@YurkshireLad

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Don't think I have any other local College Ward followers on here, but just in case there is a lone lurker, and you are unaware of the outage tomorrow:

#collegeWard #OttawaHydro

My daughter goes back to university tomorrow, so I'm feeling really sad. It's been a wonderful couple of weeks with her. #parenting

I went back and installed Debian 13 (KDE) and it works, but there's a frequent system stutter/pause where the mouse stops moving and everything momentarily pauses. It seems to coincide with a spike from a Wayland process.

My laptop has an AMD CPU + a discrete NVIDIA card. I assume it uses the onboard GPU by default.

It's very annoying and I'll have to try to get a different distro working.

#linux #text #wayland #kde

I tried installing OpenSuse Tumbleweed from USB but the installer reaches a black screen with a single dash character in the top left corner and sits there forever. This Linux experiment is turning into a disaster.

#linux #OpenSuse #tech

Oh FFS, one of my tyres has been Slashed.

Does anyone have any recommendations for individual task management apps or sites that are _not_ based in the USA or UK?

I'm migrating everything to safer, freer lands. I love Todoist, but unfortunately it's hosted in the USA.

I installed Fedora and tried to install almost 900 system updates through their GUI app. There was no indication it was doing anything so I clicked cancel so I could switch to the shell. Fedora immediately restarted but wouldn’t boot as it was now broken. Sigh.

#linux #fedora #tech

Does anybody have a good recommendation for a book about the history of cooking ingredients? For example I'd love to read about how onions came to travel the world and be a staple in nearly every type of cooking.

#books #history

The lockup happened when installing Steam via their GUI package manager.

I forcefully shutdown the laptop and rebooted. It locked up again when I tried to reinstall Steam, just in case the first install failed. The lockup happened during the post transactions.

#linux #manjaro #tech

Wow, a hard lockup on Manjaro Linux. Haven’t seen one of those in Linux for quite a while.

#linux #manjaro #tech