This is a second time now in the last couple of months that my openSUSE Tumbleweed server has become inaccessible over the night with the terminal printing over and over:

BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45080, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
systemd-journald[404389]: Failed to send WATCHDOG=1 notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45081, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45102, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
systemd-journald[404389]: Failed to send WATCHDOG=1 notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45103, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45106, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
...
systemd-journald[404389]: Failed to send WATCHDOG=1 notification message: Transport endpoint is not connected
...
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45128, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0
BTRFS error (device dm-0 state EA): bdev /dev/mapper/cr_root errs: wr 549, rd 45138, flush 8, corrupt 0, gen 0

Both times a restart seemingly fixed everything, as in the computer booted up normally and my services started up and seemed to work just fine.

I ran

btrfs scrub status /

UUID:             redacted
Scrub started:    Tue Sep  1 09:26:40 2026
Status:           finished
Duration:         0:02:36
Total to scrub:   495.58GiB
Rate:             2.96GiB/s
Error summary:    no errors found

and

smartctl -a /dev/nvme0

smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-7.2.2-1-default] (SUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       Samsung SSD 990 PRO 4TB
Serial Number:                      redacted
Firmware Version:                   4B2QJXD7
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            redacted
IEEE OUI Identifier:                redacted
Total NVM Capacity:                 4,000,787,030,016 [4.00 TB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      1
NVMe Version:                       2.0
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          4,000,787,030,016 [4.00 TB]
Namespace 1 Utilization:            733,311,033,344 [733 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            redacted
Local Time is:                      Tue Sep  1 10:01:48 2026 EEST
Firmware Updates (0x16):            3 Slots, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0017):   Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
Optional NVM Commands (0x0055):     Comp DS_Mngmt Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
Log Page Attributes (0x2f):         S/H_per_NS Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg Log0_FISE_MI
Maximum Data Transfer Size:         512 Pages
Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     82 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     85 Celsius

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     9.39W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 1 +     9.39W       -        -    1  1  1  1        0       0
 2 +     9.39W       -        -    2  2  2  2        0       0
 3 -   0.0400W       -        -    3  3  3  3     4200    2700
 4 -   0.0050W       -        -    4  4  4  4      500   21800

Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
 0 +     512       0         0

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        45 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          10%
Percentage Used:                    2%
Data Units Read:                    36,634,591 [18.7 TB]
Data Units Written:                 88,390,637 [45.2 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 173,217,468
Host Write Commands:                2,664,966,303
Controller Busy Time:               19,920
Power Cycles:                       30
Power On Hours:                     9,824
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   15
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      0
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Temperature Sensor 1:               45 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2:               47 Celsius

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
No Errors Logged

Self-test Log (NVMe Log 0x06, NSID 0xffffffff)
Self-test status: No self-test in progress
Num  Test_Description  Status                       Power_on_Hours  Failing_LBA  NSID Seg SCT Code
 0   Extended          Completed without error                9824            -     -   -   -    -
 1   Short             Completed without error                9824            -     -   -   -    -

which dont seem to show any errors. The SSD writes are quite high though. The SSD in question is under two years old, and acts both as a boot drive and a data drive for my data.

So is my SSD cooked? What troubleshooting steps should I take? Or is this a warranty case? (The data is backed up alredy.)

Thanks in advance!

How many people will fork Debian 14 just due to the name

It shows a picture of a AI generated image of a king and queen referencing them as Omarchy users. Then it shows a floating icon of a jester representing Linux users that pops up some of the following quotes:

• The peasants whiper the whole distro castle vibe-coded
• It's a bunch of dotfiles
• Ricing is not engineering, my liege
• Congratulations, you have discovered i3
• Two JPEG's, a gradient, and delusions of monarchy
• Zero days since the last zero day, sire
• Coronation was on Tueday, the build was red
• Wait until they hear about NixOS
• It's not a distro, . It's a theme folder with a domain name
• It's the worst distro in the market, they cry. Its not even a distro

I believe this whole thing was done in response of some "monarchy" and "oligarchy" comments on Omarchy around the fediverse. It is also sometimes weird to get the "joke" because the speaker changes.

We all know the joy of acquiring a new laptop and the excitement of exploring its features and functionalities. However, the vast majority of laptops are only sold with a specific proprietary operating system: Microsoft Windows. The vendors do not remove the Windows license, and you must pay the entire price, even if you do not want to use this system.

This is unfair and we want to change it! Consumers should be able to buy laptops without any specific operating system, and should not have to pay the license price if they don't want to.

Request your refund now!

The 6-Year Saga of systemd Destroying SSDs: How a "Baseless Claim" Became a Hacker News Front-Page Reality

"Remember in 2020 when yours truly opened systemd issue 15292 showing that 500 KB of text logs turned into 700 MB of SSD thrashing, only to be met with maintainer hostility? The maintainers famously declared "I don't think you know what you're talking about," insisted it was non-actionable, and closed the issue while collecting dozens of angry downvotes from the community. Because why fix an architectural design flaw when you can just insult the user's methodology and pretend write amplification doesn't exist?

Fast-forward six years, and nothing changed—except the frustration. In early 2026, a fresh ticket was filed, proving that writing just two lines of log per second in a virtual machine pushed storage to ~50 IOPS continuously. Systemd's memory-mapped hash tables were still dirtying entire 4 KiB pages, triggering filesystem metadata updates, and churning through gigabytes of I/O for a handful of log entries.

Then came the turning point: the new issue blew up on Hacker News, exposing the sheer absurdity of the years-long denial to the broader tech community. Suddenly, faced with public front-page embarrassment, the maintainers' dismissive wall crumbled. @ValdikSS stepped in with exhaustive isolated cgroup and loop-device benchmarking, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that a single 750-byte log message regularly generates ~50 KB to ~70 KB of underlying disk writes.

Miraculously, once the corporate-backed enterprise maintainers were publicly put on blast, someone on the team finally decided to take a look and start addressing it. It turns out the issue was actionable all along—it just required six years of community pain, a dedicated independent researcher doing the maintainers' profiling for them, and a front-page roasting on Hacker News to make the enterprise overlords care.

This whole saga perfectly distills the systemd experience: a monolithic ecosystem engineered strictly for enterprise container hosts and cloud providers, where real-world desktop and edge hardware constraints are dismissed as "user error" right up until the PR optics become too toxic to ignore."

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxUncensored/comments/1vo2hrp/the_6year_saga_of_systemd_destroying_ssds_how_a/

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/34629670

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/34629418

i think the article does a wonderful job at illustrating the point without even uttering a single word

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/34632736

I am looking for good options for an elderly relative which has some onset of slight dementia, but is still living alone (with assistance).

The main problem is that usual things are becoming just too complicated for that person. There are too many details that don't matter. For example, user interfaces have a lot of features that are not strictly needed, many hidden states, often no clearly visible affordances, and so on. Some mail clients make it difficult to recognize phishing.

As a good example how it is done better, I'd name GNOME simple-scan. A really good and simple UI!

This person is currently using Thunderbird + Firefox on Windows, and K9 Mail on Android. Learned to use Windows in their sixties and is now in mid-eighties age.

The main need is a simpler Email client.

Any suggestions?

The keyboard stops working after a while of inactivity like watching a movie or playing a game. The keys light up, and the 2.4ghz indicator on the keyboard shows it's connected, but my pc doesn't detect any keystrokes. Only after I unplug and plug the dongle again, does it start working. How do I fix this? Is this an issue on the linux side, or should I return the keyboard and get a Keychron v6 max?

alias sd='printf "w" | xclip -selection clip; echo "w W"'

I'm wondering how this actually works. I don't think our IT team would ever allow it, but even if they did, you'd have to be able to run everything M$ (Teams, excel, etc), onedrive/sharepoint, windows specific software like CAD, Bluebeam, use Chrome-only software like Autodesk stuff -

It seems kind of dumb to even do that, since you'd be locked into that M$ ecosystem anyway. But I'm curious if anyones done it.

Yes, it is my post, and I am trying to find a reason why it won't work. Sadly, without such a solution, it will be impossible to use many Internet services without having an Android/iOS.