REISUB basically does the same thing but slightly more gracefully. It will still reboot through basically any lockup (I have yet to encounter one it didn’t work on), but it gives your machine the chance to settle some things before cutting the power.

If a Linux machine locks up or freezes completely, use REISUB to restart it more gently than pushing the Power Button.

Hold down Alt and the SysReq (Print Screen) keys, and then type R E I S U B, with 2-3 second delays between the key presses to give the commands a better chance to complete.

R: Switch the keyboard from raw mode to XLATE mode
E: Send the SIGTERM signal to all processes except init
I: Send the SIGKILL signal to all processes except init
S: Sync all mounted filesystems
U: Remount all mounted filesystems in read-only mode
B: Immediately reboot the system, without unmounting partitions or syncing

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I suppose if you wanted to be extra quick and liked living dangerously you could just do alt + sysrq + R + B (I’m assuming switching the keyboard mode is necessary for getting the other commands to work during a complete lockup, but I could be wrong, you might only need B). But I wouldn’t recommend it, REISUB is plenty fast for me.

There are other commands too, like alt + sysrq + F to summon the OOM killer.

Lastly, and perhaps most critically, it also feels way cooler than just holding a single button. Comme ça:

Claude has on two occasions ended our conversation because I kept referring to it as a useless piece of shit.

the fact this is even a thing, that a glorified autocorrect has the gall, the temerity to pretend it has hurt feelings, is one of the reasons I feel more and more like fucking off into the wilderness and living like Ted Kaczynski.

oh, but we won’t charge you until your 30 days is up, you can just cancel before then!*

*please forget please forget please let us charge you when you least expect it oh god please forget about us you fucking stupid forgetful dope

– how I interpret “free trials” that work like this. You can terminate my service when my trial is up, you do not need my credit card information until I’ve actually agreed to purchase the service. There is literally no practical reason they can’t just do that instead – except, of course, that it makes them more money off of forgotten trial subscriptions.

See for me it’s been therapists thinking that if I just got a job, I’d stop being depressed (this was in the wake of being canned for a bullshit reason after a long absence due to cancer – I’m better now, at least in terms of cancer). This is to say nothing of the fact that the things I was upset and complained about were not at all pertinent to a job search (mostly relationships, loneliness, fear over the fascist takeover, etc).

Multiple different therapists came to this same conclusion, and you know what? I have a part time job now! And it didn’t cure my depression at all! Fancy that – contributing to the Trump economy has not made me meaningfully happier, or even meaningfully less poor/more able to afford things I’d enjoy! wow! who’d have guessed.

I am somewhat increasingly convinced that professional therapists (or at least the ones my insurance covers) are just bullshitters that have turned bullshit into a career, like chiropractors. Maybe there are some that aren’t, but I’d rather have a psychiatrist, at least they’ve actually got some means of fucking doing something (even if that something is just throwing SSRIs at the wall and seeing what sticks – so far, nothing has, but I could be proven wrong any day now!).

actually, yes, there is a medallion.

Same, the accounts I have in their regex are under an old alias I decided to move on from, and unfortunately this one isn’t in there at all. I need to step up my game on this account to get it banned too.

SteamOS on the Frame may soon alleviate some of those woes, given it’s based on Arch and has an ARM processor iirc. Can’t hurt, anyhow.

meanwhile, what REISUB feels like:

All I want is the Table of Contents, I feel like just that on its own would be enough of a laugh for me.

Chapter Nine: Guide to Furry Slang & Colloquialisms
“Everything you didn’t want to know about cheese graters, and knots the Boy Scouts will definitely not teach you.”

All I need, all I truly want, now, is to see this guy, in the middle of court – just once – strike this pose and go “BOOOOWEEEEOOOOOO”

And then I can die a happy man.

no

shrooms can make you more empathetic, but in my case it also unlocked a new kind of depression in realizing that so many who need a change of perspective to see things that way, even for but a glimpse, never will. I felt such love and empathy for others in that moment, and such sorrow that it would never be felt nor returned by the vast majority of others; I understood perfectly in that moment what Edgar Mitchell meant by an “instant global consciousness”, and how we would likely never achieve this state of enlightenment among enough individuals to matter.

yes, the problem is you did not sacrifice a live goat while mercury is in retrograde and github is down, as is custom for digital magic and necromancy.

weren’t you just gonna buy more yachts anyways, though?

and you have stockholm syndrome for capitalism, but I forgive you.

yeah but it’s almost like those comforts and services of modern society should be able to still be performed without trying to extract value for shareholders and we just choose not to because line go up make (rich) monkey brain happy. I believe there are, in fact, plenty of people willing to do the things that make the world run, completely for free, if only we did not operate on a global system that enriches shareholders, executives and politicians while paying the people doing the actual work a pittance and forcing them to struggle to survive.

And let’s be very clear about what your definition of “obligations to society” is – busting your ass creating value that is extracted from you for ~40 years for comparatively dogshit pay on the tenuous promise of retirement somewhere down the line, a promise that is actively being taken back by the upper class. Now, you work until you die unless you’re very, very lucky. I don’t find that a very compelling or fair deal, and if you do, would you be interested in purchasing a bridge?

You can, unless your teeth or something else becomes a health problem you can’t fix.

✨ they already are ✨

to add to what @Kaerkob@lemmy.world said: because here, I get to decide exactly how much interacting with people I’m willing to engage in and have multiple ways of controlling who I do so with (blocking certain instances so I don’t see their posts, blocking smartassed trolls, etc.)

there’s a reason my username is shortened from the Latin for “I want to leave”. I don’t necessarily want to die, I just don’t want to be here anymore. Unfortunately for us both, leaving society as a whole without dying is rather difficult.