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I've been using EndeavourOS for 12 months now.
Very light steam gaming. Office stuff is basically web browsers (occasionally I have to swap to windows boot for silly excel spreadsheets that don't work online). Programming is delightful.
It's been solid, and the installer was great.
The major issues have been from dual booting windows (disable fast boot!) and from not updating frequently enough (keychain issues, tho endeavouros has plenty of "newb needs to update" helpers).

I love it. It's mine, I own that laptop, and endeavouros works for me. I feel so much more in control than I ever did on windows.
I do have some basic experience running Debian servers (VMs for single service, or docker stuff), and I do programming.

I did this my my new pixel 8 pro. I loved it.
It was so easy, it worked, I was in control of my device.

Contactless payment didn't work.
Which is a deal breaker for me.

I looked at some fin-tech solutions, I even bought a pixel watch (which didnt work because I have a workspace account). None of them let me work around the issue. Contactless just wouldn't work.

Had to go back to stock android.
I'm constantly checking in on their attribution/verification/whatever status that would allow them to offer contactless payment (currently offered by android/apple/banks, but no open source software).
I want grapheneos and contactless so badly!

Yeh, ventoy takes an extra step (but ventoy is itself an extra step): find the iso from a legit source instead of using the media creation tool, install software to edit iso, add unattended.xml to the iso, plop iso on ventoy drive.

Anyone playing around with or working with Linux/windows:
Check out ventoy. I think they've solved their issues of binary blobs and it is so useful.
Create a Ventoy usb drive. Drag any and all OS ISOs onto the USB stick. Boot from the USB, choose which ISO to actually boot.
Want to switch flavours of live Linux (or try another installer)? Boot from usb, choose different ISO.
Absolutely fantastic software

Yeh, the 16/32 in the screenshot and that 2 sticks are dead suggests they have 4x 8gb sticks, and lends credence that one channel is being messed with.
They said they tested the ram on multiple systems, but they might have just thrown both "dead" sticks in there at the same time - leading to a similar failure mode as they are both on the same channel.

I bet 1 stick is dead, and they could probably get away with 24gb of ram in a 3/2 channel distribution

Maybe 1 is causing the other to fail?
Could try the sticks individually.

It is strange that 2 sticks fail at the same time. It smells like a symptom instead of the root issue.

It's not that difficult, is it?

I mean, it's not like running a program on an already installed windows, or using the windows 11 installer to install from windows.
Otherwise, it's the basic steps for installing any OS except for creating the unattended.xml file.

Use the media creation tool to create install media on a USB drive, work through the generator (Google what you need to), drop the resulting XML onto the drive, reboot from USB and install as normal.

Use an answer file with W11 Pro.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

I haven't noticed any AI bullshit, but I might be being protected by EU laws at the moment.

Writing reports is hard? Fuck paper work? Policing used to be easier?
Great, the reports are written for you and the paper work is done for you.
You are still fucking liable for their contents, as you are (or should be) for your actions.

Recorded and written reports are the backbone of accountability.

Don't want to get fucked by the legal system because you have neglected your duties? Don't neglect your duties. Do the reporting, do the paper work.

Using LLM in such reports should be equivalent of perjury. Use LLMs to create bullet points, turn that into a draft (or just submit the bullet points, because someone is likely to feed the report back into an LLM to turn it into bullet points).
But know that you are (or should be) accountable for every last word on that report!

While true, quantity of poop particles also matters.
Your body can fight off loads of bacteria. But once it gets to an infection point, it can't keep up and you become ill.

So yeh, poop is everywhere. As long as it's small amounts, it's fine.

Ordered with funding? Bad idea, but at least it's backed by government support. Maybe there is a bigger play here.
I can understand requiring coal plants to ensure & maintain grid stability until green alternatives have proven themselves. The government funding basically pays them to maintain but not operate - unless needed.
Hydro would make more sense. Some sort of fast-start generation with potential recovery during low demand.
But I could see coal being part of a black-start procedure or something.

Straight up ordered? No government funding? That's just a polluting bomb. High pressure steam in aging industrial equipment with no incentive to maintain that equipment. Still pumping out pollution, likely producing electricity more expensive than the average cost.
Disaster waiting to happen.
What the fuck.

Battle Royale.
Pretty sure it was the first foreign language film I've watched.

I don't refuse junk mail. I indicate my preference to not have it printed on paper, sent some distance, and hand delivered. I refuse it at the origin, not the destination.
Worst case, the postal service recycles it at origin instead of having to ship it.

Junk mail is junk.
It isn't a resource.
I don't think I've ever received something that meaningfully contributes towards a purchase that I actually want to make.
I buy what I need. I find what I want, I think about if I actually need it, I find local manufacturers, I find local suppliers.
I see if the price difference between local & inter/national is worth the saving (most of the time, it isn't and I'd rather buy from a local manufacturer or supplier, even at twice the price).
Then I decide if I should buy something.

Some paper shipped across the country and shoved through my letterbox is not going to influence my decision AT ALL.
In fact, it's more likely to negatively impact my purchasing decision.
Because here is a company that has excess profits to physical cold-advertise something to me, regardless if I have an interest in it or not.
What a waste of money, resources and time.

Wait, the US doesn't have a free service to (a) remove you from postal spam lists and (b) stop spam being delivered?

In the UK, I registered my address on a few of the things listed here ( https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/post-and-parcels/stop-getting-junk-mail/ ). And the only junk mail I now receive are political flyers & takeout menus delivered outside of the postal service (ie by people, not posties).

Do Americans really have to put up with receiving random bullshit with no easy way of stopping it?!

Omg, even the thing that is enshittifying everything is now being enshittified itself.

I thought it was the Epstein Ballroom

And here's me with my yay

In my experience, a Scheduler is something that schedules time on the CPU for processes (threads).

So 10 processes (threads) say "I need to do something":
2 of those threads are "ready to continue" because they were previously waiting on some Disk IO (and responsibly released thread control while data was fetched).
1 of the threads says "this is critical for GPU operations".
1 of those threads self declares it is elevated priority.

The scheduler decides which of those threads actually gets time on an available CPU core to be processed.

Oh, actual horses.
I was thinking the title was wrong. Or maybe that cavalry is a modern warfare term for something.
The thumbnail is a bit hard to see.

Nope.
Clicked through, and there it is. A picture of a soldier riding a horse. Like, full on galloping.
And the picture is clearly from a drone that is very very close.

Man does whatever he wants at the top, with support of experts to ensure it's legal (or at least deniable illegal) as long as other people in power get to do what they want and these other people get the presidential stamp when it matters.
There is so much noise. So much crap flying everywhere, that nobody is able to actually see the important piece of sweetcorn flying through someone's skull. (Or whatever).

Generate noise & outrage. Like real massive noise and outrage:
Wars (perhaps legit reasons, but unreasonable response causing the scandal), pedophile scandals (it's legit, but the handling is a scandal), ridiculous trade wars (arguably well intended (preferring local manufacturing), execution is nothing but "fuck over the little guy" with the added benefit of larger guys buying up the little guys going broke). Pardons that subvert their own administration's promises.
All the while, the US government is sailing through bills for "protect the children" masked mass surveillance, age verification, abortion bans, literally everything and anything to suppress actual people.

As soon as the Epstein list's redaction has been resolved:
troops will be deployed in another unwinnable war in Venezuela.
US trade relations will be in the toilet and other trade groups will be strengthened (UK is already rejoining some EU programmes, there are no-US trading groups getting established, so many trade deals that now ignore/exclude the US).
The US population will suddenly be under surveillance that hasn't been seen before (flock, ICE, and all the KOSA related bills). You think the UK OSA is bad? KOSA (and related) look to be worse.

That puts a lot of pressure on humans to not-make-mistakes.
However, repeated "mistakes" are a pattern of hostility.
Russia is hostile.
And they keep on "oops"-ing and "plausible deniability"-ing their actions.
Which is a pattern of hostility and should be treated as a declaration of war