@bwDraco what amuses me is that the Republicans have control of the House, Senate, Executive and the Courts, and even still they can't pass a law to keep the lights on
it's sad that we can look back on the antiquated, paper-based, authoritarian government of the USSR in the 70s and 80s and call that efficient compared to what we have now; they would go through central planning for 5 years at a stretch, and their plans for accomplishing things would be very ambitious and significant, like build a Space Shuttle competitor, build nuclear reactors, etc.
our government's ambitious plan is to just avoid disaster
you know what would be cool? if we stopped having lame bootloaders like grub, and literally had a linux kernel binary (in PE format?! O_O) in the ESP that directly gets loaded by the UEFI firmware
Linux based bootloader that boots up, inits USB input devices and storage layer, and lets you pick your OS -- if you want the native Linux OS, it just starts the appropriate init or whatever without even changing kernels
@JourneymanGeek maybe the next revision of UEFI based mobos will have enough on-board flash to ship a (very stable, hopefully somewhat up to date) Linux distro as the literal UEFI firmware, which could serve as a bootloader itself
@Bob wouldn't put it past H. Peter Anvin to do something like that with the Linux kernel, but OTOH, it's fairly smaller than the size of Linux + sufficient modules to handle input and storage layers
I once compiled a Gentoo system with a kernel with only the drivers my laptop needed, all compiled into the kernel, and no extra cruft at all, and no modules
I'm going to get a bottom basement Skylake Hetzner SSD server for a project I'm working on, and install OpenShift Container Platform on CentOS 7.3 on it
and LXD is for machine virtualization (each container is a general purpose machine with command-line tools, robust init process, package management in-container, etc., like a VM)
OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. are for individual daemon/application virtualization (each container is super lightweight and contains only what's needed to run a specific piece of software)
@microbuster depending on the kind of problem, try to build a MWE. If you're still not comfortable you could always go and check some IRC channel and hope they're not playing some idle RPG.
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@PichiWuana That doesn't mean anything. I could write you a nice program that encrypts several key components of your OS and appears to "do nothing" by that test.
Beats me. It all began a few months ago, when it would suddenly reboot, lose GSM/4G connectivity for days at a time, then reboot again and regain connectivity.
Then the reboots became more frequent
Then if the battery level reached 1% or less it would take 10+ hours to charge
Then it was 20+ hours, 30+ hours
Finally, a few days ago, I plugged the charger and it just shut down. Remove charge, reboot. No charge made. Plug charger, shut down.
I looked for an original Motorola battery and couldn't find one, bought an, ahem, "generic" one.
It came with enough charge to last for 30 minutes.
But the whole "it shuts down when I plug the charger" bullshit continues.
So maybe it's not the battery at all. Unless an original, 2 year old battery develop developed a malfunction with the same exact symptoms of a counterf, ahem, generic battery.
Yeah, I considered that, but I am so careful with my phone! No scracthes on the screen after 2~3 years! No bent pins on the port as far as I can tell...
I'll have to leave my phone on a repair center but I can't keep it on long enought for me to factory reset it
Besides, the only authorized repair center has got 400+ bad reviews on google.
