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I really wish Linux (or ANY OS really) had a standalone 3D app infrastructure. Making resource-heavy games coexist in your windowing system with all the important stuff leads to lots of issues like this.
January 26, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I really wish Linux (or ANY OS really) had a standalone 3D app infrastructure. Making resource-heavy games coexist in your windowing system with all the important stuff leads to lots of issues like this.
Only thing I can think of is that the game was monopolizing some io channel somewhere that every other process was blocked on. Video if I had to guess--it's easy to blame X/Wayland and graphics drivers xD
January 25, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Only thing I can think of is that the game was monopolizing some io channel somewhere that every other process was blocked on. Video if I had to guess--it's easy to blame X/Wayland and graphics drivers xD
oh whoa that's weird, usually Linux's scheduler makes that much less common than with Windows.
January 25, 2026 at 10:46 PM
oh whoa that's weird, usually Linux's scheduler makes that much less common than with Windows.
Since I started writing unit tests my code has worked on the first "real" try waaay more than it used to.
January 25, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Since I started writing unit tests my code has worked on the first "real" try waaay more than it used to.
Other possibilities are that something important like DBus crashed and took down everything that interacted with it. Idk, wild ass guesses.
January 25, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Other possibilities are that something important like DBus crashed and took down everything that interacted with it. Idk, wild ass guesses.
(if my OOM killer hypothesis is correct, it's probably the case that something marked the game as higher priority than the other processes that died. Maybe it got launched as root, yuck)
January 25, 2026 at 9:40 PM
(if my OOM killer hypothesis is correct, it's probably the case that something marked the game as higher priority than the other processes that died. Maybe it got launched as root, yuck)
Having a swap file/partition is a decent safety against this, because it means when you run out of physical RAM, everything just slows down instead of _actually_ running out.
January 25, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Having a swap file/partition is a decent safety against this, because it means when you run out of physical RAM, everything just slows down instead of _actually_ running out.
Linux overcommits virtual memory to make more efficient use of your physical RAM.
The downside is that when you allow processes to allocate more RAM than is actually available, you can't "un-allocate" it when it runs out. You have to just kill processes to reclaim memory.
The downside is that when you allow processes to allocate more RAM than is actually available, you can't "un-allocate" it when it runs out. You have to just kill processes to reclaim memory.
January 25, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Linux overcommits virtual memory to make more efficient use of your physical RAM.
The downside is that when you allow processes to allocate more RAM than is actually available, you can't "un-allocate" it when it runs out. You have to just kill processes to reclaim memory.
The downside is that when you allow processes to allocate more RAM than is actually available, you can't "un-allocate" it when it runs out. You have to just kill processes to reclaim memory.
sounds like it woke the OOM killer and it didn't target the correct culprit.
Search dmesg for the phrase "killed process"
Do you have a swap file or swap partition?
Search dmesg for the phrase "killed process"
Do you have a swap file or swap partition?
January 25, 2026 at 9:35 PM
sounds like it woke the OOM killer and it didn't target the correct culprit.
Search dmesg for the phrase "killed process"
Do you have a swap file or swap partition?
Search dmesg for the phrase "killed process"
Do you have a swap file or swap partition?
Like at my last employer, when we were aiming for GDPR compliance, it was made clear that customer data is customer data no matter where or how it is stored. We were explicitly told that our email inboxes and outboxes, drafts, and even our browser cache still count.
January 24, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Like at my last employer, when we were aiming for GDPR compliance, it was made clear that customer data is customer data no matter where or how it is stored. We were explicitly told that our email inboxes and outboxes, drafts, and even our browser cache still count.
Here's Meta's privacy policy. It's very similarly structured. Like Tiktok's, it says that all data you post is considered collected information, and it calls out specific sensitive things as possibly included
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Here's Meta's privacy policy. It's very similarly structured. Like Tiktok's, it says that all data you post is considered collected information, and it calls out specific sensitive things as possibly included
I know in the course of my work I had to treat all data we had about customers or users with the same care whether it was in a database or buried in some file somewhere.
January 23, 2026 at 11:51 PM
I know in the course of my work I had to treat all data we had about customers or users with the same care whether it was in a database or buried in some file somewhere.
Apologies because I don't know your experience, but I don't think this is true as far as data privacy statutes like GDPR are concerned.
If a company has in its possession data pertaining to you, then it has collected that data, whether it's structured/organized or not.
If a company has in its possession data pertaining to you, then it has collected that data, whether it's structured/organized or not.
January 23, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Apologies because I don't know your experience, but I don't think this is true as far as data privacy statutes like GDPR are concerned.
If a company has in its possession data pertaining to you, then it has collected that data, whether it's structured/organized or not.
If a company has in its possession data pertaining to you, then it has collected that data, whether it's structured/organized or not.
Like, if I post "im gay" on bluesky, then bluesky has collected information about my sexual orientation, as far as privacy laws are concerned.
January 23, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Like, if I post "im gay" on bluesky, then bluesky has collected information about my sexual orientation, as far as privacy laws are concerned.
Nothing _in the document_ says that they're specifically tracking those pieces of information. Now, are they? Probably, but they were probably doing it before too, and so is every other platform.
January 23, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Nothing _in the document_ says that they're specifically tracking those pieces of information. Now, are they? Probably, but they were probably doing it before too, and so is every other platform.
I feel like I'm high or something because what I'm reading from this is:
- "Information you provide" includes everything you post on the platform.
- This _can include_ the things you listed
- All such information may be given to the authorities.
This was already true, they're just spelling it out.
- "Information you provide" includes everything you post on the platform.
- This _can include_ the things you listed
- All such information may be given to the authorities.
This was already true, they're just spelling it out.
January 23, 2026 at 11:01 PM
I feel like I'm high or something because what I'm reading from this is:
- "Information you provide" includes everything you post on the platform.
- This _can include_ the things you listed
- All such information may be given to the authorities.
This was already true, they're just spelling it out.
- "Information you provide" includes everything you post on the platform.
- This _can include_ the things you listed
- All such information may be given to the authorities.
This was already true, they're just spelling it out.
I feel really dumb rn because I'm reading it and all I see is "if you post your sexual orientation, that means we know your sexual orientation"
Like it's just clarifying that everything you post on tiktok is included in "information"
Like it's just clarifying that everything you post on tiktok is included in "information"
January 23, 2026 at 10:48 PM
I feel really dumb rn because I'm reading it and all I see is "if you post your sexual orientation, that means we know your sexual orientation"
Like it's just clarifying that everything you post on tiktok is included in "information"
Like it's just clarifying that everything you post on tiktok is included in "information"
Like to me it seems like all they're doing is reminding you that anything you post on tiktok is information tiktok has about you for the purposes of this privacy policy.
January 23, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Like to me it seems like all they're doing is reminding you that anything you post on tiktok is information tiktok has about you for the purposes of this privacy policy.
I feel dumb because isn't this literally just saying "if you post this information, that means we have it"?
Am I missing context?
Am I missing context?
January 23, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I feel dumb because isn't this literally just saying "if you post this information, that means we have it"?
Am I missing context?
Am I missing context?
January 22, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Trump made a LOT of noise about prosecuting his political opponents, especially Clinton. In response, the Dems strongly objected and said that prosecuting political opponents was never okay. And now they're in a situation where their political opponent is committing crimes left and right...
January 20, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Trump made a LOT of noise about prosecuting his political opponents, especially Clinton. In response, the Dems strongly objected and said that prosecuting political opponents was never okay. And now they're in a situation where their political opponent is committing crimes left and right...
This is a tangent but I've been thinking for a while how chillingly Trump's reign has kind of mirrored Berlusconi's. Berlusconi was equally criminal, corrupt, vulgar and shameless. I almost think Trump used him as inspiration. Luckily for Italy, Berlusconi was not quite as harmful as Trump is.
January 20, 2026 at 9:21 PM
This is a tangent but I've been thinking for a while how chillingly Trump's reign has kind of mirrored Berlusconi's. Berlusconi was equally criminal, corrupt, vulgar and shameless. I almost think Trump used him as inspiration. Luckily for Italy, Berlusconi was not quite as harmful as Trump is.
Are you asking opponents of Trump to vote for politicians who will fight him or to fight him outside the system or both? Because I feel like I'm hearing mixed messages here.
Him not being punished was a failure of the Democratic party, and we have no real alternative as voters.
Him not being punished was a failure of the Democratic party, and we have no real alternative as voters.
January 20, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Are you asking opponents of Trump to vote for politicians who will fight him or to fight him outside the system or both? Because I feel like I'm hearing mixed messages here.
Him not being punished was a failure of the Democratic party, and we have no real alternative as voters.
Him not being punished was a failure of the Democratic party, and we have no real alternative as voters.