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The NASA Science Activation program’s Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024–2025 Artemis ROADS III National Challenge, an educational competition that brought real NASA mission objectives to student teams (and reached more than 1,500 learners) across the country. From December 2024 through May 2025, over 300 teams of upper […]
The NASA Science Activation program's Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024–2025 Artemis ROADS III
Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem.
He has used clear messaging to redirect anger from the disenfranchised to the economic elites. That the wealthy are worried shows it’s working, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces have at least 43 more Palestinians in Gaza on Monday as the daily massacres continue, while much of the world's attention is on the Israeli-US war against Iran.
@Max_Imum I agree they seem pretty weak. I would guess they keep slugging it out with Israel for a few more weeks and then everyone cools down and maybe the following year a peace deal is negotiated.
That is best case scenario, and with no more escalation.
@Max_Imum @rw Israel has been humiliating them for months and they can barely respond. It's why they decided now was the time to go in and they've been spectacularly accurate thus far.
@Max_Imum We used DMSO for lick granulomas. I use Du Huo Ji Sheng Tang for my dogos herniated disc. Also Meloxicam and Gabapentin. Lazer therapy every 6 weeks. Way more than I get for my pain!,😂
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4 min Belle goes over the numbers of what’s happening to rural healthcare and the rural healthcare support system and what the Medicaid cuts mean to it.
The loss of medical access in rural America is intimately tied to the degradation of federal support.
Healthcare is not a profitable business in low density areas. There’s no way the private market of course even if it wasn’t face seating leopard system whatever provide healthcare.
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I want to emphasize that the main virtue of public financing is that that is direct expenditure, the direct creation of dollars when it’s a financed by the federal government, the federal government injects money directly into an economy, and that money doesn’t come with an interest obligation to it. It directly supports both the health and safety of everyone in a rural area. It just anywhere that it does this without the debt burden that private industry imposes on all of us.
created is then the source of income for other businesses. And none of this create inflation unless there’s way too much injection of money the way to deal with too much is taxes, federal taxes the government creates by spending into the economy.
The major problem we faced today is that the money created by the federal government very quickly and now we faced the horrifying prospect of directly going into the net worth of a few thousand people in the United States.
They use that net worth to take out commercial debt (that is debt from the banks) to finance their war on us.
Private equity is the best example of this cannibalistic process. Because what happens is they buy up a functioning business whether it’s healthcare or houses in a region or companies like Toys “R” Us ..
When they take over a company, they split the property assets into a distinct division from the operation of the business, then they forced the operation part of the business and now pay rent to the asset side of the business and they pocket that money. The operation side of the business is then stripped of its income. They pay it as tribute to these assholes and that causes: a loss of service, inflation, and job cuts.
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Tammy Bruce was a hard "Left" feminist dyke and the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women when OJ killed his coal-burning ex-wife. After trying to gin up support against OJ she was taken aside by the Jewish leadership and told how things really work. That feminism was just a ploy to destroy the goy and not real. She immediately converted to Neo-Conservatism (really Trotskyism) and went to work for Fox News.
If you know someone, friend, family, colleague, etc, stuck on windows 10, and you are nearby Amsterdam, De Versterking can help you switch to Linux at their anarchist repair café!
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EndOf10 - we help you switch to LinuxSupport for Windows 10 is ending in October, and many older computers cannot upgrade to Windows 11. Installing Linux on your old computer can prolong its lifespan and help reduce e-waste.
[ ZDNET: This Linux distro routes all your traffic through the Tor network - and it's my new favorite for privacy ] zdnet.com/article/this-linux-d… So does #Qubes. So does #Whonix. This article fails to explain how and why this is "better".
And Tails. I cannot ubderstand the claim "I could easily see myself defaulting to Securonis when I need serious security." after reading all the issues the author had ... and all the weird stuff he tried. The quality of the article can be described with the headline linking in this article to another article: "I found the most private and secure way to browse the web - and it isn't incognito mode" from the same author. Edit: And the "Use Opera" articles - Delicious /s
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Trump needs to be in jail alongside these so-called cops for a long time. Trump & these thugs are just as bad & dangerous as the mafia. How long are you, American people, going to put up with these assholes?? You're no better than Russia or North Korea if you allow this to continue!
The rover recently drilled a sample from a new region with features that could reveal whether Mars’ subsurface once provided an environment suitable for life. New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only from orbit. The images and data being collected are already […]
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says Saturday's eighteenth phase of Operation True Promise III was one of the most successful of the past week.
Ce lundi, l’eurodéputé #Raphaël Glucksmann posait devant la presse les premiers jalons en vue d’une possible candidature en 2027. La situation de sa conjointe, Léa Salamé, récemment promue au « 20 heures » de France 2 et potentiellement en position de conflit d’intérêts, n’a pas semblé le préoccuper.
@Ann1944, in the EU and also in every civilized country, Trump were in Jail since years for a loooong time. But sadly there are too many stupid and ignorant people in the US which support this criminal. As a European it's impossible to understand why an idiotic caveman like Trump is the president.
Nach einer Blockade aller Hilfslieferungen durch die israelische Armee kommen nur wenige Güter durch eine einzige Stiftung nach Gaza. Wie durch die Kriegsführung Druck auf die Bevölkerung Gazas aufgebaut wird, welche Ziele Israel damit verfolgt und was sich ändern muss, erklärt Riad Othman, Mitarbeiter der Hilfsorganisation @medico international, im Interview.
Pourquoi se battre pour le climat quand des pays menacent de lancer des guerres chaque semaine ? Consommer moins d'énergies fossiles, c'est donner moins de pouvoir à des pays comme la Russie ou les Etats-Unis, et donc moins de pouvoir à Poutine ou Trump de dicter leur loi dans des régions du monde.
How many major non-German media outlets published the news?
Criminal complaint filed against Merz for Nazi remarks about Israel's attack on Iran, — Berliner Zeitung
About 20 famous Germans, including singer Didi Hallerforden, former Bundestag member Dieter Dehm and MEP Michael von der Schulenburg, have filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office against the Chancellor
Eine Äußerung zum Krieg in Nahost bringt dem Bundeskanzler eine Anzeige ein. Die Unterzeichner werfen Merz Verstöße gegen das Grundgesetz und die UN-Charta vor.
The reason was his phrase: “This is the dirty work that Israel does for all of us,” said in the context of the strike on Iran.
The signatories believe that this could be an incitement to aggression (Article 80a) and violates the principles of peaceful foreign policy enshrined in the Constitution.
The expression “dirty work” caused a particular resonance – the authors of the appeal claim that it repeats the rhetoric of the Nazis, who used the same words to justify Babi Yar in 1942.
Germany, almost always on the wrong side of history.
«Children as young as seven years old 'arrested' by German police at pro-Palestine demos German police have used excessive force against protesters, with the latest developments including children being arrested and women facing sexual violence»
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform.
Germany almost always on the wrong side of history.
«German senior civil servant manager described a “climate of fear” within the civil service that the manager had “never experienced anything like in 15 years”.
After internal complaints to ministers about supporting Israel’s war crimes dating from back in October, the manager was warned against talking about it.»
Annalena Baerbock had publicly called for Assange’s “immediate release” but internal emails in her German FM from May 2023 reveal that they tried to weaken the WikiLeaks co-founder legal position – insisting he should not be labeled a “journalist.”
So, although the Federal Foreign Office knew how important the term "journalist" was for Assange's release, it should be avoided – hurdles for judges to convict a journalist under the American Espionage Act relatively high.
Germany almost always on the wrong side of history.
Olaf Schulz, the chancellor of the country that arms and supports Israel to continue the genocide of the Palestinians undisturbed, the chancellor who bans pro-Palestinian events, the chancellor who violently suppressed the student demonstrations, asks Iran for calm and de-escalation of tensions
Germany almost always on the wrong side of history.
Germany justified Israel’s recent strike on the Al-Tabi'in school in Gaza, which killed almost 100 Palestinians during morning prayers, saying that Israel has the “right to defend itself.”
Palestinian survivors of the attack described how men, women, and children sheltering at the school were torn to pieces after Israel targeted it with three separate strikes on Saturday.
Germany, almost always on the wrong side of history ⬇️
Germany’s Commissioner for Human Rights isn’t able to name a single war crime Israel committed in the past year. Germany’s Human Rights Commissioner, hard at work it seems.
Germany almost always on the wrong side of history ⬇️
German police violently assaulted a Celtic fan for carrying a Palestinian flag during last night’s Champions League match against Dortmund at Signal Iduna Park in the city of Dortmund.
Germany almost always on the wrong side of history ⬇️
Israel is still more humane than the Palestinians, even when raping them. At least, this is what this German politician of the Free Democratic Party says in the latest edition of “Sick and Racist German Politicians.” According to this woman, Israel being a “constitutional state” makes all its war crimes, whatever they may be, “more humane.” She can frequently be seen protesting against Palestinians on Berlin’s streets.
Germany, almost always on the wrong side of history ⬇️
No state has been as assiduous in attacking the Palestine solidarity movement and supporting Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza as Germany
In short, German authorities know what Israel is doing – they know that their ally is committing another Holocaust. They are simply trying to cast this as normal, just and inevitable, because they have done the same several times over in their not-so-distant history
Germany, almost always on the wrong side of history ⬇️
Only in Germany will attending a pro-Palestinian protest get you stripped of your German citizenship.
At least that’s what the country’s leading party, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) headed by Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz, now vows to implement as new elections draw near.
iow Germany declares it won't abide by international law (the ICJ ruling about assisting in any way settlement, which IS what everything the zionist entity does is intended to further)
Germany almost always on the wrong side of history ⬇️
Chancellor Merz explained that sanctions against Israel and Russia are different:
I can tell you that we discussed this issue at length in the EC in Brussels immediately after the NATO summit, almost throughout the entire dinner, about what options we have. And Germany is not the only EU member state that currently rejects the suspension or even termination of the Association Agreement with Israel.
- Unlike Russia, Israel is a country that has been attacked. And Israel is defending itself against these attacks. If they had not done so, the State of Israel would no longer exist today.
And this is the fundamental difference between Israel and Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine. And that is why the federal government is not prepared — and I personally am not prepared — to compare these two cases, so to speak, or even to treat them equally.
These are fundamental differences, which we, of course, also take into account when assessing the situation.
Police and spy agencies are keen to combat criminality and terrorism with artificial intelligence. But critics say the CIA-funded Palantir surveillance software enables "predictive policing."
The surveillance software called Gotham, developed by US company Palantir, is billed as an all-rounder: gigantic amounts of data are brought together at lightning speed.
It only takes a few seconds to satisfy a police officer's curiosity: name, age, address, fines, criminal record. In combination with selected cellphones and the contents of scanned social media channels, a comprehensive profile of any person appears in an instant.
Thursday 19-June-2025 The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, stated that Israel’s goal is to take full control of the Gaza Strip, emphasizing…
In 1916, Albert Bacon Pratt invented a helmet that doubled as a gun. According to him the gun helmet could be instinctually aimed with accuracy while protecting the wearers head. Firing of the firearm is done by blowing into a hose
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I think it's a good time to remember that the image above are the people who put children…
Islamic Studies Professor Jonathan Brown: ‘I’m not an expert, but I assume Iran could still get a bomb easily. I hope Iran does some symbolic strike on a base’
Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025. Odyssey used a camera called the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) to capture this view while studying the Martian atmosphere, which appears here as […]
Our new corporate owners' IT rules have changed the #retentionpolicy on Microsoft #Teams. Instead of years, now two months.
I relish screams of "oh no the IMPORTANT FILE is gone!" - I kept telling people `Teams/Slack/Discord/Matrix is NOT a #document #repository! Stop storing important shit in ephemeral discussion forums!!!` ....
Annoyingly, for all my self indignant self-righteousness, ppl have sent me stuff, I didn't action until now, _poof_. Stephen King's the Data #Langoliers
@gme Did not know that. Well, that's ironic. Yep, there they are in SharePoint > My Files, everything sent to me in Teams. In the last two months. Earlier than that: Langoliers.
At my last job, so many of our department's internal and external business processes were built on-top of Sharepoint when Teams came along we had to quickly assess and pivot if necessary the ... haphazard ... and often ephemeral data repositories that would be spun up and just as quickly spun down. Ended up hiring a contractor to write some code that copied any document shared in a Teams Channel to a duplicate channel under the department sharepoint just for data retention. It pretty much ended up getting adopted by every department in IT after we deployed it. LOL.
The stupendously frustrating thing for me is our engineering department is an Atlassian shop. So issue tracking = jira, wiki=Confluence. And the material in Confluence is already aggresively curated and maintained. So create a page in the appropriate place and send a link in teams. how hard is that!?
Lazy. Lazy is what it is. Can't be arsed to figure out the right - and indelible - location.
I put Mint Cinnamon on an older laptop just this past weekend and had a lot of fun with it. Are there any migration tips for my main Windows machine? I was thinking of going with Bazzite since it's my gaming box. What about saved game data and whatnot? I was reading about Putty and SSH ing over to the laptop, but I'm not sure what a good strategy is for my desktop.
This but what they forgot is on multiple drives. Power failures, drive failures, lost, stolen, dropped, you name it. A good set of backups is fucking worth everything peace of mind and more.
Bazzite is a lot less user friendly than mint in major ways. You get everything in mint as you do on Bazzite. I switched to Bazzite and it lasted 2 days before going back to mint. KDE is too deep unnecessarily so. Bazzite doesn't gain you much at all, at this point in time 3 years ago or so I'd not said the same thing. Mint is so polished for gaming shit usually just works now. It's not worth the hype, hassle. I've distro hopped and always came back to mint.
Source is I been there and done all that and more. Your not missing out on anything. Spin up a live USB and try it but believe me dearly it's not worth moving all your stuff reinstalling etc etc. Keep the work flow you got and master it. Other options have more maintenance and headaches.
KDE is too deep on options and is heavier to run on PC resources not a lot but I'm a lean builder, especially for gaming rigs.
KDE bazzite app names are not easy to understand like mint at all. Workflow is different, menus, options. The reason mint is so highly spoken of and recommended is because it's truly refined and polished for the GUI user. App names are sane/understandable, system functions are low maintenance and hands off once basic setup is done. Drivers are all automatically handled for the most part.
The only thing I noticed with bazzite that could be considered superior is immutability. That's it. Everything else seemed somewhat a step backwards and you can gain all the codecs and drivers in mint mostly again automatically as you plug in your hardware the system will reconfigure itself. With proper backups, as you should always have, mint provides nearly the same guarantees. Keep extension, applets, desklets low count and don't modify the system to an inane amount it'll remain dead stable either in LMDE6 or Ubuntu main version.
I have distro hopped many times for various reasons, hassle and headaches days weeks in terminal borking shit. Bazzite, Fedora, NIXos, Mint, Qubes, LMDE6, and several others. I'm not saying don't test the waters on other distros but believe me and everyone. FOMO IS REAL. The grass is not always greener on the other side. Especially with transition changes and relearning. Keep it simple. Enjoy your PC.
(Use a live USB don't reinstall your entire system multiple times you'll get fed up and hate Linux, put your home folder on its own partition on your drive then aim any OS at it you end up choosing this is smarter for many reasons than hopping distros)
Mint is so highly recommended because it's one of and arguably the best/first distro to offer a plug and play, damn near seamless experience on Linux for the average person looking to ditch Windows and doing about anything. Most distros on Linux are somewhat the same loosely anyhow. You can tweak and harden mint nearly the same as any other distro.
Hope this helps. I game on Mint and daily drive it personally for the last 2 years atleast. Aside from some Indie games 1 or 2 of them. It's been nearly seamless. About the only times I broke my system was well when I was doing stuff I thought I could improve. Keep it simple stupid. Best of luck.
I actually just moved my gaming PC from Win11 to Mint Cinnamon 2 weeks ago. There was some driver fuckery (I have an Nvidia card) that made things a bit wonky but everything worked out after some adjustments.
Do you mostly game through steam? Do you install your games on a separate drive?
Steam makes the transition the easiest. All of my games "just worked" with Steam. There were a few modifications required to ensure stability with the games settings but it was mostly smooth sailing for me.
I just used thumb drives to pull all my games save files to and an external drive to back up all my installed games so I wouldn't have to re download them. Save game files are usually pretty small so all of the ones I had backed up on a single thumb drive and Steam and Linux creates a faux Windows folder system for each game and you just reinsert the save games in those folder structures at the correct spot.
Thanks all for the helpful replies! I do have a second ssd, I can probably dump everything there before I format my m2 ssd. I do primarily game thru steam, I've got icue software that isn't compatible but I believe I can use openrgb. Nvidia card also, is it just driver related?
Sorry for the late reply but the driver stuff was me trying out proprietary vs community Nvidia drivers and then just weird things that would happen on restarts after switching/updating drivers. I have an intermittent issue where the primary monitor (I have two) alternates being entirely light grey, red, blue, and green upon startup I haven't researched it yet because I just restart the computer and it is fine. And it has happened maybe 3 times over the last month (amongst dozens of restarts). There are a few things like that that only happened once so I wrote off the occurrence.
I have had the most luck with the proprietary Nvidia driver so far.
Originally I planned to switch in October when support for W10 runs out, but it seems my PC made the push for me.
At the start of July some issue with windows that caused my system to freeze and then get stuck on boot when restarted finally bricked my system for a 2nd time this year and I was forced to reinstall the OS again. So, instead of wasting another 4 months on dealing with all the crap windows has been throwing my way lately, I just jumped ship to mint.
3 weeks in and, so far so good. Really got around to all the personalization it allows over windows. Learning to run a pc mostly through the terminal has been a step out of the comfort zone, but an enjoyable one tbh
I have been putting up with the ads, spyware, and lack of control for years: this was the last straw for me. Couldn't upgrade to Win11 and now they're ending support for Win10?
Just wiped my SSD and booted Linux Mint. I'll miss certain games and Paint.net (slowly learning GIMP) but I can't put up with this shit anymore.
What's with all the Mint hype? I've never used it and have little desire to go back to a Ubuntu-based distro. Just curious why everyone loves it so much.
For the most part, it works well without needing too much tinkering by the user. It's the Fisher Price My First Distro.
I tried it out with a 21.3 dualboot with Windows 11 and within 2 or 3 months I hadn't gone back to Windows other than to push files over. Sure, there were a few "learning opportunities" with tweaks or weird driver issues that were because of the particular hardware I'm using, but they were manageable. At this point I'm running 22.1 only on this machine.
The nice part is that being Ubuntu-based, if I run into a problem, I can search for both the more widely-documented Ubuntu version of the issue, or look for a Mint-related version. Claude does a great job with small-to-medium troubleshooting rather than me dig through forums. It's low-risk, low-work, high-reward.
Calling it a "Fischer Price" distro is a little patronizing. I'm a seasoned Linux user and I use Mint for work because I just want something that works when my paycheck is on the line. Mint has never broken on me and always works.
I ran it for a while, and loved it. Cinnamon is sleek and feels polished. The installation is really fast and not bloated with garbage software.
Everything generally works, and the interface feels familiar.
It is Ubuntu/Debian under the hood, so compatibility with most software is good. Bleeding edge drivers may run into issues, but most of them work with a little fiddling.
It's worth a try. If nothing else toss it on a USB drive and give it a test drive.
I ran Ubuntu for like 15 years and was especially recently getting frustrated by how far behind the packages always were. I'm full in on Arch - everything about it has been a much better experience.
That's one of the beauties of Linux, if you need something else than want you can probably get another distro that suits your needs. OP was asking about newbies. I set up Mint for my mom. I can guarantee that she won't change.
The good thing about distro hopping is refining your setup to the point that "burning down the desktop" becomes a relative non-event, your important personal files are elsewhere - nothing gets lost if your desktop SSD goes all "I'm sorry, sir, I don't recall..."
After 15 years, aren't you questioning: how far out on the bleeding edge do I need to be?
I mean, if the absolute most advanced bleeding edge is "where it was at" five years ago - isn't a stable system that's up to speed with where the good things were five years ago even better?
Running up-to-date software gives me far less problems than running software full of bugs that were fixed 5 years ago, personally. If you find a new bug, you can at least report it and hope to see it fixed in the next update. You find bugs that were fixed years ago, but the fixed version isn't in your repo, and then you have to start building things yourself.
Recently I was using Ubuntu and needed to recall a terminal command I had used a couple weeks prior. Luckily, my terminal commands are logged in the ~/.bash_history text file. Easy, convenient, customizable, and no AI needed!
Great effort and all but until we can get an .exe to run in windows to install the new system, this will not attract anybody but the 0.01%.
Yes, for us in the know it’s no biggie to get an USB stick, play with Rufus or the kind, fiddle with ”BIOS” but for the average user even the first step is just too much.
Windows can install new Windows and modify EFI stuff, and macOS can install new macOS so why can’t Linux use the same mechanisms? Especially as in the history there used to be some projects that could do this…
Best chance in decades to bring Linux to desktop and it looks like we blew it by being too accustomed to difficulty, not being united behind the effort and whatnot 🙁
Yo, you're giving me ideas. Maybe I can make use of my old laptop, get Windows on it (if possible), and try to do something like this. Could the average user run something through the terminal? I know PowerShell and some CMD. Or I could figure out how to GUI as well. I'd need to sketch out what such an app would do. Downloading a Linux distro would be step one. Not sure if I could make BIOS changes, though, and install. I guess with my current abilities, it'd end up being an auto ISO downloader and USB flasher at best. But I'd be down to learn and try. I'd need a basic Install Linux 101 guide, to "mimic" through a script. Could be a fun project.
Not my text but here’s what Gemini laid out, apparently projects like WubiUEFI do something like this but with caveats.
” Project: "One-Click Linux" Installer Objective: A simple .exe for non-technical users to install a full Linux distribution from Windows 10/11. The process will be fully automated after a single click.
Core Technologies & Components
The Windows Application (.exe)
GUI Framework: .NET (C#) to build a minimal user interface and leverage deep Windows integration.
Disk Partitioner: Script the built-in Windows diskpart.exe utility to automatically shrink the existing Windows partition and create a new one for Linux. Requires Administrator privileges.
Installer Preparation: Download a pre-selected Linux distribution (e.g., Linux Mint) and extract its core files.
The Bridge from Windows to Linux
Boot Configuration: Use Windows bcdedit.exe to create a temporary, one-time boot entry that points directly to the Linux installer, bypassing the normal Windows boot.
Automated Installation: Generate a preseed or kickstart script. This file will provide all the answers to the Linux installer automatically (language, keyboard, and instructions to use the partition created earlier).
The Modern Boot Solution (Post-Installation)
Boot Manager: rEFInd. The automated Linux install will install rEFInd. It is chosen for its superior auto-detection of both Windows and Linux, and its user-friendly graphical interface. It will automatically provide a clean, icon-based menu to choose an OS on startup.
Boot Method: EFI Stub. The Linux kernel will be launched directly by rEFInd as a bootable EFI application. This is a fast, clean, and modern method that avoids the complexity of older bootloaders. rEFInd will handle discovering the kernel and presenting it as a boot option. ”
Eh, now that I think about it, such a project would either need to take a lot of decisions for the user, or risk becoming too complex for giving the user options. I mean, I see partitioning, and I realise that's something I hadn't thought of. I assumed just an install, but what if the user wants dual boot? What distro to pick? How much space for each "boot"? Do we choose a specific DE or take the distro's main or default? So many variables. I mean, it's one thing to BAM! Ubuntu auto-installer .exe. Now, to allow for user choices… or not to? You either give options, which could be overwhelmimg to someone who might not even understand all that, or become simple and, in the process, heavily "opinionated"
I have no reason to believe the average person can't manage a usb stick. They're a common way for photos, videos, and records to be sent from one business office to another. I've never worked with anyone who had any particular difficulty using them, and my coworkers weren't all especially intelligent or interested in computers.
I disagree. Sure, they are able to stick the drive to machine and use some easy tool (would need to be easier than Rufus) to write some data to it.
But then comes a big hurdle if USB boot is not the default: What is BIOS/UEFI? What key to press to get there? When do I press it? What are these text things? How do I navigate here? What exactly should I change? What is what of these drives listed? How to change the order? How to save? (Have witnessed this struggle a dozen times)
And IF they get through that step, then depending on distro they have very different kind of installation UI, all sorts of options they know nothing about, and they no longer have their browser and guide page open that they had when they started the operation.
We should not merely target the ”average person” but also, to a degree, the dumb masses below them. Look how simple the Windows 10 to Windows 11 installation has been made, there really is no way you can mess it up. If I remember correct, even upgrading from 7 to 10 was just: download ISO, double click to mount it, run setup.exe, click next a few times, and let it reboot and do its thing.
Installing an iso from a usb drive and installing an iso after mounting it as a virtual drive seem like they involve roughly the same level of technical skill to me. Booting from cd or usb was a routine school or business activity for decades. Mounting an iso as a drive has been built into Windows for a much shorter period of time. The last time I used Windows, you needed third party software for that. I would bet on a random person off the street to be able to do the first one more reliably than the second. But, more installation options are always better.
for all Ubuntu haters there is a Debian Version of Mint. And second Linux Mint is the perfekt set and forget Distro. No Tinkering for a basic PC without special Requirements.
And i love it that almost all agree that when a noob ask what Distro to choose that Linux mint is every time in the proposed Distros
Why are there Ubuntu haters? I'm on the verge of installing Linux on my desktop and have the Ubuntu pro installer on a thumb drive ready. I'm worried now...
I started out thinking to go with Mint, seems popular, but there was an instruction to verify the ISO image and it was just too complex. forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic…
I'm already using Linux on an old laptop (Zorin) so I'm not inexperienced, but good lord that's a faff and a half. I have a life!
My advice: run a server (any server) or three, and keep your important / personal stuff there. It can be as simple as a Raspberry Pi with a big external SSD. The PC you use as a desktop environment should be easily built / configured from the base distro into whatever customizations you want, and you can either work with your personal files on the server, or mirror copies of them to your desktop system as appropriate (things like "living documents" should be primarily stored and backed up on servers, things like photo collections etc. can be stored on the server, but copied to the desktop for easy access like rotating wallpaper or whatever.)
If (when, really) any one of your systems goes down, it shouldn't be a big deal. If it's a server, restore from another server mirror / backups. If it's your desktop, install a new desktop and get your customizations off a server.
Of course this is an ideal, but keep in mind that SSDs are not "forever" devices, they do wear out and each single copy of your data will be corrupted some day. Spinning rust is even less reliable, in my experience, although I have one 2TB hard drive that has been online for more than 10 years now. It's mirrored, twice, on SSDs.
I've never learned about servers - never worked in IT, just a simple old hobbyist. Also never used a Raspberry Pi. But thank you! I might get around to reading up on the topic of servers over the winter. My computer has two drives, the original "spinning rust" and an SSD I installed (so quick! so quiet!). My thought is to keep Windows on a partition until I'm sure I like the distro I've chosen.
I have multiple backup drives, from a wee 4Tb Toshiba to a SparQ drive with 1Gb cartridges (a whole gigabyte, how will I ever fill it?). I'm pretty sure I've got everything saved, but I'm equally sure there'll be something I've missed.
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This is getting out of hand. Way too many @altbot@fuzzies.wtf messages flooding my timeline. Whoever owns this account needs to send DMs back to people and not @-replying. This is bullshit. #AltBot
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may 1996
Madeleine Albright
60 minutes
question: "we've heard that half a million children have died[..]is the price worth it?"
answer: "this is a very hard choice, but the price -we think- the price is worth it."
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Iran attacked Qatar and Kuwait where our bases are. India and Pakistan are on board with what Trump did, same as other Arab nations. Iran is losing allies in the region. Democrats have been ostracized, too.
Our society is so evil and retarded that a pedophile tranny journalist with a fart fetish can go around and Cancel people for being right about social issues.
And a decade ago he would've succeeded. Not this time though. So things are moving in the right direction. Continue the pressure, and God willing, in a decade from now these people will be dragged through the street.
We're moving quickly towards a world in which a minority of people (not necessarily countries or nations) have complete monopoly over sophisticated military and surveillance technology. A world in which this privileged group of people and their servile subordinates no longer need a plausible moral reason to justify using violence against those who seek autonomy. A world in which those who refuse to be servile will be assassinated wherever they hide.
Recent detections of clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero’s crater rim have the Perseverance Science Team excited and eager to sample. Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London Since finishing its exploration of spherule-rich stratigraphy at Witch Hazel Hill, Perseverance has been exploring the Krokodillen plateau, a relatively low-lying terrain on the outer slopes […]
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Gaza’s healthcare system is collapsing under the weight of Israel's genocide. Children are among the hardest hit. According to the Health Cluster, children now account for 23
#Zionists are begging for mercy to stop the war immediately, cause they have been neutralized, and yet the Zionist media continue to sell propaganda at home and abroad and threaten #Iran with retaliation and annihilation.
Stupid readers who blindly believe anything are the source of thousands of evils.
@RobMBlind exactly "let the Zionists complete the genocide without being bothered by Iranian attacks", is also what all those who demanded an unconditional end to the war are essentially asking for
I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work on remote machines. Since I am Emacs user, the most common way to do this is using TRAMP (Transparent Remote access, Multiple Protcol).
Iranian envoy to the UN has strongly condemned the US military aggression on Iranian soil, saying Tehran reserves complete and lawful right to respond under international law.
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