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I just downvoted your comment.

***FAQ***

What does this mean?

The amount of karma (points) on your comment and Red-I mean "hacker" "news" account has decreased by one.

Why did you do this?

There are several reasons I may deem a comment to be unworthy of positive or neutral karma. These include, but are not limited to:

*Rudeness towards other Posters,

*Spreading incorrect information,

*Sarcasm not correctly flagged with a `/s`.

Am I banned from the HN?

No - not yet. But you should refrain from making comments like this in the future. Otherwise I will be forced to issue an additional downvote, which may put your commenting and posting privileges in jeopardy. If you accrue enough down-votes, dang will be forced to hellban or IP-ban you, which will completely and permanently prevent you from using the website whatsoever (until you get another account and IP which takes like 2 minutes).

I don't believe my comment deserved a downvote. Can you un-downvote it?

Sure, mistakes happen. But only in exceedingly rare circumstances will I undo a downvote. If you would like to issue an appeal, shoot me a private message explaining what I got wrong. I tend to respond to PMs within several minutes. Do note, however, that over 99.9% of downvote appeals are rejected, and yours is likely no exception.

How can I prevent this from happening in the future?

Accept the downvote and move on. But learn from this mistake: your behavior will not be tolerated on news.ycombinator.com. I will continue to issue downvotes until you improve your conduct. Remember: HN is privilege, not a right.*

There's already GTK and Qt. What more do you want?

> And then it still needs a centralized way to monetize the development work.

I disagree: once you put money into the equation, the quality of packages will go down as programmers try to shake as much money out of the users. Compare programs like MATLAB vs GNU Octave or Photoshop vs GIMP for example.

> And to get all that, you need a ton of paying users, not a bunch of freeloading tinkerers.

Do you really? I mean you are basically saying that the only way linux can compete is if it sacrifices most of what makes it good in the first place. I really doubt that users think "hmm today i'm going to pay for a bunch of crappy apps that each do some trivial thing for me while uploading my data to the cloud, then watch some ads, and then wade through a bunch of graphical menus to disable this one stupid feature I don't like, i love using iWinux this is so much better than other OS's".

I agree that you should be able to suspend individual programs to disk, but I disagree with the idea that application developers should make their own suspend-to-disk functions, as they would all be basically implementing the same thing.

Instead, I think the kernel/OS should implement this feature instead (perhaps as a something like SIGINT that can be overridden). This would be great on hardware like the pinephone, where you have multiple programs vying for memory but only 1 app is really being used at any given moment (because of screen space). As far as I know this is already implemented in android somehow.

I think it would be simpler if the operating system suspended programs automatically, because it already knows how much memory the system has, the memory speeds, and all that, so it could probably figure the optimal way to shuffle programs around.

Frustrated with my Fedora Linux configuration, I recently got hibernate to work with my Gentoo Linux system.

I have a LUKS (but not LVM) encrypted root and swap partition on /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4 respectively.

I use the command "su && mount /boot && genkernel --luks initramfs" to generate the initramfs.

I give the initramfs the following parameters: "crypt_root=/dev/sda3 root=/dev/mapper/root crypt_swap=/dev/sda4 resume=/dev/mapper/swap". This makes my initramfs ask for my password for the partitions, then decrypt the partition, then mount them and resume from hibernation if possible.

I add this parameter by setting GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub, and then running "grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub".

When I want to hibernate I use the following command: "exec loginctl hibernate". My window managers let me bind this to a keyboard combination.

I am using openrc as my init system (with elogind), and sway/GNOME as my window manager. The computer uses legacy BIOS (SeaBIOS) and the storage uses GUID partition table with the grub bootloader. Hope this helps.