So you need the self control required to add this extension for those sites you don’t have the self control not to visit too often?
DigitalDilemma
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DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernelEnglish9·4 days agoIf it prevents us having another crappy week thanks to the like of Crowdstrike, good.
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Bad issues with system load on Mint DesktopEnglish2·4 days agoOk - and what sort of cpu load do they have?
htop will also show the cpu bars and the breakdown of that - whether it’s pure cpu or iowait, which is when the cpu can’t do anything because it’s waiting on disk or network.
And how’s your memory usage looking?
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Europe@lemmy.ml•Europe is building a new ‘Iron Curtain’– with millions of landminesEnglish15·5 days agodeleted by creator
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Bad issues with system load on Mint DesktopEnglish3·5 days agoI’m guessing you’ve already turned it off and on again. If not, seriously, do that. It works more time than it doesn’t for random weirdness.
Run ‘htop’ and sort by CPU (it’s a friendlier and better version of ‘top’. That’ll show you what processes are using the most CPU
Whilst you’re in there, check the free memory. If that’s low, or swap usage is high, then use htop to sort by memory usage to find what’s using the most.
If you see processes you don’t recognise, hit google and find out why. It’s very unlikely they’re malicious, but it’s far less common on linux than Windows to have random processes doing unknown stuff. If it’s using a lot of cpu or memory, there’ll be a reason. It might be a dumb reason, but you will be able to find it out.
And then when you know what the guilty process is, if it is that, and it’s not critical - you can stop it with systemctl and narrow down what’s afoot.
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Europe@lemmy.ml•Europe is building a new ‘Iron Curtain’– with millions of landminesEnglish15·5 days agoRemoved by mod
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance memeEnglish7·6 days agoIt’s for the best, really.
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto News•Iran government moves to block major oil, gas routeEnglish831·8 days agoGosh, I wonder what stirred them up?
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People who are MENSA members, are there benefits? Do you get discounts on anything? I'll never qualify, so I gotta ask.English15·8 days agoBlame the Romans.
Both words are derived from late Latin mentalis, from Latin mens, ment- ‘mind’.
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Mildly Infuriating•The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concreteEnglish181·10 days agoExactly. Yet another truly awful something is about to happen that’ll get buried under his new patio.
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Fuck Cars•Limit new car dimensions by 2035: proposal from civil society to the EUEnglish13·17 days agoYES!
UK lawmakers - please take note also. Not just in cities but we find them jammed up in our country lanes too, and regularly crossing the centre line on B-roads.
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and LinuxEnglish4·18 days agoBefore this year, the thought of an entirely arbitrary block to things like American cloud services by America to its European allies would have seemed extremely unlikely. It would make no sense, the damage to America and it’s GDP would far outweigh any any political benefit.
All of those reasons still hold true, but I absolutely assure you, European governments and companies all over have that possibility firmly in their risk portfolio now. America tells microsoft to immediately not only stop selling products in Europe, but disable those already in use? Ditto Google. Ditto Apple. Ditto all the hundreds of IT hardware producers that are American. Want to cripple a foreign government that uses MS Office? Remotely disable it. job done. Sure, it would be illegal, but America’s government has no respect for law.
(Even before this, several European governments were using open source (Germany, France, Austria, Portugal - there’s a list but this is less about idealism and more about protecting themselves from the unpredictable as well as not trusting America with their data any more. Every thing like this can only be seen as non Americans distancing themselves from America every way they can, and with good reason.)
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•how long have you known your s/o, non single people?English4·19 days agoIf you know, you know.
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•how long have you known your s/o, non single people?English5·19 days agoKnown 35 years next month. Married 35 years in November.
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Divorcees of Lemmy, why did your marriage end?English8·21 days agoafter our kid was born she said I smelled differently and she was repulsed by me.
Oh, man, that’s brutal.
Other have answered the runtime and load question very well already.
I have three other points.
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Batteries degrade over time. Over-speccing your UPS means more likelyhood that things will hold up in three years time as the capacity given is for new ones. Plus, not running your UPS at 100% capacity reduces its stress. Again, more reliable.
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You can get a much better quality UPS by buying a second hand one without batteries off ebay and replacing them yourself, typically for a fraction of the cost of buying new. Plus you know you have new batteries. UPS is something where quality genuinely matters. I’ve had to carry a cheap and badly made UPS out of an office whilst it was on fire, so now I spec more carefully. (And ensure they’re metal bodied!)
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Consider what you NEED to power. What sort of power cuts are you expecting? Does it matter if something goes down?
I UPS my servers and my main desktop, but not my routers, nor my wifi or IOT things. My internet provider also goes out when there’s a cut (I’m on a mesh system so rely on neighbours, who will typically also be down) and I can’t do much without power anyway, but it keeps the disks spinning. We typically get very short automated outages here of less than 10s (yesterday was a bad day, we had 9 within 2 hours)
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I mean, we knew that anyway, right?
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Is there anybody over here who can tell me more about smart meters ?English3·25 days agoBecause Musk has turned it into somewhere that hate speech is not only tolerated, but encouraged.
Lemmy is literally the antithesis of X, no wonder you’re being downvoted.
DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•Is there anybody over here who can tell me more about smart meters ?English31·25 days agoWhy are you cross posting content from a hate site?
It’s only true if it’s enforced, isn’t it?