The differences are all the parts you don’t want anyway.

That’s… a good point. When I make communities, I usually try to err on the side of more general rather than more specific (just because Lemmy doesn’t have quite the userbase of… that other site we never speak the name of), so in this case, I probably should have thought to name it in a way that limited it to just COVID.

But now, I’ve up and named the community. I’d be fine with making it clear in the sidebar that consciousness about the spread of other diseases is entirely welcome, but I don’t think I can change the name (like, the URL) of the community.

But, honestly, I’m also down with just making a whole new community and deleting this one. And, to be fair, I haven’t looked to see if a community like that already exists.

Oh sweet! Glad you got it solved!

So, just from what you’ve said, without getting more info from you, my guess as to what’s going on is that Windows has set things up to where it uses its own bootloader which isn’t set up to boot into Linux or chain-load your Grub2 or whatever Linux-capable bootloader.

And this F11 you’re talking about is probably the key your BIOS uses to let you into the BIOS configuration, yeah? And from there you can tell it to load Grub2 or whatever bootloader Mint set up when it was installed – the one that was nuked by Windows.

(I keep saying “Grub2”. It’s possible you selected something else like Syslinux or rEFInd or something when installing, but I think Grub2 is default for Mint.)

I think, just from some googling, what you’ll want to do, assuming the assumptions I’ve assumed above haven’t made asses out of anyone, is (in Mint with both SSDs plugged in):

>sudo grub-install <whatever your boot drive is -- something like /dev/sda or /dev/nvme0n1 or some such>
>sudo update-grub

(And you’ll need to replace the angle brackets part above with the actual drive name. sudo grub-install /dev/sda or whatever.)

I think that first one should tell your system to switch from the Windows bootloader (which… I don’t think can even boot Linux… I haven’t used Windows since XP, so I don’t know for sure) to Grub2 which is capable of booting Linux, and capable of asking you which OS you want on boot. The second command is just to ensure Grub2 is properly configured. (It probably is already, but it won’t hurt to make double-sure.)

If that doesn’t work, it’s likely your Mint install is set up with a different bootloader. If that happens, I’d say:

• Let us know any error message you get from the above commands.
• Let us know what behavior you’re seeing instead of the desired results. (Like, no change and it’s still booting straight into Windows? Now it shows an OS-selection menu but only Mint as an option? Something else?)
• Search in your package manager for “bootloader” and report back which bootloader it says is installed.

Good luck! Hopefully that gets you going, but if not, definitely let us know your results!

Huh. I’m also a mod of !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and I was able to respond to a comment on db0 like 8 days ago.

But if you get banned from vegan communities, then you can’t go into an active vegan thread and say…

“pssst… vegan cat food”

Edit: Right? I’m surprised to be getting downvotes. I’m not vegan, but I don’t particularly have anything against vegans personally. But the drama of vegans arguing about whether it’s ok to feed a cat a vegan diet is hillarious to me.

Source? Like is there seriously a Star Trek series aimed at young kids coming?

Yeah, I know about the binary repositories. I’m running Gentoo as well (on one box with the intention to expand to other machines), but haven’t had occasion to use the official binary repositories yet.

I imagine I’d probably only ever use them if I wanted to install something temporarily. Install LibreOffice, view a file, uninstall. Just seems weird to have one package compiled with different USE flags than the whole rest of the system.

And, the compiler optimizations definitely aren’t why I use Gentoo. Probably more than anything, I’m sick of SystemD. And Gentoo feels a whole lot more “under my control” than Arch. (Arch is great for the most part, don’t get me wrong. I just like what Gentoo has to offer.)

I’m not RanzigFettreduziert, and I don’t know much about PopOS, but…

• Rolling release is awesome.
• Amazing documentation.
• Helpful user base. (The forums are great.)
• Does pretty much nothing that you don’t specifically tell it to. (Like, very little is installed without your express say-so, for instance.)
• Customizeable as fuck.
• Doesn’t making things harder by trying to hide the “hard parts” from you.
• Doesn’t take days to install Libreoffice like Gentoo.
• AUR is great for software that isn’t available in the official repos. (Always review the pkgbuild, but practically everything is there.)
• Very up-to-date (even cutting-edge) on everything.
• And surprisingly stable given how cutting edge it is. (That said, I’ve never run a keyword-unmasked system.)
• Definitely will teach you a lot.
• Very actively developed.

Downsides:

• Learning curve. (Definitely not as bad as, say, Gentoo, though.)
• You’d definitely have to get really comfortable with the command line. (Arguably as much a good thing as it is a downside.)
• The biggest exception to the “customizeable as fuck” bit is that you’re stuck with SystemD, which is practically a whole OS. (And Artix (Arch but with a choice of init systems) is… kinda janky last I tried it.)
• Support for non-x86 (like ARM, for instance) is abysmal.

It’s kindof the second-most hardcore OS out there after Gentoo. (Nobody actually uses LFS as a daily driver, so I’m not counting that for this.) It’s the sort of OS that will teach you a lot and let you get down in the guts. But also avoids a lot of the downsides of Gentoo by remaining a binary OS.

Good stuff. If I’m being honest, I’ve kindof felt a bit “out of the loop” on general “news” since quitting Red…acted. I’m glad to see more news here, and Democracy Now! is a fantastic news source.

Not to say I only ever come to Lemmy for news. I do visit news sites sometimes, and Democracy Now! is one of my most preferred sources. Still, though, it’ll be good for DN articles to show up in my Lemmy feed.

TIL my taste in music is considered “neutral”. I think I’m insulted.

What do you mean you “cannot scream”, exactly? In what way does the closest approximation to a “scream” you can do not qualify as a “scream”? Just pitch specifically? Can you sing higher than you can “scream”?

Or if it’s not specifically the pitch, and if it’s something you’d like to change, I might suggest you look into… well… learning. Search for “fry scream” on YouTube. It’ll take some practice, but it’s certainly a way to scream. And as a bonus, learning to do it “right” can avoid straining or injuring your voice.

I very much do not understand the question. I think you accidentally a word. I’m guessing you mean “why can I only scream when I sneeze”. But even that, I’m not sure I understand. Do you mean you can’t scream when you’re in the act of a sneeze? Or that you scream every time you sneeze and cannot prevent yourself from doing so? Both?

Was this post meant for the !shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml community?

Just my guess here, but…

The desktop/laptop sort of form factor is associated in people’s minds with unlocked bootloaders. People expect to be able to install Linux on them if they want to. Tablets, game systems, and other sorts of consumer electronics, not so much. I’m thinking Microsoft will do what it can to push hardware manufacturers and the software industry as a whole more in the direction of the kinds of devices that consumers already expect to be locked down like tablets or game systems that are “streaming” game systems. And that way, the bootloader will prevent folks from switching to Linux.

Porter Robinson is probably worth a listen.

First thing to try is to get your sleep hygiene straight.

No screens for an hour before bed, get your room dark (no night lights, light-blocking windowshades, and cover the lights on any electronics in your room) and quiet (ear plugs can help in a pinch), quit caffeine, get some sunlight in the morning (optimally before 10:00 AM), get some physical activity during the day, don’t eat for a couple of hours before bed. It also couldn’t hurt to do some meditation before bed during that hour of no-screen time.

That meditation will probably particularly help if the reason for your insomnia is stress.

(And try not to be overwhelmed by the above list. Any one or two items in that list that you do will probably help quite a bit. And try to think of this as a “long game” of incremental improvement.)

If that all doesn’t work, you could try adding CBD maybe an hour or so before bed. Melatonin might be a tempting option, but be careful with it. Melatonin doesn’t stay in the bloodstream all that long, so melatonin supplements tend to be big doses in an effort to try to keep it in your bloodstream longer which… kinda works maybe, but not as well as you might hope. The result tends to be that you fall asleep quickly, wake up in like 4 hours unable to get back to sleep, and then are resistant to your body’s natural melatonin for a night or two. If you’re going to do melatonin, spend the extra money on time-release melatonin. The company “Life Extension” has a 750mcg 6-hour time release melatonin that is a good one to try if you do go that route.

There are many dimensions to each of our senses. Just taking super-vision as an example, would that involve seeing very small things, seeing things at great distances, seeing through things or around corners, seeing more colors and/or wavelengths of light, seeing in 360°, seeing more subtle things than others see (like being able to see when someone’s heart rate increases), processing what you see quicker (for quicker reactions), photographic memory, seeing things others can’t (like magnetic fields or temperature), greater “frame rate”, seeing in the dark, a HUD with information display, seeing ghosts, or something else entirely I haven’t even thought of?

My employer considers developers, infra, SRE, PC Support, even QA all to be part of the “IT department”. I’ve always used the term “IT” to just cover any specifically “tech” sort of function. As opposed to, say, finance, sales, HR, operations, etc.

Yup.

A good guy with the affectations of a bad guy.