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Town meeting
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Is it really just sexism? An alternative argument for why women leave STEM
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Disco Elysium | Hardcore mode and ultrawide support now available
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The Yang Gang and its bots
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New browser on the block: Flow
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People Make Games travels to Hong Kong to interview Blitzchung, the Hearthstone pro banned by Blizzard last year
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Bank isn’t happy with its owner
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The George (H.W) Bush promise that changed the Republican party
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Steam Lunar New Year 2020 Sale - The Year of the Rat (Now through Jan 27 at 10 AM PST)
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Housemarque's 25th anniversary is this year, and they've put all other projects on hold to focus on finishing an unannounced game they've been working on for three years
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Balancing act: How developers approach making games feel "fair"
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With great tech comes great responsibility - A student guide for navigating ethical issues in the tech industry
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A software engineer's advice for saving social media: keep it small
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
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You must time-travel to any time before 1799 and never come back. Where do you go?
The time-travel is mandatory, and you must go to any point in Earth history before 1799. You cannot time-travel back. When do you go to, and why? Inspired by a similar post.
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Way-too-early 2020 CFB Rankings
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Handbook on countering Russian and Chinese interference in Europe
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Van Der Graaf - Cats Eye (1977 unreleased video)
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Can you defeat the privacy chicken?
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Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic
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China to bar eleven million residents from leaving Wuhan, the city at the centre of coronavirus outbreak
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KÅRP – Left Handed (2020)
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Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in East Africa
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Supreme Court has granted Sámi in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on its land – and not the Swedish state
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Carbon-neutral in fifteen years? Finland – the country with an ambitious plan
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Denmark has finished top of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2019 – Danes finished joint first with New Zealand with a score of eighty-seven
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Hades | The Long Winter update trailer
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Do hierarchies lead to a stronger society?
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Boeing's woes continue: 737 Max fix slips to summer—and that’s just one of Boeing’s problems
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NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine on the year ahead: ‘A lot of things have to go right’
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The Hamilton Hustle
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Why we should change Australia Day ... to the fourth Friday in January
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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.
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Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” plot was real after all
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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
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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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