But vinyl is still inherently lossy, so the argument still applies.

Restarting can be a pain too.

Recently, I decided to install arch linux on an old laptop my sibling gave to me. I’m not new to Linux, I’ve been running a debian server for a year now and I have tried several VMs with different systems. But this was my first time installing arch without a script, and on bare metal.

Installing arch itself wasn’t that much of an issue, but there was a bigger problem: the PC didn’t recognize the pendrive for boot in UEFI mode. It seemed to work in the regular boot mode, but I didn’t want to use that. I made sure to deactivate safe mode and all the jazz. Sure enough, I could get UEFI boot working.

I install arch, works fine, I reboot. Oops! I didn’t install dhcpcd and I don’t know how to use network manager! No internet, great!

In my infinite wisdom, instead of trying to get NM to work, I decided to instead chroot back into the system and install dhcpcd. But my surprise when… The boot menu didn’t recognize the USB again. I tried switching between UEFI and normal boot modes on the bios and trying again, after all it appeared last time after changing it, right?

“Oh it doesn’t appear… Wait, what’s this? No boot partition found? Oh crap…”

Turns out, by changing the setting on the BIOS I probably deleted the nvram and with it the boot table settings or whatever they’re called. I deleted GRUB.

Alas, as if to repent for my sins, God gave me a nugget of inspiration. I swap the USB drive from the 3.0 port to one of the 2.0 ports on the other side and… It works, first try. The 3.0 port was just old and the connection bad. And I just deleted GRUB for no reason.

Usually, I would’ve installed everything from scratch again, but with newfound confidence, I managed to chroot into the system and regenerate the boot table or whatever (and install dhcpcd). And it worked! I had a working, bootable system, and an internet connection to download more packages.

I don’t know what the moral of the story is I just wanted to share it :)

ChatGPT?

It’s not an awful take, it’s reality. Being dumb is not genetic and this has nothing to do with eugenics.

Also, they didn’t say parents don’t need to be involved at all. I think the idea is that the children get exposed to other people and ways of thinking and not JUST the things their parents decide for them. Otherwise it’ll be indoctrination -better or worse- but the kids won’t think for themselves.

For example, I think homeschooling is especially awful because parents just can’t teach all the things that being in a classroom will. I don’t know why it is legal in the USA, they should just have separate classes for kids with special needs imo, like in Europe.

Yeah I also think it’s dumb. I’m not gonna change my gender, I’m going to change my dick into a clit/pussy. That’s literally reassigning my primary sex characteristics. Hormones also changed my sex, do people think my boobs are a gender thing?

And that’s why we say “porque sí” and not just “porque”. It’d be so confusing! :P

It’s confusing enough, we actually have 4 different forms:

• Porque (because)

• Por qué? (why?)

• (el) porqué: the reason why

• Por (el/la/lo) que: I don’t think this is used anymore without the article, but some linguist correct me please.

Most people don’t know how to use the latter two, even I am still confused about the last one.

Por qué means why. Porque means because ;)

Curious, I’ve never seen ntp, but I’ve heard and used “ntr” (no te rayes), which means the same.

by the same logic I should go kiss a fish

In Spanish there’s some things like “xq” instead of “por qué/porque” but it was only used in SMS messaging to use less characters. If someone talks to me like that I won’t reply, it just doesn’t have the same vibes as in English.

…which makes me kind of a hypocrite for using “obv” for obviously (obviamente).

I see no problem: they can record the original call and postprocess it with AI live for the operators. The recordings would be the original audio.

I loved the character design because I hated the characters too: Lae’zel was a close minded warrior, Shadowheart a smartass, Gael Mr nice guy not so nice when you do something he doesn’t approve, Astarion the vampire rapist… Etc.

But then I kept on playing and I realized they were really deep characters. Lae’zel was indoctrinated super hard, but she’s smart and can recognize when things don’t make sense, even if she totally believes those things. Shadowheart has been lying to everyone, including herself, and putting a mask on; but she’s a really sweet woman. Astarion was abused in every possible way for centuries, and being a total asshole is his way to cope.

My point is, yeah, the characters are flawed and can come across as dicks, but many real people do too until you understand their circumstances. Not saying that what they do is justified, just that they are interesting characters and redeemable from my PoV.

I wonder if this is just for thinking or if it has to do with auditory processing in the brain.

Do you ever “hear” music in your head?

Yeah, no-one is calling Alien woke for having a badass woman as the only survivor, and as the protagonist of the 2nd film. Because they’re good movies.

Knowing how good companies are at taking decisions, they’d be capable.

The weight of all those tourists isn’t helping /s

Did you zoom in? It’s AI crap that doesn’t make sense once you’re close.

We’re due? What, you want a world war or do you think they’re inevitable?

Either way, I hope you’re wrong because I know we won’t watch it from afar.

It’s not about guilt, it’s about the reality of propaganda radicalizing the population.

Of course not everyone in any of those countries is mindrotten, but that’s like #NotAllMen, it’s not about the individual, but the “culture”.

I don’t know if I agree with radical policies like what the parent comment proposes though.

Well, I don’t go to the beach and we don’t even have dangerous sharks here. So yeah, no shit.