The same thing can happen in Windows. Only difference, really, is that Linux tells you that there’s a problem and the Event Viewer doesn’t. You just end up with a hung Windows PC or a screwed up USB port that won’t work anymore after it happens enough times.

Oftentimes what causes it is undocumented firmware “features” that need to be turned on via a proprietary driver (for your USB device). The vendor “supports” Windows but not Linux so they never bothered to submit any patches to fix issues like that. It’s that Linux fault? Not really. It’s the fault of the shitty vendor.

It’s always some bargain basement piece of shit Chinese-made USB device that causes these sorts of problems. The type of thing that can happen when even the vendor of the product didn’t know a counterfeit chip ended up in their device.

To be fair, “avoid change at all costs!” Has been the Republican motto for a long time now. It’s right up there with, “ignore reality.”

I had this same thing happen a while back. You know what it was? A bad USB device!

I had a little USB debug probe that went bad (somehow) and it totally screwed up my USB hub’s ability to… Stay stable? Haha, that’s the best way to put it.

Anyway, the fix was to remove the device and disconnect the USB hub (and its power) for a few seconds. If I ever reconnected the probe, the problem would recur within an hour or two.

Here’s how you can check for something similar: Run dmesg and look for regular messages like, “unable to enumerate device”. It’ll tell you which bus and port it’s on but that’s not easy to figure out so just keep unplugging things until you get the one matching the device that’s regularly throwing errors in dmesg. Keep it disconnected, power everything off (PC, USB hub’s, etc) for a few seconds and then try running without that device for a while. It might be the culprit!

I’ve done a 3-hour session playing Beat Saber multiplayer with a friend. It was the most intense workout I’ve ever experienced.

The only break was in the middle to refill my enormous water bottle and to clean up the huge pool of sweat on the floor that was getting gross (I was wearing socks, LOL).

My arms hurt for like three days straight after that. I still played every night though 😁👍

Just place a fan on the floor in front of you. Bam! No nausea. Because now your body instinctively knows your position and orientation in the space you’re in.

It’s such a simple thing but it really works!

You know they’re just buildings full of servers, right?

I mean, I’d rather have a data center than some toxic chemical factory or a busy warehouse in my neighborhood. Data centers just… sit there. They use a lot of power and some use a lot of water, but if your region doesn’t have power/water problems it’s not really much of an impact.

A nation’s supercomputing power used to be something people celebrated. Especially one owned and operated by a place like Los Alamos National Laboratory.

No. You misunderstand: Jesus is an undocumented immigrant but because he works for a big corporation, he gets left alone until he complains. Then they get rid of him… Along with his entire family.

“At Republican Airlines we let Jesus take the yoke 👍”

Interesting: I guess we’re about to officially find out just who he considers “a person”.

If they’re using wastewater, that’s some shitty cooling.

I mean… It’s nice to know the executives give a crap I guess?

When the economy goes to shit, oil consumption drops and gas prices along with it.

It’s not a perfect 1-to-1 thing but it’s real

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With Trump tariffs and related inflation, it might.

We need a simple regulation that mandates that all data centers must power themselves with renewable energy.

It’ll fix sooo many issues. Not the water thing but that’s a region-specific problem. Not everywhere has water shortages and not all data center designs use shittons of water (even AI data centers).

To be fair, that’s what an AI video generator thinks an FPS is. That’s not the same thing as AI-assisted coding. Though it’s still hilarious! “Press F to pay respects” 🤣

For reference, using AI to automate your QA isn’t a bad idea. There’s a bunch of ways to handle such things but one of the more interesting ones is to pit AIs against each other. Not in the game, but in their reports… You tell AI to perform some action and generate a report about it while telling another AI to be extremely skeptical about the first AI’s reports and to reject anything that doesn’t meet some minimum standard.

That’s what they’re doing over at Anthropic (internally) with Claude Code QA tasks and it’s super fascinating! Heard them talk about that setup on a podcast recently and it kinda blew my mind… They have more than just two “Claudes” pitted against each other too: In the example they talked about, they had four: One generating PRs, another reviewing/running tests, another one checking the work of the testing Claude, and finally a Claude setup to perform critical security reviews of the final PRs.

That court went tits up, Turing a terrible page in UK history.

This is how the software works:

When she gets to heaven, she’ll have carte blanche!

A tariff on zero dollars is still zero. This means he’ll be introducing an unnecessary, job-killing regulation that adds more pointless bureaucracy to Texas’s already-extreme tax situation.

So, traditional Republican politics.

Oh I’m sure there will be discounts of up to 3/5ths on certain classes of individuals.