(only after asking her several times if she would get mad at me)
It is wild as kids we internalize quickly the angry consequences of fucking up, but usually we aren't given the proper guidance, rules, or explicit explanations upfront to avoid it.
I was curious if you were to analog the solar wind to sound (ie. measure solar activity how loud would the difference be between nominal activity vs. coronal mass ejection, and it is surprisingly quiet according to the clanker's math. Basically the difference between the background noise of a library vs. a clothes washing machine
FWIW, I experience similar behavior sometimes (hard graphics freeze with a game) but like what tal@ says, the underlying system is still running. If you make sure sshd is configured and you have an account on the laptop with your key, you can most of the time get into the running system and restart gdm/lightdm which will kill your DE session, reset the GPU, and get you back into the DE. Given you mention a laptop: what I've seen that exacerbates this issue is when the laptop has a integrated and discrete GPU and you're driving an external display. For my gaming laptop, it has an RTX2060 in it and the HDMI port is driven from the dGPU, but rendering is negotiated with the iGPU. What helps is disabling the external monitor and/or disabling the iGPU in the UEFI settings. I even experience issues in Windows with this: stutters if iGPU and dGPU enabled and driving the external display.
Fuck yeah, a sequel to Primer would rock. How many layers deep could this one be? The director for Primer is/was a bit of a crazy person. I recommend Upstream Color if you've not seen it yet.
Sounds like your /etc/fstab is wrong. You should be using UUID based mounting rather than /dev/sdXY. Very likely you'll need to boot from a usb stick with a rescue image (the installer image should work), and fix up /etc/fstab using blkid
It kinda is, and kinda not. https://github.com/ghuntley/cursed <-- this was the result of letting it burn tokens for 3 months