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If you were never a "fuck cars" person, hang out near a school
  • Depends on the car. Whopping big American Trump Trucks make people into trashy human beings, sure, but I'd like to think that putting around town in a classic mini doesn't make me the devil. Certainly people don't grin and point and wave when a Trump Truck goes past.

  • Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week
  • Humans are social creatures. As much as I'm a massive friggin' introvert, if I stayed at home I wouldn't get anything done. I need to go to the office and see other people, in a work environment, in order to work myself.

    And at five o'clock, I need to get in my car and come home.

  • Joever rule
  • Yes, but you're still just picking the lesser of two evils.

    Would it be so much to ask for to have a candidate who's only redeeming quality is not that they're less shit than the opposition? The ham sandwich is less shit than Trump, but it's still not good. I'm not convinced the democratic party will be able to find someone brilliant in their own right to run for president. They'll only be able to put in someone who isn't Trump.

  • Joever rule
  • That's funny. I remember him saying the opposite.

    Am I mistaken? Just here in response to the question of whether Kamala would make a good president, he says "Look, I wouldn't have picked vice president Trump [Kamala] to be vice president. I think she's not qualified to be president. Let's start there."

    Hillary didn't lose because of Trump. She lost because she's Hillary.

    You may have a point there, I'll grant you, but I'm still not sure Kamala can come out on top. I'd very much like to be proven wrong, but we might have to wait for the next debate to gauge what direction we're heading in.

  • Joever rule
  • As much as I don't want it to happen, I'm convinced this was the final nail in the coffin for the democrats, and the Republicans will now be guaranteed the win.

    Trump was shot and is now a martyr, and the democratic party is in shambles with no nominee. If they pick Kamala, who (after mistaking her for Trump) Biden claimed was not fit to be president, Trump will just beat her into the ground like he did with Hillary. If they pick anyone else, the American population won't know who they are. Either way, the democrats are at their most fragmented while the republicans are at their most united.

    But then what do I know? I live on the other side of the planet.

  • Can I install linux on this?
  • Sadly no, because while Android is based on Linux, it is so far removed that the kernel is wildly different. Some teams such as mobian, SFOS, postmarketOS, etc. have got fair dinkum Linux running on android devices though.

  • monster high rule
  • That's true, but usually they get their method right (or close to it) but fail on the simple addition. If you use it to help figure out what steps you need to take, you can then run through substituting the correct numbers in and make some real progress.

    I just completed a class on hydrology and water engineering with this method. Got a HD. That either says something about the school or something about GPT. Not sure which.

    It certainly says something about my willingness to complete water engineering coursework, I'll admit that.

  • Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now.
  • Fuck I wish the politicians would give this to us straight like that.

    Why is Albo's party spreading memes about three eyed fish instead of saying "yeah Dutton's nuclear plan is safe, but it maximises fossil fuel use in the short term and we'd prefer to focus on renewables"

  • Help with external 4TB drive

    Hi All,

    I have a 4TB drive that was originally in a PC connected via SATA. I now wish to put it in an external enclosure and connect it via USB, however this is proving more difficult than I expected, and from what I understand it's Windows XP's fault.

    On attempting to mount the drive with sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt, I receive the following error: mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

    The output of fdisk -l is as follows: ``` Disk /dev/sdc: 3.64 TiB, 4000787025920 bytes, 976754645 sectors Disk model: Expansion Desk Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000

    Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 1 4294967295 4294967295 16T ee GPT ```

    As can be seen, the disk is detected correctly as a 3.64TiB drive, but there is a partition that's read as 16TB. This, AFAIK, is because the sectors are incorrectly read as 4096 bytes long when they should be 512 bytes, and this is a thing that external enclosures do to ensure MBR compatibility with Windows XP.

    I tried overcoming this by mounting as follows: $ sudo mount -o ro,offset=$((1*512)) /dev/sdc1 /mnt however now I have a new error: mount: /mnt: failed to setup loop device for /dev/sdc1.

    Trying to mount with sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt only yields mount: /mnt: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist.

    I'm at a loss as to how to mount this drive - at least, without reformatting it. Is it at all possible? Once I've cracked the code, can I configure /etc/fstab to do it automatically for me, or am I stuck in this limbo-land where I have data on my disk that's only readable with a hacky workaround? As a last resort, I think I can plug it back in via SATA, copy all 4TB off, plug it in via USB, reformat it and copy everything back on, but I want to avoid that hassle.

    Edit: Output of fdisk -l when connected via SATA. Note the sector size is now 512 and the drive mounts happily. ``` Disk /dev/sdb: 3.7 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors Disk model: HGST HDN724040AL Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 5852E3A7-A2E4-4589-9D93-F8020C2D7E54

    Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048 7814035455 7814033408 3.7T Linux filesystem ```

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    [Help] Sacrilege: I need help with KDE Connect under Windows.

    Hopefully this is the right community to ask this question in.

    I have been tasked with providing a way for a small team to send and receive text messages via a real mobile phone from their computers. Having daily driven Fedora since 2017, my first thought was KDE Connect SMS. Unfortunately, I have to be able to support Windows in this endeavour.

    As such, I have three questions:

    • KDE connect is available for Windows, however as far as I can figure kpeoplevcard is not. Am I mistaken? Is there a way to get contact names syncing successfully in a Windows environment, even just one-way?
    • Despite the notification permission being granted on Android, incoming text messages produce no notification on Windows. I have read this may be a fault that occurs when the Android client was installed from F-Droid. Is this the case? I haven't made a Google account for this device, so perhaps I need to do that and install the Play Store version.
    • MMS images appear fine in the KDE Connect SMS application, however they are only thumbnail sized and can not be saved as a file or copied. Can they at least be made bigger, if not exported?

    I'm worried that KDE Connect may not be the correct choice for this use-case if these issues don't have workarounds. I may have to use Google's Messages for Web, but that doesn't allow concurrent connections from multiple PCs like KDE Connect does - and it will mean I have to deal with Google.

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    I jumped off Reddit's cliff and landed here just like many other Lemmings.

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