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For as much fuss as they are making about this snow-storm it will probably be a dud. I kind-a like driving my 4wd pickup in the snow...power skids rock! It's having to deal with others (who don't know how to drive in the snow) that keeps me from going out.
 
cracauer@ said:
Anybody else in the US finally putting on their winter tires today?
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What is winter? Is that the season where H2O falls from the sky? I heard there are even places where it comes down in the solid state. That must be scary.

<- California joke. We get a heck of a lot of rain every winter. Fortunately none in the last week, and none predicted until middle of next week, so I have time for big outdoor projects. And we get snow at home roughly every 2 years, occasionally enough to make everything stop, about 10cm (4") of snow at once.
 
cracauer@ said:
Loaded up on Sushi :)
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Interesting coincidence: I drove a little bit extra to stop at an excellent fish market and restaurant, right in a little fishing harbor town (Moss Landing). Picked up their clam chowder, and brought it home for dinner with fresh sourdough bread. It's nice to live in a fishing town. My wife and I spent many years in Honolulu, and we visit occasionally, and we love getting REALLY fresh fish inexpensively. And the sushi bars are to die for.
 
In 1972, or thereabouts, I was the audio engineer for a popular band's radio show. The show usually appeared with a live audience at the main sponsor's building but, once a week, went on the road to a small town about 20 miles away. This particular morning, we got 18 inches of snow. And my girlfriend's car wouldn't start. The show went on the air at noon. And the show must go on.

So I called a service to jump start her car. Drove there to dig her out. Then loaded my car up with all the audio equipment. Drove to the little town. Of course there was no audience but the band showed up and we went on. On time.

The show must go on.
 
Conway's Game of Life, shell version
sh: 
#!/bin/sh
IS_OLD=0
RR=$(uname -r)
[ "$RR" \< "14" -o "$RR" \> "2" ] && IS_OLD=1
frame=0
recal=0
start=$(date +%s)
SEED=$(date +%s);
set -- $INI
trap 'intr' SIGINT
intr() {
 print_at $(tput li) 1 " "
 tput reset
 end=$(date +%s)
 ss=$((end-start))
 rps="NaN"
 [ $ss -ne 0 ]  &&  rps=$(($recal / $ss))
 echo FRAMES=$frame RECALCS=$recal SECONDS=$ss RPS=$rps
 exit
}

rand() {
  SEED=$(((1103515245 * $SEED + + 12345) % 2147483648));
  RANDO=$((SEED % 257));
}

print_at() {
    if [ $IS_OLD -eq 0 ]
    then
        tput cm $(($1 - 1)) $(($2 - 1))
    else
        tput cm $(($2 - 1)) $(($1 - 1))
    fi
    echo -n "$3"
}

delete_at() {
    local v

     tput me
     print_at $1 $2 " "
}

get_at() {
#    ret=0
#    [ $c -eq 0 -o $r -eq 0 -o $r -gt $ROWS -o $c -gt $COLS ] && return
    v=tab_${1}_${2}
    eval ret=\$$v
}
recalc() {
 local x
 local i
 local j
 local r
 local c
 NEIG=0

 recal=$(($recal + 1))
 for i in -1 0 1
  do
  r=$(($1 + $i))
  [ $r -eq 0 -o $r -eq $L2 ] && continue
   for j in -1 0 1
    do
     c=$(($2 + $j))
     [ $c -eq 0 -o $c -eq $C2 ] && continue
     [ $i -eq 0 -a $j -eq 0 ] && continue
     x=NG_${r}_${c}
     eval NEIG=\$$x
     NEIG=$(($NEIG + $3))
     eval $x=$NEIG
    done
  done
}

count_n() {
 local i
 local j
 NEIG=0
 for i in -1 0 1
  do
   for j in -1 0 1
    do
     [ $i -eq 0 -a $j -eq 0 ] && continue
     get_at $(($1 + $i)) $(($2 + $j))
     NEIG=$(($NEIG + $ret))
    done
  done
#echo $1 $2 = $NEIG
}

ROWS=$(tput li)
COLS=$(tput col)
ROWS=20
COLS=40
tput vi
clear

JL=$(jot $ROWS)
JC=$(jot $COLS)
for i in $JL
 do
  for j in $JC
   do
   rand
   z=tab_${i}_${j}
   if  [ $RANDO -le 70 ]
    then
     eval $z=1
      print_at $i $j "#"
   else
    eval $z=0
   fi
  done
 done

 C2=$(($COLS+1))
 L2=$(($ROWS+1))
 z=tab_0_0
 eval $z=0
 z=tab_0_${C2}
 eval $z=0
 z=tab_${L2}_0
 eval $z=0
 z=tab_${L2}_${C2}
 eval $z=0

 for i in $JL
  do
  z=tab_${i}_0
  y=tab_${i}_${C2}
  eval $z=0
  eval $y=0
 done
 for j in $JC
  do
  z=tab_0_${j}
  y=tab_${L2}_${j}
  eval $z=0
  eval $y=0
 done

for i in $JL
 do
  for j in $JC
   do
   count_n $i $j
   eval NG_${i}_${j}=$NEIG
#   echo -n $NEIG >>u
   done
#   echo >>u
  done
while true
do
chg=0
LSTD=""
LSTN=""
for i in $JL
 do
  for j in $JC
   do
    key="$i:$j"
    x=NG_${i}_${j}
    eval NEIG=\$$x
    z=tab_${i}_${j}
    eval v=\$$z
    if [ $NEIG -lt 2 -o $NEIG -gt 3 ]
     then
       eval $z=0
       [ $v -eq 1 ] && delete_at $i $j && LSTD="$LSTD $key" && chg=1
     elif [ $NEIG -eq 3 ]
       then
       eval $z=1
       [ $v -eq 0 ] && print_at $i $j "#" && LSTN="$LSTN $key" && chg=1
     else
      #nothing to do for 2 neighbors
      sda=1
     fi
  done
 done
# sleep 1
 frame=$(($frame + 1))
 [ $chg -eq 0 -o $frame -eq 200 ] && intr && exit
 for d in $LSTD
  do
  i=${d%:*}
  j=${d#*:}
  recalc $i $j -1
 done
 for d in $LSTN
  do
  i=${d%:*}
  j=${d#*:}
  recalc $i $j 1
 done
 done

added benchmark capability (number of calls to recals() / s)
m4 vm: 700/s
older xeon: 300/s
rk3568: 16/s
rpi zero :12/s

bash is about 30% slower than sh

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covacat said:
Conway's Game of Life, shell version
sh: 
#!/bin/sh
IS_OLD=0
RR=$(uname -r)
[ "$RR" \< "14" -o "$RR" \> "2" ] && IS_OLD=1
frame=0
recal=0
start=$(date +%s)
SEED=$(date +%s);
set -- $INI
trap 'intr' SIGINT
intr() {
 print_at $(tput li) 1 " "
 tput reset
 end=$(date +%s)
 ss=$((end-start))
 rps="NaN"
 [ $ss -ne 0 ]  &&  rps=$(($recal / $ss))
 echo FRAMES=$frame RECALCS=$recal SECONDS=$ss RPS=$rps
 exit
}

rand() {
  SEED=$(((1103515245 * $SEED + + 12345) % 2147483648));
  RANDO=$((SEED % 257));
}

print_at() {
    if [ $IS_OLD -eq 0 ]
    then
        tput cm $(($1 - 1)) $(($2 - 1))
    else
        tput cm $(($2 - 1)) $(($1 - 1))
    fi
    echo -n "$3"
}

delete_at() {
    local v

     tput me
     print_at $1 $2 " "
}

get_at() {
#    ret=0
#    [ $c -eq 0 -o $r -eq 0 -o $r -gt $ROWS -o $c -gt $COLS ] && return
    v=tab_${1}_${2}
    eval ret=\$$v
}
recalc() {
 local x
 local i
 local j
 local r
 local c
 NEIG=0

 recal=$(($recal + 1))
 for i in -1 0 1
  do
  r=$(($1 + $i))
  [ $r -eq 0 -o $r -eq $L2 ] && continue
   for j in -1 0 1
    do
     c=$(($2 + $j))
     [ $c -eq 0 -o $c -eq $C2 ] && continue
     [ $i -eq 0 -a $j -eq 0 ] && continue
     x=NG_${r}_${c}
     eval NEIG=\$$x
     NEIG=$(($NEIG + $3))
     eval $x=$NEIG
    done
  done
}

count_n() {
 local i
 local j
 NEIG=0
 for i in -1 0 1
  do
   for j in -1 0 1
    do
     [ $i -eq 0 -a $j -eq 0 ] && continue
     get_at $(($1 + $i)) $(($2 + $j))
     NEIG=$(($NEIG + $ret))
    done
  done
#echo $1 $2 = $NEIG
}

ROWS=$(tput li)
COLS=$(tput col)
ROWS=20
COLS=40
tput vi
clear

JL=$(jot $ROWS)
JC=$(jot $COLS)
for i in $JL
 do
  for j in $JC
   do
   rand
   z=tab_${i}_${j}
   if  [ $RANDO -le 70 ]
    then
     eval $z=1
      print_at $i $j "#"
   else
    eval $z=0
   fi
  done
 done

 C2=$(($COLS+1))
 L2=$(($ROWS+1))
 z=tab_0_0
 eval $z=0
 z=tab_0_${C2}
 eval $z=0
 z=tab_${L2}_0
 eval $z=0
 z=tab_${L2}_${C2}
 eval $z=0

 for i in $JL
  do
  z=tab_${i}_0
  y=tab_${i}_${C2}
  eval $z=0
  eval $y=0
 done
 for j in $JC
  do
  z=tab_0_${j}
  y=tab_${L2}_${j}
  eval $z=0
  eval $y=0
 done

for i in $JL
 do
  for j in $JC
   do
   count_n $i $j
   eval NG_${i}_${j}=$NEIG
#   echo -n $NEIG >>u
   done
#   echo >>u
  done
while true
do
chg=0
LSTD=""
LSTN=""
for i in $JL
 do
  for j in $JC
   do
    key="$i:$j"
    x=NG_${i}_${j}
    eval NEIG=\$$x
    z=tab_${i}_${j}
    eval v=\$$z
    if [ $NEIG -lt 2 -o $NEIG -gt 3 ]
     then
       eval $z=0
       [ $v -eq 1 ] && delete_at $i $j && LSTD="$LSTD $key" && chg=1
     elif [ $NEIG -eq 3 ]
       then
       eval $z=1
       [ $v -eq 0 ] && print_at $i $j "#" && LSTN="$LSTN $key" && chg=1
     else
      #nothing to do for 2 neighbors
      sda=1
     fi
  done
 done
# sleep 1
 frame=$(($frame + 1))
 [ $chg -eq 0 -o $frame -eq 200 ] && intr && exit
 for d in $LSTD
  do
  i=${d%:*}
  j=${d#*:}
  recalc $i $j -1
 done
 for d in $LSTN
  do
  i=${d%:*}
  j=${d#*:}
  recalc $i $j 1
 done
 done

added benchmark capability (number of calls to recals() / s)
m4 vm: 700/s
older xeon: 300/s
rk3568: 16/s
rpi zero :12/s

bash is about 30% slower than sh

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That is a very very very cool script. Kudos.
 
I'm not one to read manuals in depth. They are too long. So, when I decided to switch to Unix-like OSs, I installed Ubuntu with a dual boot, then Garuda Linux, then Fedora, then FreeBSD on my laptop, and then FreeBSD on my desktop. All along this path, I knew some things and others, even basic ones, I ignored.

So, imagine my surprise the first time I pressed by accident Ctrl+Alt+Fn. Fortunately, I had my phone and the internet told me that I just had to press Ctrl+Alt+F9 to go back.

PS: Am I the only one that sometimes presses the wrong combination of keys?

Edit: I just remembered that after Fedora I switched to Siduction Linux, which is still installed on my desktop but only used to make backups of the FreeBSD disk (until I feel like studying "zfs send" and I ditch it forever more).
 
kent_dorfman766 said:
American coffee and european coffee are two different things: are you talking about european black tar coffee, or americanized steeped robusto bean swill. I've acquired a taste for the darker french roast (fresh ground of course).
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...Americans talk coffee...😳
Okay, you correctly call your stuff "swill". That's why you are allowed to enter my personal coffee class.🥋☕😁
So, let me put some things right, before some one mentions Starfu...🤮

Level Zero: I am not talking "I don't give a shit. I simply want caffeine!" Please stop reading now! What now comes, is not for you. You will neither care, nor understand what will come. Wasted time.
Or do we talk coffee? Please continue, and be enlighted - if you not already are. 😁

First: There is no such thing as "european coffee."
There are two, and precisely, exactly only two (0d2, 0b10, 0x2, 0o2) ways to brew an official rightful coffee, which is actually worth to be named so:

1. The original way like the Africans invented it, and the Arabs, Turks, Greeks, and (I think) the Romanians do it: Mokka
Outside it's not so very popular, because you not only need the right equipment, the knowledge, and the effort how to brew it right, but also how to drink it right. For the noncritical "it all tastes the same anyway; main thing is, it stuffs most for least money" common "it all must be gobbled down as quickly as possible (no, the mug is not for eating)" impatient finger food customer the coffee grounds in the cup may come as a sudden, unpleasent surprise.

2. The modern way, only the Italians do: Espresso
There are to kinds of it:
a) Café. You get only in Italy. And in Italy only.
b) And any other kinds of swill, unblushing named as "Espresso", and selled as such without shame, not even being remotely like espresso - not the right beans; nor the right roasting; nor the right grinding; nor the right brewing; nor the right amount of water - nothing right, but just filled into small cups, also not the right cups, not warmed, half or even completely full to the top - NAUSEOUSLY! Defiling both holy words: 'espresso' and 'coffee'. Totally, completely missing the point of coffee at all 100%: the taste. completely UN-ACCEPPTABLE!
Terrible. Terrible! Terrible!! 😤😭:rude:🤮😭😭😭
DON'T(!) you never, ever, complain to an italian barista: "The cup ain't even half full." Get yourself a Coke instead, or whatever you like, but don't you never dare to talk about coffee at all again, ever!

Anything else called 'coffee' in Europe is at most only halfway tolerable, when you don't know better, have no taste, or grew up with it, like me being a german is german filter coffee - which in most cases is brewed with too few coffee and too much water - Blümchenkaffee ("flower coffee" - it's so thin, you can see the flowers painted at the cup's bottom.)
I'm a lot in France. And I know only a very few places in France where you actually get a really good coffee. How the French brew their coffee in common, for what, or why at all, I don't know. While they have an exemplary taste in everything else, their coffee can't be meant for drinking. Must be some kind of a national secret, maybe revenge on the germans, or whatever. By its taste I suspect some kind of a hogwash boiled with old socks filled with river shore sand. 🤢
Spanish coffee I cannot remember. But by I know how they produce what they call 'beer' 😂 - macerate old toast in lake water - I'm not man enough to dare trying it.
Tee is always a good alternative to be kept in mind. Even if it's the english 50 BC's variant of hot water with a drop of milk.
Austria is very proud of their Melange, especially in Vienna, which I personally rate as some kind of a halfway successful attempt of producing a better version of german coffee. No real reference, but with milk and sugar halfway downchokeably.

However, every european country has its very own speciality of coffee. While the most are only remotely drinkable, when all you primarily care for is the caffeine, the majority of the liquid is milk or cream, and several spoons of sugar are added.

The Swiss 🇨🇭 killed all that, and conquered the world.
Except mokka, and espresso. By now. They are working on it. The Italians still simply refuse to get rid of their old fashioned espresso machines, while they already could pay three times for some undrinkable industrial special waste, and wasting tons of aluminium at the same time. (No. Aluminium coffee capsules are not recycled. They are collected, yes, for giving the customers a 'greener' feeling. But there is too much plastics lacquered to the too thin aluminium foil than recycling was worth to do it; neither by ecological, nor economical scales.)
First they invented the instant coffee. But that wasn't enough for them. Instant coffee only sells to students and low standard people. No real money in that. An engineer, who of course did not got the slightest share of the giant monetary success of his invention (manager bonuses must be paid first, and only - what the fu## engineers are for, but to work off the desk routine to realize market research's creative ideas? They shall be glad being allowed to even work, and being paid for that!) handed over to a giant, greedy, bloodsucking company, which for the last fifty years regulary every decade is in the headlines for their poisonous baby food, selling starving people their own drinking water, and other things, a system of coffee cost three times as coffee before, produced by completely new machines cost five times the money, and need ten times the maintenance as coffee machine before, while reducing the taste of coffee less to a third of the swill known before, plus risking coffee drinkers to become sick by machines internal mould - fantastic!
Some of you may say now: "That's not true! This coffee tastes wonderful!" - I told you, to stop reading.
Others ask: "How can people be so stupid, to buy this?"
Easy: Marketing knows how common people's logic work.
People believe, if they grasp an argument, its inversion must be also true.
Example: Somebody (outside Italy) once understood: A very good espresso has a crema (very fine foam). True. Ergo, if you have a crema, you must have a good espresso. Wrong. But common people think that way. And if you are attentive you will find many examples, where the reverse is not automatically true. In fact, in most cases it's an exception when the reverse is also true.
So, what they did? They did everything to make a coffee having a good crema - fu** the taste!
We are living in an society of outward appearances. A crema you can place in a picture of a magazine, and in magazines you can tell everybody: "A crema is a sign for a good coffee." So everybody now knows when seeing a crema: "That must be a very good espresso!" Wrong, but undisprovable. You cannot argue about taste. But everybody can compare pictures.

So much for european coffee.
Now lets talk about a physically phenomenon, unique in the universe:
US coffee.
Coffee in the USA is something physically impossible. While chemically it consists mostly of water its temperature is way beyond the smelting point of iron, without having a boiling delay, and the coffee beans used to brew it - if any at all - are still the same came with the Mayflower. US Americans are very traditional.
The original US coffee recipe comes from the cowboys in the wild west:
Fill a zinc plated metal sheet pot with muddy creek water, where are herd of cattle have been driven through before. Place it on a campfire, and let it boil until the soot blackens the water.
You may want to add:"Then drink it." Wrong. US coffee ain't for drinking. It's complementary. For that you need to understand the US american mind.
US Americans (I simply don't like to just say 'American'. Everybody in North- and Southamerica to me is an American) are very traditional (cowboys), and are very customer friendly.
So, you get a free coffee everywhere in the USA: restaurants, car rentals, filling stations, barber shops, liquor stores, brothels, police stations, bail bond agents, lawyer's offices, weapons dealers, NRA meetings, Republicans conventions... - everywhere.
Mostly it's you get the first cup for a very small amount of money (0.50 to 1,-$ the last time I've been in the states) - just the contribution to expenses of the coffee, only. And then unlimited refill. In theory.
Above all anything else US Americans are all always at first primarily businesspeople. ("Money rules.")
Now, there is a dilemma: Offer a free refill of coffe is tradition and customer friendly - it's a must, while at the same time there is a real chance a single customer may actually drink more than the one cup he/she actually payed for. Get one - or even more - for free? 😳 Totally unacceptable! Impossible. Unimaginable! It doesn't matter how less a cup cost. Even the tiniest fraction of a cent was too much! There's a principle involved. No way! Never, ever! Impossible. So, what to do now? How to solve that dilemma:
You must offer free coffee, but at the same time you must not give away any money - no matter how little.
💡Solution: The coffee must be that hot, it takes longer to cool down to a temperature the customer can drink it without risking internal burnings than the operation of business lasts. 🤠
This way, you kill three birds with one stone: You can offer free coffee. The customer will not ask for a second cup. Plus you save coffee. The sterile, never touched coffee can be repoured back into the pot, being re-heated again for the next customer, who also does not drink it. This way, only one time a day only the evaporated water in the coffee machine needs to be added. And because it's so scalding hot, nobody has a chance to taste anything, you also save coffee. And it's traditional. It tastes exactly like the cowboys used to brew it - if anybody actually dares to taste it.
I bet you, use radiocarbon dating and you will find pots of coffee in the USA containing rests of coffee heated-up again and again every day, which bean's DNA can be traced back at least to the manhattan project, the 1860s, and beyond.
Anybody, who actually dared to take a sip of US coffee, survided the attempt of incineration, and saved some taste buds on his/her tongue will testify this.

Then, somebody in the USA - maybe she or he went to europe before - experienced: coffee must not be a daredevils' contest to swallow, but could actually be an enjoyment of taste. And then, when she/he founded a franchise selling coffee to US Americans better than what they were used to (which wasn't that difficult), the business reflex kicked in again: "Don't make it actually that good. Better make it quite almost drinkable. Then sell them supplements like caramel, cocoa, or some other crap poured into the swill, which they need to pay extra for, to disguise the taste."
Anybody ever been to a Starfu#, answered the question "Which flavor?", with "What about coffee?" looked at blank faces, also can testify this.

But the worst part is:
We stupid Europeans buy it. "FINALLY!! Drinkable coffee!" Pour away our own stuff (anyway better than any of this re-imported US-crap, no matter which country), run into their stores, paying several times more to get an "extra large super-size-me pint of american industry's sugar-salt-n-fat swill in a to be landfill paper cup, and agree, or at least don't contradict, when they tell us, we did not not deliver anything, did not pay for anything, but just received only, while stuffing ourselves with it." 🤪

End of story.☕
 
I tried to read Maturin's post in full, I swear. I got as far as the Swiss flag. It's quite entertaining if you don't mind being schooled and mocked (Maturin chooses not to remember Spanish coffee, I suspect, because we use the same espresso machines as the Italians, so our coffee is as good as Italian coffee, and Maturin doesn't seem one to gift compliments, so Maturin criticizes our beer instead—I don't like alcohol, so I don't feel especially affected). Maybe I'll read the rest of Maturin's post another time.

Edit: I executed "wc -w" and pasted Maturin's post. Result: 1975. It's an outstanding feat. I'm genuinely in awe.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
because we use the same espresso machines as the Italians, so our coffee is as good as Italian coffee, and Maturin doesn't seem one to gift compliments, so Maturin criticizes our beer instead
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Dude, I have not been in Spain for over 40 years - I cannot tell anything about your coffee at all. I just was trying to summerize and discuss something, which is impossible (at least in a forum's post): characterizing european's coffee in less than a 300 pages book - Dude, Europe consists of what? >45 countries? How long do you expect a readable post to be? (without writing and reading it with AI?)

P.S.: I wrote it ALL myself. I took me that time. For some it may be too long to read. Others may enjoy reading it.
For those I take the time. My time.

P.P.S.: Who ever read it him-/herself see, it was not just about coffee, only.

P.P.P.S.: And your beer really reeks. 😂
 
I wasn't a fan of having to make coffee taste good; I had a french press, grinder, AeroPress, and made a perfect tasting cup with the timings and temperatures once on accident 😆

I'm not into sugar, and bullet-proof with butter or heavy-whipping cream was cool but didn't fix the taste. Caffeine pills and energy drinks were cheaper and easier for the energy boost :p
 
Maturin said:
Dude, I have not been in Spain for over 40 years - I cannot tell anything about your coffee at all. I just was trying to summerize and discuss something, which is impossible (at least in a forum's post): characterizing european's coffee in less than a 300 pages book - Dude, Europe consists of what? >45 countries? How long do you expect readable post to be? (without writing and reading it with AI?)
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Hey. Don't get mad. I appreciate your verbosity very much. I was just joking. And, precisely, I didn't paste your post into ChatGPT and asked for a summary because I respect your time and I like your writing.

Also: I learned quite a lot of things in the part I read and I thank you for that.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
awd and awk sound like pain groans.

The problem with openning a thread in the "serious" parts of the forum is that it's taken too seriously. For instance, I just noticed that if I press Alf+F4, my Plasma DE freezes. I have Alt+F4 disabled in it's "default" action of closing the current window. I don't have Alt+F4 assigned to anything. But also I don't want to investigate further because it's not a problem to me. I won't press it. Period.
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Don't post configs; post an abstract, then troubleshoot more and come back to the thread :D

I'd never press Alt + F4 on desktop without a window being forefront and expecting it to close, but if the whole DE closed, it could be a good idea to post about it if you're curious and wanting an explanation. I've seen DE weirdness cross-OS for years that I'd assume Plasma thought I literally wanted to close the desktop, figure it a wild condition (not exactly a problem but unexpectedly intentional), and go back to justifiably using Xfce 😅

But if it's a TTY switch; on Linux I did drm_kms_helper.fbdev_emulation=0 for faster boots which breaks TTYs; trying to switch to a TTY from working desktop makes it appear everything froze (DE does the TTY switch as-intended but it doesn't know the display stack config beyond itself). Nobody else is likely troubleshooting that without a several page thread of details and a curiosity stumble on that option :p
 
Nah, I just wish there were a kind of dumping ground where users could post things that happen to them (like Plasma freezing when I press Alt+F4, not having Alt+F4 assigned to any action) in case the developer finds them of any interest, but without requiring any further effort by the user, because the user (me) just doesn't care whether the problem gets fixed or not and doesn't want to invest any time in it.

Am I a bad user? Am I not supportive? I'm just sincere. I would be willing to report it, but that's it. You (developer) deal with it. I don't care.

The developer could extract some practical use from this "dumping ground" anyway: if many users are "dumping" something very similar-sounding, it may be worth investigating it further.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Nah, I just wish there were a kind of dumping ground where users could post things that happen to them (like Plasma freezing when I press Alt+F4, not having Alt+F4 assigned to any action) in case the developer finds them of any interest, but without requiring any further effort by the user, because the user (me) just doesn't care whether the problem gets fixed or not and doesn't want to invest any time in it.

Am I a bad user? Am I not supportive? I'm just sincere. I would be willing to report it, but that's it. You (developer) deal with it. I don't care.

The developer could extract some practical use from this "dumping ground" anyway: if many users are "dumping" something very similar-sounding, it may be worth investigating it further.
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LOL, I"m having the same sort of issue with Gallium OS, there's some sort of race condition with my mouse so that it will sometimes completely freeze, but at random. Fortunately, the keyboard and power button work so that I can deal with it. Unfortunately, the main solution I've seen is coded in Python and I'm very much on the fence as to which problem I'd rather deal with. The random freezing mouse, or having to have Python on my chromebook. Life is tough sometimes.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Nah, I just wish there were a kind of dumping ground where users could post things that happen to them (like Plasma freezing when I press Alt+F4, not having Alt+F4 assigned to any action) in case the developer finds them of any interest, but without requiring any further effort by the user, because the user (me) just doesn't care whether the problem gets fixed or not and doesn't want to invest any time in it.
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I leave random notes on my wiki to kind-of do reporting :p (like this for Firefox and sndio; post)

I note it as a fix, but haven't re-checked that issue since 14.3 (I think ESR did something different than main 15.0+ to where forcing sndio might not be needed for that video to play fine, but forcing sndio still works)


I use this page as a nice dumping ground for info and issues with potential solutions; stuff like AX Bluetooth and .core creation look like they could be useful later and I found those randomly on the forum :D

The last 3 audio URLs were stuff I ran into with 16.0-CURRENT (mixer didn't exist, the pkg its in conflicts with a rc pkg or something; sndctl might be useful if pkg conflict is figured out)
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
I don't even know whether "winter tires" means literally switching your car tires or putting that metal things on. In Barcelona it snows once every 4 or 5 years. When it does, it snows very lightly and only for a few hours, but the city stops to a halt because we aren't prepared..
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Our workday morning begins with digging the car out from under the snow.😆
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And the roadway looks like this😉
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The brain is weird. In the beginning of time, I worked on MsDOS. Then Windows came, but our software still run in DOS. To make a DOS terminal under Windows "full screen" (text mode, in reality), you pressed Alt+Enter. One hundred years later, in my Plasma DE on FreeBSD, my shortcut to maximize a Window is Super+F, but many times my brain thinks Alt+Enter and then corrects itself to Super+F.
 
Maturin said:
..Americans talk coffee...😳
Okay, you correctly call your stuff "swill". That's why you are allowed to enter my personal coffee class.🥋☕😁
So, let me put some things right, before some one mentions Starfu...🤮
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I drink a lot of TEA (hot and iced/cold) :-). I've tried to like coffee as a drink but it's been a challenge. I guess that is a "good thing" because I could be going to "Starbucks" or similar "a lot" instead of spending Euros on other things. Americans also seem to also eat a lot of "avacado toast" which I don't understand either.

Currently drinking a 59 FL OZ/1.84 QT/1.74 L (cold) "real" brewed tea - right from the bottle!
 
Have to agree with the "money rules" comment. There are a lot of things I think I'd like to try and make for fun but the thought always crosses my mind, "How can I make money from this?" Or I won't make it because it distracts me from something else I can make money on.
 
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