I installed Brave browser just to run Facebook in. Can’t keep it much more segregated than that. I do the same thing on my phone.

On Windows, I used to work off of a usb thumb drive for portability. My Logitech mouse, and whole system would randomly dramatically slow down. Moved to Linux Mint. Working off the hard drive I had no problems. I needed some data off that thumb drive yesterday, and fifteen minutes after I plugged it in, random slowdowns just like on my Windows machine. Not going to lie, on Windows, I always blamed it on the Logitech mouse.

All programmers work for California now. They pass a stupid law, and we get to work on it. I guess this will just move our employer up the chain.

To be fair, timers are hard.

It’s offers a syntax similar to a no-build VUE. This gives you a more standard, modern way of doing things that a lot of people already know how to do. And it does it without generating many thousands of files and dependencies just to create a “hello world” page. Most anyone that could figure out VUE code should be able to look at AlpineJS code and figure out what is going on. I could very easily use vanilla JavaScript to do everything. Good luck on you figuring any of it out in a timely manner if you inherited any of the code.

I’m mostly doing database CRUD with it. I’m really impressed with how easy it is to make a somewhat complex form with a minimal amount of (mostly clean) code.

That said, I do not really like the inline coding that they push in all the documentation. I much prefer separating the code using Alpine data(). It’s much easier to debug.

No build with AlpineJs is now the future. I’ve been saying for many years that creating a “hello world” page that generates tens or even hundreds of thousands of files is kind of nuts. Every one of those files could be a security issue.

This seems to be Linux’s Microslop. Not only did they add it to Systemd, they banned users on Reddit for just talking about it. I laughed when Microsoft banned users for using the term Microslop. Not so funny now, I guess.

I did finally get Cinnamon to restart one time. There were some minor issues, but it started back up and was usable for a few minutes. After that, it hung up so hard that only a reboot fixed it. One issue on restart was that the start menu was kind of wonky, like a web page that had lost its css file.

For anyone following this, I found the following link to be helpful.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/143838/how-do-i-restart-cinnamon-from-the-tty

So, I had a version of Win10 that apparently didn’t have .Net 3.5 Framework on it. It took an act of congress to get it to install. I eventually found a version of 4.x that included 3.5 in it. This installed.

I don’t understand how I could have that much trouble with one of Microsoft’s flagship products. Also, I could dig up programs I used on Windows 3.1 that would probably still run today. I get that things get old, but .Net 3.5 is not that old, at least compared to something that would run on Windows 3.1.

It bugs me that they think everyone can just move everything to the next .Net version every time one rolls out.

Man, it wasn’t that long ago that I worked at a place that still has a classic ASP web page running.

Ugh. It took me a couple of weeks to everything I needed working on this pc. If I have to reboot every week or two, not that big a deal.

I did try and restart my desktop, but it failed. I don’t think I did it right. I found some instructions specific to Cinnamon. I will try them next time.

I still think it possibly has something to do with either video or memory. It isn’t every single time, but no small number of times it freezes, I am doing something on youtube, and then open a new tab in either Firefox or Chromium. It’s like moving that video to the background or opening that new tab went over a limit with memory. I was sure it was videos, but then I have done it a few times with no videos going. For sure, it always involves a browser, but that’s because I work on web pages all day long and that’s what I’m always using. Still, it’s never done it when I’m in any other program.

So, it just froze on me about 10 minutes ago. I can drop to the console. The vm manager icon did not disappear from the menu bar, so I was wrong about that. Everything freezes. I cannot interact with any browser or any app. The mouse pointer did change from a pointer to hand over a link or something at one point, but never changed back. After dropping to the console, I eventually just had to reboot and restart everything. The best way to describe it is, someone replaced my desktop with an image, and the only thing that still works is moving the mouse around.

I’m thinking it’s been about a week or so since it did this last. Oh, and I was poking around on a web page when it did it. Web browsers are always involved, but not specifically any one browser.

Have you checked dmesg (or historical system boot logs) and also ran memtest86+ to make sure your RAM isn’t faulty? Even if it’s brand new it can still happen. If you have another system nearby (or even just a phone) you could try to SSH (make sure to enable/start the daemon before it freezes) into the machine and see if it’s still responsive.

I have poked around in logs a little. Nothing has jumped out at me. I’ll test the memory and turn SSH on. I used Ubuntu on the desktop for about 8 - 10 years, and then swapped back to Windows ~2018 for work. I used to mess with hardware a lot, but I’ve fried my brain programming for too many years now.

I do see reports of Linux Mint hanging with nothing but the mouse working, but nothing has jumped out at me as a fix. The reports are going back a while, too. A lot of comments say it is something with the graphics card.

My new pc is a: HP OmniDesk Desktop Computer PC, AMD Ryzen 7 8700G, 32GB DDR5 Memory, 1TB NVMe SSD, Radeon 780M Graphics

Outside of this one issue, it’s a beast with Linux on it (I’m not a gamer, though). I bought it right before RAM prices jacked the prices of everything up.

I have a pc that’s only a few months old, wiped, and with a pretty much default install of LM. I have 32 gig of ram. Unless there is something about Stacer I don’t understand, it always shows half of the ram used (when I have the vm running). The graph never moves. I pretty much always have the vm running, because I absolutely have to have Windows with an IIS server on it (work related).

The entire system hangs. The only way I can recover is to reboot. The screen freezes, but the mouse pointer still moves around. I can click on things, but it does nothing. The keyboard does nothing.

I’m pretty bad about keeping a lot of tabs open in a couple of browsers. Almost every time it hangs involves opening a new tab in Firefox or Chromium. Sometimes youtube is involved, but I don’t think every single time does.

Like I said, the last time it hung, I just happened to notice that the vm manager icon had disappeared from the menu bar, like it had exited when it hung. I’m going to check for that the next time it hangs.

Luckily, it only hangs about once every week or so. Lately, it has been going almost two weeks. It’s really not that big a deal, but it would suck if it was doing it every few days.

Thanks,

I can’t remember the hosts name, but I did get asked to send my DL to a hosting service. I did a free trial and tried to sign up, at the end I was asked to send a picture of my DL. I told them I would find a host that knew what they were doing, and deleted my account. This was probably five or six years ago, too. I do agree though, no other host has tried to pull this on me.