I did have an old laptop with bad SSD that would have similar problem - cannot ssh, but can ping, and desktop quickly gets unresponsive.

On root device issues kernel remounts root drive to read-only, and that breaks everything, but the machine still works - yet you get no logs because /var/log is also read-only.

I did some googling and it seems SSH requires writable /tmp, so you might setup some in-memory one, if you haven’t already - you could check if your machine uses tmpfs (in-memory tmp) to reject this hypothesis.

Anecdotal: I did found some games feeling slightly off on steam on Linux (Ubuntu 24.04 with X), like Noita mouse movement feeling muddy (probably frame lag), and it got better with 26.04 on wayland.

And inaccurate.

They were asked multiple times to show where the 700MB where coming from, and they just didn’t, that’s a great way to get their issues fixed :D

Yes.

I did play a NSFW game, and I would say I would be pretty awesomely fucked.

Is it advertising though? Or is it just something people find either comfy either liking how they look in it?

You don’t have classified documents, but you probably use bank in your browser running as your user. Maybe you use local mail program to send emails, also running as your user. A simple malware could add emails to be send asking your family to send you some money through online service.

And that’s easily done because the only isolation layer is user and group.

Are you saying that AI slop is bad in those (counts) 4 removed lines of code?

This is lore-accurate thanks to The Infinite And The Divine.

Uh, your graph is missing power levels for Lenin and Stalin.

Downsizing. If you don’t need to run or keep stuff, then you don’t need so many servers and storage. You may run stuff on cheap mini-pcs.

Sleep: In my experience sleep sucks, I’ve spent long hours planning around sleep in homelab, like: when do I restart, do updates, when do I upload backups. I have Pi and at some point I realised some actions on Pi need my sleeping NAS… so I dropped all the sleep and now it works 24/7.