not clear at first so it’s better to start the game a new with lower difficulty.

Just having btrfs is not enough, you need to have automatic snapshots (or do them manually) before doing updates and configured grub to allow you to rollback.

Personally, I’m to lazy to configure stuff like that, I rather just pick my Vetroy USB from backpack, boot into live image and just fix it (while learning something/new interesting) than spend time preventing something that might never happen to me :)

It first downloads all packages from net, then it proceed totally offline starting by verifying downloaded files, signatures, extracting new packages and finally rebuilding initramfs.

Because arch is replacing the kernel and inittamfs in-place there is a chance that it will not boot if interrupted.

This issue was long resolved on other distro.

One way to mitigate it is by having multiple kernels (like LTS or hardened) that you can always pick in grub if the main one fail.

What about a desktop PC?

Yes, user should (at least try to) provide their own message, if not and it just post links to (their own?) pages then account should be marked as Bot IMHO.

CVEs found at: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-kernel-impacted-by-new-slubstick-cross-cache-attack/

Details of vulnerability: https://github.com/IAIK/SLUBStick

Old good factorio headless Penguin, it’s like that for so long…

Hello fellow Factorio players :)