Thanks for the heads up on gaming ready distros, it hadn't even occurred to me that that would be a thing. Graphics adaptor is an RTX 3060M, so hopefully shouldn't have trouble there:) I've really not had trouble running anything, yet, certainly not performance wise (touch wood).
That's the one that gets me. Like okay, the Dems are the establishment. They aren't going to act outside the established frameworks, that's just not a reasonable thing to expect from them, so they may not be able to actually change anything right now. But there's still plenty they could be doing! Most obviously, they could be setting themselves up for an electoral slam dunk. ICE is unbelievably unpopular from what I can see, and making noise about stopping them would, I don't doubt, lead to the biggest win they'd ever have. The fact they aren't doing that should make it very, very obvious that they're fundamentally on the same side as the Republicans. But it won't, because democrat supporters are totally incapable of imagining anything beyond the current system, so it MUST function the way it claims to, otherwise the problem is insurmountable, and they can't tolerate that. That would require them to take political action outside of what's sanctioned by tptb. Americans at large don't seem ready for that, their material conditions just aren't bad enough, and frankly given how propagandised they seem to be I have my doubts it's even possible to radicalise them.
Yeah, I honestly don't particularly trust those lists, but... Probably should. If I switch over there's no way I'm dual booting, apart from anything else I only have like 500gb internal storage. I'd sooner just jump over entirely, I spent a few years running Linux exclusively at home in the early 2000s so I feel confident I could do it.
Obviously it's physically possible to remove and replace a drive. Removable storage refers to storage that's designed to be routinely removed and replaced - optical media, external USB hard drives, etc. It's easy to say you "just" need to open the shell, but honestly, have you ever tinkered around inside a portable device? I've had to - this laptop spent a good year or two banging about inside my backpack while I cycled to and from uni, over an hour each way, so when the screen went black I thought it would be worth seeing if it was just a loose connector that needed reseating, which fortunately it was. In doing this, because the whole thing is largely held together with integral clip features that took some force to undo, I cracked the case and don't feel comfortable using it as a portable device any more than I have to, now. Yes, it's possible to replace an internal laptop drive but you don't "just" open the shell like you would with a desktop case. I also, frankly, can't justify the expense no matter how minimal, and don't actually need to switch off windows at this time.
People who crap their dacks when they see *nix are probably not using the command prompt tbf. That said I would love to see a greater uptake of Linux, I'm half considering switching over with my laptop but I mostly use it for gaming and I (1) don't know just how many of my games work with WINE/proton (never used either) and (2) don't know how I would go about restoring my windows install if it goes south. Not really a show stopper. I have a legit license so obviously it's doable, plus my closest friend works as a sysadmin and is in the final year of his degree in computer science. But it has no removable drive which would be a first for me to install a new os on, and I don't want to have to sort it out, y'know? I'm confident installing Linux from USB but I don't know how it works with windows.
Once I'm back in the workforce I may put together a cheap, small form factor PC to run Linux on and get my confidence back with it - it must've been over a decade since I last used it in anger...
Slight aside, I never really appreciated Beowulf until I watched the Alan Wood documentary, "In search of Beowulf".
If you're interested in English history, his earlier documentaries are also worth a look - they are iirc all about the Anglo Saxon period, although they do unfortunately focus largely on kings and nobles. he's also not difficult to look at in the old ones
I think it's less because the author is an asshole than because mediocre children's literature doesn't typically tend to endure. Sure, kids don't have good taste. I read incredibly shitty fiction as a kid! But guess what? Most of that isn't still in the popular imagination, either.
I'd like it to be because she's a POS but I suspect most people aren't particularly plugged into JK Rowling's Nazi arc.
My favourite part of this is, well, what does that image make you think of? Suicide in a basement with a pistol, brown military-looking jacket? Without reading anything it immediately scans as Hitler's finest hour, at least to me.
Y'know, if these people can provide a consistent, material, considered method, one that could actually work, I'd be very happy, I'd go with it! Despite the way I talk at times, I really hate violence. But they never have a program! It's always this bullshit.
Thanks for the heads up on gaming ready distros, it hadn't even occurred to me that that would be a thing. Graphics adaptor is an RTX 3060M, so hopefully shouldn't have trouble there:) I've really not had trouble running anything, yet, certainly not performance wise (touch wood).