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neanderthal

@ neanderthal @lemmy.world

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  • New to linux, would like some help setting up dual boot.

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  • Oh, you mentioned you don't want to keep a backup of the entire drive. That is fine, but absolutely back it up before starting the install.

    I would just boot a live Linux image and dd the entire device file onto some sort of storage. That way you can get a bit for bit copy of the drive that you can make it how it was before you touched it. When all is well, then you can ditch the backup. It wouldn't be a bad idea to keep if the stuff is important. Storage devices do fail.

  • New to linux, would like some help setting up dual boot.

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  • Yes.

    To do this, open a terminal, and do this:

    sudo apt search ntfs

    It will be called something like ntfs-progs or ntfs-fuse or both.

    Then:

    sudo apt install PKG1 PKG2

    Alternatively, the synaptic package tool has a nice GUI

  • New to linux, would like some help setting up dual boot.

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  • You could leave the Windows installation and not dual boot. Linux can read NTFS volumes. You will probably have to install ntfsprogs or whatever it's called.

  • New to linux, would like some help setting up dual boot.

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  • A swap partition is akin to the page file on Windows. The kernel will use it to move memory pages it doesn't anticipate using in the near future to it so it can use that RAM for other things. It will also use it in a pinch when there isn't enough RAM on the system. It isn't strictly necessary, but it can prevent programs from crashing at a huge performance penalty. It is necessary if you want to use sleep or hibernate or whatever it's called when it is powered off physically but resumes what you were doing instead of booting when you power it back on. That takes as much swap as you have RAM at minimum. If you want that, a good rule of thumb is 1.5 times physical RAM.

    I have servers I administer for my job that have over 100GB of RAM with very little swap, like 4GB. The applications and machine are tuned and sized so the physical RAM is at ~85% and swap is barely used. The swap is mainly for non application stuff like IDS agent, backup agent, monitoring agent, etc.

    If swap becomes a problem, you can adjust the kernel vm.swappiness parameter as needed. It might take some trial and error to get it right.

    Source: I've been working with Linux professionally for almost 20 years now.

  • The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election

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  • I doubt that. Consider what we saw with all of the COVID disinformation on social media. I think the idea that social media has no impact on election results is very wrong.

  • The Democratic party refused to understand that courting the right doesn't work, and now it's cost them the election

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  • Not just here. This was on all social media

  • Trump wins.

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  • Hopefully Chidi and Eleanor will save us all soon.

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    A message to the United States, from an European.

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    A message to the United States, from an European.

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  • As an American, I agree.

  • I guess I'll die, metaphorically or physically

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  • Trump will go along with whatever Israel wants to do. If Hamas was in power, I can all but guarantee they would be doing the same shit, if not worse.

    ETA: I'm not advocating for what is going. I'm just rather pissed that so many people keep doing the counterproductive thing of using this as a reason to vote trump or sit this out. Considering that Trump is worse in this regard and with global warming, humanities only chance is to ramp up efforts like the US is a lost cause, because for the next 2 years at least, we are.

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  • USian Harris voter here. I am disappointed in you all. Everyone knows that's worse.

    I suspect the down votes think I voted fascist. I voted Harris.

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  • so gas prices would go down.

    Which is stupid, because economists pretty much agree that his tariffs will cause massive inflation.

  • MSNBC host to JD Vance: ‘You just effed up’ calling Harris ‘trash’

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  • I had a random conversation today with someone that knew absolutely nothing about politics and wasn't sure about voting. I would guarantee you that if Harris herself talked to this person they would go vote for her.

    Here we have some serious selection bias. Not necessarily right vs left, but interested enough to be commenting about it on the fediverse.

  • Teary-eyed John Oliver begs reluctant voters to back Harris

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  • What are you trying to accomplish by posting this stuff? What are you actually accomplishing by posting this stuff?

  • Teary-eyed John Oliver begs reluctant voters to back Harris

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  • Teary-eyed John Oliver begs reluctant voters to back Harris

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  • What's even stupider is Trump would more than likely be worse in this regard.

  • Google's AI enables scammers.

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  • How do you propose crossing oceans in a timely manner?

  • Google's AI enables scammers.

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  • And Gem'ni was his nam-i....g-e-m-n-i

    (I know it is Gemini, but we need 2 syllables and 5 letters to fit the song parady, so I made a contraction)

  • US elections: European Greens call for Jill Stein to step down

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  • must be a psyop agent from the "enemy".

    You might be.

    I'm pointing out the government is shit

    Nobody is claiming it doesn't have problems. If you haven't been paying attention, there are things that non-MAGA wants to change about it.

    Our government is the best in the world

    As we constantly complain about citizens United, electoral college, first past the post elections, car dependant infrastructure, and the list goes on.