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When my mother left, my father really didn’t know how to cook. He did his best but some dinners weren’t so good. We got used to the ‘nutty’ taste of burnt chicken and potatoes. Me and my brothers complained all the time. The only compliment he got was when we asked for seconds or thirds. He took it well. I have a very different perspective on it now, years later. I can feel your success. Congratulations!

You can boot Linux from a USB flash drive if your main installation isn’t working. That might be better than searching for solutions from your phone. And a bootable USB flash drive is helpful when you can’t boot from the internal drive. I always have one around, just in case, though I don’t use it very often.

Booting from USB flash drive is a bit slow. A USB attached hard drive or SSD will be much faster or, if your internal drive is big enough, you can partition it to hold two Linux installations. Then, when one isn’t working you can switch to the other with just a reboot, as long as it’s not the boot loader that’s broken.

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

They have a different understanding of ‘benefits’ than I do.

It should be made clear in the law that when LLM output is published a person or other legal entity is responsible for that publication with a duty of care to ensure the output is not harmful. At least until LLMs are recognized as legal entity in their own right. And that publishing the output of an LLM without knowing what was published and deliberately deciding to proceed with that knowledge is, at least, failing a fundamental duty of care as publisher.

The referenced article is not new. It was published in 2022.

I’m sceptical that it is the first-ever recording of a dying human brain. I recall significant interest in and controversy regarding changes in EEG recordings around the time of death back in the 1980s and EEG was in use and the issue was controversial for decades before that.

Time to loss of brain function and activity during circulatory arrest reports findings of a literature review published in 2016 and many of the reviewed publications were published much earlier than that.

Guideline 6: Minimum Technical Standards for EEG Recording in Suspected Cerebral Death records some details of early standards, practices and literature going back at least to the 1960s. It is focused on use of EEG to confirm death as opposed to EEG recording ‘of a dying human brain’, but it is inconceivable, given the intense interest at the time, that there were no EEG recordings around the time of death prior to the recording reported in 2022.

This is not to suggest that there was nothing novel in the reported findings, but the ‘first-ever recording’ in the headline is, I think, sensationalist misrepresentation.

There are guides available. Search for ‘Linux kernel debugging’ or ‘Linux module debugging’, depending on which you are more interested in. And, of course, learn about the relevant parts of the kernel.

You might have a look at Debugging kernel and modules via gdb¶. The kernel.org site has a wealth of information.

On Debian 12 and 13 with xfce, I am using ibus and Intelligent Pinyin (ibus-libpinyin) for Chinese and English. In the past I have used fcitx5 and various other IMEs. Once they’re configured there isn’t much difference between ibus and fcitx5, for my simple use. My Chinese is rudimentary but my Chinese wife is happy with the configuration. I switch input methods with a configurable keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-Space is my preference) or menu on the ibus item in the Status Tray Plugin of the xfce panel. Changing is easy.

I have task-chinese-s-desktop and task-chinese-t-desktop installed. These bring in fcitx5 and various fonts, which suggests that whoever created these tasks think fcitx5 is better than ibus. And I installed ibus-libpinyin, which brings in ibus. I don’t recall why now - it was long ago. So I have ibus and fcitx5 installed but have been using only ibus for the past few years. It works well enough that I haven’t revisited it. If I were installing again now, I might choose fcitx5 instead of ibus.

I see there are also task-japanese-desktop and task-korean-desktop, which you might find helpful.

I’m not an expert woodworker but I did have aquariums when I was young.

A 20 gallon aquarium, all set up, can weigh more than 200 lbs. The stand will be under quite a bit of stress and if it fails…

One of my first non-trivial woodworking projects was a stand for a 20 gallon aquarium but I didn’t build it from scratch: I revised an existing table with stout legs. It’s a long time ago, but the legs were tapered and maybe 3"x3" at the top, or maybe even 4"x4". The aprons were maybe 1/2"x4" with mortise and tenon joints into the legs. The top was 3/4" plywood. I don’t know what the wood was, but might have been pine. It supported the aquarium fine, but it was much stronger than your design due to the stouter legs and more substantial aprons. The design was something like Build a Sturdy End Table, except for the mortise and tenon joints instead of dowels to join the aprons to the legs.

I would be hesitant to put a 20 gallon aquarium on a table of your design. The legs and bracing seem a bit weak. If the joints aren’t very tight, if it starts to go over, there might be excessive loads on the brackets and pocket screws, and it might collapse. It might be fine, but I would definitely loose sleep. I had a 20 gallon aquarium fail once (the aquarium, not the table). It’s a lot of water, a lot of mess and very hard on the fish.

If it were my first serious project, I would look for a proven design, specific to holding the weight of an aquarium. There are many designs available, some with nice build videos. All that I have seen are more robust than your design, even for 10 or 20 gallon aquariums.

If I were going to proceed with something like your design, assuming soft pine frame, I would use 2x4 or larger for the legs, wider aprons and angle braces at the corners.

I haven’t used 13/trixie but with 12/bookworm I use jmtpfs but it’s also available for trixie.