Whatever it takes to keep hiring mediocre white men, I guess.

I hate the debate over “what is art”. Honestly I think the best answer I could give to the question is “something that was ruined by a bunch of idiots asking ‘what is art’”.

That said, and not wanting to go into that discussion, calling this guy an “artist” seems like a mockery. He’s not an artist, he’s just some idiot with double sided tape.

I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

It seems the running application remains responsive, but not anything else.

I was running RStudio on an external monitor once when it froze, and I could keep using the window. Even when I used touch gestures to “zoom” the window out, I remained in control over it and could execute code in the smaller window. But I could not interact with GNOME at all, including changing to another program on the same screen.

Another time it froze as I wrote a PieFed comment, and I pressed tab and enter a few times. The comment was published so I could continue where I left off.

First time in almost 20 years of Linux usage I’m encountering real problems, and I’m much too primitive to do anything clever about it.

Does it seem to be a Fedora problem?

Well, yeah, they’re run by a corporation, which I guess means they need to show infinite growth to return value to stockholders. If so they can keep growing on subscriptions for a while, but eventually they’ll turn on their customers. So fair enough.

I think that’s part of my problem with them honestly. They seem to always want to grow and do more, but I would rather have seen them focus on search and make the subscription more affordable. But as they need growth I guess that’s not possible.

Yeah, this is not the case as they run on a subscription based model.

I used Kagi for a while. I stopped because it’s prohibitively expensive, and rather than prioritizing lowering prices they kept giving me AI features I did not want at all - hell, it’s the kind of shit I was paying to get away from. Mix direct support for Russian companies into the mix, and you have an expensive AI fueled multi-purpose web monstrosity that supports war crimes. No thanks. I just wanted a search engine.

Their search results were good though. I wouldn’t mind supporting a subscription based model, but I’m sick and tired of tech bros and their bullshit.

There are some user friendly Android based alternatives out there, since it’s based on open source. Personally I’m running a device with /e/OS, which you can either install yourself or buy a phone with it pre-installed. There are also some other user friendly options out there such as the Volla Phone.

But yeah, iOS is probably a better bet than stock Android, as Apple has a history of being abusive towards their customers in other ways than by selling their data. But crucially both Google and Apple are American companies, so you should avoid depending on their cloud services to whatever degree possible. There’s no such thing as safe data if it is stored by an American company.

If these assholes get bailed out by American tax payers when this shit crashes and burns I’m gonna get real mad.

Well, I’m pretty angry about everything happening in the US already, come to think of it. Oh well. I guess it’ll all just crash and burn.

Historically death camps tend to start out as mere camps, but then suddenly they are full of people who are deemed unwanted anyway and keeping them alive is expensive and difficult so why bother.

On its current trajectory there’s no US camp that shouldn’t be expected to turn into a death camp. And as others have pointed out, thousands “missing” from a huge, poorly managed camp in the middle of a swamp is worrying to say the least.

Americans today are like Germans in the 30s, watching the trains roll by.

Perhaps the greatest takeaway from this entire fiasco is yet another reminder of the precarious position open source projects with a solo maintainer leave their user base in - especially when that maintainer is a teenager whose priorities are subject to changing rapidly as they get older and discover more about the world than discarded Ubuntu interfaces

What a terrible takeaway. I’d rather say that the takeaway is that all things come to an end, even Unity 7 which it’s honestly incredible didn’t die ages ago.

Those interested in keeping on working on Unity should perhaps focus their efforts instead on Lomiri, the community continuation of Unity 8 and default environment in Ubuntu Touch.

Here’s a demonstration from two months ago, running desktop apps like Librewolf on an external monitor powered by Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 4. It is of course not limited to Ubuntu Touch; Ubuntu Touch is just the only distro where it’s the default interface.

The reporting goes pretty hard:

‘No restrictions’ and a secret ‘wink’: Inside Israel’s deal with Google, Amazon
To secure the lucrative Project Nimbus contract, the tech giants agreed to disregard their own terms of service and sidestep legal orders by tipping Israel off if a foreign court demands its data, a joint investigation reveals.

May this be a reminder to degoogle your phone and boycott amazon. It’s not hard, and there are thousands of people on here eager to help. :)

I’d say the Clash were simultaneously highly mainstream and true to the spirit of punk. Dead Kennedys as well, albeit slightly less mainstream.

Honestly I’d say there’s a lot of punk bands that enjoyed something close to mainstream success without being sellouts.

I’d say he’s imitating the 60s more than the 70s, but he writes some good tunes nevertheless. :)

I had problems while an external monitor was connected on Fedora 42, but as I don’t use it often I figured I could live with it. Now it seemed to have gotten worse. Once the second monitor was working but GNOME was acting weird. So yes, that absolutely does seem related.

Ah shit. This is it.

Just my luck that GNOME 49 just dropped support for X11. I guess if it’s unbearable I can downgrade.

At least now I know what to watch. Thank you!

Thanks! I didn’t even realize this was an option - very useful to know! Will check it out if the crashes keep up. :)

That sounds familiar - I will look into this if the crashes return (it has been stable for a couple of hours now). Going wild with screen brightness and night light does not seem to trigger anything.

I’m on Wayland and pretty vanilla Fedora with GNOME.

I will run this next time it crashes (if it happens again) - after freezing several times in a row earlier it has been steady the last couple of hours, so the last crash is outside of the period of the log that I see now.

Thanks!

who:

user  seat0  2025-10-29 16:47  
user  tty3   2025-10-29 16:47  
user  seat0  2025-10-29 16:34  
user  tty2   2025-10-29 16:34  

ls - lh /home:

totalt 0  
drwx-------. 1 user user 794 okt.    29 14:55 user  

This was done before the computer had frozen, I’m not sure if that spoils it.

Yup, Signal is down. The one centralized service I’m still rooting for I guess. Disappointed they’re running on AWS.