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British newsheads, what is the general schedule for the 4th of July general election (when do polls close, when are winners usually called)?
NAMER APC getting owned by an IED after parking right underneath it:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1808569929878155494
To this day, I still can't get over the fact that the Ferngill Republic, the country Stardew Valley is in, is at war with another country on its southern border and that the Ferngill Republic is almost certainly the aggressor owning to the complete lack of damage towards Stardew Valley's infrastructure. Since Stardew Valley is a border town located at the Ferngill-Gotoro border, it doesn't make sense for Stardew Valley to not suffer damage to its infrastructure from the Gotoro military unless the Ferngill military invaded the Gotoro Empire and have the frontlines be miles south of the internationally recognized Ferngill-Gotoro border.
monkey paw curls
You are now head of the Stardew Valley labor camp in the Ferngill Republic, but Ferngill Republic is a fascist country currently at war with the Socialist Republic of Gotoro (smeared in Ferngillian propaganda as "Gotoro Empire"). Your task is to grow crops to feed Ferngillian troops who are currently waging a war of annihilation in Gotoro lands.
Daily reminder that the country Stardew Valley is in is currently at war with another country to its southern border, and Kent almost certainly got PTSD from shooting too many Gotoro kids in the face.
Gruesome Newsome to appear as a host(?) on some weekly podcast:
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-politickin-191537944/
Sounds like he would rather bid his time for 2028. Maybe he feels like he needs practice to not sound like some soulless husk.
Uh huh. And China trades with the US. Are you going to start crying about China trading with "the worlds largest genocidal empire?"
That Yemeni dude was part of some forum China had organized with various Arab states. Like I said when that news dropped in the news megathread, he's part of the nominal government of Yemen that holds no real power, which means nothing Wang says to him mean anything. There's a reason why Ansarallah and Resistance media like Al Mayadeen didn't bother covering this, let along condemn China and why the news was covered by Qatari mouthpiece Al-Jazeera.
If Blinken didn't have a vacation home in Beijing, he'd be that much more willing to bomb/nuke it. If American politicians didn't have business interests in China, they would be more willing to destroy it. The thing you're describing as bad is actually the mechanism by which the good things come about. Your comment feels like someone watching a grandmaster at chess and complaining anytime they lose a piece.
Some dude having a random vacation house that the PRC can effortless expropriate back to the state is the exact same as nationalizing critical natural resources.
Still malding that China didn't shoot down the plane Pelosi was on?
Good article on Burkina Faso by a comrade who's on the ground organizing in Burkina Faso:
https://hoodcommunist.org/2024/06/28/burkina-faso-la-patrie-ou-la-mort-venceremos/amp/
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2720264
What's the point of this post?
We all love to dunk on M$ for repeatedly fucking up Windows, and we all love to recommend installing the superior OS, but there hasn’t been a guide on how to actually do so. My aim is to create a guide on how to actually install Linux so that every time M$ fucks up, people can link to this guide (or any other successive guide) on top of the usual dunking.
Note: This guide is tailored towards people who are using Windows devices.
Why Linux Mint?
- Linux Mint has a well-deserved reputation as the “newbie distro for people who came from Windows.”
- Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, and all three distros combined have a wealth of information online owning to their popularity, meaning that there’s less obstacles in troubleshooting.
- Linux Mint owning to its Debian heritage isn’t cutting edge or bleeding edge, meaning there’s a greater focus on using what currently works.
Which version of Linux Mint?
https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
Linux Mint comes in three main editions:
- Cinnamon (←pick this one)
- MATE
- Xfce
Pick Cinnamon since this edition is more modern and closely imitates the Windows desktop environment (DE) the most. The other two use DEs that consume less resources, but don’t mimic the look of Windows as much.
How to create a USB boot drive?
There are various ways of creating a USB boot drive:
- Rufus (easy and fooproof): https://rufus.ie/en/
- Ventoy (takes more work but you can add multiple ISO images to the boot drive): https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Live session:
After creating your USB boot disk with Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, you need to boot from your flash drive. The exact steps vary, but you essentially have to go to your BIOS and either change the boot order or specifically boot from your flash drive. Once there, you’ll come across a couple of screens before arriving at the Linux Mint desktop.
There’s a desktop icon that tells you to install Linux Mint, but you don’t have to do it yet. In fact, nothing’s stopping you from just running Linux Mint like this through the flash drive (there are entire Linux distro designed to be run from a flash drive like, but Linux Mint isn’t one of those). The live session is also good to catch any hardware issues like your wifi not working.
Actually installing Linux Mint:
It’s honestly pretty straightforward.
Pick the language you want, which will mostly likely be English.
Pick the keyboard, which will mostly be what you’re already using.
Connect online so Linux Mint will install the latest programs. You can skip connecting online, and Linux Mint will install the version of the programs that are in the iso image, but you’ll have to upgrade all those programs at once later.
Check Install multimedia codecs. The codecs allow you to watch videos.
Unless you have some weird logical partition set up for your drive, just choose Erase disk and install Linux Mint, and let Linux Mint handle the partitioning. If your PC has multiple drives, I would suggest physically disconnecting the drives that you don’t want the installation to touch as a precaution. Obviously, do this while the PC is off.
Pick the time zone you live in.
Set up your username, hostname, and password. It doesn’t have annoying password complexity restrictions on what password you want to use. Just pick any password.
This is a slideshow while installation is taking place.Once installation is complete, Linux Mint will prompt you to reboot your PC. When you reboot your PC through that window, you will eventually get to a black screen with a prompt asking you to remove the USB boot drive and press Enter. Do so, and your PC will reboot to a fresh installation of Linux Mint.
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What's the point of this post?
We all love to dunk on M$ for repeatedly fucking up Windows, and we all love to recommend installing the superior OS, but there hasn’t been a guide on how to actually do so. My aim is to create a guide on how to actually install Linux so that every time M$ fucks up, people can link to this guide (or any other successive guide) on top of the usual dunking.
Note: This guide is tailored towards people who are using Windows devices.
Why Linux Mint?
- Linux Mint has a well-deserved reputation as the “newbie distro for people who came from Windows.”
- Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, and all three distros combined have a wealth of information online owning to their popularity, meaning that there’s less obstacles in troubleshooting.
- Linux Mint owning to its Debian heritage isn’t cutting edge or bleeding edge, meaning there’s a greater focus on using what currently works.
Which version of Linux Mint?
https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
Linux Mint comes in three main editions:
- Cinnamon (←pick this one)
- MATE
- Xfce
Pick Cinnamon since this edition is more modern and closely imitates the Windows desktop environment (DE) the most. The other two use DEs that consume less resources, but don’t mimic the look of Windows as much.
How to create a USB boot drive?
There are various ways of creating a USB boot drive:
- Rufus (easy and fooproof): https://rufus.ie/en/
- Ventoy (takes more work but you can add multiple ISO images to the boot drive): https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Live session:
After creating your USB boot disk with Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, you need to boot from your flash drive. The exact steps vary, but you essentially have to go to your BIOS and either change the boot order or specifically boot from your flash drive. Once there, you’ll come across a couple of screens before arriving at the Linux Mint desktop.
There’s a desktop icon that tells you to install Linux Mint, but you don’t have to do it yet. In fact, nothing’s stopping you from just running Linux Mint like this through the flash drive (there are entire Linux distro designed to be run from a flash drive like, but Linux Mint isn’t one of those). The live session is also good to catch any hardware issues like your wifi not working.
Actually installing Linux Mint:
It’s honestly pretty straightforward.
Pick the language you want, which will mostly likely be English.
Pick the keyboard, which will mostly be what you’re already using.
Connect online so Linux Mint will install the latest programs. You can skip connecting online, and Linux Mint will install the version of the programs that are in the iso image, but you’ll have to upgrade all those programs at once later.
Check Install multimedia codecs. The codecs allow you to watch videos.
Unless you have some weird logical partition set up for your drive, just choose Erase disk and install Linux Mint, and let Linux Mint handle the partitioning. If your PC has multiple drives, I would suggest physically disconnecting the drives that you don’t want the installation to touch as a precaution. Obviously, do this while the PC is off.
Pick the time zone you live in.
Set up your username, hostname, and password. It doesn’t have annoying password complexity restrictions on what password you want to use. Just pick any password.
This is a slideshow while installation is taking place.
Once installation is complete, Linux Mint will prompt you to reboot your PC. When you reboot your PC through that window, you will eventually get to a black screen with a prompt asking you to remove the USB boot drive and press Enter. Do so, and your PC will reboot to a fresh installation of Linux Mint.
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AssortedBiscuits
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There's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. One thing to keep in mind is that computers were (and are) designed to process large amounts of data, and the organizations that had large amounts of data that needs to be quickly processed tend to be military and financial institutions. They were initially used to calculate ballistic trajectories and before the arrival of personal microcomputers (what people think of personal computers are technically microcomputers) in the consumer market, mainframes mostly sat at a bank number-crunching financial transactions or as part of military R&D. The book goes into detail that computers were also used to number-crunch dissidents in the US as part of domestic counterinsurgency, where a primitive national database was created based on converting handwritten reports into punchcards that can be quickly copied and distributed to local law enforcement. The Internet's predecessor ARPANET was developed by ARPA, which later rebranded as DARPA. The latter parts of the book claim that Tor has been secretly developed by the US military as a way for US spies stationed in countries like Iran to communicate to their handlers and how cryptocurrency like Bitcoin allows US intelligence to clandestinely transfer funds.