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I have an alias called save_aliases that does alias > ~/.bash_aliases. alias on its own just dumps all the existing aliases to the terminal in a format that can be parsed by Bash.

I felt especially clever when I came up with that and used it to save itself.

Bonus fact: ${BASH_ALIASES["name-here"]} is a way to get at the contents of an alias without resorting sed or cut shenanigans on the output of the alias command.

No. My distro still provides the latest release of the original GNOME system monitor.

As time has gone on, GNOME have enforced more and more of their own look and feel, completely ignoring any styling that might be provided by other window managers. Some of those might even be using older GTK libraries, but that doesn't matter.

Basically if you run a modern GNOME app under KDE, MATE, Xfce, etc., it's going to look like a GNOME app regardless of what the other windows look like. Very Henry Ford.

The system monitor is no different. The new version works but the earlier version I found and installed also works fine and fits in. I suspect it's GTK3 (old) versus GTK4 (new), but I can't confirm. It'll be something like that.

The folks responsible for Linux Mint started the XApps project of GNOME forks to roll back some of GNOME's nonsense, but I guess they haven't got around to forking the system monitor yet.

... and I've looked at both Resources and Mission Centre. Neither are to my taste (and are both Flatpaks).

That was the first one I tried, but it's a fork from too far back.

The two main issues I had with it were 1) It only reports CPU usage in multiples of X%, where X is the number of cores, which was a long-standing SNAFU in the original GNOME version and 2) the usage graphs on the performance screen are light-mode only, even in dark mode, and there's no easy option to change it.

Well, I was going to say GNOME's System Monitor which has always been the default GUI task manager on my distro, but it's been getting steadily more and more GNOME-ified with every revision and frankly, I hate how it looks now.

Might be time to shop for an alternative.

Edit +44 mins: So, the immediate alternatives all have other things I don't like about them, but an older version of GNOME System Monitor will still install and run, so I guess I'll be using that for now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm a hoarder who refuses to buy more stuff because I can't bear to part with the stuff I've got. So all of it, I guess?*

But if you want a simpler answer, there are a couple of old stuffed animals that I'd mourn as much as I would a living pet, so probably those. They're a lot lower maintenance than an actual pet though, which is a big plus.

* Actually I can think of a few things that I don't want, but they need to be disposed of properly (broken electrical; dead batteries) and I don't really have the means to do that.

Add more colours a button that turns it into a slot machine. Three sevens and you win a prize.

(a redirect to a picture of a duck)

A translation into Latin doesn't seem to scan with the tune (caveat: translation software used)... So she was singing in English? In Germany? During Latin class?

Yep. That's definitely without a care in the world.

Did she do "If you're happy and you know it" for an encore?

I heard the kids are putting a space before the exclamation mark to tone down its immediacy:

See you there !

versus

See you there!

I'm old. I guess it works, but then I'm of the "ellipsis isn't necessarily ominous" generation, so what I think might be completely wrong...

Explain please. All the ones I see in the image are shaped like four adjoined letter L's which is the same way around that the Nazis used. Or are you referring to the fact that most of them aren't stood on a corner, diamond-wise?

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to bring the court case forward, and when he inevitably doesn't turn up (not that he would have if everything ran to the original timetable), make the finding in absentia, presumably "guilty" but at least worse than it would be if he'd bothered to turn up, and then...

Sanctions? Heck. What else do we have to hold him to account? An ever bigger tariffs war? Forcibly close US embassies and consulates? Seize US assets?

It'd be a fine line to prevent the Big (cutter of) Cheese from bugging out and declaring war.

Because LMDE stands for Linux Mint Debian Edition

Interesting. LMDE seems to be more like MS Windows in that things like kernel updates insist on a reboot, and certain other things are easiest restarted with a reboot too, for example, X.Org changes.

I'm sure there's still a way to bootstrap a new kernel on the bare metal without needing to reboot, likewise for restarting X.Org, but I foresee problems with any programs and daemons that were children of the original processes. For example, convincing them not to exit when their parent does and then getting them to play nice under a new session.

I mean, I guess you could just not update, or have a long period where they're unnecessary and that'd work too. That could well be what this meme is getting at. Can confirm sessions (caveat: with standby and hibernate) that have lasted well over a month.

But this all raises the question: Does anyone actually not reboot when system changes happen, and what's the workflow for bootstrapping without rebooting there?