A few decades ago I bought a used IBM as a *nix server, but it would lock up at nearly random intervals like you describe. Tried a different Linux distro… same issues. Tried BSD - same issues!

It wasn’t until after I learned of the 1999-2007 capacitor plague that I inspected the motherboard and saw that yes, several of the capacitories were bulging.

https://www.robotroom.com/Faulty-Capacitors-1.html

I mailed the motherboard to a servicer who replaced all the capacitors for a nominal fee. After that it was a rock solid system. You mention that this is recent hardware, but I would still suggest taking a peek at those caps.

Interesting information, but my response is ‘meh’.

How is this really any different than what Fox News does daily?

Partisan private companies gonna partisan.

On my machine, the L2 cache is 256KiB

Is this a typo or are they running on a Pentium 3?

Reminds me of an IRC snippet from the now defunct bash.org site -

user1: I ATTACK YOU WITH YAWGMOTH’S SODOMITE. DO YOU BLOCK? Y/N

user2: n

Cor blimey

In the future, you should look into using LVMs for your partitions. I ran into a similar problem recently where my /var needed to be increased - I was able to run a simple lvextend -L+4G /dev/myvg/var --resizefs to grow my /var by 4 gigabytes.

Before I was using LVMs though I used a gparted live disk a lot

I’ve been a decades long Gentoo user, but now I’m experimenting with NixOS as I’ve gotten older and value my time more. The 12+ hours of compiling when there’s a chromium / QT update is no longer a badge of honor. I haven’t fully converted though, Gentoo binary packages are working as an acceptable stopgap

I don’t think he knows about second gun, Pip

I’m using Gentoo with systemd and a customized kernel, and additionally I have the /usr partition LUKS encrypted. Because /usr is absolutely essential for systemd to function, I configured dracut to make a specially crafted initrd which activates the luks lvm and prompts for the password to decrypt and mount /usr on startup before systemd init tries to run.

About a year or two ago, some update to dracut or some other dependency (assumption) caused the dracut generated initrd’s to kernel panic. After multiple days of troubleshooting, I discovered that just copying forward an older initrd in /boot and naming it to match the new kernel, e.g. initramfs-6.6.38-gentoo.img , allows the system to boot normally .

So, my Gentoo is booting a kernel 6.6.something with a ramdisk generated in the 5.9 kernel era. I am dreading the day when this behavior breaks and I can no longer update my kernel 😳

Whoa oh oh oh, I’ll never give in

This is great on so many levels - from the context of the original show it also implies Zelenskyy is banging Putin’s mom 🤣

wAkE uP sHeEpLe

The President we need, but not the President we deserve

Yes

This is the way (as in this is what I do). Every once in a while you’ll have to hard reset the laptop because Windows.

A thread on the site which shall not be named convinced me that a majority of the books are recently published and with above average to highly scored on reviews, so I bought it.

Why the Linux Firewalls book hails from 2007 is a strange outlier.

Not sure where you got the 25kb number from.

This tool is written in go and is a 7.8 MB compiled binary.

Force uninstalled glibc on my Gentoo, which basically broke every shell and binary on the system. Was able to repair in place because I

1. Had already compiled busybox statically
2. Still had a copy of the stage 3 tarball on / which I could use to ‘restore’ glibc libraries

Ah, the ol’ switcharoo

Jool-Aid