I haven’t actually tried sleeping the system. It’s a desktop, so it isn’t something I generally do. I’ll give it a try later tonight and let you know what happens.
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My Nvidia driver has worked flawlessly in Fedora for the past 3 years. Not a single issue.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Programming@programming.dev•Bjarne Stroustrup: How do I deal with memory leaks? By writing code that doesn't have any.English
12·2 days agoA “true” memory leak isn’t just memory that is never freed, it’s memory that CAN’T be freed. Usually because the handle / pointer to it was thrown away.
The distinction isn’t really all the important though, it all looks the same as far as how the program functions.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Stanford study finds school phone bans may trigger “withdrawal symptoms” in studentsEnglish
32·3 days agoIt seems like they are saying that having the phone taken away could be an even bigger distraction from learning than just having the phone.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers FindEnglish
6·3 days agoIt very well may be intentional; to drive people away from traditional search and in to Gemini.
I expect companies to be the ones actually buying these and forcing employees to use them at least once an hour as a requirement for staying employed.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.English
5·7 days agoThere are tools that let you hook the registry and see what keys programs are trying to read from.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•New ‘Jesus-centric’ Christian phone network will block pornography and LGBT contentEnglish
97·7 days agoWhy would they have to block anything? Surely a real Christian wouldn’t be interested in any of that in the first place!
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checksEnglish
6·8 days agoNope. It’s a stepping stone to completely block the public from using VPNs.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Linux@programming.dev•kew 4.0 released (offline terminal music player and library browser)English
111·8 days agoSorry, I’m not taking anything with the word “cuck” in the title seriously.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Are you on which team: vim, nano, micro, er ed for you terminal based text editor?English
211·10 days agoNano, because it’s the only one I can remember how to quit from without power cycling the computer.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•I Asked AI to Count My Carbs 27,000 Times. It Couldn’t Give Me the Same Answer Twice.English
3·10 days agoThe models themselves are actually entirely deterministic. The non-determinism you see is actually artificially introduced at the application layer to make the output seem more human. It’s usually controlled by a setting called “heat”, which when set to 0 will give completely reproducible results.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I'm sure the AI will make it run even faster.English
4·12 days agoExactly! Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Modder releases PS5-Linux that turns the console into a fully functional Linux gaming PCEnglish
8·12 days agoMost consoles, if not all, have electronic fuses that are embedded inside chips that they intentionally blow out with each firmware update that prevent them from rolling back to older versions.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) is a trivially exploitable logic bug in Linux, reachable on all major distros released in the last 9 years. A small, portable python script gets root on all platforms.English
7·12 days agoDoes it have to actually be su? Couldn’t this replace any other existing privileged program with the fake su in theory?
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How does a ~20% reduction in oil supply translate to a ~60% increase in price?English
30·13 days agoIf there are 300 life jackets on a sinking ship being sold for $10 each on a ship with 300 people on it. No problem.
Ohh, I think there’s a problem…
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•"Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS)"English
25·15 days ago
It’s right there.
WLBR was the local radio station from my home town in PA.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him?English
8·18 days agoYou don’t want to get him mixed up with Alexander the Just Kind of OK at Things, do you?
I just tested putting my desktop to sleep this morning and everything seems to have woken back up correctly.
Here’s the system summary if you’re curious: