Don’t just look at sdb hits in the log. Open up that entire session in journalctl kernel mode (journalctl -k -bN where N is the session number in session history) and find the context surrounding the drive dropping and reconnecting.

You’ll probably find that something caused a USB bus reset or a similar event before the drive dropped and reconnected. if you find nothing like that try switching power supplies for the HDD and/or switching USB ports until you can move the drive to a different USB root port. Use lsusb -t and swap ports until the drive is attached beneath a different root port. You might have a neighboring USB device attached to the bus that’s causing issues for other devices attached to the same root port (it happens, USB devices or drivers sometimes behave badly.)

Always look at the context of the event when you’re troubleshooting a failure like this, don’t just drill down on the device messages. Most of the time the real cause of the issue preceded the symptom by a bit of time.

Because the top 10% of the country is hoovering up 90-95% of the profits of everyone’s labor.

Next question.

They started using stabilizers in cheap ice cream a while back. That helps it have the fluffy texture you expect even though it doesn’t have nearly enough fat to churn up nicely by itself.

Buy expensive ice cream with a higher fat content (more cream content and or egg yolks,) it’s worth the extra money.

Also it helps to bring an insulated freezer bag when you go to the store, the melt and refreeze between the store freezer and home does unpleasant things to ice cream texture. If you’ve ever had icy or hard ice cream it has probably melted at some point during transit before refreezing.

Edit: if you feel like microdosing ice cream facts today here’s a treat from 18y ago: https://archive.ph/2012.09.09-004911/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/dining/26cream.html?_r=1. Cheap ice cream is a pretty heavily engineered food at this point.

Basically Dems were just out of touch with the most important part of their base until it was too late.

Which is their consistent problem every election when the prior Republican admin hasn’t made a catastrophic fuck-up.

You can’t run on the “we’re pro labor” platform and expect the working class to show up for you when your pro labor stance hasn’t put money directly into working class pockets since the 1970s or 1980s.

Where are the big public works programs? Where’s the massive government spending that employed millions? That’s why labor showed up for Democrats in the 1900s, when there were huge govt contracts that employed organized labor, and it’s no surprise at all that when Democrats abandoned those policies labor stopped being reliable supporters.

You want to run a successful campaign? Talk about the massive public spending that employed hundreds of thousands during your prior admin. Talk jobs. Talk improved standard of living. Talk taxing corporations to pay for those things and voters will hand you a landslide. Democrats are so afraid of taxing corporations to pay for social spending that directly recruits voters to their cause that they’re seen as corporate stooges. And honestly, they kinda are at this point.

Yeah, our inflation metrics (mostly the CPI) have been juiced and jury rigged to hell and back so that on paper “inflation” remained perpetually low for 30y and capital wasn’t pressed to raise wages. This has been an ongoing issue since the 1980s but really, really, became a core issue in the last 15y as energy prices, healthcare and housing costs ballooned while wages stayed relatively low or fell.

The economic growth of the last 30y has almost entirely funnelled to the top 15% and while there are plenty of jobs available to everyday folks they’re almost exclusively McJobs or gig work that don’t pay enough to support living independently much less actually doing anything other than working and sleeping. So when Democrats talk about “the economy” they might as well just say “rich people’s money” instead because they don’t seem to understand the distinction between those two phrases.

You’d think Bernie’s widespread support from the working class and Trump’s win in 2016 would have clued them in that they’re missing something but they pointed the finger at literally everyone else (“Bernie bros,” “low information voters,” misogyny, every *ism under the sun) instead of asking where they went wrong in their candidate selection and messaging.

I don’t even think they have anyone who represents (or is even willing to act like they care about, even if they’re simply manipulating) a low income working person and it shows.

I’m sure we’ll see plenty of opinion and “think pieces” in the Atlantic and NYT pointing the finger at a convenient scapegoat in the next couple of weeks, surely that’ll solve the problem.

Her performance on The View was absolutely, hilariously, abysmal. They asked her something like “what would you have done differently from Biden to grow the economy?” and she replied with a canned “We’re very proud of Bidenomics” and no further elaboration 🤷‍♂️

Like, yeah, sure, Bidenomics has been great for the top 20%, but what about everyone else who’s had to move back in with their parents? She demonstrated absolutely zero understanding of the economic reality for 4/5 of the population.

He rambled at great length about making America great again and bringing back jobs and Kamala told folks that nothing will change. If you’re struggling to understand why things went this way I’m not sure I can help.

At the very least Democrats probably should have told people they’d do something to help them instead of just assuming that people would intuit that over the long term Democrat economic policy would be more stable and provide better net growth.

People in the US are dumb as shit, you have to explain things to them and make them feel like you’re paying attention. This is something Democrats have utterly failed to do reliably since Clinton 1 or Obama and it’s why they lose elections. They’re quite literally out of touch and don’t realize it’s not the 70s or 90s when blue collar workers would reliably back them because they’d (relatively recently) supported the labor movement and life was, overall, pretty good for everyone. You can’t run on a policy of inclusion and civil rights for marginalized groups when the main voting group is struggling to make their own lives work.

Democrats would have benefited greatly from telling the public that they were going to do anything at all about 30+y of neoliberal policy that benefits Wall St at the expense of the bottom 80%. This election (and every election since Obama left office) was a referendum on business as usual neoliberal policy at the working class’s expense. You could get away with that in the 90s, but when the working class can’t earn enough to rent their own apartment or start a life they’ll vote for literally anything else, including a convicted rapist and con man.

You don’t need a union to strike, you can self organize and just do it

They’ve done it more than once now

Whatever they can get their hands on, including your unique hardware identifiers

Friends don’t let friends use Manjaro

They’ll find some way to make this change break the AUR again

Write a couple of your own toy services as practice. Write a one-shot that fires at a particular time during boot, a normal service that would run a daemon and a mount service that fires after its dependencies are loaded (like, say, a bind mount that sets up a directory under /run/foo after the backing filesystem is mounted - I do this to make fast ext4 storage available in some parts of the VFS tree while using a btrfs filesystem for everything else.) You can also write file watcher services that fire after changes to a file or directory, I use one of those to mirror /boot/ to /.boot/ on another filesystem so it’s captured by my system snapshots.

I’d start by reading the docs so you have some ideas about what services can do, then you’ll find uses that you wouldn’t have thought of before.

+1, I used EndeavourOS

I had to set one of these up for my SO a couple of years ago. I dropped EndeavourOS on it, installed btrbk and configured automatic snapshots on a schedule and before package installation/update in case she managed to bork things by pip installing things into system python.

Fedora would probably work well too if you want a lower maintenance burden. I hesitate to suggest Ubuntu or Debian or their derivatives since you’ll probably want to be somewhat current with your Nvidia drivers.

Honestly, unless the community can all get behind one set of recommendations it’s going to fall on whoever’s running the instance.

I’m really hoping we see some kind of server side community bundling sometime soon because that would make it possible for users to curate bundles of communities themselves and people could just subscribe to those if building a subscription list is too much effort. Present new users on an instance with the top 5 or 10 bundle feeds and let them explore those while they build their own subscription selection.

EDIT: fuck, it just clicked me why you said so. Discord might be a good place to advertise Lemmy, indeed - good catch.

I just drop Lemmy post links the way I used to drop reddit links and answer questions if someone asks about Lemmy. That’s really all it takes to draw interested people in over time.

I drop links to interesting Lemmy posts into discord and my other communication channels in moderation and it’s hooked a couple of handfuls of my friends enough to make an account and join. Reddit spread because people linked to useful communities there often, we can do the same thing here with time and effort. We’re not going to see explosive growth the way a commercial enterprise would, we don’t have the marketing budget or the salaried people paid to grow the community, we have to do it ourselves slowly and consistently like we have been. Make useful posts, link people to the site, do what you can to reduce the barrier to entry for new folks, etc etc.

The barrier to entry on Lemmy is pretty huge for new people. You have to sort through anywhere between dozens and thousands of instances (after you figure out what an instance even is) then pick one that hopefully aligns with your values (and if you guessed wrong you have to uproot yourself and start all over again.) After that you can either drink from the firehoses (/c/all or /c/local) or if that’s too overwhelming or full of porn or anime vore furry fan art then you need to sit down and commit to hours or days of manually building your own subscription feed from the tens of thousands of available communities. Then, finally, if you stuck it out through all of the above you can start interacting with the rest of the Lemmy community and be welcomed by the well intentioned and constructive posters of instances like .ml. It’s a lot to ask of someone who wants Reddit but without spez or Nazis and not that many people are motivated to persist through all of it.

If I had to suggest one way to reduce that barrier to entry I’d suggest building a default set of subscriptions (maybe take all of the trending communities from the last 12 or 18mo and put them in a feed) so that new people can start participating more quickly. I think that would reduce the “fuck this I give up” rate considerably.