Why are they competing in a European tournament in the first place? Israel isn’t in Europe according to any map I’ve ever seen.

Switzerland, not Sweden.

Not sure what you’re trying to ask, are you asking if using sudo to sign in as a different user will make kernel updates take effect? If so, the answer is no.

Linux is an operating system kernel, which basically means it’s a program which runs other programs inside of it. For any “normal” program running inside Linux, you can update it by installing the new version and then exiting and relaunching the program so that the installed updates take effect. Similarly, after installing the Linux kernel itself, you have to exit and restart the kernel in order for the update to take effect. Because the kernel runs programs inside of it, exiting the kernel means all of those programs will be exited as well, and because the kernel is the only program running directly on the hardware, exiting the kernel means that your computer will power off. In simpler terms: getting kernel updates to take effect necessarily means you need to exit the old kernel and launch the new one, and there is no way to do that without reboot.

This assumes you have a machine which supports proper S3 sleep, which newer devices increasingly do not :(

A lot of modern laptops only support S0 “modern standby”, which basically means the kernel puts all processes including itself on pause, but the CPU and all other components are still powered despite being idle.

Depends on your setup :) My PC pulls somewhere around 80W just for RAM.

(tested by comparing the idle power draw with only one DIMM installed vs all of them)

Just chiming in to point out that powering off and then starting back up won’t cause any additional SSD wear, reading from flash memory doesn’t use up write cycles* (because there is no writing going on!). In fact, regularly restarting could be slightly more friendly for your SSD, because the /tmp directory, old log files, etc. get deleted on startup, freeing up the storage blocks used by the deleted files so that the SSD can use them for its internal wear balancing.

*technically, flash memory reads do very slightly degrade the data being read, but this effect is absolutely negligible compared to other forms of passive bit rot in flash memory and is basically irrelevant unless you’re intentionally trying to corrupt data using reads (which won’t happen because the flash controller will fix it before it becomes corrupt to the point of being illegible)

I can’t believe they removed the photo of a dead pigeon captioned “An example of packet loss.”

i read this as cistern and was very confused

cute skirt :)

it’s the mispeling vyrus

sauce?

okay but unironically if i could inject chlorophyll into my skin and could just lounge in the sun for a few hours a day instead of eating i would sign up immediately

Botulinum toxin

It is higher than the banana, relative to the direction they’re oriented. Determining which orientation is correct is left as an exercise to the reader.

There is nothing nuclear about microwaves.

I have never had to do anything more than sudo apt install nvidia-driver, even with wacky setups such as:

• Nvidia GPU connected with an ExpressCard eGPU dock to a ThinkPad with integrated Intel graphics
• two Nvidia GPUs, an AMD GPU and an Intel GPU all in the same system

EDIT: debian btw

I find myself simultaneously relieved and disappointed that the misspelled version of this meme has died out.

Ironic that the thumbnail is a bunch of Dell servers.

and don’t get me started on tumbleweed

that’s the point