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My first hurdle is understanding that i need to add a boot sequence and navigate to the EFI file in my mounted pen drive.
second hurdle is understanding i need to disable secure boot so that the dell bios doesnt think something is wrong and always run the bios repair program.
third is understanding that i need to disable Intel rapid storage for the full install (luckily linux mint tells us this)
and honestly the hardest thing was installing fastfetch cuz theres a lot of outdated information out there on how to install it on Mint.
the process took about 4 hours, i consider it very lucky that i was able to do it so fast.
if you go in not knowing what to do, it can seem 'difficult'. but it's mostly like on any other oem prebuilt:
optional: prep the target disk (backups, wipe or clear part table, etc), reset bios to defaults.
if necessary: switch from raid or rst to ahci sata mode, default boot mode to efi, disable secure boot. note that some distributions support secure boot but your method of creating an installer might not--you may be able to re-enable if you want after install.
note that hp systems have a hoop to jump through (a confirmation prompt to disable) after disabling secure boot on the next startup. do not use esc key to trigger boot menu, use f9 for boot menu, f10 for bios entry.. as esc will cancel the confirmation code prompt and automatically re-enable secure boot.
insert or plug-in installer, hit the magic key upon power on (f12 for dell, f9 for hp) to bring up boot menu and select installer media, boot and run installer.
I’m glad you said this, I was thinking “I just plug in the USB stick and install Linux”
In fact, the hardest but for me is remembering the special key to press upon boot up so it goes into boot selection mode and I can just select my USB stick…
Some laptops don't really let you boot from external install media so easily nowadays.
I helped a buddy get Linux Mint on their "old" laptop to try it out. But it turned out you needed some manufacturer provided code to unlock booting from anything but the main harddrive within the bios.
We contacted support but never heard back. We did find a work around when they decided to swap the existing HDD for an SSD, they used a USB to sata cable to install Mint on the SSD from their desktop then installed the SSD into their laptop in place of the original drive so it booted straight into that.
Welcome to Linux. Glad to see you're not letting the hurdles get in your way and are working through solutions. There's more to come.
You say "5 year old laptop" as if that's ancient... 10th gen Intel 😄. I don't even look at laptops newer than 5 years. Don't need much more for internet tasks and office work.
Ive got an HP Zbook g6 coming my way soon I'm excited about, and its way overkill for what I'm gonna use it for; i just need a bigger laptop because i have giant meat hooks for hands and I actually use the numpad
Tl;dr, you can get a lot of laptop at decent prices looking at "older" hardware
July 17, 2025 Download flyer Commemorate 72nd anniversary of Cuba’s National Revolution Day Defend Cuba’s Medical Missions Sat. July 26 Mayles Documentary Center 343 Malcolm X Blvd., New York, NY 10027 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. reception 6:30 p.m.
Récapitulons : après avoir atteint son seuil, la pétition devra de toute façon passer en commission des lois, qui n'aura pas lieu avant la rentrée parlementaire, fin septembre ou début octobre.
Et en commission des lois, il y a toujours #MarieJoséAllemand, députée #PS mais aussi agricultrice et membre de la #FNSEA.
I was on one of Trump’s campaign emails years ago, and of course the motherfucker gives pillow hugger Mike Lindell the email list. I don’t want a MyPillow. Leave me alone.
I’ve never been a big consumer of M5M content, though I did get into podcasts and social media early. After J6, I decided to mostly disconnect from public social media. I produce more podcasts than I listen to now.
I’m much happier overall. Getting to that point was rough, but I without so much outside noise, I eventually heard what the Universe was trying to tell me…
Once a die-hard NPR listener and public media supporter, I explain how NPR, PBS, and Colbert lost me through grievance politics, moral panic, and cultural drift.
I stopped listening/watching/reading/consuming legacy media in 2020. Covid finally broke it for me. Or should I say that their 24/7 propaganda transmissions broke it for me.
Mathematician Joshua Zahl, celebrated expert in the field of mathematics, is transferring from Canada to Nankai University in China. He will assume a full-time chair professorship there. This comes just a few months after he solved a mathematical problem described as centuries-old and magical.
According to Stanford University, more than 30,000 top Chinese scientists left US for China last 5 years. There is absolutely no future for smart Chinese scientists in America. Non-Chinese top scie…
Using an LLM to generate thousands of test questions, then give people a Free Online Test and it keeps asking them questions until they give up, then it says their high score.
"Les 26 et 27 octobre 2024 a eu lieu à Marseille la 5ème édition des rencontres internationalistes " Les peuples veulent" où des révolutionnaires venu.e.s de quarante pays des quatre coins du monde se sont rencontré.e.s.
Je m'appelle Eléonore PATTERY, j’ai 23 ans, et je suis actuellement en Master QSE et RSE (Qualité, Sécurité, Environnement / Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises).
Plus d'un million de signatures à la pétition contre la loi #Duplomb.
La semaine prochaine : on va voir 🍿🤡
La question est : Comment la "majorité" qu'est la coalition du "centre" (la droite, donc), droite et extrême droite va essayer de minimiser cette pétition ?
Première mesure probable : retirer la pétition "oui c'est bon on a compris c'est >500 000, on veut pas savoir à combien ça irait"
tellement cool que le million soit passé un dimanche soir, chui sûre ils auraient coupé le robinet avant
Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets of Amman on Saturday to protest the ongoing blockade and starvation campaign imposed by Israel on the residents of the Gaza Strip.
'Italia, decimo anno di vita in un Paese diverso da quello di origine, i miei genitori accendono la tv e rimangono zitti. La giornalista di Mediaset dice che un ragazzo è morto, forse un ultras, comunque un casinista. “Come è morto”, mio fratello non fa una vera e proprio domanda. “L’hanno ucciso”, risponde mia madre. È perplessa, intercetto lo sguardo tra i miei genitori, non sanno spiegare al mio fratellino perché centinaia di migliaia di persone stavano protestando a Genova.
Italia, decimo anno di vita in un Paese diverso da quello di origine, i miei genitori accendono la tv e rimangono zitti. La giornalista di Mediaset dice che un ragazzo è morto, forse un ultras, comunque un casinista.
Across Canada, new laws fast-tracking resource extraction are being framed as “economic reconciliation”—even as they threaten to weaken Indigenous rights and gut environmental protections.
Κυριακος Μητσοτάκης, ο σύγχρονος Καποδίστριας, ο σύγχρονος Σολων με τα σεισάχθεια (σήμερα ονομαζονται ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ), ο Ελληνας Μπολιβάρ, ο Τσε Γκεβάρα της Ευρώπης, ο Μαριγκέλα της Βαλκανικής, ο Κροποτκιν της Μεσογείου.
"A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe…Restored CDC isn’t going to have continuous updates on this type of healthcare and disease guidance, but it has brought back all of the critical data that was purged in an easy to use, easy to navigate, and fast website."
την τσιχλόφουσκα πρώτα την μασάει απολαυστικά ο Ηγέτης κι ύστερα ο γνωστός κωλοφλείφτης την παίρνει ευλαβικά απ το στόμα του Ηγέτη και την ακουμπάει μαλακά στο παξιμάδι
Η ελληνική κοινωνία είναι ένα πτώμα (και οι ευρωπαϊκές αλλά δεν μας ενδιαφέρει), και γι αυτό έρχονται διάφορα όρνεα, ύαινες, σκουλήκια, έντομα κλπ, και αρπάζουν από ένα κομματάκι. Οι πάροχοι ενέργειας, ο κούλης με το ΦΠΑ, η ούρσουλα με νέα φορολογία για τον προϋπολογισμό της κομισιόν και την ουκρανία, το νατο για την αντιμετώπιση της ρωσικής απειλής, και γιατί να μην έλθει και η τράπεζα πειραιώς να σου παίρνει κάτι τις κάθε φορά που κάνεις ανάληψη? Τα πτώματα δεν μιλάνε. Γιώργος Γιαννόπουλος
The Sharp Blade 2025 International Sniper Competition wrapped up at a training base of the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) Force in Urumqi City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on July 19, 2025.
LOL at the replies from cultists from the Holy Reformed Church of his Holiness LLM in my mentions. I’m on a 18,000km journey without a shower or a change of clothes, and AI geniuses are making my life worse. Please, shill your religion.
That's better than expected. My experience with AI applied here would be "Go to the (non existent) gate and take the (non existent) flight and receive the (non existent) refund."
i enjoyed the EE one that repeatedly insisted I rephrased my question in fewer words. All the way right down to and including one word (which by then I'll admit it wasn't actually a question).
why are your alt texts so singularly unhelpful? Everyone else when the image has text had a copy of the text. Yours has some vague description of what's going on that assiduously avoids actually saying what's in the image.
just experienced the same thing last week. Probably the most common issue to need customer service for anything and the training for the AI yields “meep” (borrowing from Phineas and Ferb, Candace Loses Her Mind)
I'm going with the Michael Meyers version.... "The famous Michael Myers mask from the Halloween movies was just a Captain Kirk (William Shatner) mask that they cut the eye holes bigger, brushed out the hair, and painted white."
Dr Dermot Hudson ,chairman of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea ,Chairman of KFA UK and owner of the SONGUN007 talks about the 75th anniversa...
The Deportation Industrial Complex isn’t a threat—it’s an engine. Trump’s mass deportation plan is creating jobs, contracts, and a whole new American economy.
The Colbert Show was losing $40 MILLION per year, and the USAID slush fund that was covering those losses in exchange for Colbert producing Marxist propaganda was cut from the latest budget.
Resistance to the Zionist Entity Continues Unfettered
Palestine
5 Israeli soldiers have been injured in Gaza on Thursday, as the Palestinian resistance keeps up the struggle against Zionist occupation forces in the besieged enclave, despite the brutal war which has entered its 650th day.
Israeli media reported on Thursday morning that five soldiers were injured in Gaza battles.
The occupation military (Israeli occupation Forces – IOF) acknowledged to the injury of four soldiers, according to a statement.
It announced that soldiers with the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion were seriously wounded, and two officers were moderately and lightly injured during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip.
The four troops were injured by gunfire carried out by Hamas gunmen in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, the IOF announced.
Meanwhile on Thursday, Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad resistance group, announced its fighters shelled the Israeli settlement of Be’eri.
Earlier, Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, announced on Wednesday that it had targeted an Israeli command and control post in southern Gaza, as part of a joint operation with the al-Quds Brigades.
According to a statement released Wednesday, the attack was carried out using mortar shells and struck the Israeli site in the Qizan al-Najjar area, south of Khan Younis.
In a separate operation, Al-Qassam fighters shelled a gathering of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles near the al-Muhandis Hall in the al-Satra al-Gharbi area, north of Khan Younis, also using mortars.
The al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, announced on Thursday that it had launched a series of rocket attacks targeting Sderot, Mefalsim, and Nir Oz settlements located in the Gaza envelope.
Earlier, a spokesperson for the Israeli occupation forces confirmed the launch of two rockets from the Gaza Strip toward the area, triggering air raid sirens.ast night
In a separate statement, the brigades reported that its fighters targeted a vehicle transporting undercover Israeli forces, known as mista’aravim, with an RPG in the middle of Jala Street in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
The Resistance group said a direct confrontation followed the strike, involving automatic weapons and hand grenades, resulting in casualties among the Israeli unit.
The al-Quds Brigades also released footage showing the targeting of the Be’eri settlement with multiple rockets as a response to the occupation’s ongoing crimes.
Yemen
In support for the oppressed Palestinian people and their resistance, and in response to the crime of genocide perpetrated by the Zionist enemy against the people in the Gaza Strip, the missile force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Lod Airport (Ben Gurion) in the occupied Yaffa (Tel Aviv) region using a “Palestine 2” hypersonic ballistic missile, the military spokesman General Yahya Saree said.
The operation successfully achieved its goal, thanks to Allah, causing millions of herds of usurping Zionists to flee to shelters and halting airport operations, he added.
The Yemeni Armed Forces called on all the people of the Arab and Islamic nation to come out in support of Gaza, “as their pain has intensified and their fear has increased, as they are subjected to an unjust, unending siege and a sinful, relentless aggression.”
“If you cannot stand up for your religion, then stand up for your Arab identity. If you cannot stand up for your Arab identity, then stand up for your humanity. If the criminal enemy succeeds in implementing its plan in Gaza, your turn will come sooner or later … O Allah, let this be reached out, O Allah, bear witness.
Our operations will continue until the aggression against Gaza stops and the siege is lifted, General Saree maintained.
Iran
Iranian strikes on the Israeli enemy continue as part of the Islamic Republic’s response to the Israeli aggression targeting it.
In this context, Israeli media reported on Friday morning that an Iranian missile fell directly on a site in the city of Beersheba in southern occupied Palestine, causing 36 injuries among settlers and significant damage to several buildings.
According to reports, the missile caused widespread destruction and led to the closure of the city’s train station due to damage. It also set a number of vehicles ablaze in the area.
“Israeli” media reported that the Iranian missile targeted a center for high-precision technology, research, cybersecurity, and information technology, near a Microsoft building in Beersheba. Israeli media confirmed that initial estimates indicate the missile carried multiple explosive warheads, causing significant damage. This marks one of the most significant precision strikes in the recent wave of missiles launched by Iran deep into the occupied territories.
Iranian strategic missiles have inflicted heavy losses on a number of the occupation’s security and financial centers in Tel Aviv, Beersheba, and the Negev.
As “Israel” continues its attacks on Iranian territory, Iran has been responding to the aggression under Operation Truthful Promise 3, targeting Israeli military and strategic positions across the occupied Palestinian territories with ballistic missiles and drones.
"Palestine 5 Israeli soldiers have been injured in Gaza on Thursday, as the Palestinian resistance keeps up the struggle against Zionist occupation forces in the besieged enclave, despite the brutal…"
The first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress, which drew 1,000 anti-Zionist Jews and their allies to Vienna, marked a significant moment in the rising tide against the settler-colonial state of Israel.
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you would think that people would want to be censorship-resistant by now. We seen the effects of cancel culture for years now and as instance runners, we see the complaints first hand from tranny reports and malicious reports
> Blocking someone doesn't stop them from seeing your posts,
Where does this come from, anyway? People that have spent too much time on Gab seem to say this a lot: is that how it works on Gab? If someone blocks you, then you can't see them?
tellement cool que le million soit passé un dimanche soir, chui sûre ils auraient coupé
Jazzilla
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It's your creative use of x-api headers to extend and scale.
Theodore John Kaczynski
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