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 processed 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.

“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.

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.

Start with something simple like Linux Mint. You can run it in a VM, if you want to “try before you buy”.

Cough MassGravel Activation Scripts Cough

Valve made a compatibility layer for the Steam Deck and Linux called Proton. It uses a lot of technologies, including WINE, dxvk, and more to make Windows games run well on Linux. It basically takes Windows API calls and translates them to Linux with little to no performance penalty.

Steam also has native builds for Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Linux now, so you can just install it. Most Linux distros have Steam right in their software manager now.

Typically, unless the game has blocked Linux with something like kernel-level anticheat, it’ll “just work” on Linux now. There is a community database called ProtonDB that has a list of games and how well they do or don’t work.

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions.

Check Proton DB. If the games you enjoy work fine on Linux, which is the case for most games these days thanks to Proton, you should be good. The big exception is games with kernel-level anticheat.

If not, you can always dual boot for the few games that don’t.

I made the switch to pure Linux gaming when I got my Steam Deck two years ago. Been loving it ever since. Even SteamVR games work great streaming to my Quest headset.