Best case, rest of the world goes Star Trek while the US goes Mad Max. I mean, if everything got better worldwide I kind of feel like we’ll backslide again because people have no idea what struggle and suffering is anymore. The US can be a shining beacon on the hill proudly declaring, “Stay away! Dead inside!”

Depends. You could argue that economically speaking it’s not worthwhile to stop and cite people for speeding. Police do have discretion on that kind of thing so not the best example, but still, there’s probably stuff that isn’t good for the bottom line that just needs to happen. The government is not a business.

Now when I say “depends”, I would be more inclined to go after a small number of people committing massive fraud than a large number committing minor acts of fraud. In the first case I think charges would discourage future abuse but in the second probably not. It wouldn’t be a vast, organized network of people doing the same thing, but a bunch of people that happened to notice the same opportunity. I think you’d do just as well having applicants read and sign a paper that goes over the penalties of abuse (while spending very little resources on enforcement).

https://www.system-rescue.org/disk-partitioning/Repairing-a-damaged-Grub/

I would also suggest, if you get grub back, to choose the 2nd kernel version in the list. The latest/top one will probably put you back to your broken state.

So one portal in an active volcano and…

Super happy with Bazzite as a gaming PC. I think only a power user might find the “immutableness” of it annoying. You can still install OS packages, it’s just highly discouraged. 90% of the time you’d just be running Flatpaks (a mostly self-contained app that is easy to install and remove). I’m using it with an old-ish NVIDIA card and at first it was troublesome but I think it worked itself out after a few updates. AMD has better compatibility from what I understand.

Mine (XPS 15) might surpass an hour but I rarely work on it constantly while unplugged. I mostly say the battery is piss poor because even suspended the battery will die in a few hours. It probably didn’t suspend to RAM so it was effectively running with a blank screen. Hibernate also resulted in a hard reset half the time.

I feel simultaneously good and bad that the least modern team at my company is the Windows admin team. I hope they were embarrassed as shit when they were asked how that automated process I help them create 9 months ago was going and they said, “Uh, we’ll be rolling it out this quarter.” They’re constantly at least 2 steps behind our Linux admins.

I have Mission Center. It’s great but at the process level it only shows current usage, not a time series average or summation.

Right, I just meant I figured the data might shift horizontally between snapshots but I guess Awk can figure it out.

I’m on Budgie. 😕

It might but it also looks really advanced. I’m hoping to get stats on just one machine and not really monitor my entire infrastructure (which ain’t much).

I’m guessing this isn’t a totally comprehensive article but I’m not sure it will give the granularity I need: https://betterstack.com/community/guides/monitoring/monitor-linux-prometheus-node-exporter/

I would hope to get process names as part of the export.

Looks nice but their graph doesn’t seem to show more than usage per core, not per process. Just based on the screenshots that is.

Any tips or how-to article that says how to push the top data to a DB? I figure scraping the output is no good because the layout is dynamic.

They have different purposes. While I do use flatpak whenever possible there are some things that need to integrate more closely with the OS and the sandbox makes the tool or service useless.

It wouldn’t be seamless but if you used an “immutable distro” like Fedora Silverblue then 95% of your customization would be in your home directory. You could go from VM to bare metal and then copy over all of your home files.

The struggle with KeePass conflicts is real. Put basically the problem occurs when you change a DB on device A, change the same DB on device B, and then you sync them using Syncthing. That might happen for me once a month.

I think I found a process that can reduce the occurrence of conflicts, mostly, not entirely. Instead of one DB that every device shares I have one DB per device (i.e. the KeePass file includes the name of the device). Most of the time this can’t possibly cause a conflict because device A only saves to its own DB. The only time it could create a conflict is if I need to pull in an entry that I made on another device. That’s a manual process for me and it makes me more aware that a conflict could happen. I make sure the device I’m syncing from is active in Syncthing, and if it is there’s almost no chance of a conflict.

A one-way sync option for KeePass would make conflicts almost impossible so I think I’ll propose that or work on a plugin for it.

Also check out https://buynothingproject.org

It’s the perfect amount of instant coffee!

I haven’t used it nearly as much as VirtualBox but Boxes (flatpak) is definitely a breeze to use. It uses KVM under the hood I think. If your use cases are complicated it might abstract away too much though.