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  • Politics has never gone well when it’s been a game of determining who exactly is pointing their gun at the puppy by being obstinate over one thing. It’s basically being a single issue voter.

    The fall to MAGA is tragic, but it’s: “THE VOTERS would rather prefer the nation fall to authoritarians”.

    I will also point out: Ballot measures for ranked choice voting, independent of candidates, failed in some states. So it’s clearly not as popular as you think it is.


  • Katana314@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldQ-tips
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    4 days ago

    My ears do not self clean. You’re right about the oiling, in fact there’s a pharmaceutical product that does the same loosening. But, once that’s done, water irrigation generally does almost nothing, and most people don’t have a spare $8 trillion to keep visiting their clinic for those procedures.

    Instead, there are specialized ear cleaning tools (definitely not Q-tips) designed to scoop wax rather than push it in; keep to up/down/side motions rather than inward and you can collect a fair chunk of it out. It has done far more for me than simply squirting water.

    PS: Even squirting water is not uniformly safe. I have gotten an infection before by trying to use too much pressure with the hand bulbs.


  • Katana314@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldMany Such Cases
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    4 days ago

    I blame the voters, not the campaigns.

    I am tired of all blame going to the marketing, and forfeiting any concept of agency in each individual voter’s decisions.

    The depressing thing is, I’m aware of how unrealistic it is to yell every voter into making better decisions for their, and others’, lives.










  • Katana314@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWindows VS Linux
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    13 days ago

    Note that my post said “old drives” - plural. Mint was being installed on a secondary, formatted drive, and refused because that drive was not GPT-formatted (that record exists outside of the filesystem formatting). At the time, the BIOS was not set to force UEFI, so this was Mint’s decision, not the BIOS’s, and I don’t understand it. I left Windows alone on a different drive.

    Believe me, I did plenty of reading up on BIOS UEFI settings just to resolve the issue. I still don’t claim to be a master, but I at least know enough to express how annoying the reconfiguration can be - independent of which OS you’re choosing.



  • I believe your anecdote, but my Linux Mint install also took multiple days, BIOS visits, and lots of documentation searching. It’s a factor of how much the OS makers anticipated the specific hardware configuration and how out of date the partitions are configured.

    My main point is that both can be frustrating, and there’s nothing consistent.



  • Not to make a “Gotcha”, but Linux Mint was the other distro I tried, as I’ve complained about before. The first release I tried, which was less than a year old (on a 2+ year old computer) didn’t even run the wifi, audio, or bluetooth drivers correctly.

    And, I had that same type of UEFI setting on Linux; Mint wanted to install on a GPT drive record, when my old drives (on Windows) used an MBT. It’s a conversion process both OSes will help with, but Mint gave some errors with it, and it was honestly easier to use Windows’ tools to get it done. Not even sure why Mint was insistent on it. Oh, and a mostly distro-agnostic annoyance: While attempting that conversion and making extra space for the GPT format, I ended up wiping more of the drives than needed during conversion because the partition manager used on several distributions uses bad messaging, and incorrectly refers to an individual partition under /dev/nvmesda0# as a “device”.