I can’t recall but I may have followed a similar process before, but I’ll go through that once again.

Kernal 16.17x. I forget what driver is on there now, but it’s around 580x.

I did a clean install early on after updating to the Nvidia drivers killed my Linux install the first time. I was fine for about a week and then things crashed again.

For some reason, I can’t get dmesg to do anything. I did run journalctrl -b -p err and I got a few error messages. see below.

These look like they occurred during boot. I ran these through AI and it responded that Most likely causes:

GNOME/GDM packages are broken or partially installed Your user runtime/session is failing Bad permissions in your home folder Display driver issue causing GNOME session startup failure Leftover damage from previous repair/driver changes

Jul 07 13:58:14 host gdm3[3615]: Gdm: on_display_added: assertion 'GDM_IS_REMOTE_DISP> Jul 07 13:58:42 host gdm-password] [4192]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control fi> Jul 07 13:58:42 host qdm3[3615]: Gdm: on_display_added: assertion 'GDM_IS_REMOTE_DISP> Jul 07 13:58:43 host systemd[4203]: Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dpkc> Jul 07 13:58:43 host systemd[4203]: Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dsec> Jul 07 13:58:43 host systemd[4203]: Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dssh> Jul 07 13:58:43 Jul 07 13:58:43 host systemd[4203]: Failed to start app-gnome-user\x2ddirs\x2dupdate> Jul 07 13:59:14 host qdm3[3615]: Gdm: on_display_removed: assertion 'GDM_IS_REMOTE_DI>

Jul 07 13:57:52 host thermald[1110]: Thermal DTS or hwmon: No Zones present Need to c>

host systemd[4203]: Failed to start app-gnome-im\x2dlaunch-4737.scope>

Exactly same behavior.

Looks like I’m running kernal 6.17x so I’ll look into downgrading via the bios.

Rather, Peter Zeihan. He was forecasting this over a decade before the invasion. It’s about geography, population decline and the desire to create a buffer against possible invaders. Not that anyone was seriously looking to invade Russia. But their history has hardened their perspective on this matter.

Librarian here: Good news is that many libraries are standing up AI literacy programs to show people not only how to judge AI outputs but also how to get better results. If your local library isn’t doing this ask them why not.

Buddhism

it’s heartening that the governor has been working so hard to solve the state’s crippling housing crisis…oh wait…what?

From my conversations with mainland Chinese, they often tout the line that the US was somehow involved, so it was partly an excusable defense of the homeland against dangerously co-opted students. That said, most acknowledge that it was pretty bad. But these are also well-educated Chinese working abroad, so I assume the majority of Chinese don’t know much.

One story I heard retold by an English teacher working in Nanjing that I used to know was about the experience of one of the people involved in the protests…or at least they were an academic in Beijing at the time of the massacre. They were really depressed 20 years later and felt that nobody around them, particularly their students, knew anything.