It’s been quite a while since I’ve used sleep on a laptop, but it worked well on my Dell (latitude I think, as I said, it’s been a while). It did take a little experimenting with sleep levels to get it reliable, but once it was it worked for years.
ETA: I realise that saying “it worked for me” is probably intensely annoying, my appologies for that, but I thought a counterpoint might be a useful extra data point.
Hmm. /me Makes you disappear entirely except for your mouth.
Promptly get stuck in a boobytrapped express elevator.
Ok, fair enough.
Believe it or not…straight to jail.
I’ve just spotted your username, I feel sure one of your relations had some sort of run in with the sysops already, and now you’re trying to convince people that there can’t be server reboots? Suspicious. Very suspicious.
No need, you just allocate users to servers depending on theie average sleep/wake cycle nd bounce the servers one at a time, when usage is at a minimum. Ever had one if those late night brain’s gone blank moments? Now you know.
Money wont solve everything, but it does put you in a good position to deal with the problems that are left. After that it’s up to you.
Buy bitcoin as soon as you hear about it. Hold it until it’s six figures. Yes, I know it sounds insane. Do it, or I’ll come back and haunt you some more.
Teen me would have to remember that for a fair while, but current me could do a lot with that sort of windfall.
But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I’m dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I’ll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.
It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.
You’re probably not far off in how the presciption pad evolved, but pharmasists, at least here, have extensive training, and some can actually write prescriptions for certain medications. The system has evolved over a very long time, and security is definitely one of those things that’s had to evolve with those changes.
It used to be fairly normal, the pharmasists knew the various doctors in the area, and they also know what is a reasonable prescription. If there was any doubt, they’d contact the doctor before dispensing the drugs. I had the ‘interesting’ experience of having to go to multiple pharmacies, filling part of the total prescription at each, when I tried to fill a largeish morphine prescription for a family member. There’d been some sort of issue at the main supplier, and none of the induvidual pharmacies had much stock left. It was resolved a few dats later fortunately.
Things are a lot more digital now-a-days, which hopefully makes fraud less of an issue, and definitely makes getting medicines easier.
I assume it’s been vibe coded, sauce for the goose being good with the gander and all that.
ETA: /s just to be clear.
Fair, that maybe came across harsher than I meant. Refusing to provide packages because you don’t use the system is fine, but please provide a tarball that I can unpack, rather than some dodgy script that has to try to work with the differences in those ststems anyway.
Better to do away with the entire concept of downloading and running a shell script like that, and use distro native packages instead. It’s not hard to create DEB or RPM packages, ebuilds aren’t too bad either, and it sounds like AUR packages are managable too.
The entire concept of blindly downloading a script, running it as root, and hoping that, in the best case, it’d install the version of the software you want is a bit crazy. If the upstream developers refuse to provide packages, please, at least, provide a tarball.
Once you start ‘succeeding’ at what you’re doing it tends to feel like it takes less energy, and if you start to feel good about it, you’ll also tend to feel more energetic, so it forms a self reinforcing loop.
It won’t work like that for everyone. You have to actually be enthused about the idea of succeeding at whatever it is you’re doing and not push so hard you burn out regardless of success, but if you can get into that frame of mind, things becone easier.
While there’s probably no global solution, personally I use a QR Code reader that doesn’t actually use the URL, but just displays it and lets me copy it to the clipboard. That way I can inspect it, and if it doesn’t look right, ignore it.
This is excellent article on enshitification, some of the factors that can lead to it, and ways founders could think about it to hopefully avoid it. What it doesn’t seem to talk about is how Tailscale intends to avoid it, now and in the future.
The joys of distributed algorithms. You can now get more errors, more quickly than before!
I remember writing a chat system in assembler, for DOS, using, IIRC, IPX networking. When it went wrong, one or more machines would just freeze, with the string “NETWORK ABEND” in the middle of the screen.
I should fork vim and call it ‘death’, so I can shout “give me vim or give me death!” any time someone suggests a different editor.
Surgery, especially on animals.
In any other context, someone cutting you open, slicing bits out or rearranging them, them sewing you shut would be considered horrific, but we do it because we know that the short term suffering out weighs the long term harm of not doing it. When you choose it for yourself it might not be too ‘evil’, but an animal would not understand, even if you know it will mean they get to live a long, happy life, free of the pain and suffering that issue would otherwise cause.
I don’t think it’s abuse they love exectly, it’s being told exactly what to think and how to act. It removes a huge amount of cognative load and uncertainty and leaves them feeling more sure of themselves.