[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

It’s okay, we’re used to it.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That’s textbook boomer humor.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Of course Gen X left out again.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

I’m to scared to think any of them are okay anymore. Had my heart broken too many times.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

made from freshly-roasted klansmen

dark roast is preferred

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Okay good, because I thought maybe there were five lights instead.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago

That the world used to be black and white. I once asked how the people making The Wizard of Oz knew when the world was going to change, so they could film the movie correctly.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I see three commas

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Don’t worry, Abbot and Paxton and their goons will take the cash and never let the (empty) wallet be audited long before anyone can get the coins.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago
[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

I’ve met people in real life who still have a positive view of this slime ball.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Zachariah@lemmy.world to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

My ultimate goal is to install Xubuntu on this computer, but I am stuck.

I cannot find any way to get into the BIOS to change settings, including being able to boot to the USB installer drive.

I have tried F1 held, F1 repeated, Fn+F1 (held/repeated), same with F2, same with F12, same with Del.

I tried telling Windows to boot to UEFI settings, but it reboots directly to windows.

I ended pulling the drive and removing all the partitions, in hopes that then it wouldn't try to boot to Windows anymore. Now it just gives me this:

Using this menu, I can't boot to USB, nor can I boot to DVD.

I opened it and do not see any jumpers on the visibe side of the motherboard. I also did not see a CMOS battery. There are lots of tiny ribbon cables and the heat sink+fan that I'll have to remove if I need to look on the other side.

What I want most is access the the BIOS / UEFI settings.

If a workaround like installing an OS to the drive using another machine and then putting back in will probably work, then I'll try that, but that will be such a hassle.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by Zachariah@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world
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submitted 1 month ago by Zachariah@lemmy.world to c/dnd@lemmy.world

This Kickstarter is for odd-numbered dice: D9. D11, D13, D15, D17 and D19. Available in Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Indigo and Purple. $12 plus shipping for the set of six.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/impactminiatures/cursed-dice

I’ve backed Impact! Miniatures before and it’s always been great.

I really like that odd-numbered dice even exist. It sounds like a what-if that was taken too far. And it turned out great.

What about a unique way to show curses and disadvantages to your players. Impact!'s cursed dice allow you to give your players a unique die to use for the session to show the effect of their misguided actions. A D19 to show a curse that prevents criticals and natural 20s. Along with several other different dice to disadvantage rolls in many creative ways.

These dice were designed to be as fair as possible for an odd sided die. All the sides are equal sized and equal distant from the center mass. Each die was created by a specialist trained in working with geometeric design.

These odd dice are all new molds and modified designs by Impact! We've learned from our attempts to make odd sided dice in the past and these dice are brand new designs to make sure the dice stop faster by being larger and designed to have better defined stopping surfaces. The new designs are also easier to read with larger fonts and better extras to show you the top value being rolled.

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submitted 3 months ago by Zachariah@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I see more and more posts that are just a link to a video, post, or article. There’s no text in the description.

I’d like to see some of the article quoted and/or a brief reason this is currently being posted to Lemmy.

When it’s just a link, the cynical part of me thinks it’s just an SEO bot—especially if the account never posts any comments.

What are some ways to encourage posts that are more engaging?

Or should I just ignore, downvote, and/or block those doing this kind of posting?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Zachariah@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

edit: Thank you to all who answered! I’m amazed at how many ways you came up with to answer this.

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submitted 3 months ago by Zachariah@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

I have a computer running what I think at the time was called Ubuntu Server (no GUI) that I installed Xfce on, making it essentially Xubuntu. I did this because it allowed me to use mdadm to set up RAID (4 drives; RAID 5) during the OS install.

My OS lives on an NVME drive, and I have my raid mounted at /Files.

I have lots of data in my RAID, and much (but not all!) is backed up to the cloud. There would be both emotional issues and lots of time required to fix things if I lose the RAID or the data on it.

(I am realizing as I write this that I put off upgrading so long, I can probably copy all the data to one 20TB drive (oof! That’s expensive) since they’ve gotten about as big as my 21.83TB volume.)

How safe is it to take the OS up on this offer?

New release '20.04.6 LTS' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.

How hard is it to reestablish the RAID if it forgets it exists?

Is there anything else I can do to make this more likely to “just work”? (Like: don’t do it over ssh)

Are there other factors I am not thinking of?

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