mmm. been a while since i saw a principled stance from libertarians. i missed it.

well, I just assumed Grub because in my experience, almost all Linux systems use Grub. I’ve never actually heard of Limine.

as for using different bootloaders for each operating system, that doesn’t really make sense to me. it’s technically possible to install different bootloaders on each SSD (and that might be what the installer does by default, if it doesn’t detect the presence of the existing operating system), but the point of a bootloader is to choose which operating system you want to boot, so if you set up a separate bootloader for each operating system, then you’d need a way to choose which bootloader you want to boot.

there actually is a way to do that, on most computers at least, you can use the BIOS/EFI boot menu to select which bootloader you want to boot. but I don’t think this approach really offers any advantages over having them share a bootloader.

if it’s going to be on a separate SSD, it should be pretty straightforward: insert live USB for your secondary OS, go through its installer and be careful which SSD you select for it to install on (I recommend backing up all your important data before any procedure like this, just incase you make a mistake or something weird happens). and then you just need to make sure your bootloader knows about both OSes. the installer might automatically detect your existing OS and configure your bootloader to know about both. if not, you might have to update your grub config file after the installation is complete.

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well, that’s a terrible idea. you’ll get much better results in the long term by learning how the config actually works, and probably in the short term too.

indeed i haven’t, because the title is such absolute bullshit and AI propaganda that there’s no point entertaining it.

948 is an absurd number to bugs to find at one time. i bet most of them are fake. i’ve seen the “bugs” AI likes to find

no they didn’t.

W for Mint!

i think programmer humor is supposed to be more specific than “any humor related to anything made by programmers”

what does this meem have to do with progammer humor, though?

I think they’re talking about taking down Flock cameras (spyware installed in public places by some for-profit corpo)

your claim was “that’s not a fuckin thing in the least”, so if they exist even in “weird places”, your claim was wrong.

i have definitely seen proton fanboys.

holy shit that’s bad.

this isn’t practical. we can disable some javascript but disabling it entirely would prevent us from using almost all websites, many of which we’re forced to by our employers, governments, etc

The end of my usage was about one year ago. I’d tried several other clients in the years prior (Fractal, Nheko, Mirage, and some others I forgot the names of) but all of them had their own major issues, severe enough to eventually drive me back to Element

It’s certainly possible the ecosystem has matured somewhat since then, but I would be skeptical because I think the root of the problem was not that these projects were too young, but that the protocol was too complex for anyone to implement properly, much like the web

Ah, good memories… Halo was a big part of my childhood. A couple years ago I even bought an OG xbox and CRT TV just so I could share the original experience with my ex, who had never played it before. which wasn’t financially responsible of me, but I can’t say I fully regret it. Took him through the whole series up to 4.

I like this meme because both it and the original are true.

speaking as a former matrix user and fan, I hate it because:

• the protocol is absurdly complex and bloated
• despite the promises of an open standard making interoperable clients possible, Element is the only client that supports most of the features in my experience, and it has constant bugs.
• It’s also slow and has some really annoying interface design issues, like not being able to adjust the width of the sidebar to where I want it (to be fair, many other messengers, like Signal, also have this problem)
• I had several experiences inviting someone to become a new Matrix user and having to immediately tell them that I couldn’t decrypt their messages and the first 3 things we tried to resolve it didn’t work. Made me feel like an ass for inviting them
• It has many security flaws (for example, all sorts of metadata and even some kinds of message content, like emoji reactions, are unencrypted)
• The whole “verify your device” nag thing is incredibly annoying and when I try to actually do it, it has almost never worked for me.

Overall, I view it much like I do XMPP. it takes basically the same approach to everything and has all of the same downsides, except E2EE is easier to get working I guess