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Professional cow, Linux Nerd, Hardcore Techno enthusiast. The Emporer protects us.

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2024

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  • While it is 100% understandable, that the lack of a graphical task manager is annoying, you are not completely without options. If you want to terminate a process you can easily type pkill -f process_name into your console. The process name doesn’t even have to be exact with the process name (as example the process name is signasignal_desktop, providing signal to the command would be enough to kill it).



  • While the meme is very funny, it is technically incorrect. Linux has two major ways of terminating a process. When Linux wants a process to terminate execution (for whatever reason) it first sends the SIGTERM signal to the process, which basically “asks” the process to terminate itself. This has the advantage, that the process gets the chance to save its state in a way, that the execution can continue at another time. If the process however ignores the SIGTERM signal at some point Linux will instead forcefully terminate the execution using the SIGKILL signal. This represents what the image shows.

    Before someone gets mat at me: I know, that there are like 50 more Signals relevant to this, but wanted to keep it simple.















  • I gonna add one that I actually read in school and actually Am very grateful I read it.

    Its “Der gute Mensch von Sezuan” (The good human from Sezuan) by Berthold Brecht.

    The story is, that the gods try to fund a good human in the town Sezuan and disguise themselves as humans seeking shelter. No one wants to give them shelter except a prostitute name Shen-Te. As a reward for being a good person they give her gold in return, which she uses to open her own shop. However, her buisness is not very succesfull, since she wants to help as many people as possible which means a big financial burden. To help her out of this she invents her cousin (?) Shui-Ta who is cold and regularly saves the buisness by not helping people and demanding things. This way the buisness stays open and Shen-Te can continue to help her community.

    Basically the book is an analogism for why capitalism can not work, since the force to make a profit forces you to fuck over other people and it is not possible to not take part in this system on an individual level. I hated all other books we had to read in school, but I Am quite great I read that one. It also definitely played a role in my path towards becoming a communist.

    Another upside of it is, that its rather short and can be easily read in about 2-3h.