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The same thing can happen in Windows. Only difference, really, is that Linux tells you that there’s a problem and the Event Viewer doesn’t. You just end up with a hung Windows PC or a screwed up USB port that won’t work anymore after it happens enough times.

Oftentimes what causes it is undocumented firmware “features” that need to be turned on via a proprietary driver (for your USB device). The vendor “supports” Windows but not Linux so they never bothered to submit any patches to fix issues like that. It’s that Linux fault? Not really. It’s the fault of the shitty vendor.

It’s always some bargain basement piece of shit Chinese-made USB device that causes these sorts of problems. The type of thing that can happen when even the vendor of the product didn’t know a counterfeit chip ended up in their device.

To be fair, “avoid change at all costs!” Has been the Republican motto for a long time now. It’s right up there with, “ignore reality.”

Too stupid to notice? No. Too meek to do anything about it? Yes! That sums up Windows users in a nutshell.

Because Montunreal was the little engine that could.

I had this same thing happen a while back. You know what it was? A bad USB device!

I had a little USB debug probe that went bad (somehow) and it totally screwed up my USB hub’s ability to… Stay stable? Haha, that’s the best way to put it.

Anyway, the fix was to remove the device and disconnect the USB hub (and its power) for a few seconds. If I ever reconnected the probe, the problem would recur within an hour or two.

Here’s how you can check for something similar: Run dmesg and look for regular messages like, “unable to enumerate device”. It’ll tell you which bus and port it’s on but that’s not easy to figure out so just keep unplugging things until you get the one matching the device that’s regularly throwing errors in dmesg. Keep it disconnected, power everything off (PC, USB hub’s, etc) for a few seconds and then try running without that device for a while. It might be the culprit!

Mandate that all data centers be self powered via renewable energy sources already!

thin wafer hosts Jeez-its 👍

You know they’re just buildings full of servers, right?

I mean, I’d rather have a data center than some toxic chemical factory or a busy warehouse in my neighborhood. Data centers just… sit there. They use a lot of power and some use a lot of water, but if your region doesn’t have power/water problems it’s not really much of an impact.

A nation’s supercomputing power used to be something people celebrated. Especially one owned and operated by a place like Los Alamos National Laboratory.

[waves hand] It’s fine. Just have to 3D print the new body and a regulation that requires everyone take a body of the opposite sex. That way trans people can get the right body and the rich can gain some empathy for trans people real fast.

Must be some serious bathroom if “balls to the wall” is a real concern. Probably some full throttle pissing going on!

Interesting: I guess we’re about to officially find out just who he considers “a person”.

Chess. It’s over 1500 years old!