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You haven’t watched or read much dystopian fiction (or fact, as below), have you?

My mind always goes to that one scene in Roots where, below decks on the slaver ship, the captured slaves-to-be stage a revolt and resolve to swim to the bank of the river the ship is sailing on. They succeed in reaching the top deck, a masterpiece of planning, only to become dazed both by the daylight as well as the fact there was no riverbank in sight.

Those poor bastards were from inland, had probably never been more than a few miles from their villages. They literally couldn’t conceive of something as large as the Atlantic ocean.

Likewise you’re failing to conceive all the ways that your plans won’t work. You really think you’ll get to someone’s crotch or eyes? And if you do, that you’ll not be overcome and won’t get that opportunity next time?

The only hope is a whole heap of incompetence on behalf of the captor. And in that case you will still not win the fight. Run.

And hope there’s a riverbank nearby or else you’re cooked.

They put you somewhere that you have no communication with the outside world. Now what?

Yeah, I really should. I’ll have a piece of hardware to install soon, so I might test it before I do that. Gotta switch off anyway so might as well.

LMDE Cinnamon user here. There’s a setting in the power options that tells the computer to switch to hibernate if it remains in suspend for a certain amount of time. Hibernated computers suspend to disk rather than RAM and are basically switched off, so need to POST to come back online.

It took me a while to find that setting, and it might be the same case with whatever you’re using.

What’s more, it only took effect if I used the GUI to put the computer into suspend mode. I usually use a keyboard combo to suspend the computer at night, but occasionally I’d use the GUI and come back in the morning to a hibernated computer.

Thought I’d been taking crazy pills or that there was something wrong.

My main gripes are that inconsistency between suspend methods and also that there’s no setting for how long to stay in suspend before hibernating. I have no idea if that’s a UEFI thing or something that could be set elsewhere, but I’d probably use that feature if I could set it.

As it is I’m giving the hybrid option a try. Basically it suspends like normal, but also sets up a hibernated restart for if the power goes out. That hasn’t happened yet, so can only assume it’ll work when the time comes.

Late edit: The delay between suspend and hibernate is set in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf with the setting HibernateDelaySec=. Manual page reading is required, but even so, this feature is not well documented there or out on the Internet.

There may be syntax available to specify other units of time with a suffix. For example, my computer’s related SuspendEstimationSec= option is given as 60min in the example and not 3600.

Maybe I should have said “White decides that the pawn retires rather than being promoted to anything.”

They tried to take their own queen. They’re probably going to try something else equally wacky.

Heck, maybe the (player decides that the) pawn stays on the back rank figuratively smashing its head into the wall until a black piece is forced to take it. An interesting, if otherwise illegal, way to gain tempo.

Maybe the (player decides that the) pawn promotes to “10 square radius regicide”. The rules are gone. Anything is possible. The people are free of both kings! Vive la révolution!

Whoa. Seeing it written that way, and without the L(inux) in front, had me misreading it as “Mint Desktop Environment” and not “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Super weird, especially since I’ve been on LMDE since v4.

Pawns can be promoted to any piece.

I don’t know the exact wording of the rule, so it might be interesting to find loopholes in, but then pawns can’t take their own queen either so we’re not necessarily following the rules.

The pawn might decide to stay a pawn and retire.

The Team A versus Team B argument is worthless. The Pro-skub versus Anti-skub fight is where it’s at.

Our galaxy has numerous dwarfs including two reasonably large ones clearly visible from the southern hemisphere.

And if you think that’s kinky, wait until the Andromeda galaxy gets here.

Facebook though? In today’s climate, Nemi would hate that. Well, secretly she’d be in too deep to delete it, but she’d really want to… which might actually be what’s going on with the artist, come to think of it.

That’s the smile of a man who did something incredibly illegal and all the other guys are trying to get him out of there ASAP while worrying about the consequences if anyone finds out.

As for what that illegal thing was, well, this is just me putting a concept to a picture that might have had no illegal acts preceding it whatsoever, but you know. Drugs maybe. Full on making out with an underage groupie who was loving the experience, but then their dad entered the next room looking for them, necessitating a rapid getaway and a s**t-eating grin. Grabbing a dog’s tail from the inside and, roink, turning it inside out or making an audacious internet comment with a sound effect like “roink”. Those sorts of things.

And the big question is: Which will happen first; Linux being adopted by the masses or fusion becoming a viable power source?