People are mentioning ‘OOM Killer’ which may have similar features, I have not tried it out.

I’ve had this on previous laptops, and gave up on using Sleep mode, just used full shutdown every time.

Once fully frozen, it’s not really able to be saved.

Is it a full freeze? Press CAPS-LOCK or NUM-LOCK to see if the hardware is still responding.

If it is, it might just be a DE freeze. Try to SSH into into your frozen device, from another PC or phone.

Or press CTRL-ALT-F7 to see if you can switch to a terminal and login.

Once in, use ps -ef, or top to see and kill what might be causing a freeze.

Turn on auto-save in LibreOffice(you usually only lose a sentence or 3 words with this on).

Investigate IDEs with auto-backup or an autosaved change-history.

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To diagnose whether you have bad RAM, boot from a LiveUSB distro and use it for a day or week.

If no freezes, reinstall a fresh OS.

If it still freezes, get new RAM, or replace whole PC/laptop.

It is an incredible solo-effort, with largely simplistic features.

As a usable OS, it’s a fever-dream curiosity.

This intervention totally works, to improve mood in screaming/tantruming toddlers.

“Where are the birdies?” etc.

Trisquel is a fully ‘Free as in freedom’ distro.

Zero telemetry now or in the future.

Ubuntu based, so large FLOSS package repository.

Mate UI, simple user friendly layout.

* You will need hardware that works with fully free hardware drivers (for printer, WiFi, GPU etc). Drivers with binary-blobs are not included, due to potential security risks or spyware.

Test your hardware with a bootable USB.

you can put down buildings while on pause.

Now this! is a pro-tip. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing this moment about the Q&A.

The lack of self-awareness about how ghoulish, and close to grave robbing these ‘reanimations’ are is concerning. Glad to hear that museum professionals are not entertaining it for a moment.

Fully free distro list

If you know how to source hardware that uses fully-free drivers, they are worth a look.

Guix and Parabola also look interesting.

You probably didn’t even know it’s pronounced Jimp too!!

/s

MATE (prn: MAH-Tay)

because it comes with standard Trisquel and is a smooth DE experience.

4-in-1 🙃

Nope, exact same html.

https://everything2.com/node/e2node/An Introduction to Everything2 - massively interlinked information site

https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ - robots and people comic

https://realultimatepower.net/ - ninjas

That’s what my favourite font uses, behold MULI !

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/muli

That is a horrific outcome.

Free-licence the Argus IP now.

Reject pixel-graphics, install aalib

;^)

I used it in a university course in '95, not sure what distro, but customising your shell prompt, and setting automatic timed updates for the wallpaper in tvwm certainly felt like the future. Different and electric.

We would play the linux shareware first release of quake in 12-16 player. Hiding the executable by renaming it ekauq… didn’t work, still got removed from our directories.

There were installfests at the local LUG, which were a fun way to share tips and help others.

One Linux support business existed in our town in the 90s, installing and fixing Linux boxen for businesses. Mostly home/hobby use though.

Slashdot.org was covering the majority of Linux news. Either MS FUD or the nonsense SCO lawsuit, amongst all the positive advances.

Linux conferences were a fun way to make it more real and see many of the big names behind the movement and technologies.

Installed RedHat 4 or 5.1 around 98 and then found the power of Debian. Currently running Trisquel GNU/Linux because it is a fully libre distro with no proprietary blobs or other obfuscated parts.

Many thanks to RMS and all FLOSS contributors, there is such an incredible spectrum of tools available for free use. It has been great to see the progression and expansion over the decades.