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DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you use poweroff or suspend on your Linux systems? Why?1·22 days agoNot sure what you’re trying to ask, are you asking if using sudo to sign in as a different user will make kernel updates take effect? If so, the answer is no.
Linux is an operating system kernel, which basically means it’s a program which runs other programs inside of it. For any “normal” program running inside Linux, you can update it by installing the new version and then exiting and relaunching the program so that the installed updates take effect. Similarly, after installing the Linux kernel itself, you have to exit and restart the kernel in order for the update to take effect. Because the kernel runs programs inside of it, exiting the kernel means all of those programs will be exited as well, and because the kernel is the only program running directly on the hardware, exiting the kernel means that your computer will power off. In simpler terms: getting kernel updates to take effect necessarily means you need to exit the old kernel and launch the new one, and there is no way to do that without reboot.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you use poweroff or suspend on your Linux systems? Why?2·22 days agoThis assumes you have a machine which supports proper S3 sleep, which newer devices increasingly do not :(
A lot of modern laptops only support S0 “modern standby”, which basically means the kernel puts all processes including itself on pause, but the CPU and all other components are still powered despite being idle.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you use poweroff or suspend on your Linux systems? Why?1·22 days agoDepends on your setup :) My PC pulls somewhere around 80W just for RAM.
(tested by comparing the idle power draw with only one DIMM installed vs all of them)
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you use poweroff or suspend on your Linux systems? Why?5·22 days agoJust chiming in to point out that powering off and then starting back up won’t cause any additional SSD wear, reading from flash memory doesn’t use up write cycles* (because there is no writing going on!). In fact, regularly restarting could be slightly more friendly for your SSD, because the /tmp directory, old log files, etc. get deleted on startup, freeing up the storage blocks used by the deleted files so that the SSD can use them for its internal wear balancing.
*technically, flash memory reads do very slightly degrade the data being read, but this effect is absolutely negligible compared to other forms of passive bit rot in flash memory and is basically irrelevant unless you’re intentionally trying to corrupt data using reads (which won’t happen because the flash controller will fix it before it becomes corrupt to the point of being illegible)
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?2·1 month agoit’s the mispeling vyrus
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Countertop banana stand owners - what do you do when you only have one banana?3·1 month agoIt is higher than the banana, relative to the direction they’re oriented. Determining which orientation is correct is left as an exercise to the reader.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Is Firefox still the recommended browser of choice here?English13·2 months agoA huge chunk of Linux development is subsidized by the hundreds of corporations which depend on it and pay developers to maintain things. There is no corporate interest in developing and/or maintaining an alternative browser engine when chromium already exists and dominates the market.
Y’all are too creative for me… I have:
- poweredge-r520-0
- poweredge-t620-0
- poweredge-t620-1
- pi4-0
- pi3b-0
- pi3b-1
- pi3b-2
- pi3b-3
- vostro-3525-0
- ideapad-c340-0
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.world•Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokensEnglish3·3 months agoMaking more wallets would cost nothing more than a few hundred bytes of storage each for the keys. I have no idea why they wouldn’t have split their funds into evenly sized wallets of, say, $1M each.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How reliable/realistic is to use a laptop as a remote file backup server?English3·4 months agoI’ve got an old HP laptop which I’ve been running a Jenkins server on for years. The fan died back in like 2018, and I just kept putting off buying a replacement, so it has been running with no fan for 7 years now. Remarkably it still works fine, although a but slower than it used to thanks to thermal throttling :P
iirc British plugs do have a fuse built in to every plug, but they are also the only ones who do that
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What would you do to stop a transition to a dictatorship and why?3·6 months agoYou can also be arbitrarily deemed “unfit for service” and forced to pay a pretty expensive compensation fee for the next several years, even if you would have preferred to have done the months of military or year of civil service instead.
You need a Microsoft account to sign in to the launcher, download the game and play online, but if you already have the game installed you can launch it and play singleplayer without an internet connection.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Show of your Piracy Workflow (Movie/TV)English6·6 months agoI search for stuff in qBittorrent and download it directly onto my home server using the web UI. I’ve got most of my family’s devices set up to be able to access it either via an NFS or SMB mount, and then it’s just a simple matter of opening the corresponding video in VLC.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What subscription services do you actually pay for and get value from?5·7 months agoJetBrains IDEs.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.mlto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index1·7 months agoNot the same person, but in my case I’m 182cm and my waist is 76cm. If I were 40cm shorter I’d actually (barely) be in the green area!
Conjunction Junction (What’s your Function)
Sadly a number of these don’t seem to exist on Nyaa, or in any other English form that I can find.