I guess, but would have to look that up too (there are quite a lot of signals starting with SIG, so it would make sense that it is this way)
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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).
A friend of mine has a Laptop, where you can easily pull out out the hard drive while the OS is running. We once did that and it worked kinda fine. After plugging the hard drive back in it continued to run like before.
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.
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Europe@feddit.org•Every region and demographic group is convinced that London is an unsafe place to live except... LondonersEnglish
3·4 days agoThat doesn’t make it better /s
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Europe@feddit.org•Every region and demographic group is convinced that London is an unsafe place to live except... LondonersEnglish
54·5 days agoSounds rather unsafe to me xd
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Europe@feddit.org•Every region and demographic group is convinced that London is an unsafe place to live except... LondonersEnglish
41·5 days agoBut is it safe?
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Europe@feddit.org•‘Damage is piling up’: has the Netherlands forgotten how to cope with snow?English
2·5 days agoSame for Germany
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Europe@feddit.org•Top American Diplomat launches unprecedented attack against Britain 🇬🇧English
32·5 days agoWell, she got a point there. Terf Island ain’t got it name for no reason.
I guess I dont have to explain the hypocrisy in her comment (just before it gets misunderstood)
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?
1·8 days agoI have a contract for my SIM and I have no intention in changing it. I also dont want to go through the trouble of doing that.
Also I want to have a fair phone AS my next phone, so I can swap the battery and install a custom ROM on it without it loosing warranty.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•When/how frequently do you replace your phone with a new one?
3·8 days agoUsually when I think that its time for a new one because my current one has an unuseable battery or is unuseably slow, but most important is, that I need to be table to afford a phone. My current phone is now closing in on 6 years, but I want to get a new one when I can afford it (maybe until the end of year I should be table to gather enough money for a new one)
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Technology@lemmy.world•Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questionsEnglish
3·8 days agoI can’t even sign up to their website for some wird reason. Guess its their fault then.
Is it really that bad?
Or to write everything in Assembly.
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Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•‘I Can’t Afford This’ Trump Voters in Rural America Stunned as Cost of Living Keeps RisingEnglish
2·10 days agoAh, that’s what I call dedication.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conferenceEnglish
16·10 days agoThey literally just typed
whitedate.net/download-all-users/into the browser and the website willingly gave them a button to download all users.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conferenceEnglish
15·10 days ago*Martha Root
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you could add one book to the required reading curriculum for people under 18, what would it be?
111·10 days agoI 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.
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Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•‘I Can’t Afford This’ Trump Voters in Rural America Stunned as Cost of Living Keeps RisingEnglish
61·10 days agoThe better question is, why do you not use an adblocker?




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