flatbield @ furrowsofar @beehaw.org

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What one can do is always vote even in primaries. Primary turnout is one of the big problems. Use polling info to do your own IRV. Vote for people your both want and can win. If your in a atate that can choose which party to vote in during the primary, choose based on best effect.

Probably possible but highly technical. Might be better to just run Windows or Linux in a VM whichever system you won't use much. Exception is gaming or other apps that need hardware video acceleration. I aleays found dual booting annoying unless you have to do it, though I did use it 25 years go when started with linux.

Be aware. you may have to buy a specific Windows version to run it in a VM. OEM versions historically were not licensed for VM use. Also changing hardware configs for Windows historically has been a nightmare without clean install.

IRV. Some states have it.

Used them for 2023 taxes because of estate issues. They do a lot more but you have to know what your doing and the result you want. Not as automatic as FTU. One warning I do have, at least for my state, I had to do some overrides as the defaults were misleading and in some cases just wrong. My experience was Federal was fine, state did not meet expectations though one can work around that.

Edit: By the way, FTU can have issues too where OLT seems to do it correctly and they may not.

Edit: I like both FTU and OLT but for different reasons. If FTU can do your taxes correcty than it is probably easier. Otherwise OLT can probably get the job done but less smoothly and with some intervetion at times.

Linux works great generally. My wife and I have been using for 20 years since we dumped windows.

The deal is that Linux is great for FOSS but limited for commercial apps. One generally needs to deside based on apps they run. Hardware is similar.

Actually, the wall being solid is not that clear either. As with many things, it depends.

The other is not having the sync,noerror options and having a disk error. ddrescue is a lot more forgiving.

Nice thanks. Liked the video but think it is more complex. I have both Trump lovers and Trump loathers in my Family and it is not connected to how well people are doing.

It seems more connected to individualism. It also seems to be a rural vs city thing. Perhaps an unreasonable expectation thing too plus fabricated fake news. Too much change is a factor also. Then there is disconnection.

I think maybe qemu-img can do that depending on vmdk version. There are otherways too. They are all just disk images. One unknown, will the device drivers match well enought.

Is there a reason not to just convert the VMWare image to qcow2 and use that?

Is there anything different about installing OpenFyde compared to say Linux? If not why not just follow a Linux how to?

Just a couple of ideas.

Cheap for the US as far as I know.

My Ting plan is about $30 per month, unlimited talk and text for 2 phones and including the first block of data we usually need. Data is billed combined at something like $5 per GB, so we really prefer to stay under 1GB which is the first block.

Yes, it is a good deal. Less than half what many people pay. I could afford to buy 10GB of data for the cost difference and that is often the limit on many "unlimited" plans.

Edit: Hence we keep our data off by default. To chat, someone would need to text me to meet on an app.

Ubuntu should be able to. They even have some sort of kernel hot patching service I have not used.

If you do not care about kernal updates then most distros should be fine. Just ignore the reboot suggestions.

Edit: If you do not reboot you might want to make sure critical things are restarted such as you web browser. Or just logout and login again. One hopes the distro appropriately handles service updates but who knows for certain.

NoScript browser extension is one example. DNS filtering is another.

My plan still is pay per MB (well maybe per GB). So yes, of course I use SMS. Besides, what alternative is there? No one has the same apps.

In college, one of the best courses I took was Programming Languages. It covered a smattering of languages illustrating different approaches and methods. Maybe a week or so on each plus you had to write some code in each.

Android is Linux using SELinux for user confinement plus users do not have root access and it uses verified boot to enforce all that.

Keep in mind the system meaning root can do anything it wants. User apps cannot though they can ask the system to do certain things for example by SUID executables for example or other methods. Not sure how android actually does it.

What is different about Android is owner, user, work profiles, and the new private space structure. Not sure low level how that is done but presumably combination of different users, SELinix, and different encryption keys.

Skip browsing YouTube, use RSS feeds of the podcasters you like. Also use Firefox with the uBlock Origin plugin to view.

Drainage is often done incorrectly in new construction too. Very common to have all the water drop beside the front door and create a pond. Very common to have beds around the house that create little swimming pools. If nothing else the ground will sink around the foundation and have to be filled quite soon.

I am a FOSS guy so I'd just configure Debian or Ubuntu to do most of the server, media center, desktop, and laptop stuff. Smart Phones Google Pixel 8a or another a series flashed with GrapheneOS. For network I would look at PfSense, OPNSense, OpenWrt, or DD-WRT devices. I have DD-WRT devices but have they do not get updates sadly, but there are some vendors that base their devices on DD-WRT. Not sure which ones. ASUS? Buffalo? Is there a list somewhere?

The other direction is to go more commercial which is probably what you want. Lot of people like Synology products. In particular they have nice NAS products (which actually can run other services too) which should be fine if you just run them on the LAN. If you want to connect while traveling, setup some sort of VPN. Do not expose any of this stuff to the WAN. For network devices I would consider Netgate, I think they have some PfSense firewalls. Some people seem to like Ubiquiti stuff.

I personally have generally favored Netgear but as I said, I mostly have just re-flashed with DD-WRT but am thinking of doing something different at least with regard to my boundary router. It has gotten so we all need to have our network devices rapidly updated, especially exposed ones like the boundary router.