Thanks to all for the feedback. I have a UPS installed and running now.

Confirmed this was a lie. Accidentally unplugged the device, turned it back on-- no factory reset.

Confirmed this was a lie. Accidentally unplugged the device, turned it back on-- no factory reset.

Ok, this prompted me to root-cause the issue. A bad cable between laptop and USB dock seems most likely. Hardware issue, not Linux!

Linux revoked my mic permissions in the middle of a call today, on Google Meet. Happened before on Zoom.

I have not root-caused it to see if there was flaky hardware or what.

If you run for office to be different from all the rest and win, do you immediately become corrupted upon election?

Nice. What do you use wifi access at home? One thing the AT&T box has done well enough has been to provide wifi access throughout the house.

Yes, we went over this point multiple times, including the distinction between a reboot and a factory reset. He said the device does this to “protect itself”. Although I only care about protecting from blips, I think a small UPS may be the way to go. Though guess that means if the power is out for more than 15 minutes, my AT&T modem may still factory reset itself!

Or you could change the preference to enable the feature again.

That’s not what the FAQ says, rather it says Flatpaks are often sandboxed but not fully containerized. Containers don’t need to have a performance penalty because they run on the same kernel as the host. Container tech applies a chroot, disables some capabilities within the container and that’s about it. They are in contrast to virtual machines that need to boot an entire additional OS before doing anything.

My job involves maintaining Linux servers so there are no problems with Linux as my desktop.

Currently Arch Linux as the desktop OS.

This is better than directional arrows or alt tab because you can go directly to any window with one binding to open the utility and a second key to type a window label.

https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus

The beauty is that it’s the same short process to go to any window no matter if if you 15 visible windows across 3 monitors.

You don’t have to conceptually switch to an output and then to a window or type a string of directional keys like Super+LLLLLJJ

On a 4k monitor, I sometimes have 6 or 8 visible plus 3 or 4 more on a second and another on a third.

So something like sway-easyfocus for direct jumping via keyboard is quite nice.

https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus

Sway does not allow you to jump directly to a non-adjacent window natively, no.

But find sway-easyfocus which I contributed to. It does exactly this.

https://github.com/edzdez/sway-easyfocus

Let me get this straight, you want to suspend AND resume?

Many smaller projects not explicitly supported by the vendor only make new releases and don’t also maintain a stable version.

The motivational component hits first. Developers lose the ability to push through tasks.

Eh… they lose the motivation to fix issues for free that don’t affect them. Crazy, I know.

More software I wanted was packaged for Arch than Ubuntu.

Say you rented a server at Amazon and ran your own VPN server software on it. Not that hard. The server could expose an HTTPS endpoint.

VPN software on your laptop connects to that.

From the network level, it appears you spend a lot of time connected to the same random website, hosted on some IP not owned by a VPN company.

Yes. I used CVS when it was the best option. If I recall, CVS made it easy to check out a different version of only one fail, making it easy to put a system in an inconsistent state.

For modern VCS that’s pleasant to learn and use but won’t scale to the Linux kernel, I recommend Darcs.

A single binary, interactive commands and online help.