True, but this is why we have consumer laws… To correct situations where there is over-reach by corporate entities.

Admittedly, these laws are insufficient, and the government is inadequate in addressing many situations.

But, this one I feel there would be a better chance of seeing some action on. Healthcare is a touchy subject in politics, especially the cost of healthcare. Studying and showing the strains this puts on the health system, the consumer and the government resources would have a chance of getting some action.

Likely it would be an uphill battle, but I still think it’s worth pursuing.

My question is: how many more people are negatively affected (in a concrete manner, such as this case) by this proliferation of forced garbage?

I would really like to see a study of exactly these kinds of situations done so the larger social impact can be measured. But, it’s not only social impact and there may be financial impacts – such as the need for this woman to go to a hospital, and now the examination of her medications. All of that costs money, and it’s likely money that the taxpayer is shouldering the bill for…no matter what country it is happening in.

I haven’t used sar in over 10 years. I used to use it to monitor resource usage of jobs that I was running while I was at work. Now that I look back, I was using isag (no longer maintained) to generate reports for me.

I would think it should be possible to package ksar in an appimage or docker container - but I don’t know if one exists.

But - there is a newer option:

sadf -g your_datafile [ – sar_options ] > output.svg

This is part of the sysstat package - no need to install anything else, and no java. sadf allows you to make graphs that you can view in your browser. Check the man file for sadf for more information. (Can’t comment any further on this since I haven’t used it.)

Forgot to mention, there are ways to build reports from the sar output - which would give you a chance to filter the logs.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/identifying-linux-bottlenecks-sar-graphs-with-ksar.html

Ahh - yes - I haven’t looked at this for a long time – the sysstat and ksar packages.

Sar is the old school way to keep a rolling log of used resources:

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/4/html/introduction_to_system_administration/s3-resource-tools-sar-sar

https://www.networkworld.com/article/969982/checking-linux-system-performance-with-sar.html

This looks like a cool project.

I think the mistake is assuming they actually hold all of those beliefs.

Umm, more like any beliefs. Well, okay, they do hold the belief in their expanding pocketbooks.

I watched her video earlier (watch almost all of her videos), and I was impressed by the things that she’s gathered.

I couldn’t believe I had forgotten about TLDP.

The one, the only, the legend…

Mine’s best for me:I get it set up the way I want, the updates are frequent but not too frequent, and it has all the packages I need.

My choice isn’t necessarily (or even likely) the best for everyone. There’s a lot to consider when selecting (or recommneding) a distribution. It’s not a one-size-fits-all scenario.

I don’t know if you were joking or not… But in case you weren’t: the Intel guys typically have information about upcoming / unreleased products before the details are out in the open. Yes, the drivers can be maintained by the community when the information is available… But, day one driver support won’t be there (since they are generally developed in-house by Intel, and then pushed up to the kernel for release), and community development would (likely) take significantly longer…

And on the Enterprise customer side, there might be some hesitation about adopting newer Intel products that don’t have drivers officially supported by the company…at least in environments where Linux would be the (logical) choice… That might lead Enterprises to look at Windows instead of Linux.