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I didn’t say it wasn’t a British stereotype, only that that particular British stereotype is not one that says “innit”.

There’s a stereotype of stereotypes that there are only two English accents: “aristocratic” and “cockney”. The film Mary Poppins may have a lot more to do with this than it ought to.

Anyway, the Countryball’s appearance is associated with the aristocratic. “Innit” is cockney. (This is overly general to the point of being wrong, but for the sake of this argument, it’s close enough.)

The hat, moustache and monocle are not of a British stereotype that uses the word “innit”.

I see at least a couple of problems here. The main one is that it assumes that the computer only has one user. This is often true, but not always.

By comparative linguistics, “Twix” is clearly Germanic in origin, and the singular ought to be Onx.

“Unix” is from the parallel Latinate sequence. Unfortunately, the parallel term to “Twix”, and the successor of “Unix”, ought to be Bix, which does exist, but is only found in Commonwealth English in the compound Weet(a)bix.

Triscuits may seem to be relevant at this point, but are a part of neither sequence on account of actually being an abbreviation of “Electricity Biscuit”

Dubious etymology is fun.

I saw that post about Firefox. If you’d said it was browser games causing issues, I might have linked it. (Or I might have failed and not done that. What ifs are tricky.).

If you want kind of funny, someone posted CSS Quake a while back and that browser game has WASD keybindings and Ctrl bound to movedown / crouch. And if you crouch and move forward, it closes the browser window. And there’s no way to fix that.

There are ways to disable middle-click pasting. A quick web search turns up a few.

Either way, I’ve never had the need to disable it for the handful of games I play, including a couple where I regularly use middle-click.

Sorry, I never meant to imply you were stupid. Only that you didn’t seem to be of a high enough technical level - right now - to be able to solve your PC problems.

As for (non-committal) further advice: Backups, backups, backups. And then a tool like WinDirStat to track down what’s using all your space. There are YouTube videos that show you how to use it.

I believe they are exhibiting denial that YouTube could possibly be old enough to have videos uploaded 18 years ago.

This denial is being done mostly in jest to cover the true, creeping, dripping, existential despair that so much time has passed, but at the same time to commiserate and laugh with others who are similarly affected. Drip, drip, tick, tick, tick.

Also, the video turns 19 in a couple of months. yaaaaay

Given your apparent technical level, I think you need to get your PC to someone who can work on it in person.

If you had space and better technical skills, there are tools you could install to help you track down where all the space is in use, but I don’t feel confident that things would go well talking you through that on an Internet forum.

It is now my head canon that it randomly chooses a memory location and kills whatever process owns it, repeating as necessary.

The perverse logic of there being a greater chance of hitting a memory hog makes far too much sense.

It can’t actually be this though, can it?

Somehow I am all three of these people at the same time.

Permit me to repeat what I said to a similar reply:

Oh, I’m well aware. It’s just that sometimes I like a cushion on my chair, you know?

Oh, I’m well aware. It’s just that sometimes I like a cushion on my chair, you know?

That’s actually easier on regular Mint than LMDE, but the advanced Synaptic package manager works on both to remove old kernels.

… but they’re adding a dedicated kernel management tool for both versions in the next releases if I understand their most recent blog correctly.

Like the native Mint tools, it’s basically a front-end to apt and related commands.

Don’t hate, but I actually like the GUI update manager in Mint. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

mutt wasn’t a thing on the system where I learned pine. The first version existed out in the world, but the sysadmin probably thought it too new to install if they’d heard of it at all. We had three choices: mailx, elm and pine. pine granted access to newsgroups - the system had an NNTP server - as well as e-mail so it was a no-brainer for most of us.

Some of us have been around long enough to have used pine as our main e-mail client, thus we learned to love pico and now we love nano.

Damn kids these days. Get off my lawn.

TIL I’m a geriatric baby. (LMDE)

What about it? I admit that I don’t know a great deal about systemd and all its subcommands - it took me a while to figure out how to disable that service properly, for example - but the manual seems to suggest that systemd-analyze is for startup processes, not shutdown.

I’ll gladly take pointers on how to get it to say why a particular service hung on shutdown.

This actually got me to go track down the systemd service that has been responsible for being unresponsive and causing a 90-second shutdown delay way more often than it should.