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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I feel like the right has such a black-and-white/zero nuance view of things. So then the left goes and does the same thing!

My sense is that these A*AB movements are really trying to say, "the institution of X is fundamentally flawed," and that's something I agree with definitely. But it's worded provocatively, which is just...assinine. Like, the little old lady who would be priced out of her home if not for renting out a room to a college kid, below market value? Yeah total bastard...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

AFAIK in the USA you can't have the main batteries be replaceable (I think an aux battery for wireless functions is allowed...).

EDIT: I seem to be thinking of California, maybe not all of US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

What country? AFAIK in the US you can't make the batteries replaceable. If they are wirelessly linked they can have auxiliary batteries for that, but (I believe) that's different than the main battery...

EDIT: I seem to be thinking of California, maybe not all of US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

with the ever present threat of hurricanes

That may be true for Florida, but that's not really relevant for northern California/PNW/many, many other parts of the world...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If you can get to work on city streets, there's a good chance you can bike or take public transportation. Nothing evil about that!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago

My company did it the right way


they gave us the day off.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Funding agencies have huge power here; demanding that research be published in OA journals is perhaps a good start (with limits on $ spent publishing, perhaps).

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hope them publicly advocating for this backfires spectacularly.

"First they game for gay marriage, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't gay. Then they came for the abortions, and I didn't speak up because I didn't need an abortion. Then they came for divorce, and...fuck, that might be a real a pain in the ass. Maybe I won't vote for these asshats."


some people, hopefully...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

We really need to see info from the BIOS


exact CPU model, RAM speed, etc.

As others have pointed out, this is a pretty anachronistic build


i586 with DDR1 is just weird, so it's possible there's some really niche hardware and you may need an exotic kernel (or kernel options) to get anything to boot.

That said: have you just tried running a standard live or install CD from that time period? You could try booting a 2001 Slackware installer to see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Is that for sure what happened? IIRC there was speculation about mechanical failure (lights we not out on ship, large plume of smoke...).

Though perhaps that doesn't really matter as far as how much it sucks for the crew.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Whoa, I used Slackware for basically that same time frame (IBM


not Lenovo


ThinkPad 600e, which was pretty ancient even at the time). Good stuff!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I live in a very high CoL area, and the fact that you meet people in your neighborhood who are socioeconomically different


in large part due to very strong tenant protections


is really neat.

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