dead ram definitely still happens, yes, but it’s exceedingly rare. I fix hundreds of PCs a year, and I maybe get one or two a year where the root cause is actually bad ram. more often it’s configuration issues or hardware implementation issues, for example the gigabyte x870 boards really don’t like XMP for some reason.

ecc doesn’t really have anything to do with whether a ram stick fails or not, it can help with misbehaving sticks but if a stick is dead it’s dead and ecc can’t help a dead region.

smartctl would be what your looking for even for ssds (although ssds fail quick enough that if smartctl catches something there’s a chance it’s already too late, smartd allows for scheduled tests and I’ve definitely saved data off of ssds because I had daily smart tests running that caught early failure).

I however strongly disagree with the hardware issue. there is no indication that this is hardware (honestly hardware accounts for VERY few issues like this, and RAM failing still happens but is 98% a thing of the past). diagnosing without any logs is a bit of a lost cause, we simply don’t have enough info, hopefully OP updates the post with the output of journalctl from the last boot.

I really really loved their old stuff but I can’t even sit through their latest albums. super disappointing honestly

sundowning was the last solid thing they put out imo

factorio?

I once rescued a duckling as well. sometimes duck mothers simply decide they’re just gonna ditch a kid. took about 3 months until it was ready to be released, I had built it a full outside enclosure where it could stay in the meantime, so it was mostly self sufficient towards the end. it definitely did learn to recognize me, and while it still hated being touched, it had absolutely bonded and kept trying to run back to me when I released it.

luckily where I grew up there was a spring fed one where ducks stay year round, so I can actually confirm it’s still there and recognized me up till about 3 years later.

they’re absolutely vicious tho. still have the scars from when I had to handle it!

totato fries with pomato ketchup sounds like a great way to convince someone their having a stroke

musl is very cool and has very specific use cases. workstations are not one of them. you won’t be able to install drivers for gpus for example.

I think there have been some pretty major improvements in that sound tech recently. I remember when I was still using windows 10 a few years ago there wasn’t a good way to have two audio outputs. Android only added that a few years back as well iirc. maybe was possible with some major modifications but now it’s all included oob.

all the time. they would tell me they were gonna search my room as I left for school, then the entire day I’d be thinking about what they may find (usually nothing, but they always managed to make a big deal out of something). I’d come home, they’d make me do homework, eat dinner, etc, then they’d finally sit me down. one time my mother found a dried maple leaf for my 7th grade life science project and assumed it was weed lol. then I would get to go piece my room back together as stuff would kinda be strewn everywhere.

I did have some alcohol hidden every now and then in high school but with how often they searched my room I was able to put it in spots they’d never find.

I pay like 10/year for my domain name.

I also have Spotify (I know it’s a shit service but I don’t have the time to collect all the new music I want to listen to as it comes out).

I pay 3/month for f1tv as well which lets you watch replays all the way back to the 80s.

so in total maybe 15/month towards subscriptions.

I have an old team force ddr4 16gb kitm not exactly top of the line but should do the trick. I’ll gladly sell it to you for a much fairer price than what’s around these days long as you’re in the us. dm me if interested, no worries if not

ah. that’s a shame. I’m with them till 2028 as I bought a decent length package, but I’ll probably switch away after that or sooner if they enshittify. I only use it for p2p and torrent search so I’m not super worried about it for now but that’s good to know.

what’s wrong with PIA? I’ve been pretty pleased with it, is there something I’m missing?

agreed on games. no horror movie or book has ever made me the same way as the time I found out the AI in alien isolation will learn your hiding spots and kill you if you resuse the same one enough.

my grandmother was a programmer at bell in the early 60s and 70s. really curious if she had hands on any of this. wish she was still around to ask lol.

you only realize how cool your grandparents were after they’re gone.

PC stays on until I find a reason to reboot it. most of what I do is in vms so I’m not that concerned about security patches. it’s at 30 days right now without issues.

similar for the server. everything is in docker containers that I restart once or twice a month. it’s around 70 days right now as I had to rebuild a lot of it due to some catastrophic failures.

I’m a big enjoyer of pushd and popd

so if youre in a working dir and need to go work in a different dir, you can pushd ./, cd to the new dir and do your thing, then popd to go back to the old dir without typing in the path again

my HDD with 80k power on hours is gonna have to keep kicking for now I guess

just installed it. to be honest I didn’t mind the r2modman ui but now I’ve seen the light…

thanks haha

very cool! do you know if gale supports the exporting and importing profiles as hash codes? that’s how me and my friends tend to share modpacks.

either way though I’ll check out, thanks.