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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.minds.com/ (Android > Developer (recommended) – on Google Play))
A social media platform.
Positioned as a “free as in beer and free as in freedom” alternative to platforms like Twitter, minds has significant potential.
2017-05-29 – Does not have proper web compliance and does not work 100% with Pale Moon.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322310/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80002612
The son of a billionaire family survives them in a plane crash in the Himalayas, and returns after being raised by monks only to find their ancient enemies throughout his old home and business. Basically Marvel’s Batman.
At first I was going to ignore this series, because the Iron Fist trailer made it look like utter trash, but the YUR A WHITE MALE “mainstream liberal media” response made me interested.
Even though the superhero genre is generally tiring, this show is well worth watching, and its response is a beautiful example of fake news manufactured by “social” “justice”.
TODO – tested and working, though my most recent Lubuntu experimentation has problems I’m still troubleshooting.
At best, my computer hangs when prompting for a password. I think this is related to the 4.4.14 kernel but have not confirmed this.
Projects >
dm-crypt
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/cryptfs.html
These instructions are a lot easier than they seem, and a smart and patient beginner will be able to follow them!
These notes were made on an everyday system with one hard drive which I completely formatted for this purpose.
This concept and these notes build a full-disk Slackware installation which also uses LVM. You can safely ignore the entire LVM post and just follow this one.
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/
A tool to put a LiveUSB ISO onto a USB stick.
Simple and does the job.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner
A computer cleaning tool.
All magical and stuff. I guess. I don’t have a particular need for it, and I don’t miss it when it’s gone, but it’s in my toolkit.
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Problem: I have a messy old Windows installation, and I want to reinstall it from scratch. However, I own Windows 8, applied the Windows 8.1 upgrade, and then got the free upgrade to Windows 10. I don’t have a Windows 10 installation disk.
I don’t want a new disk, I want a USB stick.
I don’t want Windows itself booting from a USB stick, just the installer on it.
Update: The solution is probably to get the ISO then use Ventoy.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/
https://www.syfy.com/the-expanse
Tensions between the three factions in our solar system rise with an known party’s military science efforts.
Describing this one is pretty damned hard. Quite a good series, although the lead actor is just a little too young to be properly-believable. They all are, but I guess that was the target market.
Inspired by The Expanse – (2011+ books), by “James S. A. Corey“
