Eugene V. Debs: We will wrest what we can, step by step, from the capitalists, but with our eye fixed upon the goal. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
darius
in reply to EuroCentrist • • •Step 1: make a backup / clone the disk
Step 2: double check the backup
Step 3: Assuming you've got a grub bootloader, boot into Linux Mint, use GParted or Gnome-Disk-Utility
Step 4: Identify your NTFS Windows 11 partition, the utility should show if it is mounted or not (it should not be mounted unless you added it to /etc/fstab
Step 5: resize your Linux mint partition (ext4fs), & make sure you don't accidentally move the partition
Step 6: sudo update-grub to remove the entries for Windows 11 since it doesn't exist anymore
More info on if you've got an HDD vs SSD, MBR vs GPT partitioning, or a screenshot of your partition table from either of the disk utilities in step 3 would help us help you
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in reply to EuroCentrist • • •Edit I haven't tried this myself, but from what I can find the gparted part is not necessary. You can get rid of Windows and re-use it for Linux with a single command:
btrfs device add / /dev/old_windows_partition. The rest of the considerations below still apply.The answer to the question you asked is: make sure you know which partition it is and run
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/<partition> bs=1024. Then you'll probably want to find which boot loader you're using and remove the Windows option. That will delete Windows.To re-use the free space, which most folks are focusing on, might be far easier than all of the other comments.
Odds are decent that you're using btrfs. Most reasonable Linux distros default to it, so unless you changed it, it's probably btrfs. With btrfs, you can simply reformat the Windows partition and add it to your existing filesystem.
gparted. You can do all of this on the command line with fdisk, but gparted is a GUI program and is easier if you're more comfortable with GUIs. Find the Windows partition, make sure you now it's the Windows partition and not the boot partition (the boot partition will be the really tiny one), click on the Windows partition and choose the "change partition type" function to switch it to a Linux partition. There will be warnings; heed them, double check, and then save and exit.btrfs device add / /dev/sdx2. This adds the partition/dev/sdx2to the filesystem mounted at/-- your root partition. Replace/dev/sdx2with whatever partition Windows used to be on.That's it. Now your Linux filesystem is using the old Windows partition. Without changing the boot options, when you reboot your system may still believe there's a Windows to boot into. If you're using EFI, it should just disappear, but with grub you'll have to tell grub that Windows isn't there anymore or else it'll keep offering it to you at each boot.
You are almost certainly not using RAID, so you don't need to worry about rebalancing.
Summary: it is very likely your distribution used btrfs for your Linux partition. In that case, the absolute easiest way to get rid of Windows and use it for Linux is to wipe and change the Windows partition with either
gparted(GUI) orfdisk(command line) and simply add the partition to your btrfs filesystem. No reformatting, repartitioning, reinstalling; just tell btrfs to use it and you're done.ohshit604
in reply to EuroCentrist • • •GParted -- A free application for graphically managing disk device partitions
gparted.orgtheneverfox
in reply to EuroCentrist • • •Do not ask people how to do this. If you don't know from a web search, you shouldn't try this without backing up a full disk image and understanding how to roll it back. Or at least backing up everything you care about
It's not a particularly hard thing, but it's a very irreversible one
pastermil
in reply to theneverfox • • •I second this. If you have to ask an internet rando, then that means you're not ready.
I'm gatekeeping not for the sake of being an elitist, but because if you mess this up, you may not see the end of this.
There are already resources online. Some are even official by the distro you want to install. Maybe you should refer to that instead of this post.