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Cake day: June 19th, 2025

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  • I too think you should remove windows. But if you don’t want to take a clonezilla image of your hard drive now. Store it somewhere else of course. You then can always recover if this scheme gets weird.

    Its the first thing I do when I get a new laptop. Then wipe windows. Then install Linux. If I have hardware issues I can simply restore windows for warranty.

    In any case, I would pick one of those two Linux to be a primary. You don’t want to get rid of mint or make it a VM. Ok third option: distrobox it.


  • It became corporate thats what happened. About 15 years ago I took a cab in Vegas. My driver was a long since retired back up singer. He told me stories of working with all sorts of Vegas acts, Sinatra and so on.

    He then got a bit wistful about the old times. He said he missed old Vegas. He missed the mob. He said when the mob ran Vegas you knew where you stood and the mob knew to simply take a little off the top year after year.

    Then he said the corporations moved in. And everyyear they squeeze. Take more and more, it never stops. They are the ones who invited families in and squeezed some more. Raised the prices on everything, made the odds worse if the could on slots, built giant building and increased the prices for rent and nickle and dimed every single service they could.

    And year after year it was never enough, they just kept squeezing and increasing prices.






  • She shouldn’t have said this, it sealed the deal “Millions of Americans will have less trustworthy information about their communities, states, country, and world with which to make decisions about the quality of their lives.”

    She should have said: “Millions of Americans will lose access to information about how great Trump is and how to report who to deport next.”

    Jokes aside, the emergency broadcast system makes so much sense as a function of public broadcasting. I have been to several countries that explicitly subsidize radio and tv channels for this purpose. You can have public programming 99% of the time, and a way to get information out in an emergency all ready to go.









  • If you graph the prices of beef each year from 1960 to today, the prices goes up except for 2 years. One was the result of over supply do to coming out of the late 80’s after reducing herds and getting back to normal coupled with a reduction in demand (less beef in the 80’s - healthy diet ideas), and the second was a lower demand from foreign markets coupled with cheaper feed.

    But the trend is clear: its going up, and it isnt going to come back down, at least not for long.

    The angle of the chart gets steeper each decade as well.


  • At all the schools my kids went to… Nobody cares. The kids really don’t give a shit what other kids are wearing. In some ways it’s bizarre given that wasn’t the case when I was a kid. But in many ways it’s great. I rarely ever hear of bullying, kids just are themselves.

    Of course thats woke, because they actually speak to the kids and tell them to consider others and will not tolerate intolerance. So I expect schools like these are few and far between.





  • When they say WhatsApp I gotta think that would be the same for any third party conversation app right? I would never use whatsapp, and I would hope any security minded person wouldnt either. But I do rely on an opensource sms launcher and signal. I would assume the framework would make it mess with those too.

    This sucks. Horribly sucks. I can’t stand apple products, they cant do anything. I know that even having google play on my android device means I am fucked anyways, but this is a new low from google.

    Feels weird to buy a google pixel, only to be able to expect it is the best way to not have google on it. (grapheneos or similar).