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"The thing that most non-Americans don't realize, is that the US is (at least) 50 small countries in a trench coat pretending to be one large country." This is a more tactful version than the one I know... Spoiler: America is a bunch of Third World countries in a trench coat with military force larger than God's pretending to be a First World country...
I have finished Ori and the Will of the Wisps. A beautiful game, beautiful music, beautiful movement, better progression than the Blind Forest, with much less frustrating moments (though not without them, especially chase sequences). I enjoyed it more than Silksong (I paused for now at Groal, who knows, knows). The ending is... Happy-sad, to keep it spoiler free. I will miss that little spirit.
Have I dodged a bullet picking Linux Mint? (images of Mint's Cinnamon interface won me over Ubuntu's GNOME)
It works. That's about that.
Linux installed on laptop...
It was tedious - I need to get a table lamp for the desk for the bedroom. Here I have a stronger LED bulb than there, but I already had laptop moved there earlier.
It also seems that Linux booted from pendrive does see the other HDD put inside the laptop... So tomorrow I can actually try to install Linux there.
I managed to exchange HDDs and access it externally from the desktop... Wheee!
I did, actually. Apparently, it opened* some kind of Linux console that I had no idea how to turn off and get back to GUI, so I turned the laptop off. *or it could have been Alt+F4, not sure.
Yeah, it's BIOS level security, but it can't be turned off (Secure Boot: Enabled, grayed out and not selectable) - not easily, at least. It's possible that I will go for a nuclear option when I will find some time to sit on it more: remove the HDD – insert a smaller (in capacity) laptop HDD I should have somewhere here, which is currently in external
Oh, great, now Linux installer freezes on steps that were relatively quick... Have I really messed up the HDD?
*sigh* Windows on laptop might be toast - attempts to recreate EFI keep failing...
Two hours later...
I might end getting that SSD for laptop while taking out the HDD, install Linux on SSD, while using external HDD pocket to get to the HDD and pull the files out of it.
The Pendrive is brand new, if extremally cheap (32 GB, 30 złoty, or about 7.5-9 USD), bough specifically for Linux experimentation, USB 2.0, listed as read up to 12 MB/s... It is German company (though 'made in China' ofc) with English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Polish, and (I think Dutch, though it is covered by safety sticker, so I am not sure) descriptions...
Linux Mint's Boot Repair function/program failed to solve the problem. Trying to repair system using Windows 11 recovery
And it seems that the Linux installer, despite not doing any real installing, somehow managed to mess up booting up the windows...
I always talk about mounting partitions while naked, don't you?!
And the attempt to install Linux and a boot selector alongside the existing system failed - it seems that it could not resize existing partition because of already mounted partitions, and I am not going to let it tampers with it at least until I am comfortable/desperate enough to tamper with those...
Desktop does have two M.2 PCIe SSDs, but it was bought last year. I wish the laptop had SSD... It has HDD SATA. I am on the edge if I should look for SATA SSD for it, or not bother with burning more money on it. The Pendrive is brand new, if extremally cheap (32 GB, 30 złoty, or about 7.5-9 USD), bough specifically for Linux experimentation, USB 2.0, listed as read up to 12 MB/s...
Will the shared installation work, or will the laptop die and burn in flames?
That Linux takes forever to start from Pendrive... Have I been spoiled by fast start up of Windows 11 from an SSD?!
Desktop has more convenient Boot Menu in BIOS than Laptop...
No, I am back on Windows now. Trying to see how that Linux will run on laptop...
Linux Mint file manager feels/looks weirdly clunkish...
Balena Etcher ETA is a worthy successor of old Windows explorer's file copying ETAs...
Flashing a pendrive with a Linux Mint... Now. No Freehold! Not that kind of flashing!
Honk-honk, mother-craker!
Honk-honk, mother-craker!
I don't know if the cable to the other room is borked or if it's windows suddenly being fussy like a toddler. (it could be pre-update mess?) And no, it was not an issue with Wi-Fi, it's still set to manual switching. I checked.
Got up. No internet... Grrrr... Reset router. Still no internet. Reset again. Get annoyed. Turn on the laptop - which is in other room, and on other cable from the router... And internet is there? But still not showing up on main computer? *sigh* And so I moved the main computer back to other room (as it was until father's visit when I had to use other room as his bedroom). It's a bit weird. Also, it's annoying how much as simple task as moving the computer from room to room stresses me. Thank you general anxiety.
Lenore and Nefret were the surprises. Nefret's entire attitude was, "Oh, you're home." Not a pout. Not resentment. Just, "Oh. Hi." A non-reaction. And Lenore actually got skittish and avoided GothBard. I've almost never seen her react skittishly to a person before. She warmed up, of course, but I was surprised she had the worst recognition of the four. Are you sure that's a real GothBard and not a doppelganger who replaced her while she was away? Did she say the me-password? NobodysHome? NobodysHome?!
You know what I want to see in Star Trek? Space shanties. They're in the navy, they're working, there should be thousands of space shanties to help the crew pass the time, and I want to hear some of them! Spoiler: Not really Star Trek, but the first thing that comes to my mind when comes to space shanties, and no, I haven't played Warframe.
My solution to the trouble of renovating house is not having enough money to do that.
The professional installer I paid hundreds of dollars to put in the wall heater connected the thermostat to the new gas vent... See, here's your problem! You could get an amateur to "Twist two bare wires together and wrap them in electrical tape," method. for much less!
This year, during the father's visit I probably rode taxi more times than through my whole life up to that point. Uber was out of question because I am not attaching my card to a phone app. I'd rather call the taxi. On the phone. Me.
Don't ask what's in the ship's stew... Those are the ones who asked what's in the stew before...
Don't ask what's in the ship's stew... Those are the ones who asked what's in the stew before...
Grar. Another idea that I haven't immediately written down is gone... I found it?! I found it!
I was personally and directly informed that I am not allowed to provide Valeros a proper blowgun to avoid future dart swallowing. I thought about composite bow.
During the previous session of Legend Of Five Rings, the party was mostly focusing on exorcising the meddling spirit from their mistress maid. They succeeded, and learned there is some deeper and older factor (a curse, a force?) that messes up with the inheritance of the castle - in a few hundred years of records no castellan was born to the spouse of previous castellan. Because one of the characters suggested to their lords that the maid need to be checked by Kitsu medics, I decided to tie it to another idea for an adventure and the party was sent as an escort of transport of grain to nearby city (Toshi Ranbo, over a century prior to it becoming a capital, so now it's just a city that passes between Lions and Cranes) and at the same time deliver the girl for a check up at Kitsu Medic dojo there... Today: ... on their way there, the party defended the transport from a band of bakemono and their assault forest troll, with no losses to men or cargo. Matsu suffered a Light Wound that was quickly healed by Kitsu.
After a few days they arrived to the city, and discovered that allegedly, there is a specter of executed ronin haunting the city at night, and the people blame Kitsu Medic dojo. (Which has a few centuries old imperial privilege that permits them to conduct dissections on cadavers of executed criminals though they learned that later). They also spent their first night on the town in their life (they are young, they never had been to a city proper, and Kitsu not being favored by Daikoku, the Fortune of the Prosperity, quickly burned through his meager savings of 4 koku to provide the party with entertainment. Next day, they visited the dojo, witnessed the headmistress arguing with local Emerald Magistrate (who is Crane, which definitely causes some tension with the Lion city governor), then presented the maid for check up and talked with the headmistress about medicine, dissections, and asked her to see the corpse of the executed ronin. All of them could tell that the criminal is dead and Kitsu concluded that he is not coming back. Now they suspect some kind of big deception from Emerald Magistrate to rile up the city dwellers and cause riots that would make the city vulnerable to Crane attack... It's far more complicated.
Grar. Another idea that I haven't immediately written down is gone...
I think the only ones I have categorically crossed off the list are Microsoft and Amazon. That leaves a LOT of contenders. I think that you explicitly denied working for Facebook/Meta and
Oh, come on, you know you just
I don't remember, have we crossed Oracle off the list of potential Global Megacorporations NobodyWorks for? I ask, because I just saw an article about zero-day vulnerability in Oracle products...
*eyesight woes* That's why I read FAWTL on the desktop.
I haven't tested if my Their main quirk is that when you push the button once they give light, but you need to turn them off twice - I think it is a sort of precaution against turning them off accidentally when you hol them in reverse grip with a thumb on the button.
What the frack is wrong with game designers who think their default controller keybinds are so great that there is no need for ability to rebind keys?!
Is that so frackking hard to add editing keybindings to your game?
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