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Do like memtest86 and other hardware diagnostics. Software can be fickle and seemingly non-deterministic, but weird randomness often is caused by actual hardware failure.
The monkeys in Super Monkey Ball have higher top speeds and can rotate super fast. What is the point of having lots of monkeys per minute if they're slow and can't rotate?
He also gave an interview to Süddeutsche Zeitung, published yesterday (in German). Shitty hot takes include:
But we must not forget that the origin of the Enlightenment is humility. Humility in the sense that Europe is the only great civilization to expose itself to permanent self-criticism.
So humble.
The worst thing in Trump's eyes is for Europe to say: yes, we should significantly increase our military spending. That would be an example of principled pragmatism. Of course I am in favor of peace. But there are situations in which the only way to make peace a little more likely is to arm ourselves and prepare for a possible war.
So doing want Trump says he wants (increase the military budget) is actually the best way to own him, because he doesn't actually want that. Also why? Then something something "principled pragmatism", probably just trying to confuse people with that. I hope he chokes on this sophistry.
At the end of the interview he starts blaming migrants for not wanting to be integrated.
Likely culprits IMHO: Graphics driver (kernel in general), memory leak, compositor maybe. Things that are probably not the problem: steam, wine/proton, disk.
Does the music play properly? Like it's not just looping the buffer? That would mean the game and computer are still running, it's "just" the graphics that are borked. You could try logging in via ssh from another device, though to be fair, if it is a memory leak, that might not work, even though technically the computer is still running. If you can log in via ssh then check top, dmesg etc.
Things I might try:
Check kernel log from before the crash:
sudo journalctl -k -b -1
Type capital G to go to end. If the kernel/driver crashes or you have some hardware problem you might see something there.
Log RAM usage:
while true; do sleep 2; free -h >> ~/memlog; sync; done
Check if systemd-oomd or earlyoom are installed and install/enable one of them if not. If something uses up all RAM these should kill it before the computer goes unresponsive.
Disable one of the GPUs to see which driver it may or may not be. Maybe monitor the GPU(s). For intel there is intel_gpu_top. If you think it's the driver or kernel you might want to find bug reports via google. Ultimately you might need to upgrade or downgrade your kernel or disable one of the GPUs permanently if it is the graphics driver or kernel.
Use something minimalist w/o compositor, like openbox. If it is the compositor or if something from your desktop environment leaks memory, this might help narrow it down.
I have seen so many comrade fucking Krasnov comments on reddit, the libs are not okay
Can you open a root shell when you encounter the error (as shown in the screenshot) and look at the kernel logs with dmesg (dmesg|less to scroll through the output)? This might tell you what kind of an I/O error you're dealing with and what drive is affected.
There may be a root shell at Ctrl + Alt + F1 through F(idk)7, or you can maybe open a terminal and use sudo -i. But idk how these newfangled installers work, so ymmv.
The usb autosuspend stuff is a red herring I think. An internal HDD would be connected through SATA not USB (you can check with lsblk -do name,tran). Hard drives have power saving features that can be enabled to make them spin down after a while. Probably something related to power management configures that drive to do that, because I've never seen one that does that by default (though I can't say for sure if that's always true). IDK what sort of power management tool is installed on Mint LMDE, but that's what you might want to look for.
The low-level tool for configuring hard drives is hdparm, which is what would probably be used internally by any power management tool to configure that sort of thing. I can't check this due to lack of HDD, but probably hdparm -B /dev/sdX would show you how the hard drive power management is configured right now. According to man hdparm a value between 1 and 127 allows the drive to spin down.
Note that setting stuff with hdparm directly would not be persistent across reboots, and if any power management tool running takes it upon itself to configure that sort of thing, it might revert this back to whatever it thinks is best. It would be better to figure out if/what is feeling responsible for changing the HDD power management and configuring that instead of using hdparm.
Installing the nvidia driver on any distro is really not hard at all. Choosing a distro because it comes pre-installed with it is a bit like choosing a lamp based on whether it already has a lightbulb installed in it.
You can game on any distro. You google the official wiki of your distro and find what the recommended way to install steam is, and do that. You then go into steam settings / compatibility, and "Enable Steam Play for all other titles". This allows you to install Windows-only games.
Most games work fine, especially indie titles. If a game doesn't work right, go to protondb.com and check what other users are saying. They may have tips on what to do to get it running.
If you have an Nvidia card, go to the official wiki for your distro and look up how to install the proprietary driver. Do not go to nvidia's website.
You may want to look up a (preferably official) guide on how to install the distro of your choice. I use Debian and the official guide is here:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/
For Debian I recommend getting the net installer, NOT the full image.
It was against US imperial interests, what with them losing their protection racket and economic influence in Europe. I guess it might have been in the interest of international capital to integrate Russia, but the US is entrenched enough as the capitalist center and hegemon that they got their way.
Wasn't me.
They tried to get rid of me! And you went along with them and that was very bad. Shouldn't have done that. 
I listened to half that episode earlier today. Mark Ames went through Trump's grievances, and now, hours later, I see Trump and Vance literally go through the same list in front of Zelensky like it's Festivus.
The only reason why I might want to see Die Linke in government is so they can be exposed as the libs they are and I can go around telling people "I told you so".
Two weeks ago I posted this:
A host at a German public broadcaster allegedly had visceral reaction of disgust, when a guest, an Israeli-German cyber-security professor, said her name was "from Israel". First of all, there is no such thing as being "from Israel", and what's an Israeli name anyway?
Only a Zionist would answer this way, I thought, and yeah, she has written an article about how "Israel must also defend itself on the Internet".
The host is probably going to get fired, she's Turkish-German so they'll count that against her.
So the update is: The broadcaster (hr) hired a law firm to investigate, and they interviewed everyone who was there, looked at all the video footage, and even hired a lip reader for the parts with no audio. They concluded that the allegations are untrue and professor Schulmann recanted some of her allegations and remarks. Source: tagesschau
They do frame it as a misunderstanding. Looks like she's not getting fired.
Does UNRWA still do anything in Gaza?
The video of Musk speaking (via video call) at the AfD rally is straight Nazi shit. It's worse than I though it would be, I imagined he would try to be a lot more crypto-fascisct, but I guess we're past that now.
They probably were asking about the first name, which is Hebrew. But with the answer "from Israel" she emphasized her Israeli identity I think. I might react with laugh/snort if someone professed their Zionist political ideology when that wasn't the question.
A host at a German public broadcaster allegedly had visceral reaction of disgust, when a guest, an Israeli-German cyber-security professor, said her name was "from Israel". First of all, there is no such thing as being "from Israel", and what's an Israeli name anyway?
Only a Zionist would answer this way, I thought, and yeah, she has written an article about how "Israel must also defend itself on the Internet".
The host is probably going to get fired, she's Turkish-German so they'll count that against her.
My friend put the first (? something with a u-boat in the jungle) Uncharted in front of me and went like "try this!" I didn't get it and haven't tried one since.