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#sonTwo has been asking me questions about installing Linux on a couple of their old laptops (one is a Lenovo Ideapad, which has about 32GB of disk [or rather, eMMC]).
I'm going to have to just point him to YouTube videos, as it isn't really possible to give him the reassurance via telephone and chat that he can somehow remember a process he hasn't used in half his lifetime.
He hasn't yet installed on his servers either.
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Caught by surprise. Here's some links:
* https://www.cnet.com/news/t-mobiles-26-5b-sprint-mega-merger-clears-major-legal-hurdle/ a federal judge in New York allowed #T-Mobile and #Sprint to merge.
* https://www.androidauthority.com/t-mobile-sprint-merger-plans-921398/
* https://www.androidcentral.com/what-you-need-know-about-t-mobile-sprint-deal
* https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/t-mobile-sprint-merger/
I'm currently using Sprint. Two of my sisters are using T-Mobile and have lots of problematic restrictions ... I may take a look at AT&T or Verizon soon.
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https://nu.federati.net/url/266579
Medics threatened with firing if they speak to the press. That's important, but if you work for a government agency, you've had this policy for years.
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Right now, I think a lot of us need to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Disaster_Relief_and_Emergency_Assistance_Act so that we can understand what abilities and responsibilities lie with which individuals and organizations.
It isn’t necessary to read https://nu.federati.net/url/266572 ... but if one can see the overall picture and not get bogged down in the detailed legalese, that will help even more.
For example, from my reading, I now see why it is up to each state’s governor to issue the stay home order, as I don’t see it being allowed for federal officials absent martial law (which NEITHER YOU NOR I WANT). When I see photos of NYC streets and FL beaches still crowded with people, I want to ask why their state and local governments are not fulfilling their legal responsibilities.
I do fault the Trump administration and federal officials in general for:
1: the testing shortage ... while CDC was working on fixing the US test (which tests for #SARS-CoV, #MERS-CoV, and #SARS-CoV-2), they should have started producing and distributing the WHO test. They were right to want a test that can catch all three #coronavirus types that are known to cause deadly epidemics, but we’re still trying to catch up because of the delay.
2: Tests should have been designed from the beginning for rapid production and local results ... mass testing in a nation of 330 million people means we need to get the tests into local agencies’ hands and send people door to door.
3: shortages of masks, gloves, and other PPE as well as shortages of medical equipment ... once we knew it was definitely coming here (Jan/Feb), the emergency order allows the Secretary of Commerce to order the factory conversions that are just starting to happen at the end of March and beginning of April.
4: public speeches that downplay the seriousness of #COVID-19; not everyone sees the internal communications that tell us how much they’re worried about the disease and the consequences of required public health measures, so I see many uninformed posts each day
5: there is apparently a strategic reserve of PPE and medical equipment ... so why haven’t we heard about opening it up and shipping needed supplies to Seattle and New York City? Why are my local hospitals depending on PPE donations from Rite Aid and Harbor Freight (both of which have very limited inventories)?
#2019-nCoV
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yeah, Trump is a hateful piece of shit, but there's plenty of blame to go around
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I took a mask to Hawaii...in January, but somehow all these "leaders" with advisors couldn't do shit until NBA called them on their shit
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Corbin ( @corbin ) is on Cody Toombs' stream today. https://twitch.tv/codytoombs
They're just chatting. They call it "Q&A: Quarantine and Antics"
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Annoying:
Last week—do not install 13.4 until we’ve tested it
This week—install 13.4 right away
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#RIP Alan Merrill, age 69.
He wrote and originally sang “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AT_Pbtyid0
#COVID-19 | #2019-nCoV | #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus disease
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FWIW, I didn't vote for Clinton, but as I noted, the case is pretty clear.
1. She would not have dissolved the pandemic team.
2. She would not have made the country less safe for minorities: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/hate-crimes-fbi-report.html
It is, of course, hard to control for him versus other variables happening, but I think the 'him' factor is pretty clear: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/22/trumps-rhetoric-does-inspire-more-hate-crimes/
I would suggest that this does not simply make the country less safe for minorities, but also for people in mixed-race relationships such as myself.
3. She would have a kept a more stable cabinet. Even if you think her cabinet would have been shit, the Trump revolving door isn't good for people understanding the role and all it does is breed yes-men and women.
One could argue this makes Trump less dangerous, and maybe that is true in many cases, but it really shows in a time of crisis.
4. We wouldn't have to listen to his dumb ass all the time. Even if their policies were exactly the same, this would dramatically increase quality of life. I assume this is not as big of a deal for people outside of the US, but you have to remember that our media gives zero fucks about anything going on in the rest of the world. It's all US, all the time. We need less stupid for the sake of sanity.
For 3 and 4, all you need to do is compare Trump to W. A lot of people do not like the rehabilitation of W, and I understand that, but covid-19 deaths in the US are already 2,405. Total fatalities for Katrina were 1,833. It's a bit of apples and oranges sure, but whenever some says "I wish we had W" people counter with "What about Katrina?"
Well, what about it?
Whether the world would be a better place is a different discussion than if the world would be a better place, and I think that's a discussion that plays into the long-term discussion of Clinton vs. Trump.
In any case, I don't think many have suggested Trump handled Syria very well. I suppose some might find his honesty about Syria refreshing though: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/13/donald-trump-syria-oil-us-troops-isis-turkey
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@musicman @strypey For what it’s worth, I work for the US government and I wasn’t even aware that there ever was a Pandemic Response Team until 3-4 weeks ago, despite $EMPLOYER having a minor role in the response to the 2009 Influenza A H1N1 pandemic response. From what I’ve read, PRT was always too underfunded to be an effective response.
Though I disagree with abolishing them, if they were never going to have the resources to mount an effective response if and when needed, keeping them makes no sense.
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they don't need much funding to say "now is the time to do something". Of course, it takes someone willing to listen, which Trump time and again has proven he is incapable.
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@musicman @strypey Also, in the process of reading about it, I came across https://nu.federati.net/url/266568 [wapo]
Turn off #JavaScript / #JabbaShit and their “turn off your adblocker” garbage won’t interfere.
There are still a number of places where I saw “underfunded and ineffective”, but this is someone that worked there (possibly during the time when Trump is said to have shut down PRT).
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Just got out of an interesting meeting.
I have no idea what will come of it, but we are talking about adding support for https://meet.jit.si/ and https://openmrs.org/
Some talk of https://www.open-emr.org/ as well.
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@musicman OpenMRS should be a host-your-own (ruobot) wife system rather than medical records.
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If we have another round of discussion, I can bring it up, but honestly, I highly doubt corporate to go along with free support in the current business client unless it is a trial. We regularly add new applications, so it would be pretty easy.
Supposedly, there is an #openvpn blog coming out directly related to the #covid19 stuff. Would have thought it was out already, but it isn't: https://www.openlogic.com/blog
The best thing to do is for a company to request support: https://www.openlogic.com/solutions/support
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Study suggests that spread of #COVID-19 may be related to absolute humidity (AH) rather than temperature. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3556998
#2019-NCoV | #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus disease
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Good people, any ideas? #ubunbu #foreman #postgresql
root@dwhitfield-ubuntu201804:/var/spool# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up foreman (1.20.3-2) ...
dpkg: error processing package foreman (--configure):
installed foreman package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of foreman-postgresql:
foreman-postgresql depends on foreman (= 1.20.3-2); however:
Package foreman is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package foreman-postgresql (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
foreman
foreman-postgresql
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<mD5> please no-one send me that stuff about sex in my aol mailbox
<flukz> i had to turn off my computer cuz all the porn kept popping up
<Mattress> mD5, what's your e-mail? I'll remove you from the list
<mD5> mD5@aol.com
<mD5> thank you for removing me from the list
-- http://bash.org/?1868
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https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/cse570-19/ftp/decentrl/index.html [wustl edu]
DAT, IPFS, SSB are all discussed in this document.
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US passes 3K #COVID-19 deaths, over 900 of which are in New York City. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
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Hmm. The current version of #Scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu/ ) is based on Adobe's #Flash, rather than the original #Squeak #Smalltalk. Flash goes #EOL at the end of this year.
Hopefully, they've already started on their rewrite.
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https://abc7.com/health/friends-hope-death-of-whittier-man-34-serves-as-warning/6064239 [abc7.com]
Even past illness can leave one vulnerable.
#COVID-19 | #2019-nCoV | #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus
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It doesn’t really make any sense that frozen veggies are still out of stock. If you expect civilization to end, the electricity that powers your freezer will be one of the first things to disappear.
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There is a seam in my fat bike rim. Not sure what it is called officially. My front wheel is holding air fine. The back wheel is not. Is the fact that the air is coming from the seam a sign that the tape job is not correct? #cycling
- Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] repeated this.
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I'm not sure what you mean by clincher tires. This particular tire is tubeless. It's 6 floors away, and my order doesn't say what the rims are. The tire though is 45NRTH Vanhelga 120tpi 27.5x4.0.
I put two more bottles of sealant in it today and none of it came out, so I think it might be good. Test ride tomorrow morning.
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@musicman Clincher tires are held on the rim by a little lip and air pressure. Those are the ones on bikes you would find at Target
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http://wyattbikes.com/ is sending me a new back wheel.
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Atlanta has second highest recorded pollen count. https://fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-pollen-count-2nd-highest-in-recorded-history
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This sister that lives here told me that she got a letter from her auto lender saying that she qualifies for a loan to buy another car. I hope she did not tell #lazyNephew, because he'll beg and promise, trying to get her to buy him a car, when she's already overstretched and stressed out about making the payments that she already owes (including paying off the last car she co-signed for him).
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