aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) @ aberrate_junior_beatnik @midwest.social

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Weird shot at the Arch wiki, which is truly great. I turn to it regularly despite not using Arch.

This has also been happening to me.

Classic

No but see now you get to pee, which feels good. It's just a bonus!

This is wrong. If it's working, it may be just because YT hasn't rolled their adblock defeating code to you just yet. And other extensions may interfere with uBOL and cause it to stop working. Even there aren't other extensions running, the built-in tracking protection in the browser can sometimes trip YT's code. The uBO reddit post (written by the author of uBOL) points out that YT changes the relevant scripts twice a day, so even if you have a perfect setup, there are going to be windows of time where it doesn't work.

IOW, you can't just install another extension and make the problem go away. Your whole setup matters.

You forget that the US isn't a Democracy. In 2016, Trump won Michigan by less than 12,000 votes. Dearborn, MI has 100,000 people, roughly half of which are Arab-American.

Does that mean Biden has to listen to them? Biden did win Michigan by 150,000 votes in 2020, and people never vote 100% by their ethnicity, so they probably won't swing the election all on their own. And there could be worse consequences even just in MI for even a small budge in the direction of Palestine. But, if I were Biden, I'd be thinking about it.

Horse-race bullshit aside, he should support Palestine because it's the right thing to do. So ultimately I support these people; the outcome at the very least is the Biden admin is going to think harder about maintaining their level of support for Israel, and that's a good thing.

I like that the pre-purchase discount for the 1GB is less in absolute terms than the pre-purchase discount for 20MB

My instance seems to be having issues federating content

Uffda

I will likely never get a tattoo. But I know there are lots of reasons to get tattoos, and it seems to me that the vast majority of people not only don't regret but feel good about the tattoos they get. So I dunno, sleep on it, but go ahead and get a tattoo if you really want.

Came here to say this. As seen in this thread, there are people who seem to want it, so I see nothing wrong with letting them have it. I wonder how hard it would be to implement a blocklist to make this a bit less of a hassle.

knock yourself out

I mean, just don't click anything in a phishing e-mail

Sounds like a win-win to me?

Grabbing your childs arm roughly and yelling at them when about to touch something hot is fine and expected.

Is it really? Honestly I'd rather a child touch something hot and learn the lesson that it is unsafe than potentially learn the lesson the people charged with taking care of them are unsafe. I mean, I remember burning a finger on the stove when I was little. It sucked but I was and am fine. I was lightly verbally abused by my Dad exactly once (he apologized after), and it was much, much worse. I was verbally abused by teachers and peers, and it was much, much worse.

[edit: I retract the sentence "Honestly I'd rather a child touch something hot and learn the lesson that it is unsafe than potentially learn the lesson the people charged with taking care of them are unsafe." It was poorly thought through and poorly worded. To be clear, I do not condone intentionally allowing a child to touch a stove to teach them it is dangerous. I also do not think that the threat of a child touching a stove justifies physically and verbally abusing a child, as OP said.]

Yep. Most installers will let you specify mount points for partitions, and it will have an option for if you want to format the partition (obviously don't select this for /home!). So you'd have one partition for the root, and one partition for home. You'd set the mount point of the root partition to /, tell it to format that, and set the mount point of the home partition to /home, and tell it to not format that, and it'll work as you described.

See also the other reply to my earlier comment; this is just one way, and maybe not the best way, to handle this.

Basically yes. You also don't need more than one disk, you can just partition a single one.

One common way to do this is to have a separate partition for /home, so anything there will survive nuking your root partition. You can also do /var; not something I've done but that's where system-wide data is kept. And finally you can use something like etckeeper to manage your system-wide config alongside whatever your distros are doing.

I'm not so sure that the police one is US only, but point taken.

Posting a bunch of context-free statistics without any citations is not what I'd call hope-posting.

There are hopeful trends in the world: the resurgence of unions, successful environmental protest, public opinion changing against police, etc. They inspire hope because they point to the possibility of a better world. Statistics like these just point to how bad the world used to be, and in contrast, how good the current world is. It's a way of saying "be thankful for what you have", a sentiment easily weaponized against progress and protest.

Someone's gotta say it: Trump getting elected