No article?

Oh, okey. Yeah, I can live without that too.

Sadly it’s got achievements now

What did I miss? Does Linux has achievements now??

Agreeded. I remember a lot of posts being “Girls, what do you like with boys” and then the next post would be “Boys, what do you like with girls”. Rinse and repeat in some other flavour with more or less sex.

one-liner posts

I feel like Ask Reddit is at fault for that one. They changed their rules to have the entire question fit in the title. Before that, you were allowed to have the question expanded upon in the post.

The title made me think 244 children (and not offenders) were arrested.

there’s nothing to do or at sea

Just being out on the sea is by itself a worthwhile experience, in my opinion. At least the first time. like flying, it is super boring sitting in a plane for multiple hours. But the first time being above the clouds is cool.

Haha! Could be it. 😂

“hands-on” graduation project

Does hand-on mean supervised?

One has to wonder. They have the equipment, someone saw fit to buy and and then use it.

It’s real! https://www.royalcaribbean.com/cruise-ships/icon-of-the-seas

😂

The OS crasching before Firefox seems weird. The OS should kill the offending process to free up memory for its own use. I wonder what went wrong.

This link has more information that looks relevant: https://askubuntu.com/questions/89219/is-there-a-difference-between-swap-and-cache-memory

Disk Cache memory: This are chunks of the physical memory, the RAM, used to store files. That way when a program needs to read the file, it’s fetched from memory instead of the hard disk. This is done because memory is way faster.

Swap: This is a place on the hard disk (usually a dedicated partition) that is used to store programs or data that can’t fit in memory, like when a program grows more than the available memory. SWAP is way slower than RAM, so when you hit swap the computer gets slower, but at least the program can work. In linux swap is also used to hibernate, or to move low used program out of memory to allow more space to the disk cache.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc_meminfo.5.html

Cached %lu

In-memory cache for files read from the disk (the page cache). Doesn’t include SwapCached.

Cached should be memory stored on HDD and not RAM.

That sounds like a memory leak.

The pet to enlightenment.

You can also create a custom keyboard layout in Linux. From what I have written down, here is how to do it (can’t double check because work computer).

I suspect this could be X11 only because it is X keyboard extension, pop_OS! didn’t adopt Wayland as early Ubuntu.

• Start by navigating to /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/.
• Open the file that corresponds to your keyboard layout (I think it is us for American).
• Add a new layout:

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "custom" {
    include "us(basic)" // includes another configuration to build on, see current file you are editing.

    name[Group1]="US (custom)"; // will be the name of your configration/layout.

    key <LSGT>  { [ greater,        less,               bar,            brokenbar  ] }; // <
    key <SPCE>  { [ space,          space,              nobreakspace,   space      ] }; // Space
    // Add more key maps as you see fit.
};

• Go to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/
• Locate evdev.xml and base.xml
• Edit both and look for the following block

<layout>
  <configItem>
    <name>us</name>
   <!--- some comment --->

• Add the following to both files on the row after the comment:

<variant>
  <configItem>
    <name>custom</name>
    <description>US (custom)</description>
  </configItem>
</variant>

You might have to reboot afterwards.

Thanks! I hadn’t heard about agetty before. Will save this for later.

I didn’t read the whole article and mostly looked at the table. 12% is a number I would describe as a huge difference, but combined with the battery life I have to agree that it is indeed a massive difference.