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  • US Supreme Court Judge Sam Alito has an oil money problem | 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.

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  • Alito’s individual stock portfolio

    His what now?

    One issue we have now isn't exactly insider trading: it's that insider trading has been happening for so long that it feels like simply requiring no conflicts of interest, as should be standard operating procedure, now feels like inventing an entirely new system.

    And of course, we have to contend with all the people who are worried about disenfranching the people in these positions.

    Or, maybe, just maybe: the people who should be representing the public and running the country are those who would do so without worrying about their self-enrichment first.

  • AOC slams Republican Sen. over mockery of her bartending work: ‘Makes me 1000x more qualified to govern on behalf of working people’

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  • And yet, so many working class people support these GOP ghouls who look them in the face and tell them they're worthless (figuratively speaking).

    Because propaganda is such a drug, it can even convince people to act against their own interests.

  • MAGA Women Shoot Themselves in the Uh, Foot. Again.

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  • That's how MAGA does marriage, usually

  • Did you dream of a videogame long before it happened?

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  • I looked around me and saw blocks, floating in the sky. A turtle was at my feet, staring blankly as it approached without hesitation. Mushrooms were walking around like people; I had to jump over them or I knew I would come to harm. I found I could flatten them if I landed on top in the right spot. I knew there was a princess I was trying to save, but she was in another castle.

    Pay up, Nintendo!

  • Jeanine Pirro's office shelves pursuit of Democrats over social video, sources say

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  • Yes, that is the truth. "Flood the Zone" was also a favorite of Goebbels.

  • I tried to install Pop! and broke my system and really really need help if anyone is willing

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  • I edited my comment above because there might be something else on the Linux side. Pop 24.04 is explicitly incompatible with Pascal cards, and System76 do not make old builds explicitly available. I'm not sure if 22.04 was compatible with Pascal either, so that may be your entire issue with drivers on the Linux side. From what I can tell, the nvidia package itself requires a 16xx series card or newer.

    Edit: Yes, it looks like nvidia have dropped support for Pascal in their official Linux driver just 2 months ago. And that's why Linux people tend to hate nvidia. :)

    Yes. It doesn’t give me the windows repair if I have the Pop installed drive set as the boot drive, it just goes into Pop

    This also means that the Linux bootloader was already on the second drive, and the bootloader on the first one should not have been overwritten. So it isn't clear what happened to Windows unless there were other runs of the Linux installer which had the bootloader location set improperly.

    If it were me, I'd start experimenting with restoring the system to the original configuration entirely (i.e. wipe the second drive so it's blank, and see if the Windows repair process goes differently). I wonder if Windows cannot recognize (or won't recognize) what is on drive 2, and instead of telling you that, it just errors out.

  • Jeanine Pirro's office shelves pursuit of Democrats over social video, sources say

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  • Wow, sounds like someone in the administration a) learned to read, and b) read the First Amendment of the Constitution??!

    Feels like Jurassic Park when the raptors learn to open doors.

  • I tried to install Pop! and broke my system and really really need help if anyone is willing

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  • I installed "casper_pop-os_22.04_amd64_nvidia_debug_1131

    This is an old version, and "debug" normally suggests this is not a stable build.

    The most current nvidia version on system76.com/pop/download is 24.04 with the filename pop-os_24.04_amd64_nvidia_23.iso. Ah but it is not compatible with Pascal cards.

    I would love to let Window do its fix but it isn't working. It fails and when I select Continue to Windows anyway (or whatever it says) it just goes back to the repair screen.

    And the Windows drive is selected as the boot drive in BIOS?

  • I tried to install Pop! and broke my system and really really need help if anyone is willing

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  • Ok, let me back up a little. Don't worry, things will get fixed.

    The 1080ti is a Pascal card (the architecture of that series). This has implications for drivers and performance.

    First: when you installed Pop, did you select the installer with nvidia support? There are multiple installers, but the one you want is the one which explicitly says it is for nvidia.

    PS- if you don't want to worry about Linux for the moment, or are too nervous to continue, letting windows do its fixes should recover you to where you were before the Linux install. Just make sure the Windows drive is selected for boot in BIOS. I'd say stick with it, but it's your call.

  • I tried to install Pop! and broke my system and really really need help if anyone is willing

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  • You're not stupid, you're learning a new thing.

    Important: playing with installations and partitions is an easy way to lose data, even for the most experienced folks. If you don't have what you need backed up off the system, focus that before anything else.

    1. Without changing the hardware configuration Windows will seek to wipe out whatever bootloader is on the primary drive at installation.

    If you don't need dual boot, I'd say just forget about Windows.

    If you do, and reinstalling Windows is an option, do that first. Then, once complete, change your BIOS setting to boot off the Linux drive. Install it to that drive again. This should mean that the Linux bootloader picks up Windows and gives an option to boot into it (if it doesn't show up, it can be added).

    If reinstalling Windows is not an option, then I think you need to a) let Windows do its recovery thing, which will rewrite its bootloader on the primary drive, and then b) switch the boot drive in BIOS and install Linux on the second drive. Install its bootloader on the second drive when it asks. Never change the BIOS back and you should see Linux's bootloader give you a boot option.

    1. If it is stuck at 640x480, this sounds like a classic nvidia driver issue. Do you have on-board video? If so, you could pull the GPU and do your setup that way while figuring out the rest. If not, you may have to do some trial and error with install options to get things to play nicely with your nvidia card. Maxwell/Pascal cards like yours are especially challenging on Linux, in my experience.

  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • I leave my Steam update settings to only update on Play. This allows me to pretty easily review what is being patched in to any particular game and choose if/when to apply it (true that choosing not to apply means no longer using the Steam client for that game).

    It's also trivial on Linux to keep the Proton prefixes and game installs backed up automatically. This has the added benefit of making all game installs portable.

    Unfortunately GOG still has no official Linux client, though there are workarounds. The "apocalyptic scenario" would ultimately kill either company, so you're right to think it is moot.

  • I tried to install Pop! and broke my system and really really need help if anyone is willing

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  • Nvidia is a bit notorious on Linux for being harder to set up. That said, Pop is a good choice and should mostly get things right.

    It sounds like you have 2 issues:

    1. Bootloader
    2. Pop not getting resolution right

    Both are certainly fixable, but 1 might seem more daunting.

    1: Windows' bootloader tends not to play nice with Linux. If you want to dual-boot (have both systems available), then the typical advice is to set up Windows first with only 1 drive plugged in. Then install your second drive, put Linux on it, and put the bootloader on the second drive. Then in BIOS, select drive 2 as your boot volume. It is easier to get the Linux bootloader to boot Windows than vice versa.

    2: if you hit the Windows key, you should get the Pop launcher. Type "settings" and hit enter. Go to the Display tab and then change your resolution to something lower than now. You'll have to move windows around to get where you need -- use alt+drag to do that without the title bar visible.

  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • Neither can Steam. Then the difference is down to those games on Steam which are not DRM-free.

  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • Oh, I absolutely would -- I'm just making a point based on a previous statement earlier in the thread:

    Considering games with no DRM can have it added retroactively, that Steam pushes updates I may not want with no option to decline

    If the practice is that you need local backups on purchase anyway, then I fail to see the difference between non-DRM games on Steam and those on GOG. It feels like a different goalpost is being used depending on what service is being discussed.

  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • Does it? What recourse do you have if they change their policy and you don't have local backups of your games?

  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • Maybe. If you trust them, though now... I don't.

  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • Depends on the game. As I mentioned in another thread, there are many games on Steam which are DRM-free and do not require the client. GOG's advertising suggests they are the only method for getting such games, but as always, the devil is in the details.

    Mostly it comes down to how much you feel about one issue over the other, but I don't see how they can be unrelated if there's a monetary transaction involved.

  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • Because supporting GOG now means supporting unfettered AI usage. If you disagree with such policies, the only way to voice that discontent is with your wallet.

  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • I'm guessing by your wording that you're aching to bash Steam, so I'll preface this with: no corporation is ever going to get this 100% right; the world is drawn in greys, and only a Sith deals in absolutes.

    "Better" is not very useful without context. In the context of AI usage, Steam is better. In the context of GOG, their main claim about game preservation is "no DRM", but there is an important point often missed: lots of games on Steam also do not have DRM.

    I have no issues "buying" games on Steam which have no DRM. For others, I factor the DRM into the price I'm willing to pay for access. These tend to be larger titles anyway, so I'm not terribly worried about it long term.

    Long term game preservation? More about unofficial channels than relying on yet another corporation. GOG wasn't changing that before, and they definitely aren't now.