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Wow! I think I found the offending process, but kill doesn't kill it! (It quietly does nothing.) Same story for killall and System Monitor.

Hard reboot incoming!

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Hmm. Unity hung on Ubuntu and I can't figure out how to kill it. I'd usually use

ps -aux | grep Unity

and then kill the listed process, but there are at least a dozen of them. Is there any other way to do this?

@jonny I have a Monument. It generally works okay, but the search is so much worse than Google Photos that I never use it to look for picture.

Self-driving car with a big touch screen, but the entire drive you have to fill out captchas to let it know in real time what’s a traffic light, motorcycle, or crosswalk. Marketing tries to spin it really positively, like “human-in-the-loop AI” or “collaborative driving”

Happy 32nd birthday Linux. Here’s your damn cake. Go ahead and compile it yourself!

marriage is just two people alternately forcing each other to decide what they’re having for dinner

I could only hear one side of the conversation:
- "What was that 80s movie where they were all immortal except they had to cut each other's heads off?"
- "What? No, it wasn't Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
- "Yes I'm sure!"

@SwiftOnSecurity I lifted it from the fantastic podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, who laughed about it being the most boring fact they'd ever discovered.

@iMike @SwiftOnSecurity When model railroad enthusiasts need something to represent coal, they use a smaller piece of coal.

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