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I miss my friend.
I miss my friend. - Lemmy.World
Heck, there is not much more to say than the title. But it has been a constant weight for the last month or so. No, they aten’t dead. They are just given to bouts of depression where they vanish for a few weeks. I was really, really worried the first time it happened, but this is the third, and so I am not exactly leaning on the panic button. They have a chronic condition that makes them weak and requires lots of rest/energy management, and conversely they are not very good at managing their energy, and where I live, New Year’s involves a lot of travel and celebrations and so on, so all of these factors combine to ensure that they’d be out of commission for a while. I also made a mistake that left them locked out of their apartment for a bit and necessitated a lock change, at the tail end of a bunch of that travel and so on, so I am not blameless; an error on my part meant that they had one last hurdle to leap just when they were probably already running on fumes. I feel awful about it - apologized profusely and reimbursed all related expenses, natch. Those are all details, though, side details compared to the main one that is the title of this post. I suppose that I am privately worried that my key mistake plus the long silence equals “they have cut you off, you crossed the line”, but there is a remaining bit of sanity that reminds me that given our long friendship that this is probably not the case. Still, silence breeds worry, however unreasonable that worry might be - maybe that’s the other thing that I needed to get off my chest. Anyway, that’s basically all. There’s not really anything you or I or anyone can do but to give my friend space. I send a little check-in message (along the lines of “hope you’re doing ok” or a pretty picture of local scenery/weather) about once a week. Besides that, just have to wait, which I don’t like, but it’s out of my hands. I miss my friend.
"Too-short, Contextless Quote": Insufficient Explanation, says Person/Organization
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32GB Crucial DDR5-6000, bought days before the announcement.
Maintaining privacy on a new desktop
Maintaining privacy on a new desktop - Lemmy.World
Hello. I installed Linux Mint on a new desktop that I built about a week ago, and I’m starting to get used to it, so it’s probably time to start using it for some actual life things. A couple of these do involve talking with family members all in Facebook Messenger, as well as the necessity of using Google Workspace for some work-related functions. I’m aware that using both of these is a compromise of privacy in and of itself, but I’m still interested in mitigating the damages best as I can. What steps can I take to make the usage of these as private and non-invasive as possible? If it helps at all, the browser I’m using is Firefox and the operating system is Linux Mint.
Linux becoming as ubiquitous as Windows or Mac would not be a utopian endpoint.
Linux becoming as ubiquitous as Windows or Mac would not be a utopian endpoint. - Lemmy.World
I am not saying that more people using Linux is bad or that people shouldn’t use it (I mean, check my own post history; I am a recent convert myself), but if it reached the kind of saturation that Windows or Apple enjoys, it would bring not liberation but enshittification. Nor am I trying to be some kind of elitist “the plebs don’t deserrrrrrve it” schlub; hell, I use Linux Mint Cinnamon and have to have a guide to handhold me through all but the most rudimentary, familiar-to-me-as-a-Windows-user tasks. However. A bar to entry (even such an ankle-high one as there is now) keeps Linux relatively off the radar of large, moneyed interests that would otherwise descend onto Linux distros and enshittify them in a heartbeat. In other words, rather than “everyone who uses Linux will then see how bad they’ve had it under Windows and how anti-consumer certain software companies (let’s say Adobe for example) have been treating them!”, the more likely outcome would be “now there is Adobe Photoshop Linux Edition that is exclusive to the paid Adobe Linux distro” or other similar shackles and lockdowns and limitations (for which your credit card is the key), and the alternatives, not having ad money or corporate backing to prop them up, would be left by the wayside as other such enshittified distros/softwares gained users and traction. Hell, just because an alternative to a non-enshittified software exists doesn’t mean people will know about or use it. To use an example, Excel is hardly the only way to make a spreadsheet. But it’s the one that is used, taught, known, documented, and widespread. It doesn’t matter that [some other software] is superior in every way if no one knows or cares about it. Admittedly this is kind of my shower-thought guess and it’s not as if I have sat and thought through this thoroughly, but heck, here we are. Lay it on me.
Me again. I'm glad I finally took the dive!
Me again. I'm glad I finally took the dive! - Lemmy.World
What a cool thing you guys have going here! I am on my second day of using this operating system and while I still feel kind of like I’m a toddler walking around with a loaded gun, in that I am as ignorant as I am dangerous (to myself at least), I’m starting to look into some of the neat things you can do and I’m quite impressed! I just wanted to make a positive post of appreciation as a newcomer to the OS!
Trying to install/boot failure
Trying to install/boot failure - Lemmy.World
Hi, everyone. I have just finished building a computer and wanted to put Linux Mint on it. The parts list is as follows: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Motherboard: MSI B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI ATX AM5 Motherboard Memory: Crucial Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6400 CL38 Memory 2 TB NVME SSD I followed the install guide and got it to boot once from a USB. Then, once it was hooked into the internet, it started putting in the codecs. As expected. When I tried to push the Linux install onto the SSD (which has nothing on it) it hung up and the computer shut down. Now when I try to boot from the same USB I can’t even get into the live session that I had been in before. I get the following error: import mok state not found error [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3066b480-ea35-4964-8439-719c463fabb0.jpeg] Apologies for the poor picture quality as it has to be extracted from a video that I took of it happening. This error shows for an instant and then the computer shuts down. I have disabled secure boot and tried again, same thing. I have flashed the install USB stick again after verifying the checksum, same thing. I have made a bootable USB with differing programs (Rufus and Etcher) and it happens again. I have gone through some forum posts and seen people talking about trickery which I don’t undersatnd involving changing filenames and such, but when I try to navigate the USB stick on my laptop (running W10) I cannot find the files they are talking about to even rename them. I apologise for being the newbie who rushes in with a question, but I did try to look up solutions, and can’t seem to do them on my own. For those who said they went into advanced boot options and made the boot point to a particular file in their motherboard’s bios, Click UEFI (the bios for my particular motherboard) does not seem to have this as an option. I am at a bit of a loss. Any help would be appreciated dearly! Thank you in advance.