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slavery is not abolished, it is legalized and codified with amendment 13’s criminality clause. the south won. they got exactly what they wanted: federal enforcement of slavery.

this is not true and it keeps people paying interest they don’t have to so i’m pretty sure it was spread on purpose precisely for this purpose by the banks.

paying off and cancelling a card lowers your credit score not because you paid it off but because you’re down one line of credit. by far the number of lines of credit has the biggest impact on your score (aside from major shit like bankruptcy or loan defaults.)

paying off your credit card balance before it generates interest every month does not affect your score at all aside from increased age (a good thing). your utilization rate is not calculated from your end of month balance but by how much you use the line of credit regardless whether you pay it off or let it sit and charge you interest.

so do not let debt sit in your credit card balance because you think paying it off makes your score go down if you have the means to pay it off. always pay it off if you can, and never charge more to it than you can immediately pay off except emergencies.

the crypttab.d thing is called a drop-in directory. linux will read files you make in these and overwrite the config files with the values in the drop-in files. it’s a way to add your own edits to config files without editing the default config files directly, so you don’t have to say manually copy crypttab to crypttab.old for a backup and instead always have a default config to fall back to if things go wrong by just commenting out your few changes in the drop-in file.

i don’t know anything about raid, but judging by your manual command to unlock and mount it shouldn’t be any different than my non-raid extra encrypted disks setup.

it should be just adding it to crypttab and fstab and a keyfile and grub config edit maybe, and if you mess up you can still get in to edit these to try again with a liveusb (easiest way to go back to previous setup is just comment out the lines you add) and manually unlocking and mounting like you are now anyway, so don’t be scared.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system

is a lot but the specific info you need for your setup should be various places there and linked there. good luck!

what small companies are giving users of their search engine ai overviews? why would you argue ai summaries are not ai? what the muddy waters is going on here…?

A: complete non-issue.

B: entirely separate fight from ev vs ice vehicles. xai running methane generators doesn’t fuel evs anyway, why bring that up like it’s relevant? you choosing ice over ev isn’t helping the problem, either. and even if the only way we had to make electricity at all was fossil fuels, evs would still be more effiicient because power plants run huge generators at stable rates for peak efficiencies for far more power per unit of fossil fuel even accounting for power conversion loss. you also save on transporting tanker trucks of gas vs electricity over power lines.

C: good, but also yikes.

D: okay, this one is valid. it just made no sense as you first wrote it. still a minor inconvenience especially considering how fewer moving parts means far less often maintenance in the first place. and it’s another area like charging stations that has rapidly become more and more of a non-issue as adoption of the tech spreads.

i’ll give a pass on the insulting, as i regrettably went there first.

incredibly confusing* comment.

it’s too heavy? grid power fossil fuels? did you use ai to make this list? actually, i kinda hope you did, because yikes. ‘often times lack of servicability in certain areas’? what the fuck are you even saying? you want a propane based generator but lament grid fossil fuels? bro, this is utter nonsense.

*edit: original unnecessarily harsh, apologies.

fuck this nazi piece of shit and his sloppy ass slop and every one of you dipshits praising him and this garbage. “how much progress he’s made for FOSS” lol, lmao, lmfao, even.

installing on bare metal means like the way windows 10 is installed right now; the main operating system installed on the hard drive directly in control of the hardware.

backup any files you want to save from win10 to an external drive, usb, or cloud storage. download rufus or ventoy and follow either tool’s instructions on making a bootable usb with the mx linux iso on it.

reboot and hit whatever key the bios screen gives you for boot menu, you may have to go to bios settings and set boot order there to let you boot from usb first before the hard drive if there is no boot menu or boot order key listed.

now you’re in a liveusb mx linux environment. it won’t overwrite anything on the hard drive until you get to the step formatting the disk in the installer, so you can ignore the installer and poke around and try it out before commiting to erasing windows. shutting down and taking out the usb or changing the boot order back will let you boot back into windows.

good luck!

edit: some typos

install mx on the bare metal instead of a vm of it on win10, you’ll prolly even be able to run a win10 vm with better performance than native. also use zram.

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

is what i use and is where i learned of chipass. notably they don’t mention keepass2android either way so i just lightly poked around its repo and didn’t see any sign of llm so went with it for now.

chipass is a strict no-ai fork of the last keypassxc version without ai code. it’s got a banner warning that’s it’s in dev and may likely cause corruption so make regular backups of your db, but i’ve been using it for a week or so with no issues so far.

as for android, i’m using keepass2android as it’s got a fancy cloud saving feature where i can keep the db saved in my nextcloud and easily sync the db on my desktop as well.

construction projects don’t usually use secret unmetered hookups the water company doesn’t know about, bud.

some important context here: almost every comment from above user is correcting the record in ai posts like this.

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‘anarchist’

‘i use claude’

hmmm

you can try changing your io scheduler: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#Input/output_schedulers

i think by default ssd and nvme drives get ‘none’ as they should be fast enough to just take first come first serve and get everything done, however in certain cases like this you can get bogged down by a single thing hogging the drive for a long time. i’d recommend ‘kyber’, it’ll treat io requests similar to network requests and give requests tokens that ensure everything requesting io gets the io within reasonably responsive timeframes. note: this will slow your single task read/write speed, but only a tiny bit and it’s worth it for other things being able to use disk while it’s being hogged like on a game update.

who is celebrating? what are you talking about?

how tf is saying you should’ve been mad sooner ‘discouraging’ being mad now? the only discouragement here is you tools saying - yet again, for the infinite time - that it’s ‘not the right time’ to discuss racism.

sus glow

red line is nonsense, you’re hallucinating it as the tail when it’s just left buttcheek. the red dot is the inside of the right back leg. there is only blue line for tail.

check out librewolf or waterfox for firefox without the corporate garbage and with more secure and private defaults.