I think it is more of a last 15 years kinda thing. It was obvious this would happen when Europe and the United Nations started funneling all the refugees into Europe and they weren’t really making an effort to culturally assimilate them. It always looked like they were being used like the jews were prior to ww2.
After Greenland? ;]
Think they’re trying to put a wrench in the gears like Bolton did last time in Venezuela? I don’t buy the excuse that he is just stupid. The dude, and people like him, are neocons. They do and say things in order to fuck progress up and then pretend it wasn’t their fault and they are just stupid idiots saying things in public that anyone with half a brain would know better than to say.
Intended or not, keeping the US government over extended and wasting time and effort works to the advantage of their “globalist” agenda.
btw… I am referring to the mention of Cuba in case it wasn’t obvious.
I agree that much of the noise is intentionally created by Trump, but a lot of it is also neocons trying to act stupid.
Now that I think about it… Since when did Trump care about Venezuela or Cuba? Seems uncharacteristic that they’re going to straight to military and CIA methods for Venezuela, without any discussion at all. Not like the methods used with the Ukraine or Palestine issues… If this was just a ploy to keep those parts of the government distracted, then I’d believe that.
I look forward to having some clarity of hind sight in a couple years.
The rule of thumb is that you want at least the same amount of ram that you have (plus a little more just in case) if you have a laptop or similar where you’re going to use hibernate, since that works by moving whatever is in the ram into the swap.
Also, note that swap is basically emergency (and slow) ram. You want enough to handle any emergencies. Although I think it gets used before ram fills up completely. There are a lot of uses of ram where swap works just as well. Like if you got a program and/or browser tabs open in the background that you’re not presently using, it needs somewhere to store that data. And don’t forget about all the programs you may use that handle or process large files. Typically that gets loaded into ram (or direct to swap if fast access isn’t needed), and if ram can’t hold it, something that is used less is moved to swap.
But if there is no room, it keeps trying any way and it all freezes up like what op describes.
So… since people often have 16 gigs of ram in their machines, no, that isn’t a huge amount of swap to have. Even on my desktops I generally have at least 32 gigs swap just because I often do things that fill up a lot of ram. One of them has 64 gigs ram, and it can fill a good chunk of the swap as well if I try to render something heavy in Blender. Add on to that, I may have a vm open as well. That often uses swap along with filling ram. And of course general web use where it is normal to keep several tabs constantly open.
I want to make sure I have more swap than will ever be used. Because if it does get used, then that means it and ram is full and the computer will freeze.
Well… that lasted about as long as I expected.
Is your swap big enough? Some installers default to only 1gig. That isn’t big enough normally.
If it fills the ram and the swap, it will cause what you are seeing. Typically the suggestion is a little more than however much ram you have. Personally I set it at either 16 or 32gigs or more. Depending on the machine and what I intend on doing with it and how much drive space I have available.
You can keep a system monitor open (or top, htop etc) and keep an eye on it when you’re doing something ram hungry, like having a bunch of browser tabs open or whatever. If it freezes and you look over and see the ram usage pegged to the top, that will suggest that that is your problem.
Yea… but the drug markets are underground and include massive money laundering systems. It has often been claimed that the CIA and other black operations get funded this way.
But aside from that… the financial machinery is down there. My understanding is that that is what the Panama Papers was largely about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
Like how you can pay the local newspaper to print something for you. They got the equipment and system already.
Makes it even more clear to me that this doesn’t have anything to do with the drugs.
A couple theories I’ve been mulling over is about it specifically being about Venezuela and an attack on a significant income stream of the individuals running the show over there.
And maybe also some relation to a move against people in the CIA or maybe MI6 or others that maybe are supplying their black budgets like what USAID was doing? I mean… we know CIA is a major player in the cocaine drug game in central and south america. That has been documented for decades.
My personal impression is that this is far too optimistic, but maybe explains some things. If Trump has the military on his side (or enough of it) then it could be a maybe. Hard to imagine that he wouldn’t have been assassinated already, though, if he really is trying to take out the CIA and more importantly, the MI6 connection as well.
Of course the enemy of my enemy doesn’t need to be my friend… and this is probably a way too optimistic theory.
What do ya’ll think?
If like me, you were wondering how this changed anything since they’ve been doing this for years, then you will find this part of the article to be relevant:
FTA: Martial law and a general mobilization were first declared in Ukraine in February 2022 and have since been extended numerous times.
So… in other words, no… nothing has changed.
Completely automatic should be one of the options. Not just ‘reminders’ and ‘don’t check’. I know that I used to use several years ago.
Thank you!! That is exactly what I was looking for.
That is a big help. I was stuck on the idea that that option wasn’t available when making a new doc and didn’t think to look under the change mode menu.
I think that as a photo editor, GIMP is the best option for open source. But as a print designer the lack of being able to work in CMYK and 1 bit images is a big problem.
Fortunately Krita does the CMYK thing extremely well, but it also lacks the ability to handle 1 bit images.
Wondering if anyone out there has discovered a lesser known open source app that works with 1 bit images well? Maybe something made for old school pixel art?
It seems strange to me, since even a more modern format like png supports 1 bit.
To be fair… that is more of a MS Paint kind of tool. I’ve been using Photoshop professionally for over 3 decades and I don’t think I have ever used it. It took me a bit just to find it just now. Don’t think I’ve ever used the rectangle tool either. A vector editing program like inkscape/illustrator or scribus/indesign are better tools for that kind of thing.
With that said. GIMP does have an ellipse selection tool, and that is something that I use often enough. And if you really wanted to draw a circle in a pixel pusher program you could just use that tool, invert it and delete on a separate layer.
I don’t think it is toxic, as much as it is almost always misused. Read the following and tell me how many people you know have been using the term correctly.
it happens… some people put a lot of effort into it at a young age. Although looking back, I now realize that that wasn’t normal.
Looked like she was always pushing the marxist position to me. I mean, this mostly started when she was playing with the EU “aristocracy”.
I think the opposite. The climate thing hasn’t been working as well, so they are flipping to the other side of the coin to push their authoritarianism.
Or maybe I just have an American bias. I’m too use to watching the false dichotomy see-sawing ever couple decades.
It can’t be both?
Its not like you can’t be disgusted by Israel, the neo-british empire they are a part of along with Hamas that is all too happy to be their handy little patsy whenever they need an Oswald or Crooks. Or at least, I don’t find that opinion to be a challenging one to have.
Frankly… I find that meme to be pretty tame. And funny how the article says it is like “Nazi propaganda”. I feel like they’re not giving our great American anti-Nazi propaganda enough respect. Like the WW2 era Bugs Bunny cartoons with super ugly neanderthal looking German soldiers and a squeaky voiced hyperventilating little Hitler with a Napoleon complex.
Maybe the Dutch are a nicer people and have higher standards.