Which one did you buy?

Haha! Could be it. 😂

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

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.

From what I understand, they (hackers) try known email/password combinations at different sites because a lot of people reuse their passwords. I also find it unlikely that anyone trying hack accounts will spend any amount of time looking at individual passwords if their list is 1000+ (and we know there are leaks in the milions).

I agree that they are reasonably save unless they are targeted.

https://truthsocial.com/@llijh/posts/114604139396491788

Original post not made by Trump but shared by him. Reading it, it feels more like a joke/shitpost.

Why not? It’s not going to be cost effective to discard a usable computer, of course. But hen your phone can be hooked up to a monitor, mouse and keyboard and the phone’s internet can be used to stream the remote computer, why have a computer? Or if your phone could give you the same interface as your current computer?

I will personally most likley always own a “ordinary” computer, but I wonder if a majority of the populace will.

More like remote desktop, like your whole computer being cloud based.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_virtualization and https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/cloud-computing-dictionary/what-is-virtual-desktop-infrastructure-vdi.

I haven’t seen The Expanse, but I get it from context. I still believe that is how a lot of people will operate in when 5G is wide spread enough in the US (because that is most likely where the money to develop this will come from and hence the first target market. Or perhapas somewhere in Asia.) + 5 years to develop and sell products.

Unless I am completely wrong and some other trend comes along and the tech world takes a whole other course. 🤷

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.

I wonder if not computers will move away from being a physical unit and instead being a cloud service. The smartphone will be the access point for your cloud computer, and you will connect it to peripherals, just like you would a laptop today.

Yeah, what are they even defining as a layer? Perhaps it can measure resistance, so it if goes through concreet and there is air on the other side (say a wall for example), that would be one layer?

I have to agree, it’s better but not really massivley so.

Looking at the tags, I only found one with the LLM tag, which I assume naught101 meant. I think people here tend to forget that there is more than one type of AI, and that they have been around for longer than ChatGPT 3.5.

The compiler is likely better at producing machine code as well, if LLMs could produce it.