caseyweederman

Yeah. OP got them laid was my first thought.

Fuck. We really need more variety in the web browser space too.

Well you Alexes seem a pretty cool bunch

Do I need to read Dark Alex 1 through 16 to have an appreciation of the plot or can I jump in here?

raises hand

The running kernel is not removed. Most (if not all?) distros will keep multiple previous kernels for fallback purposes. Some relatively recent projects will wait for system calls to complete and redirect new ones to the updated equivalent (see Live Kernel Patching).
The reason some things stop working is because the kernel modules directory is replaced. The running (old) kernel tries to access a module for a newer version and says nope.

Arch Linux has the package kernel-modules-hook which backs up the old modules and points the old kernel to them while it’s running. I’m not sure why it’s not installed by default.

It’s very likely that it is in the graphical config somewhere, but why play “hunt the pixel” when you can get it in a few milliseconds (plus the time typing the grep command)?

I was hoping someone else would remember it, I’ve been looking for it too.

There was a study just recently about exactly this, smart devices creating a rogue mesh and routing traffic across neighbors’ devices until they could phone home with all your data anyway

I have accidentally done this on my laptop when it thought my microphone was a speaker and played audio out of it.

Ah! Can’t get around it then.

and devices between the pool and running instances without a reboot. An instance can be shut down, its resources reclaimed, and respawned with a different kernel.

Sweet.

This sounds absolutely ideal for live kernel patching.
Also what happens if one kernel panics?
Maybe I should read it.

Or petrol

YEAH it’s bash.org