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  • No, what enabled this to begin with, is the British government handing a piece of land, with an indigenous population, to a different ethnic group that has since then been ethnically cleaning that piece of land, with help, blessings and UN Security Council vetos from our governments.

    MME is a credible media outlet. Maybe you think otherwise because they don’t spare your conscience from our complicity in this genocide, like the BBC does.

    Palestinians have a right to self defence, just like Ireland, India and all your other former colonies. Yes, Palestine is also a former British colony, and like so many others have had to fix a mess created by the western world.

    Are islamists a single organized group? Is it a term so completely mixed with “The War on Terror” propaganda, that it is any muslim who does not appreciate our vision for a place we have no right to, and who opposes that through an organisation defined through a religion.

    You are not a millimeter better than a person opposed to “christians” getting a win.




  • I have fucked up my computer so many times.

    • Accidentally uninstalled the graphical environment, because i didn’t notice my package manager was asking me if i wanted to uninstall 200 packages, along with whatever i actually wanted to uninstall.
    • Tested a fork bomb (it worked!)
    • Installed a dual boot system incorrectly.
    • Installed a dual boot system correctly, but Windows had an update.
    • Tried to switch out a working component with Something Really Cool™
    • I have spent days troubleshooting an issue that turned out to be a simple syntax error.
    • And, while technically not fucking with the computer itself, this deserves a mention; Fucking up the wifi/network SO MANY TIMES.

    I have also succeeded with some really cool stuff, but that’s the thing about working with computers; you fail completely, until it works perfectly. This is of course a gross simplification, but it also has a lot of truth to it. There’s just not a lot “this is not great, but it will do”, it either functions or it fails (until you get it working and start fine tuning it for the rest of you life)

    Just laugh at the absurdity of the situation when you realize you were just missing a comma in a JSON file, and don’t let it bother you that you didn’t notice before you paid to have your second floor covered in aluminium foil trying to fix the issue.

    Try creating a VM in GNOME Boxes (if you use GNOME) or Virt-manager, take a snapshot, so you can easily repeat this process, and break it. Just make it stop functioning. Do it in an interesting way, and look up more ways on the internet.

    Be curious, have fun and don’t feel bad about getting sick of that stupid computer, you can come back later and it won’t care that you even left.
















    1. Fedora has a major update every 6 months, and every version is supported for 2 releases + 1 week (= ~1 year).
      Updates have always been pretty painless for me. Most of my problems during updates have come from NVidia drivers (on a laptop), but a fix has always been available from the community.
    2. Fedora has auto-update systemd services for both DNF and RPM-OSTree (more on this later). IIRC it’s just enabling a service and maybe editing a config file, but this is easy to search for, so I won’t tell you stuff I might not remember.
    3. SELinux mostly just works, and if it doesn’t it’s probably a bug (if something is a package for Fedora, SELinux should work OOTB. Browse Fedora Magazine for the quirks you need to know how to handle.
    4. I have no experience with ARC GPUs but Fedora might have better support as it tracks the latest kernel release = latest driver (depends on what was actually the issue, of course)

    Concerning you RAID, just make sure the installer doesn’t touch it and mount it afterwards. You might have to do some kind of “restore” to give the files the needed SELinux metadata. The Discourse forum would probably be a good place to ask.

    Now, a bit about DNF vs RPM-OSTree. Fedora with DNF is the standard distro much like most other distros. Use this if the next part doesn’t sound useful to you.

    RPM-OSTree is used in a new family of distro that work a bit like git for your OS.
    Your system runs off an “atomic” image. Atomic means unsplittable in Greek. Everything you change on your system is applied to your atomic image, like a file is added or removed from a git repo.
    This is nice because upgrading to the next major version becomes a simple matter of rebasing you changes on top of the new version, and likewise, rolling back (in case of issues) becomes a single command and a reboot.

    Fedora IoT is the “Server” edition of the Atomic desktops. Fedora CoreOS is a more “immutable” approach.

    Feel free to ask more questions if something doesn’t make sense.