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  • Telorand@reddthat.comtosolarpunk memes@slrpnk.net•i know which one id be prouder of
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    2 days ago

    You’re tilting at the wrong things. What NASA does is science. Science benefits humanity, and we always learn something by going to space, and we’ve been able to do experiments that would be otherwise impossible to do on Earth. In this capitalist hellscape, it unfortunately costs money to do science, so I can understand balking at the $93B + $4B price tag (spread over 7 years) but we currently spend trillions of dollars (over 7 years) just on the military and if ICE were to get their current budget over 7 years, it would also be over a trillion dollars.

    We could absolutely feed and provide childcare for every child in this country for under $100B, but we don’t need to defund science to do it. The annual budget of ICE alone could take care of all of that and still have some leftover.

    The problem isn’t spending $13B/yr on space science, it’s spending $85B or $175B on ICE and the military (just as two needlessly wasteful examples; there are more).

  • Telorand@reddthat.comtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Dual-boot questions (but not about Windows)
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    3 days ago

    Windows 10 has been sitting unused on a separate drive…

    Maybe you could clarify a few things. You say Windows was on a separate drive, but then you talk about dual booting. Do you mean that Windows was on another partition on a shared drive, or do you have two separate hard drives?

    If you have Mint on one hard drive and uBlue on another, seems to me what you should be looking at is adding an entry to Grub. I’ve only ever done this with Limine, but I would imagine it similarly involves editing some config and running a rebuild command to refresh Grub. There should be plenty of info about how to do this, given how old and ubiquitous Grub is.

    If it’s two partitions on the same drive, it might be similar, but I don’t know.

    Tbh though, I’m at a loss as to why you want to dual boot an atomic distro and a typical one. You should be able to do almost everything a normal distro can do by using Distrobox. If you prefer having total control over everything, why bother with an atomic distro? What problem are you trying to solve?

  • Telorand@reddthat.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.world•EFF is Leaving X (Twitter)English
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    3 days ago

    I’m with you. I think there is some value in trying to reach the people on the data-harvesting platforms, but I would rather see that coupled with an incessant campaign to guide people into the Fediverse. At the end of every post, link to an article about how to do it. Do a monthly reminder about migrating and how & why the Fediverse is better.

    I genuinely appreciate the work EFF does, but I think that this move is long overdue, and they could be doing more with their platform.