I mean in the grand scheme of things there are only a handful of types of people, maybe a few hundred and those types repeat over and over. Everyone has their own unique experiences, personal drama and relationships, but their behavior and core traits are shared with probably millions of people throughout history. Thinking you are unique is not a rational belief and if it becomes integral to one’s personality (like it has to millions of people before them) I think they should be mocked, just for the sake of getting their heads straight.
It’s not that you aren’t allowed to be the most important character of your story, it’s just that you shouldn’t think that’s because you are something that never was before and never will be after.
The way I think about it is that we’re all “snowflakes”. No two people are exactly the same. So while one can correctly claim to be unique that also applies to everyone else. It’s not like everyone else is the same but you’re unique. Also, being unique doesn’t automatically mean someone is better than others - one can also be uniquely bad.
Having that button doesn’t automatically result in that feature actually working. The development stakeholders don’t seem to be interested in it actually working other than chance and given that even Windows and macOS moved to “always connected” suspend instead of full sleep with hibernation, I don’t see a push for feature parity on the horizon (that’s why Windows laptops and more recently also MacBooks often cannot wake up because the battery is depleted). It’s really bad and IMO one of the few big problems to solve (at least on my Windows notebook because of its broken regular suspend, I can force it into hibernation).
I had somewhat decent success making a swap file (not a partition):
Depends on your distro. You need to set up all the requirements for hibernation (like “enough swap space to store current memory contents + whatever is left in swap” and zswap doesn’t count).
IIRC Fedora defaults to ZRAM instead of swap, so you probably need to set up a swap partition first. I don’t know if you need to disable ZRAM, but you probably need enough swap space on disk to store the contents uncompressed.
You’ll also need to modify the kernel parameters/initramfs configuration to add the resume parameters in the right spots, or the system will hibernate but not try to resume your session on boot.
Then there may be some selinux issues depending on if Fedora fixed them or not. I don’t think hibernation is supported by default on Fedora so you may need to tweak things like polkit files to get the permissions right.
I believe running the command sudo systemctl hibernate should manually induce hibernation. You can use it to test if your computer even has the ability to hibernate before figuring out what permission tweaks you need for KDE. Make sure you’ve saved your work before trying that, though, as not all systems will wake from hibernation without further troubleshooting.
You may also need to disable security settings like secure boot and/or kernel lockdown mode it hibernation might be refused.
You’ll also need to modify the kernel parameters/initramfs configuration to add the resume parameters in the right spots, or the system will hibernate but not try to resume your session on boot.
In the right spots? I was in the impression you only need to do that so one place, in the bootloader’s boot entry (or, yeah, if there are multiple entries then possibly each one). Which other places should I also look?
Also, I’ve recently set up hibernateion for someone, and IIRC forgetting the resume= kernel parameter is not that critical today because it will immediately resume instead of completing shutdown.
If you think your dad was sent to fight against the Nazis for ideological opposition, i have bad news for you. Maybe he personally fought out of that motivation, but must countries at the time were either fascist themselves or on the edge to fascism.
If you look at the US there was the ongoing genocide against native Americans, the racial segregation, eugenics, despicable human experimentation carried out on minorities, concentration camps for Japanese during WW2… Even the pledge to the flag in the schools was something Hitler admired and copied. Until the German Nazis became unpopular in the US the pledge to the flag with done with the “Bellamy Salute” that is the same as the Nazi salute. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute
What is different though is that after WW2 it was understood which social problems, in particular fucking over the lower and middle class, create the breeding ground for fascism to be successful. Since the 1980s with Thatcher and Reagan and then the neoliberal wave over Europe, we had 40 years of deliberately empowering fascism. Now they reap what they sew.
I have to differ on your last point. I don’t think capitalism is necessarily at fault, nor must the working/middle classes be struggling for fascism to emerge. If anything, quite the opposite. It is the better off countries that end up turning fascist. All fascist countries are/were first world countries, in various states of advanced development.
I think it would be more accurate to say that fascism is an extreme form of imperialism, because they are ultimately very similar sentiments. A more powerful group taking advantage in various ways, of a less powerful group. Now you could say, “it’s all the same thing”, capitalism, imperialism, fascism, it’s all the same “hierarchy is the ultimate source of evil dynamic”, but it seems to me that this just reduces all these concepts to absurdity.
Fascism is also on the rise because of improved technology for thought control / propaganda / public relations / advertising. Social media lets the worst of humanity band together and pool their energy.
But wealth inequality, both worse effective quality of life for the poor and increased economic power by the wealthy is I believe a main driver. Technology is just the tool. The ultra wealthy and their lackeys today have more power than ever and are more isolated and inundated with ideology that is basically insane.
I wonder if there are studies that show correlations between quality of life and fascism in different nations.
Capitalisms’ unsustainable model of infinite growth requires something like imperialism to keep going, and even if you could point out alternative venues for capital acquisition, it’s still what people in power want, since it gives them more than just fuel for capitalism, but also more power. Countries and companies that do not rely on imperialism directly, most often rely in others that do. While it’s not entirely futile to discuss whenever that has to be the case in theorethical capitalist solution, it is the case in one we’re living under, and since it’s the ruling class of hyper-wealthy that make decisions about the worlds future and current state of affairs is result of those decisions, it is the system we have to deal with. Unless, you know, we bring out the guilottines and start over, but I don’t see much point in retrying capitalism to see if it won’t lead us down on the path to facism again.
Pretty sure this is the command my dad used to test disaster recovery systems.
you know. to simulate the entire cluster going poof. He spoke of having to get somebody else to actually send it, because it just felt that wrong.
(pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Pretty sure when he was asked to test their disaster recovery for his org… his first thought was probably “i’ve never nuked an entire network before”)
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