I have a small home server that I occasionally push through huge batch processing jobs. During the pushes, I might collide with other projects that use a pretty big chunk of the RAM. So, to make sure it’s never a killer (just a major slow down), I made a 32GB swap file. If I need it, it’s there and disk is hella cheap.

This machine has never had a GUI installed. No browsers to complain about, just plain old data processing, stats models, and old skool computing.

Now, my worst case scenario was building a C++ program on a raspberry pi gen 1. That has 256MB of RAM. g++ ran out building, so I NFS mounted a huge disk from my desktop machine and made the swap file there. The build took a while… but the program ran fine after the week long build, no swap needed.

Straight out of Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End_(Vinge_novel)

Straight from the Torment Nexus:

Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) tweeted: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus. 8 Nov 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

We’ve been using those on Linux for a very long time. They just work.

No joke, I’ve see websites that do that kind of thing. They’ll actually turn off features (or the whole site) on non working days.

Shit. I’ve been on Debian for decades now. Maybe I’m just an old soul… Or I’m just lazy. I don’t even configure my DE anymore. The OS install of today will be wiped in no time, so it’s not worth being too attached.

I did a tour with OpenBSD about 2000-2004. It works just fine, with a much reduced ecosystem of pre built packages, just because of the quantity of devs around.

I saw Dragonfly when it started and I’m glad to hear it’s still going. The idea held a lot of promise.

It works fine for the job it’s designed to do. It does it in a significantly more monolithic manner than historic UNIX architectures and approaches (System V, BSD init, etc) did similar jobs.

It doesn’t suck from a “does it work perspective” in my eyes. Whether it’s a good long term approach given the monolithic nature binding more tools and services to a single framework should be a continued debate among the community.

If you don’t want to use it, then pick a distro that doesn’t use it. If you can’t find a distro that doesn’t use it, start one. If your distro gets popular than Systemd will be sidelined over time.

Historical References: X11/Xfree86/Wayland, telnet, MySQL/MariaDB, Linux/BSD kernels, etc.

Very fun. We should make a debian package to install the manpage via apt.

That sounds about like an insurance company.

Every bit of support they give costs Russia something. Prestige, economic rights, even eventually land. In the end, they’re going to pay.

The question is really: How do I check if a specific printer is compatible with CUPS (Common Unix Printing System).

Mint (and most other distros) use CUPS to manage printers and printing. I’d check there.

That said, Brother printers are often supported. The company is proactive on Linux drivers and tools, but I don’t know about your specific device.

Once my HP LJ4 died many years ago, I moved to Brother laserjets and have never looked back. They’re great.

If it’s got a scanner also make sure to check out the GUI scanner tool in Mint/Cinnamon: Document Scanner It has been phenomenal for initiating network-based scanning using our printers, even handling multiplexing and simple page re-ordering issues.

“We didn’t start the fire” : 🎶

He’s now signed a peace deal to end the war he started with Iran 39 times! That’s how dedicated he is to ending wars.

What if their shirt’s sleeve got all rolled up when they put on a sweatshirt? Or is that a bridge too far?

You mean: the weakest one going forward.

What about girls elementary schools? Is that fair game to be in the defending yourself category?

I could, but when it’s my fault I’ll take the heat.

Writing and prose are invaluable tools of interlocutory efforts. I exemplify an extensive history of accusations of bot-generated conversation in online games, established far earlier than the modern wave of Clankers in our midst.

If I fail an edit, it’s my fault. Autocorrect’s execution during the word smithing process or not. My name is on the top, so I stand by the quality of the words as published.

Okay, this got out of hand. I usually screw up whenever I don’t put on my glasses before I hit post. Have a good one!

Derp, you’re so right. Proofread fail.

The US Men can’t win a World Cup fairly, so they’ll just kneecap the other teams with immigration shit instead.

The entire industry does. It’s a chronic shortage of UI/UX people who are backed by engineers actually taking the designs under advisement and executing on them.