Also the water is just a medium for energy transfer; it can be reused & recycled in near perpetuity in a closed system.

We’re used to open systems with water in power stations, including cooling towers etc, because water is abundant on earth so it’s cheaper to just dump it back into the atmosphere; we probably take the whole thing for granted.

But it could be engineered to be a closed system a bit like a coolant in a refrigeration unit cycling back and forth. And it probably will need to be a closed system in the future in space where water will be incredibly precious.

Yes it’ll fix the issue. That tells the system that your hardware clock should be in UTC. The time in your hardware clock will then be corrected from the internet as long as your time zone is correct.

It sounds like your system clock may be the issue.You have a system clock inside your device. Linux usually uses the internet to set your clock but still refers to your system clock. If the internet provided time is too far off your system clock it may ignore it and display your system time.

KDE respects the NTP clock settings used by your linux system, while ironically Gnome does not and does its own thing directly with the time date control. This is probably why you’re now noticing a problem.

So either your system clock is supposed to be UTC and actually set to local time, or your system clock is correct but your timezone in linux is way off.

If you use timedatectl status in a terminal it’ll show your current local time, UTC and RTC time, as well as your timezone and whether the RTC is set to your local timezone or UTC. RTC is your hardware clock on your device.

If “RTC is local tz” says no, then the value for RTC and UTC should be the same, as your hardware clock is set to be the UTC time. And if the UTC time is wrong then your system is uaing your hardware clock to incorrectly work out the UTC. UTC is the 0 timezone worldwide and has an absolute value - its the same for everyone and you can esily.find it with a search engine. If the displayed UTC is wrong on your system, then you’re out of sync with everyone.

So how to fix it if its wrong:

One way would be to tell your systen what the hardware clock should be and then set it correct. Use “timedatectl set-local-rtc 1” to make it set to be in your local time zone. Or if you want it to be UTC you can use timedatectl set-local-rtc 0. You can use either but UTC is better.

That should fix the issue as the network time will now come in correctly.

But if you wanted you can also manually set the local time and date with timedatectl set-time hh:mm:ss. Once that is set then your RTC should also be changed and be back in sync depending on whether you set it up to be also local or UTC. When you set the local tine it will work out the UTC value based on your timezone. Note if the timezone is wrong it’ll still be wrong!

If you can’t set the time because NTP (network time) is running, you could.leave it and the clock should now sort itself out. But if you want to force mannually set the time you can turn off NTP if you want: “timedatctl set-ntp false” You could leave it off and set the time manually using “timedatectl set-time hh:mm:ss”

If still getting NTP error messagss you could also disable the NTP system job temporarily: systemctl disable --now chronyd. Turn it back on afterwards with systemctl enable --now chronyd

Finally do make sure the timezone is correct. I know you say it is but timedatectl shows you what the system thinks it is, and if ita wrong then rtc/utc will still be wrong as the timezone is used to convert from local time to UTC. You can use timedatectl to change the timezone: timedatectl set-timezone name.

There are loads of valid timezones but only valid ones will work. Get your local timezones official name online or use timedatectl list-timezones to see all the options. You can filter uaing egrep etc.

Hopefully that’ll fix the issue for you. You can also boot into your bios and manually set the hardware clock if needs be but linux still needs to know whether its supposed to be utc ir local time.

I’d recommend either OpenSuSE or Fedora, both with KDE. They’re big, well supported distros, which should install without issue and provide a slick modern experience. I use OpenSuSE, as I find the YaST system tools convenient and user friendly.

I’d avoid Ubuntu, multiple issues. Mint is a good distro but I think any big mainstream distro “just works” now, so I’d go for something that uses a slicker desktop. I prefer KDE, which is available on Mint but just isn’t as tightly integrated as their own Cinnamon desktop.

Scarcity manufactured by the AI “boom”. When the AI bubble pops, expect a huge slump in hardware prices as companies try to offload huge stockpiles of worthless RAM, CPUs and GPUs.

Without any context this just comes across as psychotic advice.

Maybe it’s advice for a comedy career. Never laugh at any jokes, just feign ignorance and get the jok teller to explain. Then you learn the art of comedy and joke design, and you will have the tools to write your own comedy set. Thanks dad!

The headline doesn’t quite reflect the situation, but it is difficult to capture in a headline.

Essentially add “for now”. Many of the issues are fixable but not necessarily by one laptop maker. As the article said by the time the issues were likely resolved the laptop would be obsolete as the version 2 of the chip would release.

Having said that, it’s not clear how fast the issues will resolve as without any devices there won’t be impetus to put fixes in to different parts of the ecosystem to get the full potential of the chipset.

The GPU sounds like the most serious problem and without manufacturer engagement may be the longest to get fixed.

Yes it’s fairly simple to do, essentially the user needs to download an image of a Linux install disc, flash it onto a USB stick (or a Dvd I guess), and then reboot their PC. They may need to press a key at boot to open the boot menu and select the USB (or the bios to change the boot order).

After that, most distros offer a very easy to follow installer which will install the new OS.

Most Linux installs can be done alongside windows (on the same hard drive or it’s own drive) but windows tends to break the boot loader with updates. It’s gernallt better to only dual boot if you’re good at fixing things - otherwise a full Linux install is better.

The most inportant thing is back up all your important data, and only do this if you genuinely want to leave windows. I’d make sure your windows license is digital before doing this too as that allows using windows again if you want to go back.

I’d say anyone can use Linux, it’s user friendly and robust. In terms of installing Linux, I’d only do it if you are sure you know what you’re doing - installing any OS - including windows - can involved trouble shooting problems.

Doesn’t say he went to university. Doesn’t say he has a job.

Guys a mooch living off his parents, just in a fishing boat instead of living in their basement.

I’ve tried Arch - it allows you to make a system that is exactly what you want. So no bloat installing stuff you never need or use. It also gives you absolute control.

On other distros like Fedora, you get a pre configured system set up for a wide range of users. You can reduce down the packages somewhat but you will often have core stuff installed that is more than you’ll need as it caters to everyone.

Arch allows you to build it yourself, and only install exactly the things you actually want, and configure then exactly how you want.

Also you learn an awful lot about Linux building your system in this way.

I liked building an arch system in a virtual machine, but I don’t think I could commit to maintaining an arch install on my host. I’m happy to trade bloat for a “standard” experience that means I can get generic support. The more unique your system the more unique your problems can be I think. But I can see the appeal of arch - “I made this” is a powerful feeling.

I think the new device is good news. I can see what you’re saying - the benefit is if Steam Machines expand the PC games market with former console only players. But otherwise the threshold for PC development is already much lower than consoles; there are no dev kit fees, a wide choice of engines to target, relatively greater independence etc.

The steam machine may help somewhat in having a specific hardware profile to target, but the games are still on steam’s store so still have to be able to run widely on Windows or Linux. That’s always been the complexity of PC development - the steam machine doesn’t change that much. Although admittedly the Steam Verified benchmarks are useful for users to simplify understanding what their kit can actually run which will benefit indie devs.

He was a blackmailer and the key to blackmail is meticulous records and evidence to use against people. Question is where is it? Do the government have it? Has it been destroyed?

Seems to be a fair amount of evidence the US government does have and is being drip fed out.

For me it seems to be when you go through to download the windows binary, you get an iframe on the page containing another site. That has ads and serves up the download. So I’m guessing the ads are on the website that provides videolan with hosting for its binaries?

They are old fashioned intrusive ads pretending you need to click then to start your download. But the download starts already.

I think Nextcloud with the libreoffice plugins is the main Google docs self hosting alternative at this point.

• OS - - > Linux OpenSuSE with KDE

• YouTube - - > Freetube - opensource, private YouTube client for Linux, MacOS and Windows

• Downloading music/videos --> yt-dlp

• Downloading videos/images --> gallery-dl

• Email - - > Thunderbird (really moved forward in last few years)

• Notes - - > Joplin

Selfhosting (mine is on raspberry pi) :

• Streaming library - Jellyfin

• Photo library - imich

• Downloads - qbittorrent, prowlaar, radaar, sonaar, lazy librarian in a docker stack with VPN

• smart home - Homeassistant

• filesync - - > Syncthing (I don’t have problems with long file names - maybe a Windows issue or Linux FS? I use EXT4 on all my devices and don’t use Windows anymore)

Probably 80% increase from baseline. 0% is that background existential dread we all feel.

Looking at your error it’s because Rsync is erroring.

I’d starr by testing Rsync with an individual text file saving to /dev/dm-0 and see what error is returned.

Timeshift is good but it basically is just a tool to use Rsync to save a copy of your system folders (or other folders if you wish).

Rsync needs to be able to read the source and write to the destination, so I’d start with testing that Rsync is able to do that.

Given you’re using an encrypted partition it’s possible you’re trying to read/write to the wrong locations. You’ve provided device UUIDs but you’d probably actually need to be backing up the mounted decrypted locations? I.e. the root file system / will actually be a mounted location in your Linux set up, probably under /run, with symlinka pointing to it for all the different system folder. Similar for /home/ if you want to back up personal files.

The device UUID would point to the filesystem containing the encrypted file (managed by LUKS) which will have very limited read/write permissions, rather than directly to the decryoted contents / or /home partitions as you’d expect in a normal system. In particular if /dev/dm-0 (looks to be an nvme drive) is an encrypted destination then really you also want to be pointing directly to it’s decrypted mounted location to write your files into, not the whole device.

Edit: think of it like this, you don’t want to back up the encrypted container with Timeshift, you want to back up the decryoted contents (your filesystem) into amother location in your filesystem (encrypted or decrypted). If the destination is also an encrypted location you need to back up into its file system, not the device where the encrypted file sits. So use more specific filesystem paths not UUIDs. That would be something like /mnt/folder or /run/folder not /dev/anything as that’s hardware location, and not directly mounted in an encrypted filesystem unlike how it can be in a non-encryoted system.

The article names the game in the headline, not clear why your post needed to try to be click bait?

It’s about OpenMW, the open source game engine to play Morrowind on.

Any points and click adventure game, there are loads including old classics and modern good games.

Monkey Island remasters are fun and can be played with mouse. Broken Sword games are also good.

Rusty Lake games are great if you prefer more puzzle games than narrative ones. Still has a great somewhat surreal plot just not like a point and click narrative game.

Also If you havent played dwarf fortress now is the time to learn, the siege update came out this week. Mouse or keyboard, or both, but definitely can be done one handed.

Vampire Survivor that others have suggested is a good shout, one hand on the keyboard is enough and its very addictive.

100% CPU use doesnt make sense. RAM would be the main constraint not the CPU. Worth looking into - maybe a bug or broken piece of software.

Also the DE may he more the issue than the distro itself. You could install an even more lightweight desktop environment like Open box. Also worth checking whether youre using x11 or Wayland. Its easy to imagine Wayland has not been optimised or extensively tested on something like your device, and could. Easily be a random bug if the DE is pushing your CPU to 100%

There are super lightweight distros like Puppy linux.