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grey@pod.tchncs.de
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Wtf is wrong with my T43? This is driving me insane. It had been having weird crashes for a while and I determined the HD was just old and dying so I replaced it, and then tried to install the new OS. (LXLE)

I STILL had weird crashes while I was trying to install LXLE so I ran a memtest it showed a bunch of failures. So I bought new RAM, put it in, and then installed LXLE again. I STILL kept getting weird crashes. And now apparently whatever program starts the LXDE desktop became corrupt because all I get is a wallpaper and a cursor on startup, there's nothing to click or interact with.
So I ran another memtest and it says THE NEW RAM I JUST BOUGHT IS ALSO BAD. How is that possible?

I just don't understand what is going on anymore. I need to get work done, my X60 is dying and now I can't even get the T43 to run after bying new parts for it because I don't understand what is causing these corruptions.

#computer #computers #pc #pcs #thinkpad #thinkpads #linux #lxle #gnu #bugs

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georgehank@pluspora.com
JĂĽrgen Erhard

A wish

I wish all devs would refrain from “solutions” like (the below is in the context of games, obvs, but it’s a general problem):

Try restarting Steam
Please verify your files
Please try removing mods (if you use them)
Please try turning off steam cloud
Try exclusive window mode
Try running the game using safe mode option (no mods)
Try resetting your game settings

Because this is just wild stabbing in the dark, not fixing anything. Imagine you bringing your car to the shop (the game these “fixes” are for is Car Mechanic Simulator 2018) and them just whacking at different parts of the engine in hopes that’ll “fix” it. Lists like this just mean that you have no actual idea what’s going on. But it’s your code, you should know, or at least know how to debug this.

“Try restarting your router” is an other favorite. You have no clue, but are too chicken to even admit that!

#debugging #cms2018 #carmechanicsimulator #gamedev #softwaredev #bugs #fixing #knowing-not-guessing
#repost-with-hashtags #we-will-never-get-editing-of-posts

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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com
Doc Morbius (moved to Glasswings)

Toto, this isn't in Vegas anymore

So, a certain web browser from a certain company on its specific mobile OS, has long offered an "incognito" feature which promises it won't save browsing history, cookies, or form entries.

Because reasons, largely the absolute failure of any meaningful tab management in said browser, I use that mode neaarly exclusively --- otherwise tabs simply grow without limit, and pruning capabilities simply do not exist.

Periodic browser and OS crashes are of coursse annoying, but do have the side effect of ... affording a sort of tab management of last resort: the incognito session existing at the time of the crash is immolated.

Or at least that's the spec.

When my OS (rhymes with "Dan Floyd") crashed yesterday, taking down the browser (rhymes with "Drone"), I was startled to see ... numerous ... of tabs opened in an incognito session prepended to the default session tabset.

How many I'm not sure of (the browser makes assessing this all but impossible), though it seems that some are missing, or pershaps the order sequence is different, but it's at least several score (Hi, my name isn't really Edward Morbius and I'm a tabaholic). I'd had a specific set of tabs leftmost in the incognito sesion, and have not yet seen these in the default set, so some may be absent.

But yeah, for what's been an ironclad "what happens in Vegas" promise, shit's done fucked up, yo.

History's been retained, and has crossed contexts.

That's pretty Boogled.

Mind, I am so done carrying water for the organisation involved. But they're now failing core competencies. Like, in keeping information, the world's or individuals ', properly organised.

#software #WebBrowsers #privacy #bugs #privacy #NotInVegas #ShouldNeverHappen

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