Yeah, I know it matches the description of one of those. I’m very glad it wasn’t one of the chest-sitters.

I’ve told this story before.

I cannot fall asleep on my back. Or rather, I find it incredibly difficult to do so.

One night, I was dead tired and laid on my back as I normally do to get the bed warm before turning on a side to try to sleep, and I began to drift off.

It was at that point I became aware of the dark shapeless form about as tall as a person stood at the side of my bed. The room was dark. It was darker.

I made a very weird “oo-er” noise, roused myself and it melted into the regular darkness.

I didn’t feel at all threatened by it, and assume it was my mind playing tricks, but it was definitely creepy and unwelcome.

Sorry, I never meant to imply you were stupid. Only that you didn’t seem to be of a high enough technical level - right now - to be able to solve your PC problems.

As for (non-committal) further advice: Backups, backups, backups. And then a tool like WinDirStat to track down what’s using all your space. There are YouTube videos that show you how to use it.

I believe they are exhibiting denial that YouTube could possibly be old enough to have videos uploaded 18 years ago.

This denial is being done mostly in jest to cover the true, creeping, dripping, existential despair that so much time has passed, but at the same time to commiserate and laugh with others who are similarly affected. Drip, drip, tick, tick, tick.

Also, the video turns 19 in a couple of months. yaaaaay

Given your apparent technical level, I think you need to get your PC to someone who can work on it in person.

If you had space and better technical skills, there are tools you could install to help you track down where all the space is in use, but I don’t feel confident that things would go well talking you through that on an Internet forum.

Lobbying is and always has been legalised bribery. That they’re extending it to parties that aren’t political (at least, not officially), is not a surprise.

That the law allows this scope creep ought to be a surprise, but alas…

Welp. I’ve altered my comment to reflect my mistake.

Sites are getting better at frustrating users who remove elements from pages, so I expect that Reddit would have implemented the latest tech.

But perhaps more importantly, this is about mobile, not desktop, so there’s no uBO anyway.

Edit: Didn’t read my source properly at all. My bad.

It is now my head canon that it randomly chooses a memory location and kills whatever process owns it, repeating as necessary.

The perverse logic of there being a greater chance of hitting a memory hog makes far too much sense.

It can’t actually be this though, can it?

Fish & chips. There were other reasons when I could afford it, but now I’m on government support, it’s just not a sound financial decision, even as a treat.

I haven’t been to my local chippy in a good long while, but the last time I was there the price was around £10, so I wouldn’t be surprised to find it at £15 now. I can eat for the better part of a week for that sort of money.

(The other reasons being that I was putting on a lot of weight, and I always seemed to end up scratching the heck out of my throat on them. And no, I wasn’t swallowing them like a gannet.)

Because they’d be ten times the price if they were produced in a country that treats its workers better.

To hazard a guess (don’t know for sure, not even for my own country), it’s for future historians to be able to build up a picture of who was where and when.

What might seem obvious and common knowledge now might not be in 100 years.

Somehow I am all three of these people at the same time.

Once I read the article it became abundantly clear, yes, but my attempt to imply that my initial impressions were from the headline alone wasn’t a good one.

It’s an indictment of our society that I wasn’t completely sure if this was going to be about ethnic Chinese targeting their own, or ethnic British taking advantage of foreign students.

The fact the headline mentions Chinese specifically had me leaning towards the former, but there was still an element of doubt in my mind.

And I’d still not be surprised to learn that the latter also happens.

Permit me to repeat what I said to a similar reply:

Oh, I’m well aware. It’s just that sometimes I like a cushion on my chair, you know?

Firestarter by The Prodigy

Wipe Out by The Surfaris

Mars from Holst’s Planet’s Suite

Oh, I’m well aware. It’s just that sometimes I like a cushion on my chair, you know?

That’s actually easier on regular Mint than LMDE, but the advanced Synaptic package manager works on both to remove old kernels.

… but they’re adding a dedicated kernel management tool for both versions in the next releases if I understand their most recent blog correctly.

Like the native Mint tools, it’s basically a front-end to apt and related commands.

Don’t hate, but I actually like the GUI update manager in Mint. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯