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  • I asked the doctor once about pausing the meds, and she was against it, because the side effects could come, even some that weren’t present before. It was better to stay on them constantly.

    MY conclusion is therefore that it is probably better to stretch your meds (consistent lower dosage for a period) to avoid a complete cutoff. Note: I’m an IT dude and a random person on the internet, and have no medical qualifications.




  • neidu3@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.mlGRUB is confusing
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    1 month ago

    You have one per installed kernel. Not sure what (if any) automagic is common for removing old kernels, I guess this varies between distros, but at least on my computers, old kernel remain. At least the previous one, maybe more. It comes in handy in case a kernel upgrade breaks something, which it actually did recently on one of my laptops - makes it easier to boot from old kernel and revert.

    EDIT: I just checked. I have just one on my daily driver. It’s quite new, and I don’t think I’ve had a kernel upgrade on that one, so it makes sense.

    On my work laptop (the one with borked kernel upgrade) I have two.

    So what you most likely have is one or more vmlinuz-version-numbers, and then simply a symlink named just vmlinuz to the version you boot from.


  • neidu3@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.mlGRUB is confusing
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    Short answer to your last paragraph:
    vmlinuz is the kernel. It ends with z instead of x, because it’s z-compressed to save space. (I’ve heard that it’s possible to use an uncompressed kernel for that 1ms faster boot time)
    Initramfs (not intramuscular, which my autocorrect thinks is appropriate) is a small filesystem blob, “initial ram filesystem”, meant to be loaded directly into ram to allow the kernel to talk to your hardware via drivers. It also has a lot of binaries needed to perform other tasks that need to run before the root filesystem is mounted.