dylanmorgan

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure the options would be to arrest him or be fired for insubordination.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 14 points 20 hours ago

Charles Bukowski wrote maybe the most beautiful paean to the fact of the telephone book:

https://poemsdaily.livejournal.com/123676.html

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

More to the point, if there is a warrant issued for his arrest, his secret service detail would need to arrest him.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s no indication that either of these characters is a parent or a child.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

In New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson describes the government telling banks that if they want to be bailed out the money spent will be a buyout of the bank, and the government will run it as a credit union.

Seems like the best solution.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

That’s the one. It goes into great detail about how blackface was used during vaudeville, and is quite gut wrenching.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you did blackface after the release of Bamboozled, no pass.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I also don’t know the laws in India, but in the US nearly every major “hacking” case for decades has been a miscarriage of justice to some degree or another.

Like Kevin Mitnick who simply figured out that a major early ISP was keeping customer payment information in plaintext on an internet-connected server.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 week ago

They don’t want to carry inventory because Amazon doesn’t. The prices are higher because vendors are contractually obligated to sell on Amazon at their lowest price. So retailers, with a need to have a physical presence and having to buy at more or less the same price a product is available for on Amazon, get fucked. Their only hope is vendors who make a “different” product to sell at other outlets. An example of what I mean is, Poppi soda sells for $20/12 pack on Amazon. They sell a 15 pack at Costco for the same price. Because it’s a “different” product they are not in breach of contract.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unless you’re in Texas. Then you need a vpn.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago

That’s Medhi Hassan. He’s a serious interviewer, and he’s tough with every politician he interviews if they aren’t answering questions.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 34 points 1 week ago

I wish every interviewer were even half as good at this as Mehdi Hassan is. He is a delight to watch or read when he’s talking to anyone who is dodging questions.

 

I installed Fedora 39 on an old iMac I had with a fusion drive (128GB SSD +1TB spinning disk.)

Fedora is installed on the SSD, and I want to use the spinning disk as a media drive. Problem is, it does not mount by default, so I figure I need to edit /etc/fstab to have it mount at startup.

I’m at work so I SSH into the iMac and get the UUID for the disk and then open fstab in vi, enter the new line with the uuid, directory I want the drive mounted in (/media), the filesystem (ext4) and the options. Try to write and quit, get an error the file is readonly. Try to set the file to noreadonly, write fails again. Try :wq! and get the error the file cannot be opened to write.

Exit vi, ls -la and see the file is read-only.

sudo chmod 644 fstab, put in password. ls -la shows file is still read only. lsattr fstab, immutable flag is not set.

Is this happening because I’m on SSH, or is there some other issue?

 
 

I have an old iMac that I am planning to install some flavor of Linux on and while I was looking at various distros it occurred to me that it might be a good exercise to install Gentoo on it. Other than a separate machine for documentation and downloading the necessary packages, what else should I have set up to try this? Has anyone installed Gentoo on a Mac before? If so, what concerns are there related to things like Apple’s implementation of EFI?

 

I have a Lenovo Carbon X1 that is a few years old (7th gen), and I am running Fedora 38.5 with GNOME 44.5. The issue is that the system does not sleep properly. If I close the lid, nothing suspends properly, so if it is not on a charger or shut down it will die within several hours in my bag. Are there any distros that handle power management and suspend status on this hardware better than Fedora?

 

I am buying a friend’s PC for games. I want to avoid windows if at all possible, and I’m wondering what people’s experience using Proton in Linux for gaming has been. Are there certain publishers who use libraries Proton doesn’t handle well? Are there distros to avoid using with proton? Any other notes I should be aware of?

 
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