Agreed on all points. I’ll add that for me the film felt unfinished. There was no reason for anyone to be helping him, yet they do. Literally everything that keeps Richards alive is through sheer luck, usually randomly finding the right people to help him.

Most egregiously, the old movie adage of “show don’t tell” is thrown out the window. It really felt like they made the movie with the expectation that anyone watching it would be on their phones for most of it.

I’m a big Edgar Wright fan but in my opinion he was a terrible choice for this one.

OK! So I must have rebooted more than I remembered. Going back to -4 gave me the errors from the first freeze today:

Dec 12 11:09:36 MYPCNAME kernel: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffaa5cf71f6380
Dec 12 11:09:36 MYPCNAME kernel: #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
Dec 12 11:09:36 MYPCNAME kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

Going back to -2 I got the errors prior to the second freeze:

Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000066fd90033180
Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: plasma-browser-/162281/0x00000000

Just want to say how much I appreciate you taking the time, I’m learning a lot with this, thank you.

Edit: Looks like it may be related to memory issues OOM? I did install something regarding oom awhile back but I don’t remember what it was. I’m seeing nohang recommended tho

Edit 2: I check my running services, the other one was earlyoom. I’ve removed earlyoom and installed nohang. Hope I’m on the right track.

For the log? I just opened syslog in /var/log. Running journalctl -b -1 -p 3 only goes back to around 14:10, right after booting from the last freeze. dmesg just spits out a ton of the same UFW BLOCK entries, usb connections and such, and only one error that says usb 1-2.4.1.1.3: clock source 41 is not valid, cannot use (I have no idea if this is new or just always was). The first freeze happened yesterday morning, frozen sometime overnight when I wasn’t even using the PC, but I didn’t know about logs or anything so had no idea what to check.

The ports are whichever port is currently active in ProtonVPN’s port forwarding.

I saw another Lemmy post earlier about task managers and installed glances earlier this morning. Unfortunately it wasn’t running at the first freeze but was at the second, and didn’t look like anything was amiss to me. I have had issues in the past though with running too many things at once, like a browser with open tabs, music player, and video editor at the same time eating RAM like crazy. I’ve since created a swap file and I can’t remember the other thing, but it’s meant to shut down the most memory hungry app before things get sluggish.

This type of freezing up is new though, nothing works, and I’ve left it for hours with no change. Previous freezes from eating RAM resulted in a slow moving cursor and resolved in about 20 mins. I also made a lot of adjustments for audio recording months ago that I’d really rather not reinstall the OS and lose, mostly since I’m new to Linux and don’t remember how I got it working haha.

CPU temp seems to stay pretty constant around 45-48 degrees.

Should have mentioned I included the last log entry from when I got it back up. The clock froze at 11:09:55, 22 seconds after the kernel log entry. I booted back up at 11:32.

-/etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf

# /etc/modules is obsolete and has been replaced by /etc/modules-load.d/.
# Please see modules-load.d(5) and modprobe.d(5) for details.
#
# Updating this file still works, but it is undocumented and unsupported.

• /usr/lib/modules-load.d/modules.conf This does not exist. In that directory I have /usr/lib/modules-load.d/fwupd-msr.conf and /usr/lib/modules-load.d/osspd.conf

• The other two do not exist.

• OS: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.14.0-37-generic

Uptime: 13m

Packages: 3944

Shell: bash 5.2.21

Resolution: 5250x2160

DE: KDE 5.115.0 / Plasma 5.27.12

WM: KWin

GTK Theme: Materia-dark [GTK2/3]

Icon Theme: breeze-dark

CPU: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400F @ 12x 4.4GHz [62.0°C]

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

RAM: 5560MiB / 15860MiB

Huh, I certainly don’t want to cause more issues haha. I’ve got timeshift setup now so hopefully if it or similar happens again and I can’t get it running the kernel way I can just use that. Thanks.

Interesting thanks. I’ll look into it more.

Blister packs aren’t a problem, they save lives. In a moment of weakness it’s easy to grab a handful of pills from a bottle. Often by the time a few pills are removed from a blister pack the desire to continue diminishes. Pain in the ass? Sure. Problem? Nope.

Del Toro’s Frankentein (2025): I thought it was pretty good and beautifully shot. Then I realised it was sticking with me for a few days, which doesn’t happen with movies often anymore. Gonna give it a month or two then do a rewatch.

V for Vendetta (2006): Haven’t watched it in about 15 years, and it was honestly a hard watch as things have changed. It’s no longer ‘possible alternate future’ as much as ‘near current present’. Honestly there wasn’t much about it that was fantastical anymore, came out of it a bit depressed and angry.

The Beldham (2025): Standard ‘direct to video’ horror schlock. Completely fine for what it is.

Is that a thing? I’m in Canada and I’ve never seen a duplex sell as a single house. If you could find it that would be a pretty sweet deal

Same, shortly after Negan. I was hate-watching it every week. Once I realized I was only watching weekly so I didn’t have to watch two episodes in a row I quit it.

Or buying a duplex and renting half of it

That’s just buying two houses to rent one though

Haha funny you mention that I went to edit in to add my contribution but I guess I quit without sending.

Yep, it’s only because it’s too much too soon. The name of the game is normalization, and they haven’t gone through the process fully with same sex marriage yet. It’s coming.

This has been a really interesting post. After going through all the amazing films I’ve become hopeful (probably unrealistically) that with the prevalence of not only CGI but now “AI”, we may just get lucky enough to see a practical effect renaissance. There’s a charm and soul in practical effects that’s lacking in CGI, and completely missing in AI.

Check out the M4 fan edit. I recommend this at every opportunity haha. They cut down the entire extended trilogy into a 4 hour film, covering only the events in The Hobbit novel. One of the many adjustments they make is colour correction, which really helps with the “unfinished” feel you’re talking about. It’s incredibly well done, and aside from a few janky cuts is the definitive version of The Hobbit movies imo.

Dude, I’m not disagreeing with your views, but you’re just proving the point of why the conversation started in the first place; to the vast majority of Canadians, the NDP just weren’t an option. Believe me, you’re preaching to the choir, but I’d be deluding myself if I thought they had a shot this election.

This election, only one thing mattered; stopping the Conservatives. The NDP didn’t even remotely have that shot. The Liberals could, and did, and most voters knew that.

I’ll reiterate the entire point of this convo, the NDP were not an option this time.

Being in a position of being needed and using that to their advantage was both smart and good for Canadians. But still a far cry from showing leadership and certainly didn’t show they could handle dealing with a fascist gov’t threatening us.

As far as charisma, I never said it was needed to deserve anything. They don’t need a charismatic leader to be worth voting for, they need one to get people to really listen. This is unfortunate, but it’s the way of the world. Charisma will be needed to convince people to look at the NDP as a real choice. We’ve seen what a lack of it can do to one of the most popular parties in the country, the NDP needs every bonus they can get.

This was (and still is) my first distro, made the switch about 3 months ago. I read about the low latency kernel being good for recording but I’m not sure it’s necessary. I went with LTS for stability and regularly use Reaper, Bitwig, Blender, Krita, and as of today after getting it working finally, DaVinci Resolve.

It works for me with a Behringer UV1 preamp and a Scarlett 4i4, but it did take a lot of work to get the audio working right. At first I could only use ALSA, which only allows one program to use audio at a time. If I remember right I have to install Pipewire and Wireplumber and was then able to use JACK.

My GPU is Nvidia and there’s been some hiccups but it generally works well.

One interesting issue that happened today though was after rolling back Wine to 9.21 and reinstalling yabridge. I tested with launching a Windows app and it screwed up Plasma, seemed to delete it. I had to log into xorg and reinstall KDE. I can now log in with X11 but for some mystery Wayland is just gone. Bonus was that X11 has fixed my DaVinci issues haha so that’s something I guess.

Funnily enough I just had a big plasma issue on Studio and had to get back up and running with x11, Wayland is just gone. Video issues aren’t present in x11 haha

If the NDP had formed government before I’d completely agree. There’s just no way the last election would go to an untested party during a time we’re being threatened by the US, and fascism is building up at our doorstep.

This term is arguably one of the most difficult scenarios for a gov’t to deal with in our history. I don’t blame Canadians for wanting a gov’t that, though both good and bad, has proven they actually can govern.

This election had a lot of the markers of the WWII era when both Canada and the US voted for a gov’t and leader with experience, King and Roosevelt respectively. We didn’t have the option of a tested leader, but we did have the option of a tested party. This effectively removed the NDP as an option.

I do however think you’re right that the things you’re talking about should have been done years before, and we may have effectively screwed ourselves by not making those changes when we had the chance over the last few decades. We may never get that chance again.

My hope is that the NDP elects a strong, charismatic leader and they come out of the gate loud and hard. Scream about social programs, services, taxing corps and the wealthy, and they don’t shut up for the next 3 years.