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xlash123 , 4 months ago to Memes in I thought donations were optional

Now what about software that pays you to use it?

Oh no, I just described cryptocurrency.

xlash123 , 4 months ago to 196 in Games rule

Taking justice into my own hands by stealing the twisted desires of criminals

xlash123 , 4 months ago to Memes in two party system is a scam

Criticism of the comic aside, two party system is still definitely undesirable. I believe it is a side effect of first past the post voting. What we really should implement is ranked choice voting. It gets rid of the dumb "voting third party is voting for [opposite party]" argument by letting you vote for who you want guilt-free and falling back on your lower-ranked votes if #1 wasn't popular enough.

But you know, this will always meet resistance because politicians would lose their jobs for implementing this.

xlash123 , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in Now that Win11 has sudo...

That's an odd choice... If it was possible all along to just ask for a a password on the command line, why make it popup a UAC prompt? These are developers using it after all.

xlash123 , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in RIP my photos from 2017 and contacts from 2005

If you haven't done much writing to the SD card, you may be able to recover the data. Data isn't really "deleted", it is just labeled as deleted. There is software that can comb through the raw data and try to make sense of what files were there. I don't know of any specific software, so if anyone knows, please reply

Edit: Another commenter mentioned some success with DMDE

Edit 2: Worth mentioning that this is true of formats. As long as it doesn't zero out the entire media, it just edits the file system metadata to say there are no files.

xlash123 , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in RIP my photos from 2017 and contacts from 2005

Also, if you haven't tried to restore from backup, you have no backup.

xlash123 , 4 months ago to Memes in Something tells me this might not be a good year for games...

More A equals more good

xlash123 , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in Htop too

How do you measure how much CPU time a program needs?

While I have no specific examples, that is the task of scheduling algorithms. The kernel is responsible for looking at running processes and figuring out how to assign it CPU time efficiently. That can include a variety of metrics, such as past behavior, if it is IO blocked, process priority, etc.

There is no perfect scheduling algorithm. Each one has tradeoffs depending on what the priority of the system is.

Also, you don't have to relinquish all control to the process if you have multiple cores. If you do, I believe that the process is interrupted after some time to allow the kernel to always be able to check in, but again, it depends on implementation.

How does the OS even yank the CPU away from the currently running process?

That is called context switching. Simplified, a process is a list of instructions and a bundle of memory. The memory is composed of RAM and CPU registers (again, simplified). The process memory can stay in the same spot in RAM, but the registers need to move out of the way for another process to take its spot. When a process is yanked away, the state of the registers for that process is snapshotted and stored in RAM managed by the kernel. This allows another process to be allocated to that core without deleting important process data. To resume the paused process, you just need to restore the registers back to the snapshotted state and have the core execute the next instruction for that process, and the process would be none the wiser.

Of course, there's a lot more that happens internally, but that's the main gist.

xlash123 , 4 months ago to Memes in Just wait until the next invention

Of course WRPSA is a thing

xlash123 , 4 months ago to Selfhosted in Looking for peoplecs experiences with Systemd-less distros for a home server

I'm just curious, what's your reason or preference for using an alternate init system, if you don't mind?

xlash123 , 5 months ago to 196 in So anyway, I'm radicalized, rule

It's argue it still shouldn't even be a "subscription". A payment plan would be a simpler and more safety-conscious implementation. If the buyer fails to keep up with required payments, then you're focused on collections, not disabling functionality.

The seller could even just not offer payment plans, because plenty of other third parties already specialize in personal loans. They're just reinventing a stupider wheel.