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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 00:07:01 UTC 
simsa04
I do have a D and an E drive for the same reason. Their data are still intact; the data from the c drive have been backuped in an image but I was sloppy and the image avaliable is two months old. (Plus the hassle that Windows didn't create4 a properly working image...)
In fact, that's not the issue. I wiped the c partition accidentially while trying to reconfigure the boot loader with the help of an instruction manual that guided me through the diskpart commands in the prompt. The guide was not clear at one point and my faulty interpretation created the mess.
Anyway, the experience of the bardo (in the afterlife or in this life) is a valuable achievement in its own right. For that I give up valuable data, bookmarks, and tabs immediately -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2023 16:38:52 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@clacke True, but I have also noticed many sites' "FAQ"s are merely Q&As with anticipated, rather than actual questions.
For example, if $SITE has been around a few years, actual FAQs will change a little, especially if the site has had a couple of redesigns or rewrites.
But if the site's FAQ answers anticipated questions, it tends to stay the same for several years at a time.
This is a tangent, and is not meant to distract from your point, which is 100% valid. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 21:55:22 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@geniusmusing The review sounds very good. I think I should add Orange Pi 5 to my "try this" list. I bought an #Orange_Pi 0, but it tends to overheat, so its utility is limited.
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 15:09:33 UTC 
GeniusMusing
Orange Pi 5 Is A Great & Very Fast Alternative To The Raspberry Pi 4 Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-5 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 22:15:09 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I should see if there is still a sewing machine repair shop in my town. I'd like to buy an old singer electric from before the parts were made of plastic. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 00:20:25 UTC
simsa04
@lnxw48a1 @geniusmusing
Pema Khandro Rinpoche, "The Four Points of Letting Go in the Bardo" https://www.lionsroar.com/four-points-for-letting-go-bardo/
Β« Milarepa referred to this disruption as a great marvel, singing from his cave, βThe precious pot containing my riches becomes my teacher in the very moment it breaks.β
This is the Vajrayana idea behind successive deaths and rebirths, and it is the first essential point to understand: rupture. The more we learn to recognize this sense of disruption, the more willing and able we will be to let go of this notion of an inherent reality and allow that precious pot to slip out of our hands. Β» -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 22:15:11 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@geniusmusing @simsa04 Agreed, though it can also be quite freeing to suddenly shed some of the ancient archive. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 17:59:28 UTC
GeniusMusing
@simsa04
This is the reason that for many years (decades?) I have always added a D drive partition for all the file storage and remapped the documents/pictures/videos/etc to the D drive, even on a new, preloaded computer I would shrink the C drive and add a D drive partition for the files. It saved my backside many times both personally and professionally unless the entire drive goes boots up.
As long as the partition is readable it can usually be accesses with a Linux live/rescue disk to make a last minute backup. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 02:41:38 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
If your instance has open registration, you might want to temporarily reconsider that ALONG WITH taking a close look at which remote posts are showing in the instance's public timelines.
See the conversation at https://bae.st/objects/b2f916c7-8c8b-4e30-9ac0-011343217203 for a discussion of an apparent ongoing effort to crawl and index the Fediverse, then report illegal or questionable content to #USDOJ / #FBI. (I presume that instances based elsewhere might be reported to that nation's authorities.)
There's also one or more bad actors who show up, post illegal or questionable content, then report the content to hosting companies, domain registrars, et cetera. -
Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2023 21:24:03 UTC 
Tobias
Happy Equinox everyone!
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clacke: seeking πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2023 14:27:23 UTC 
clacke: seeking πΈπͺππ°ππ
FAQ for a major service
Q: In what countries is your service available?
A: Just go to our main website to find out which countries we serve.I think if something is a FAQ, that should be a hint to them that their main website doesn't make this particularly easy to find out.
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clacke: seeking πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2023 12:16:23 UTC
clacke: seeking πΈπͺππ°ππ
The #dogman mainline series is not over! After several #catkid books a Dogman is coming out next week!
dog-man.fandom.com/wiki/Dog_Maβ¦
@LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 19:54:03 UTC 
Bob Jonkman
There's a natural spring just a short distance from here. Sometime about 30 years ago some kind of piping was added to it, so now the water comes out of a pipe a distance above the ground. People would fill their water cooler bottles there. About 10 years ago a sign was put up "This is not potable water". Now there are fewer people filling bottles, but it hasn't stopped everyone. I often bike past it, but I've never filled my biking water bottle. Like LinuxWalt, I don't trust mysterious water, even it does come out of a pipe. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 15:29:34 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64986744 [www bbc co uk]
#Turkiye leader Erdogan signals approval of #Finland joining #NATO ... still hesitant on #Sweden's application
After the fall of the USSR, I was in favor of abolishing NATO. Frankly, I was too idealistic. I imagined Europe becoming a sort of demilitarized zone but without conflicting armies on each side of said zone. But clearly, I was wrong.
People grumble about additional countries joining, and I say that those countries must have felt the danger growing. They could have steered a course that did not put them in union with either the "Western nations" nor the "former Soviet bloc" ... but instead, many sought to join the European Union ... an imperfect democracy, but still more democratic than what they saw on their Eastern borders. And even the EU, a non-military nation of nations, wasn't always enough.
So when #Poland and #Slovakia, both former Eastern Bloc / CENTO members, joined NATO, I don't see it as them being under the sway of Washington and Brussels, but them seeing something menacing to the East of them and wanting to join with a force large enough to meet and exceed that menace's force.
That's also why #Ukraine (which *twice* forced out governments because their leaders wanted to remain in #Russia's orbit) also applied to join both the #European_Union and #NATO ... despite NATO's clear intention never to admit them to its membership. So when Finland and Sweden finally decided that the threat of invasion was greater than their longstanding neutral stances could overcome, they too applied to join NATO.
Not because they want to lengthen the war, but because they clearly see that war is coming their way whether they want it or not, and that they need to prepare for it. And I think this is something anti-war folks need to understand. You're too late to stop the war. The war is here and Mr Putin and his cronies intend to expand it until people in Berlin and Paris have to either fight or beg for mercy. He's already trying to find excuses to engulf #Moldova in the fighting.
Whether Russia's leaders are motivated by empire or paranoia, they're looking to expand the war to other nations, not to end it. And thus, any negotiated settlement that doesn't flow from kicking their forces entirely out of Ukraine will be a temporary pause while they rebuild their forces and try to integrate what they've learned from the current war. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 16:26:22 UTC
simsa04
> I imagined Europe becoming a sort of demilitarized zone but without conflicting armies on each side of said zone.
This is a common misconception. The Treaty of Lisbon (2007) introduced a strong mutual defence obligation of all members of the EU into the Treaty of the European Union (Article 42(7)).
That was arguably too late for the Eastern European countries who joined earlier, but not for aspiring new candidates like Ukraine. (Perhaps one reason why Zelensky put aside NATO membership for now and insisted on a speedy admission to the EU.)
> ... despite NATO's clear intention never to admit them to its membership.
At the NATO summit in Bucharest 2008 Germany and France vetoed membership of Ukraine and Georgia against the insistence of the U.S. on a clear timetable for negotiations and speedy admission. Instead, both countries achieved a watered-down communiquΓ© that vaguely granted both Ukraine and Georgia admission in some distant future. The reason, obviously, was to not rattle Russia. (And perhaps Germany and France saw themselves vindicated when in 2009, after the end of START 1, Russia declared the Budapest Memorandum to still be valid.)
> So when Finland and Sweden finally decided that the threat of invasion was greater than their longstanding neutral stances could overcome, they too applied to join NATO.
Both Finland and Sweden are members of the EU but perhaps don't put much trust in a mutual defence alliance without NATO and U.S. participation. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 03:19:25 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I did see that photo. He looks like he was at work all day (by the beard growth, maybe 2-3 days) and then had the wedding after work. I expect that wifey will complain about it the next time there's a sharp disagreement ... and that it may become a regular griping point. -
Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 19-Mar-2023 04:06:22 UTC
Bob Jonkman
The only reason I have a Github account is to provide bug reports and feature requests to projects I want to support.
I don't code much, but anything I want to be publicly available is on my own website. Although not in a code repository, which is probably a good idea. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 02:51:54 UTC
simsa04
The article doesn't even take into account the significant disproportionality between male and female babies born. The preference of boys over girls already meant 10 years ago that a large number of men, in particular in rural and poorer areas, will never marry, thus putting even more pressure on the declining birth rate. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 02:41:03 UTC
simsa04
Perhaps a zeppelin would suit your needs better? -
clacke: seeking πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Mar-2023 02:41:43 UTC
clacke: seeking πΈπͺππ°ππ
@LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} The conspiracy theory is "cars are freedom and they're coming for your cars, they want to keep you in your little 15-minute bubble so that you will produce and never want to leave".
People vary on whether it will be a quarantine zone with passports or if it will just be so convenient that you'll be docile.
"Imagine the irony of being trapped in the 15-minute city to save the world and then never getting to see the world."
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