ref: https://help.ubuntu.com/rst/

So I would like to dual-boot my new pc so I can run either ubuntu or win10 & apparently I can only install ubuntu if I turn off RAID in the bios & that will hork my windows install (which I am unfortunately now invested in).

Supposedly I could resurrect windows w/a lengthy list of low-level commands & registry edits, but it's a bit daunting.

I don't suppose this is a problem that time will cure, is it? As in, soon the ubuntu maintainers will figure out a way to live w/RAID as-is?

Thanks all! Yeah, shingles is very much no fun. My last flare up was relatively mild & pretty long ago, but unpleasant enough to keep me from wanting to get it again if I can avoid it. And apparently the vaccine they have now (shingrix) is really pretty good.

I asked about it messing up any opportunities I might have to get covid & they said it's a 2-week waiting period before I could get that one.

Which is probably not going to impact my covid vax...

I don't qualify for covid yet, but am scheduled to get a shingles vaccination later this afternoon. Yay not getting shingles!

Related, and also excellent:

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/congress-could-change-everything

This is excellent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ2EgHAqrl8

Good news. May it be so.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/18/biden-popularity-destroying-trumpism-lie/

New government report strongly implicates Giuliani in a Russian interference effort - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/17/how-new-government-report-strongly-implicates-giuliani-russian-interference-effort/

LOL

(It was an opportunity to be aware of/resist my reflexive WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M RACIST OF COURSE I'M NOT RACIST tendencies...)

Huh--just got lightly dinged for using 'digital blackface', which is not a phrase I'd heard before. Gonna have to look into that.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs

TODO: read this:

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/971931742/ucla-student-charged-in-capitol-riot-took-inspiration-from-online-extremist

CW: rat

So--why do I keep hearing about Justice League & Zack Snyder? Is this a new movie, or is he just endlessly re-cutting the same film over & over again?

TODO: read this.

How to Put Out Democracy’s Dumpster Fire: Our democratic habits have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/the-internet-doesnt-have-to-be-awful/618079/

Posting from ubuntu. Sooo much faster than my broken windows 8. Ye gods. All the way to usable, I'd say.

Gonna try to play Poetry for Neanderthals over zoom. Woah is luck.

Obstreperous ocelot or what-have-you.

TODO: read this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/14/facebook-vaccine-hesistancy-qanon/

truth: