I put the curl command to update my duckdns IP in cron about 13 years ago, and have never needed to touch it once.

It’s just worked for me

Maybe easier to another suggestion, you’re probably using a systemd based distros -

journalctl -b -1 will show you the logs from the previous boot, so you could check that after resetting to see if anything was logged

For some other ideas to narrow down where the issue is…

If you’re stuck in the frozen state, you can Ctrl+alt+delete 7+ times quickly to tell systemd to try to restart the system. If this works, it means init was still able to process messages

If that doesn’t work, you could enable Magic Sysrq Key (if disabled in your distro), and then use the key sequence REISUB to try to see if the kernel is still responding and can reset the system

Microsoft released Windows Vista, which was absolute dogshit on every PC at the time it was released.

This also just happened to be not long after Ubuntu was released, making it easier than ever to install Linux.

Installed it, quickly found out everything was easier to configure and tinker with in Linux…

Never saw a reason to go back. Used Windows 7 for a little bit, and it was better than Vista, but it still wasn’t anywhere near as easy to use as Linux

I want to see the actual characters … instead of squares

Sounds more like an issue with the font you’re using, rather than the input method.

At least for Chinese, we use ibus on desktop (KDE Wayland) and fctix5 on Android. Both work well in those devices

It’s safer, and uses a systemd mechanism to update with most programs not running.

That said, I’ve never had a problem updating without restarting…

You can change the behavior in System Settings -> Software Update -> Apply System Updates

Pick either immediately or after rebooting

If you want your updates automatically, you can install unattended-upgrades

The only thing to keep in mind is with Debian, you’ll need to upgrade to the next release for them.

With something like Ubuntu, they can just click the upgrade box when there’s a new major LTS release

Either one can be better depending on how you want to handle maintenance

Alpine already doesn’t use systemd

My take: There was one user that kept making post after post after post as they tried to upgrade, which made it seem like there were more issues than there were

Scrolling through it right now, every support question from the last week appears to be from the same person

You have to at least modify your sources.list.d manually first. For most people, updating sources.list.d and running full-upgrade will probably work fine…

The full instructions are

1. run dist-upgrade
2. remove back ports
3. remove obsolete packages
4. remove non-debian packages
5. clean up old configuration files
6. add non-free-firmware (this is a 12 -> 13 specific)
7. remove proposed updates
8. disable pinning
9. update sources.list.d to point to the next release
10. apt upgrade --without-new-packages
11. apt full-upgrade

It takes like an hour? but it’s still not “just press okay.”

Ubuntu’s has broken on some upgrades for friends and they had to do the whole Debian process manually, but it does try to automate the removals, disablements, and updating sources

Edit: instructions taken from Trixie release. I skipped some that aren’t really unique, like make a backup

https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html

AMD has been proving that x86_64 can be at least as power efficient as ARM over the last few years (given a floor of performance for like a phone/laptop… I doubt it can get as low power as a little ARM microcontroller)

It seems like x86 was getting so power hungry because of Intel’s laser focus on single core performance

They’re talking about a Debian 12 -> Debian 13 upgrade

On Debian, you get release notes on what commands to run.

Ubuntu has their own software update utility, separate from Software Center or Discover, that runs the commands for you

The devicetrees between Android versions is effectively the same. They define the hardware

We won’t know the impact until they try to bring up the Pixel 10

You can get them off Aurora Store if you don’t want to install Google Services.

Yes, GOS adds the ability to completely disable network access to apps.

For magic eraser, that’s a separate app from Google.

Pixel Camera does night mode, editing tools are in Google Photos

Depending on how you had it installed, Alpaca split support in the Flatpaks.

If you want AMD support, you need to install com.jeffser.Alpaca.Plugins.AMD

I’m surprised at using ntfs-3g these days, but one major difference is that ntfs-3g uses FUSE in userspace.

Paragon has an in-kernel driver that is much faster, although I would expect your distro already includes it.

You can check with something like cat /boot/config-* | grep NTFS3_FS

I never really looked into what they were doing with KPTI.

Assuming it’s accurate, that first one is a much better technical description, even if it was intended to spell FUCKWIT

nvtop, while it sounds like it’s nvidia, is brand agnostic It actually stands for “neat videocard top”

It’ll show per process usage of memory and compute usage on most GPUs

I think you agreed with me?

I said the people who say Linux is so hard are the people that have learned so much about Windows that it’s ingrained in them. So when they try to switch, they get frustrated that it isn’t exactly the same

The vocal people saying it’s harder have a lot of experience with Windows, and know how to work around all of its deficiencies after being a power user dealing with it for 15+ years

With that mindset and not wanting to start over, Windows is easier

For casual users or someone who’s willing to learn, Linux is easier