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5 votes
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Every Google result now looks like an ad
@craigmod: There's something strange about the recent design change to google search results, favicons and extra header text: they all look like ads, which is perhaps the point?
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For years, Microsoft has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law.
21 votes -
Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” plot was real after all
16 votes -
How ‘West Side Story’ was reborn: Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020
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Holding a city hostage is ‘peaceful’ now? I’ve been to peaceful protests before. The gun rally in Richmond was not that
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Challenging projects every programmer should try
11 votes -
Tencent announces offer to acquire full ownership of Funcom
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Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps & Their Johns
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If you could experience anything in the past what would it be?
If you had a time machine that would let you experience the past, but not change it, what would you do?
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DirecTV fears explosion risk from satellite with damaged battery
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American Psycho: An oral history, twenty years after its divisive debut
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Becoming a man
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What are you doing this week?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week. If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their week.
If you have any plans, goals, accomplishments, or even failures, whether they be personal or work related, I'd love to hear about them. This is a place for casual discussion about your week, past, present, and future.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this week?
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Breaking down the controversy around "American Dirt," an Oprah Book Club pick that's been called "trauma-porn melodrama"
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[SOLVED] Tech support request: Recovering from hard crashes in Linux
EDIT: Latest update This is something so rudimentary that I'm a little embarrassed to ask, but I've also tried looking around online to no avail. One of the hard parts about being a Linux newbie...
EDIT: Latest update
This is something so rudimentary that I'm a little embarrassed to ask, but I've also tried looking around online to no avail. One of the hard parts about being a Linux newbie is that the amount of support material out there seems to differ based on distro, DE, and also time, so posts from even a year or two ago can be outdated or inapplicable.
Here's my situation: I'm a newbie Linux user running Pop!_OS 19.10 with the GNOME desktop environment. Occasionally, games I'm playing will hard crash and lock up my system completely, leaving a still image of the game frozen on the screen indefinitely. The system stays there, completely unresponsive to seemingly any inputs. It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's almost always when I'm running a Windows game through Steam's Proton layer. I suspect it also might have something to do with graphics drivers, as I'll at times notice an uptick in frequency after certain updates, though that might just be me finding a suspicious pattern where none exists.
Anyway, what I don't know how to do is gracefully exit or recover from these crashes. No keyboard shortcut seems to work, and I end up having to hold the power button on my computer until it abruptly shuts off. This seems to be the "worse case scenario" for handling it, so if there is a better way I should go about this, I'd love to know about it.
EDIT: I really want to thank everyone for their help so far. My initial question has been answered, and for posterity's sake I'd like to post the solution here, to anyone who is searching around for this same issue and ends up in this thread:
- Use
CTRL+ALT+F3/F4/F5/F6
keys to access a terminal, where you can try to kill any offending processes and reboot if needed. - If that fails, use
ALT+SYSRQ+R-E-I-S-U-B
.
With that out of the way, I've added more information about the crashes specifically to the thread, primarily here, and some people are helping me out with diagnosing the issue. This thread is now less about the proper way to deal with the crash than it is about trying to identify the cause of the crash and prevent it in the first place.
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A battle for the soul of Marfa, Texas: What happens when a wealthy patron wears out his welcome?
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New microscopy technique shows cells’ 3D ultrastructure in new detail
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With neither tyrants nor fascists: An anarchist analysis of the growing fight against anti-gun legislation in Virginia
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Group AMA with developers from the Half-Life: Alyx team
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A shipwreck off Florida’s coast pits archaeologists against treasure hunters
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Utah has voted to ban LGBTQ+ conversion therapy for children, becoming the 19th US state to outlaw the discredited practice
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Netflix announces The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, an anime film from Studio Mir
@nxonnetflix: The rumors are true, a new Witcher story is in the works! The anime film, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, will take us back to a new threat facing the Continent. Brought to you by the Witcher team @LHissrich and @BeauDeMayo, and Studio Mir the studio behind Legend of Korra.
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If you could make any event(s) in history not happen, which one(s) would you pick?
I didn't know tildes has trending topics. I'd either pick the rise of the bolsheviks in Russia (You can replace them with the mensheviks, who wanted to abide by democracy.), The division of the...
I didn't know tildes has trending topics.
I'd either pick the rise of the bolsheviks in Russia (You can replace them with the mensheviks, who wanted to abide by democracy.), The division of the HRE (A united germany in 900CE would be very consequential.) And the rise of the hapsburgs in what would be Austria-Hungary, since it meshed a dozen linguistic groups together.
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The Dreadnought Diaries - A new series of development diaries following upcoming projects at Ninja Theory
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Establishing a type scale and hierarchy
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I scratch-built and kit-bashed this spaceship
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The audacious effort to reforest the planet
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Belarus started importing oil from Norway on Tuesday after Russia, its main oil provider, suspended supplies earlier this month
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Plans and vision for the future of Stack Overflow
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Terry Jones: Monty Python star dies aged 77
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Copenhagen crowned Europe's healthiest city – factors included things like life expectancy, the percent of GDP allocated to healthcare and the cost of fruit and vegetables
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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The Netflix documentary Cheer shows viewers that all kinds of people become cheerleaders, for all kinds of reasons — and some are profoundly changed by it
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America’s radioactive secret: Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year
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Are there any remakes as good as the original movie?
I was chatting with a friend today and this question came up - I drew a complete blank. Aside from a few foreign movies retranslated into a completely different context, like Seven Samurai and The...
I was chatting with a friend today and this question came up - I drew a complete blank.
Aside from a few foreign movies retranslated into a completely different context, like Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, most remakes don't even approach the quality of the original, for my tastes.
Please enlighten me if you're aware of any superior, or even equivalent remakes that tell roughly the same story with the same characters.
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California's new groundwater law explained
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Everything you need to know about dry-aging duck at home
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Farming insects – to feed animals
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A decade ago, a new spirit of tolerance of the avant garde blossomed in Russia. But these days, it’s impossible to know where the lines are—as the country’s most celebrated director discovered
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On vice
As far as "vice" is concerned, do any of you draw the line somewhere? For example, has anyone here been to a strip club? Paid for sex? Engaged in recreational use of illegal drugs? Gambled? I was...
As far as "vice" is concerned, do any of you draw the line somewhere? For example, has anyone here been to a strip club? Paid for sex? Engaged in recreational use of illegal drugs? Gambled?
I was inspired by this post and was wondering where ya'll stand.
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Smartphones have blurred the distinction between different spaces by turning anywhere into a place you can work, watch TV/videos, talk with friends, and more
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The two types of randomness
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What are your favorite meals to prep for a week?
In an attempt to get somewhat back into shape, I've recently taken up meal prepping again. I love cooking but my previous job was ~60 hour weeks, and some things had to be sacrificed because there...
In an attempt to get somewhat back into shape, I've recently taken up meal prepping again. I love cooking but my previous job was ~60 hour weeks, and some things had to be sacrificed because there just wasn't enough time in the day. However, I have a somewhat more normal job now and I can get back into the things I love(d) to do.
I made some teriyaki salmon and veggies for the next week: https://imgur.com/a/GCFPeJS
Recipe: https://www.lecremedelacrumb.com/one-pan-baked-teriyaki-salmon-and-vegetables/
I'm not good with fish and I rarely try to cook with it (landlocked state so it's hard to get it fresh), l but I found that fish-based dishes very generally tend to be healthier and dairy-free (lactose-intolerant).
What are your favorite foods to prep for a week? Got any recipes? Any tips for a fledgling beginner?
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In Paris, the rebuilding of Notre Dame is being shaped by history, myth, and Emmanuel Macron
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You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today!
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Denmark to finally allow gay and bisexual men to give blood – but only after four month abstinence period
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Half-Life and Half-Life 2 (including both episodes) are free to play on Steam until Half-Life: Alyx launches in March
14 votes