the news on regular tv last night was totally lopsided. tons of ‘reaction’ from the right and far-right, hardly anything from anyone else.

it’ll be covered on screen 73 of the ‘agreement’ required to use the device.

at the office we have the ones you have to push down–and hold for the water to run. i’ve encountered them elsewhere and you get 10-20 seconds before the water shuts off… ours doesn’t. by the time you get your hand down to the water, it’s shut off.

i’ve seen two of these things around here. they’ve both been on the flatbed of a local towing service.

i half expect a hung jury. there’s bound to be one maga on the jury that won’t budge.

these clowns have shifted so far to the right, they’re in danger of falling off the edge of the earth.

on my arch-based systems, i use repos first, aur second. appimages third. i do also have a couple minor things (that are self-contained with no dependencies) that were just ‘unzipped’ into their own directories and links added to menus where appropriate. note that i don’t game on these systems. i don’t have a lot of aur packages installed, so updates and subsequent recompile time isn’t an issue.

i have yet to run into anything i want or need that isn’t available in those. so no flatpaks or snaps.

hard drives are going to be slow af copying data to itself, or moving data to a different partition on it.

then you’re also adding partition size manipulation to the mix, which will also be slow af when data has to be moved off the ‘end’ of partitions to ‘make room’ to enlarge or create another with a different fs.

your best option is to get another drive, even if it’s also a hard drive instead of ssd. use that to move (copy, really, to preserve the original as a backup for the time being) all the data to that you want to preserve.

small town, middle of nowhere in the upper midwest. an hour away from basically anything other than walmart and a few fast food joints, and more than our fair share of climate change-denying maga morons.

we have multiple locations with chargers.

upgrades have been working fine here, both linux and windows, for well over a decade.

only if a system is also being repurposed at the time of the ‘upgrade’, or if i’m changing the connection type of the boot drive (such as from sata to nvme, or switching an older system to ahci mode) do i install ‘from scratch’.

definitely keep windows on it to begin with. once you’re fully settled-in on linux and haven’t even looked at windows for at least a couple weeks, make one last backup… then nuke it or repurpose it.

fire the computer. go back to the pigeons

being a convicted felon would make him eminently more qualified to be a republican candidate for office.

not to worry, it won’t be long until “after almost 29 years…”

verizon did the same thing awhile ago, and it was more than five bucks a month.

was still cheaper for us to keep the old plan than to switch to a new “unlimited” one, though.

easy there, we have enough climate problems without the sun going supernova on us.

same deal with the far-right alternatives to aarp. just scamming money from america’s most gullible.

that’s not a ‘problem’ everywhere.

if they dump the free refills here and still take 15 minutes to make a simple order, i’m going elsewhere. i’ve already cut way down because of cost and time, i’ll just forget they exist entirely. three competitors are literally adjacent. all three also have free refills, and all three can beat mcdonalds service times. prices are basically the same now, mcdonalds hasn’t had that advantage since before covid.

my knees and back say i don’t need any further reminders. but thank you.

upgraded here. no problems. didn’t even notice the version increment until i went looking for it.