Rentlar

I mean old, un-Musked Twitter was what people wanted. Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it’s not Twitter (which personally I couldn’t get into even in its heyday).

Don’t kid yourself… Project 2025 removes nearly all federal funding to alternative transport modes in place direct proportional funding by state, and the only thing that 95% of State DoTs know how to do is build and widen roads.

I don’t think it’s the worst outcome or the Fediverse needing to be written off because of this. At least for now BridgyFed is a thing, and it’s not like we have to capture every refugee, Mastodon has thriving and tight-knit communities.

I’m so glad that Killdozer Willie is now public domain.

Great! Next bring progressive change to Salem!

My, my, America is fucked in the head since clearly a sizable number of voting people think like this, while Democrats, liberals and progressives quabble over issues that seem more like worrying whether they are wearing the right color shoes.

You probably know most of it so just some advice: Don’t format the Partition table (MBR to GPT etc.) on the disk whose data you wish to keep.

Shrinking a partition or moving it carries a small risk of data loss and will take significantly longer than creating a new partition (since data needs to be cut and pasted from one area of the disk to another). If your old laptop has an empty slot for another SSD or NVME drive you can plug that in, and still dualboot and having the new drive Linux only.

Also to deal with the occasional Windows cockups, just carry a boot-repair USB, the auto repair has fixed the Windows issue for me 90% of the time (the other times are usually boot order priority or other BIOS setting)

It would take some balls to convict and sentence a President-elect, and of course Trump would have major personal grievances against the Judge, but if justice is blind, he deserves the same punishment as any other New Yorker who would have committed such crimes 34 times.

Now we know how much it costs to assemble an army of bots and bootlickers, enough to net you a seat of power in government.

States that think the feds will actually be hands off are in for a rude awakening.

That Kingston DataTraveller I have as well and it’s my ol’ reliable from at least 9 years ago. For some reason PCs put up a fuss with recognizing other people’s USBs at boot, I’ve never once had an issue with the Kingston.

It is true that it is slower but for a live distro, install and troubleshoot disk it does the job perfectly fine.

Tell your hermanos, hermanas, amigos and amigas.

Oh sure, next let’s have an AI open my Steam and play the games I want for me.

Neat, I did already transfer my budgeting to GNUCash a few months ago, but this looks shiny too.

Lamp oil, rope, bombs? You want it? It’s yours my friend. As long as you have enough bananas.

It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/26/washington-post-endorses-kamala-harris-satire/

You’re right, voting is the first step of many to fix the country. People need a bit of a break from it all at some point. While tuning out for 4 years is what gets us in this situation, power through to election day then give a few weeks for voters to reward themselves if Harris succeeds.

Remember that Harris and Walz aren’t even elites. For now they have to cater to voters of all stripes and billionaire, religious leader and warmongerer sympathies to an extent. Only once the nation has evaded the worst of outcomes, is there an opportunity for things to be fixed using normal processes. Downballot effects if it’s a massive blue wave would be huge for the country, and when Harris is preparing to take charge in January, people everywhere petition for change in the system from the people they freshly elected or re-elected.

That’s right I voted in my local provincial elections where a clear winner still hasn’t emerged. My local NDP MLA wrecked the hell out of her Conservative opponent in votes, thankfully.

At this point, don’t let the news, horserace polls, TV and social media’s narratives of false equivalency (like how Trump wanting generals like Hitler’s is equally newsworthy as Harris not going on Joe Rogan’s show) paint your attitude.

Give it your all, give it your best, vote, volunteer, encourage your friends, DO NOT GIVE UP until the day after Voting Day at least.

As a Canadian I can’t vote, so I can feel especially helpless sometimes with what’s happening to the USA. What I can do is inject hope and positivity and courage to give Harris the best chance to cross the finish line. So take this energy and run with it until the end.

We need good guys with boots to tread on me to stop bad guys with boots!