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Yeah, I really should. I'll have a piece of hardware to install soon, so I might test it before I do that. Gotta switch off anyway so might as well.

LMDE Cinnamon user here. There's a setting in the power options that tells the computer to switch to hibernate if it remains in suspend for a certain amount of time. Hibernated computers suspend to disk rather than RAM and are basically switched off, so need to POST to come back online.

It took me a while to find that setting, and it might be the same case with whatever you're using.

What's more, it only took effect if I used the GUI to put the computer into suspend mode. I usually use a keyboard combo to suspend the computer at night, but occasionally I'd use the GUI and come back in the morning to a hibernated computer.

Thought I'd been taking crazy pills or that there was something wrong.

My main gripes are that inconsistency between suspend methods and also that there's no setting for how long to stay in suspend before hibernating. I have no idea if that's a UEFI thing or something that could be set elsewhere, but I'd probably use that feature if I could set it.

As it is I'm giving the hybrid option a try. Basically it suspends like normal, but also sets up a hibernated restart for if the power goes out. That hasn't happened yet, so can only assume it'll work when the time comes.

Late edit: The delay between suspend and hibernate is set in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf with the setting HibernateDelaySec=. Manual page reading is required, but even so, this feature is not well documented there or out on the Internet.

There may be syntax available to specify other units of time with a suffix. For example, my computer's related SuspendEstimationSec= option is given as 60min in the example and not 3600.

He was an imminent threat to comfortable and familiar ways of life of the rich. Had he not been a threat to them and their interests, we would not have gone to war with him.

Likewise anyone else on the current world stage who is obnoxious, outrageous, egregious or other adjectives of that ilk.

Sure, he was also a threat to the comfort and happiness of people other than the rich, and hey, the fact that fascism is legitimately terrible is an excellent propaganda point, but that only made it easier to recruit those less well-off to go fight the battles of the rich.

And then there's that a significant part of the reason people outside of Germany hated him is because he was foreign. Nothing more, nothing less. Pick any country, and if he'd been one of their own instead, the haters would have liked him just fine and would have been "Roman saluting" just like the Germans did.

(Yes, I know he was an Austrian accepted by Germans. Call that the exception that proves the rule. Countries further away couldn't care less. He was still foreign to them.)

Whoa. Seeing it written that way, and without the L(inux) in front, had me misreading it as "Mint Desktop Environment" and not "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Super weird, especially since I've been on LMDE since v4.

Front end versus back end. The people who make programming languages are back-end developers. Their strengths lie with making something that works, not something that looks pretty.

As a counterpoint to the above comment, there are also instinctual behaviours that we don't even know we're doing. The proof is in that blind-from-birth people have been seen performing the same sorts of behaviours as sighted people, but they can't possibly have learned by watching.

Smiling is one such proven example, as are hand movements when talking.

I'm not sure where the head-in-hands of despair falls with regard to this, but given that we see other great apes and monkeys do similar things in similar situations, there might well be an element of instinct to it.

Are you absolutely sure you want to tell a man with a fragile ego and an entire country's armed and police services at his beck and call, to, of all things, go choke on broken glass?

How do you see this going?

I don't know what message will get through to the man and change his course of action, but that ain't it.

So there's this funny thing about colour. I'm not talking about race here. Actual colours. Wherein certain languages always seem to have the same colours when they only have a certain number of base words for colours. When the language has words for only two colours, these usually correspond to light and dark. Black and white.

I'm still not talking about race.

And when there's three, the third is always red.

Then if there's another it's yellow or green.

Then if there's five, they're generally the other one from above and then blue.

Then you get an old and heavily moulded language like English with hundreds of colour names.

But there are languages which only discern only two colours.

Has the penny dropped yet?

Decrying gender ideology is like saying that there's only light and dark. "What's all this 'red' business? And don't get me started on green."

Now I'm certainly not going to tell people whose languages lack words for primary colours that they're backward, because they have other ways of describing those things, or can learn names from other languages.

But if someone from one of those cultures was to insist that there's only two and can't accept that other languages break things up into separate categories, that's denying a fact, and that's a problem.

And if they get violent and start painting things black and white because "that's all there is", that's an even bigger problem.

Do you understand yet?

"But black can't change to white and white can't change to black!!1!"

Not all things are the same colour all the way through. What's on the outside is not necessarily representative of what's going on on the inside. This here red apple, sorry, dark apple, is light on the inside.

And now it's illegal to peel an apple.

It's kind of easy to forget about or ignore any experience they might have if they're asking questions like that. Sure, maybe it was a brain fart from a panicked intern who's having orders barked at them from a powerful individual that they want to impress, but that doesn't make it any better, does it?

There are probably some big Discord servers like that. Not sure about Matrix or Fediverse equivalents.

There are old school group-chat websites still out there too, but I'm not sure how popular they are these days.

There's not much closure here because I do not know where any of these people are now, and I don't care to look.

At school, if you don't count the bullies, probably the kid who thought it was amusing to take rabbits apart after hunting them. I have another story in my head about something awful that happened to a cat which may also have been him, now that I think about it. He had an odd monotone to his voice and a dead look in his eyes, like he was elsewhere or sleeping and something else was running the show. He didn't seem all that terrifying either, which is probably worse.

There was at least one teacher who I'm pretty sure had far-right leanings, with a couple of glaring red flags, but I didn't notice until I was much older.

Then, in an echo of that, there was the smug CEO of the company that bought the one I was working for, who came up with the magical slogan "One company, one workforce, one leader". I'm surprised he didn't throw in a "Work sets you free" along with it. (This was in the early '00s, and is almost certainly not known to anyone reading this.)

But as far as shitty behaviour goes, I can't count myself as completely innocent. There are many things I've done, that I won't go into, where my conscience has since reasserted itself (or ignorance lost, or both) and I cringe pretty much every day. I can only hope the people on the receiving end are doing great and aren't too badly affected by it.

It's for this reason I'd hope that each of the above, and a lot more people besides, would have their consciences do the same thing.

Until you have a Rock-Paper-Scissors problem.

"Quick example" might be the key here. I was making some notes on something earlier today and my brain was putting out letters faster than my hand could keep up and I got letterforms not entirely unlike yours. Far too used to typing where each letter takes almost exactly the same amount of time to "write".

I had to remind myself to s-l-o-w d-o-w-n. Letter by letter. Make them neat. If you have attention span issues like me, it's painful, but when the letters take shape it almost soothes that beast. But not quite in my case and so back to rushing again.

But it's plain as day on the page where I slowed down. The letters look almost machine-printed by comparison. Next to an actual machine print, they're still pretty bad, but you know. Better than the middle of that wide gap between perfect machine and rushed squiggles.

The other thing with typing in the computer age is that there's this wonderful invention called the backspace key. When you're hurriedly writing with pen or pencil, backspace isn't a thing, so a writer is more likely to think "eh, close enough" and plough on. There are definitely a few full words crossed out and rewritten in my notes where it really bothered me though.

I had, technically still have, three mice like that. All work fine, but the mouse wheels have given out. Too much hand cruft, dust and crumbs I guess, as well as all the scrolling. That said, I haven't done anything differently with other, very similar, mice and - touch wood - no others have ever done that. The problem I have with my current mouse is that, paradoxically, it somehow gets more sticky if I clean it.

Not USB-C, I hope.

(USB-C cables are smart cables with chips in, and the standard does not allow for extensions of any sort, intelligent or otherwise.)

Hey, OP, they're wrong. Not the wrongest they could have been, but it is indeed a word. A quick check with any online dictionary will confirm that.

It might be considered poor style to use it in educated language, where "most wrong", "most incorrect" or "most false" might be better choices, which is probably the context they were thinking of, but it's definitely a word and people do use it.

It's simple: He can't tell the difference between Palestinians, Jordanians and Egyptians, and therefore neither can they.

not sure what they're trying to do here

Maximise profits and minimise losses. My guess is that someone important at Microsoft thinks that this will do just that, and if not that, will make them, personally, a lot of money. That person has no-one who will dare challenge their authority and so we go down this road.

They (that individual or Microsoft as a whole) almost certainly have a stake in the companies that provide newer hardware, and if they didn't before this decision, they will have by now.

It theoretically makes Micosoft's job easier too. A huge chunk of backwards compatibility maintenance goes out of the window, if you'll pardon the pun.

"Oh you have 5 year old hardware? We don't support that."

Sounds fairly similar to Apple's business model if you think about it that way.

My house has a smell like that. I noticed it on the viewing when the previous occupants were still in, and I assumed that it was "their" smell and that it would go with them. Nope. Part and parcel of the house.

It's probably coming from under the ground floor floorboards because I've never been down there. It would require tearing far too much up in order to get down there.

My other theory is that something has soaked into the floorboards and has mostly but not quite been cleaned out.

Anyway, it hasn't killed me. I have rampant ADHD, but I'm pretty sure the two things are unrelated.

There's a reason the word "multifaceted" gets applied to people sometimes. There are different faces we present in different scenarios.

Sometimes people will be one way with family, another at work and another way again when with friends. There are funny stories (or webcomics) of people ending up in a group that comprises a family member and two people they know from respective second and third groups and the humour is that they have no idea how to act in a way that won't confuse at least one of the people they're with, including themselves.

As for relating to your situation, there was one online content creator who went by a name that sounded like it was based on a real, given name and not something made up. It was a bit of a surprise when I learned that wasn't anything to do with their actual name. They also posted things that were out of the mould I'd mentally put them in on another social media site.

(Being vague because I don't want to dox or disparage.)

Thankfully, those particular revelations affected no-one but me, which might be a way for you to look at the situation with the person you're talking about.