Somehow Palp.....I mean Pope returned.

If a process closes immediately from the shutdown command because it isn't doing anything, sure.

Depends on the process. Can be 30 seconds. Can be 5 minutes.

Linux gives processes a chance to gracefully close. However, it also will absolutely NOT allow a process to hang up the shutdown or restart procedure after a point. If you're using systemd (which there is a good chance you are), it'll count down. If the process hasn't stopped in the time allotted, it gets Old Yellered.

So....

1. Not a Thorium reactor
2. Didn't produce any power

So China still has a win here.

I appreciate it, but I just got a new phone because I needed a new one recently. I wish it could have been something like a Fairphone, but thems the breaks.

Unfortunately Telecomms in Australia seem to have a pissing contest on who can screw consumers more, America or Aussie companies.

For 4G. 5G is fine.

Really wish Fairphone would come to the US. I'd spend the money on it, but they only half-ass sold the last gen phone here on the US.

I don't even understand why. They support most 4G and every mid and low band 5G in America. Even if I could just import it, I'd be happy.

And I'll continue to not buy them and support indie developers instead.

I just finished working four 12 hour shifts dealing with morons and shitty people, Mike. I'll play some god damn video games if I want to.

If you get with one of your local Meshtastic groups, there will likely already be a bunch of people who use it. I joined a local group in San Antonio, TX and there are around 205 nodes run by a few dozen people throughout the city.

Obviously rural areas are going to be less people, but you'd be surprised how many people run it already.

"They yearn for the mines, obviously. Why do you think the kids play so much Minecraft?" -Some Republican, probably-

It's pretty useful for off-grid comms. It's also pretty cheap to get started. I got two Heltec V3 devices that include the little antennas with them for $37 total.

Oddly, Windows can natively handle .tar.gz now. Found that out the other day.

This has been me with Meshtastic. JFC I'm all in on it. Already have something like 9 nodes built and have been asking if I can place nodes in various places around my town to build out the mesh.

Lol what the hell is that marketing video?

You're....walking in the woods....And then suddenly you're....uh....flashbanged? And then you're in the back of your kidnapper's car with a convenient Heltec device to communicate with?

I honestly have no idea what the actual fuck happened in that marketing video.

Cheers mate

If you want to run VR on Linux with your Quest headset, WiVRn works absolutely flawlessly. Been running VR with my Quest 2 for a while with it.

Not sure if jailbreaks exist for the Quest 3, but I've considered jailbreaking my Quest 2 in order to run it without a Meta account.

You installed KDE on Mint? Why not just install Debian with KDE?