Then again, it might be easier to make people stop doing something than it is to make them do something mindfully. Doing anything with intent is difficult.

Not that I disagree with you, I’m just afraid it’s a lot to ask. I guess that goes for asking people to stop using social media as well though.

They did. Here’s the interior of the Pantheon, rocking since the 2nd century AD.

I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

It seems the running application remains responsive, but not anything else.

I was running RStudio on an external monitor once when it froze, and I could keep using the window. Even when I used touch gestures to “zoom” the window out, I remained in control over it and could execute code in the smaller window. But I could not interact with GNOME at all, including changing to another program on the same screen.

Another time it froze as I wrote a PieFed comment, and I pressed tab and enter a few times. The comment was published so I could continue where I left off.

First time in almost 20 years of Linux usage I’m encountering real problems, and I’m much too primitive to do anything clever about it.

Does it seem to be a Fedora problem?

Yeah, I never got to test postmarketOS because I don’t have a supported device, so I don’t have much of an opinion. I do love GNOME on desktop though, and I love how the apps scale.

“If you get used to the gestures it should be okay-ish to use as a phone”

This guy is too humble haha, Ubuntu Touch is a blast to use.

Based on 404media’s coverage of Girls Do Porn, I feel like PornHub can hardly be described as not being “unregulated and sketchy and extreme”.

Long story short, PornHub was knowingly cooperating with a porn producer operating on the basis of institutionalized rape for years. Lots of women have committed suicide in the wake. The ringleader of the network PornHub cooperated with was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison. I’m of the personal belief that PornHub executives should have been brought in to keep him company—they are as guilty as anyone in this. I really doubt that Girls Do Porn is a unique story in anything else than the fact that it ended up before the courts.

I hadn’t heard of openDesk before. Here they are talking at last year’s LibreOffice Conference, in case anyone is interested.

Good to see public open source software picking up steam. It’s fucking insane that it took corporate platforms enabling fucking genocidal mass murder of civilians for years while actively obstructing international justice and sanctioning the international criminal court—a dystopian vision even Stallman would have struggled to come up with—for it to take place, but at least it’s fucking happening.

Perhaps the greatest takeaway from this entire fiasco is yet another reminder of the precarious position open source projects with a solo maintainer leave their user base in - especially when that maintainer is a teenager whose priorities are subject to changing rapidly as they get older and discover more about the world than discarded Ubuntu interfaces

What a terrible takeaway. I’d rather say that the takeaway is that all things come to an end, even Unity 7 which it’s honestly incredible didn’t die ages ago.

Those interested in keeping on working on Unity should perhaps focus their efforts instead on Lomiri, the community continuation of Unity 8 and default environment in Ubuntu Touch.

Here’s a demonstration from two months ago, running desktop apps like Librewolf on an external monitor powered by Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 4. It is of course not limited to Ubuntu Touch; Ubuntu Touch is just the only distro where it’s the default interface.

Yeah, I have to say I’m also critical of this. One side is the gamification aspect, which I don’t really think is beneficial to healthy discussion. The other is the possibility for abuse; these awards give trolls a superpower by tagging other people’s posts with highly inappropriate “awards” that could be very badly received.

I see the value of monetization, but maybe something as simple as an optional “PieFed donor” flair on user profiles of people who send monthly contributions could achieve some of this benefit without the possibility for abuse.

I had problems while an external monitor was connected on Fedora 42, but as I don’t use it often I figured I could live with it. Now it seemed to have gotten worse. Once the second monitor was working but GNOME was acting weird. So yes, that absolutely does seem related.

Ah shit. This is it.

Just my luck that GNOME 49 just dropped support for X11. I guess if it’s unbearable I can downgrade.

At least now I know what to watch. Thank you!

Thanks! I didn’t even realize this was an option - very useful to know! Will check it out if the crashes keep up. :)

That sounds familiar - I will look into this if the crashes return (it has been stable for a couple of hours now). Going wild with screen brightness and night light does not seem to trigger anything.

I’m on Wayland and pretty vanilla Fedora with GNOME.

I will run this next time it crashes (if it happens again) - after freezing several times in a row earlier it has been steady the last couple of hours, so the last crash is outside of the period of the log that I see now.

Thanks!

who:

user  seat0  2025-10-29 16:47  
user  tty3   2025-10-29 16:47  
user  seat0  2025-10-29 16:34  
user  tty2   2025-10-29 16:34  

ls - lh /home:

totalt 0  
drwx-------. 1 user user 794 okt.    29 14:55 user  

This was done before the computer had frozen, I’m not sure if that spoils it.

That’s brilliant. Australian culture is criminally underappreciated in Europe.

I don’t believe he did?

Just a victim of globalization I guess. Was introduced to it by a guy who did farmwork in Australia for a while.

What the fuck. Back in my day gooning meant having someone pour alcohol into your mouth, typically from a bladder container such as a wine bag from boxed wine. I have fun memories of gooning with friends in hot tubs. I guess that’s a sentence I can’t use any more.