Do you experience unexplained crashes or freeze-ups on your Ubuntu (or other) Linux based home theater PC or gaming system? Here is a possible fix!

After installing Ubuntu 22.04, Kodi on a home theater PC would frequently freeze. This issue, applicable to various Linux distros, can be resolved by increasing the vm.max_map_count value in sysctl.conf. This setting controls the maximum number of memory map areas a process may have, crucial for applications like Kodi that use numerous memory-mapped files.

https://twosortoftechguys.wordpress.com/2024/04/25/do-you-experience-unexplained-crashes-or-freeze-ups-on-your-ubuntu-or-other-linux-based-home-theater-pc-or-gaming-system-here-is-a-possible-fix/

Sounds more like #ChristianNationalism Day🤔

Trump wants Election Day to be called "Christian Visibility Day"😬

“Former President #Trump at a Tuesday night rally in Wisconsin said he wants #Election Day this year to be called "#ChristianVisibilityDay."

Why it matters: It comes as #Republicans criticize the #Biden White House for recognizing #Transgender Day of Visibility — which happened to fall on #Easter Sunday this year”

#fascism #Fascists #voteblue
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/03/trump-wants-christian-visibility-day

All I can say is that if the Consumer Product Safety Commission goes along with this and the current high prices are maintained, people (specifically home woodwookers) will just improvise their own home-built table saws, either by modifying portable circular saws or by buiding table saws using standard electric motors salvaged from old appliances, furnaces, etc. I know this is possible because my dad built one using (I think) an old washing machine motor, and he used it to saw all the lumber he used to build his garage. Was it safe by today's standards? No way, but it did work and somehow he managed to not lose any fingers.

Home-built units will be even less safe that the currently available commercial models, but they will be affordable for people who are not in the construction trades, and they are really not that hard to build. Clearly nobody seems to have really considered the unintended consequences of this potential regulation.

Another alternative will be just using portable circular saws (with or without rip fences) which also aren't quite as safe but are very affordable, plus they tend to show up at yard sales. And I will be shocked if no videos appear showing circular saw to table saw conversions.

Don't get me wrong, the safe table saw is a great idea, and I would love to see this safety feature on every table saw if it is reasonably priced (adding not more than a few dollars to the cost above where current models are priced), but not if it means obscene profits for a single company that may be price gouging if the #CPSC allows it. Experienced builders are probably going to hate them anyway, because they may falsely trigger on lumber that is a little too "green" (ever seen how wet some pressure-treated lumber is right after you buy it?) and my understanding is that when the #safety mechanism is triggered it totally destroys the saw blade. Which is a small price to pay to save fingers, but if it turns out that it false triggers a lot then people will just find a way to disable the safety mechanism (to avoid having to continually buy and change out saw blades), defeating the whole purpose.

How much would you pay to make sure you never sawed off a finger?
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/how-much-would-you-pay-to-make-sure-you-never-sawed-off-a-finger-20240331-p5fgdd.html

#ProductSafety #regulation #patent #ConsumerSafety #GovernmentPolicy #GovernmentOverreach

My opinion is that the correct response to Fedi Garden (or any other instance that says they won't federate with an instance that federates with #Threads ) should be:

"You go to hell!"

This is no different than if you throw a party and invite several people and a few of them say "we won't come if certain other people you've invited are there." If you are polite, you might say "Sorry, we'll miss you." If, however, you think they are just a bunch of assholes trying to tell you who you can or cannot associate with, you might tell them to just f**k right off.

I get it, they all hate Zuckerberg, but they're not punishing Zuckerberg. If anything, they are driving Mastodon users to create Threads accounts so they can communicate with their friends there, rather than communicate with them through Mastodon. Zuckerberg couldn't care less. It is your USERS you are hurting if you block Threads.

I get defederating an instance if they are doing something really bad. But wanting to be able to follow Threads users in and of itself is not bad. Zuck is arguably bad, some other individual Threads users are bad, but the bulk of Threads users are probably not bad and I for one would like to be able to read what they post without having to set up an account on Threads. And if the #FediGarden people don't like it, they should be told to stick their #authoritarian nonsense where the sun don't shine.

Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed”
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/block-threads-to-remain-listed/
#fediverse #Mastodon

Donald Trump has, for years, used Christian imagery as a powerful rhetorical tool.

@axios built this collection of stories on Trump's $59.99 bibles, why evangelicals support him and more.

https://flip.it/S8_GbW

#Trump #Religion #Evangelical #USPolitics #Politics #ChristianNationalism

Georgia GOP vice chairman, a vocal 2020 election denier, voted illegally 9 times

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-gop-vice-chairman-brian-pritchard-voted-illegally-9-times-felony

Meet ANYmal, a four-legged dog-like robot designed by researchers at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, in hopes of using such robots for search-and-rescue on building sites or disaster areas, among other applications. Now ANYmal has been upgraded to perform rudimentary parkour moves, aka "free running", Ars Technica reports:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/these-swiss-scientists-taught-their-four-legged-robot-to-do-parkour/

#robot #anymal #parkour