I'll never understand how the party of "freedom" can ban whatever they don't like without their voters seeing the irony.

Restarting can be a pain too.

Recently, I decided to install arch linux on an old laptop my sibling gave to me. I'm not new to Linux, I've been running a debian server for a year now and I have tried several VMs with different systems. But this was my first time installing arch without a script, and on bare metal.

Installing arch itself wasn't that much of an issue, but there was a bigger problem: the PC didn't recognize the pendrive for boot in UEFI mode. It seemed to work in the regular boot mode, but I didn't want to use that. I made sure to deactivate safe mode and all the jazz. Sure enough, I could get UEFI boot working.

I install arch, works fine, I reboot. Oops! I didn't install dhcpcd and I don't know how to use network manager! No internet, great!

In my infinite wisdom, instead of trying to get NM to work, I decided to instead chroot back into the system and install dhcpcd. But my surprise when... The boot menu didn't recognize the USB again. I tried switching between UEFI and normal boot modes on the bios and trying again, after all it appeared last time after changing it, right?

"Oh it doesn't appear... Wait, what's this? No boot partition found? Oh crap..."

Turns out, by changing the setting on the BIOS I probably deleted the nvram and with it the boot table settings or whatever they're called. I deleted GRUB.

Alas, as if to repent for my sins, God gave me a nugget of inspiration. I swap the USB drive from the 3.0 port to one of the 2.0 ports on the other side and... It works, first try. The 3.0 port was just old and the connection bad. And I just deleted GRUB for no reason.

Usually, I would've installed everything from scratch again, but with newfound confidence, I managed to chroot into the system and regenerate the boot table or whatever (and install dhcpcd). And it worked! I had a working, bootable system, and an internet connection to download more packages.

I don't know what the moral of the story is I just wanted to share it :)

I loved the character design because I hated the characters too: Lae'zel was a close minded warrior, Shadowheart a smartass, Gael Mr nice guy not so nice when you do something he doesn't approve, Astarion the vampire rapist... Etc.

But then I kept on playing and I realized they were really deep characters. Lae'zel was indoctrinated super hard, but she's smart and can recognize when things don't make sense, even if she totally believes those things. Shadowheart has been lying to everyone, including herself, and putting a mask on; but she's a really sweet woman. Astarion was abused in every possible way for centuries, and being a total asshole is his way to cope.

My point is, yeah, the characters are flawed and can come across as dicks, but many real people do too until you understand their circumstances. Not saying that what they do is justified, just that they are interesting characters and redeemable from my PoV.

Because gender affirming care for kids is mostly not hormones. More like puberty blockers and social stuff like changing their name.

Why the fuck would I want that speed if I can only fully use it for less than a second before hitting the data cap? I'd rather have 100 times less speed with 100 times more cap, so I can actually fully use it however I want.

Also it's just ridiculous anyway because I don't even think hard drive write speeds are that fast.

cxb3 en passant

Can't you? What about not having "girly" hobbies because that "makes you gay"? Or having to dress a certain way? I feel like straight people aren't excluded from homophobia...

Am I missing something? I was baptized way before I had a gender identity, were they going to retroactively un-baptize me?

It's unfortunate they won't, because I was too little to consent, but I definitely wouldn't have.

There is gravitational pull, from both the Earth and the Sun. The JWST is orbiting the "earth-sun system" if you will.

You can read more about Lagrange points here.

Computer without any networking capabilities, no external drives, in a secure location. 99% secure (not immune to human error/social engineering).

Extra points if nobody but you knows about its existence.

If you're asking about OS, Tails is a pretty popular one but I'm sure you'll get better recommendations (sorry can't actually help you!).

We already kill thousands of animals a day, would it be so hard to save some blood instead of throwing it away?

I think the bigger problem is it may be unsanitary/a biohazard.

Oh boi

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