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  • KDE Manjaro running on 4 or 5 of my machines, pure stability. It sounds like a hardware issue.

    Here are my suggestions to diagnose this.

    Option 1. Setup an ssh server, connect from a second computer (or phone via Termux), execute $journalctl -fe, and observe the journal from your second device when the crash occurs. That should help pinpoint the issue.

    Option 2. If you don’t have a second device, use a non-gui tty, access via Ctrl+Alt+F1. (Usually terminals are available F1 thru F6). Once again execute $journalctl -fe and observe it during the crash.

    Tbh option 2 may just be easier especially if you have minimal knowledge of ssh. Good luck, ping me back if you find this helpful and would like more perspective, and apologies if this doesn’t help you.

    If the entire computer crashes, boot into a terminal and browse journalctl history of previous boots, sorry I don’t have these commands off the top of my head but if you need them and ask I will get them for you.


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    Yep. Democrats are complicit. Check out the podcast episode “Americas Hidden Duopoly” to learn more, it’s the Freakonomics podcast I think.

    I’ll try to scrounge up a link: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/americas-hidden-duopoly-2/

    We all know our political system is “broken” — but what if that’s not true? Some say the Republicans and Democrats constitute a wildly successful industry that has colluded to kill off competition, stifle reform, and drive the country apart. So what are you going to do about it?








  • The comment is stating that you treated it as a gotcha moment. Which I agree with… I mean, just read your post again.

    This is living proof that NOT ALL MEN COMMIT THESE ACTS!

    Women are perfectly capable of doing the same damn things, they’re just more sly about it and how often are guys going to complain when they get their dick wet or touched by a girl?

    What the other commenter described is exactly what you did. Stating otherwise means you may need to pause and ask yourself, “Am I deluded?”

    Or even better, just ignore us all and reassure yourself that we’re all crazy. That probably feels the best, and we should always just go with what makes us feel good.

    Anyway, just come back and check the vote tallies later if you have any doubt that what I say is the prevailing opinion.

    And of course, if I’m wrong, I’m wrong. Sometimes I am wrong. Are you?




  • You make a good point… In general, no one cares enough to track all this down. That is true. So that makes me wonder… who does/would care? So in a capitalist system, until the day the flow of money is impacted, generally nothing changes.

    So if Reddit really is all (or vastly) bots, then aren’t advertisers paying to advertise to bots? And if that is true, at a certain point some metrics will show the yield on their investments is bunk.

    Maybe that is how it collapses. I can hope.


  • I suppose the spirit of the question was “volume of content” vs “volume of accounts”. But there is a problem with loading a lot of content onto a singular account (from a bot detection PoV), and that is that it is easy to detect if an account is a bot if their post history is :

    1. Metronomic (or)
    2. Relentless in volume

    To solve that problem (aka bot camouflage), the maintainers of said bots would use volume of accounts as a disguise mechanism. For that reason I assume that the volume of bot accounts has to scale with the volume of “pushed content” as, in my assessment… if I were running a bot network I’d want to be sure that my most-active bots were only 50-80% as prolific as known-human accounts… then simply distribute your content across those “strategically-limited-spam-bots”.

    So as a TLDR I guess what I’m saying is that the volume of accounts has to scale with the volume of influence assuming you’d want your influence to appear organic.

    The meta above this would be what, account creation monitoring? It’s an interesting conflict. Influence peddlers vs bot detectors.

    What is gross to me is that platforms like Reddit appear to be catering to the influence peddlers. (or in the case of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica… allying with and giving birth to said influence peddlers to the political gain of Zuckerberg’s personal views on politics.)

    Should one person have such power? Probably not. Explains a lot of “unexplainable” occurrences happening… back to back to back to back to…

    This is the modern incarnation of “billionaires buying newspapers” to maintain control of the narrative.