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In the tutorial I read that sometimes it helps to enable secure boot

Just as an FYI, normally you would enable or disable secure boot before installing an OS, not after the fact. Otherwise you usually end up breaking the boot process.

Normally you should be able to hit Enter and then follow prompts to get into the BIOS. Maybe hit ENTER then just keep hitting whatever key you were using to get into the BIOS prior (F2, DEL, etc.).

If none of that works try powering off, removing the hard drive, then power back on & see if that lets you get back into the BIOS.

If that still doesn’t work I suspect the laptop is still stuck in power on mode, maybe the internal battery is keeping it on. Try to see if you can actually power it off for real e.g. hold the power button down for x seconds until you see lights go out. Try to keep an eye on how the laptop behaves when powered on vs lower power mode vs full power off.

Assuming I’ve already lost all friends/family then yeah, a cabin in the woods fending for myself sounds nice. Otherwise all things considered I’d try to be the friendly type, having more people in your group is usually better than being solo.

But all that probably means I’d die in the first year LOL. Most likely wouldn’t cut it being alone and starting out I’d probably have the bad luck of picking the wrong type of “friends”. To really stick it out in that sort of situation you probably have to manage to survive through a few groups of people starting out until you end up with a stable group of people willing to work together.

Curious, how were The Codefendants? I had wanted to see them when they were opening for NOFX during that run of shows last year but arrived late to the venue and missed their set.

Eh, to be fair appletinis are pretty good. Orc dude likes his drinks on the sweeter side.

The sole does end up slightly more worn than the right.

You should check this out with a doctor, you could be developing leg length discrepancy. It might be very slight right now if you haven’t already noticed any obvious limp but if it’s developing you may be able to catch the source of the issue early on. Could be a hip issue, scoliosis, something else. I don’t want to make you worry about stuff, just something to check out.

I’m going through something similar right now, sort of started years ago with one of my shoes always wearing out before the other. And I always wore a backpack that would rub against the back of my shirts/jackets walking around. Never put two and two together, figured I just had a crappy backpack and crappy shoes but over time this morphed into a slight barely noticeable limp that turned into a more noticeable limp. Eventually that turned into a little bit of hip pain that kept getting worse. When I finally did see a doctor it turned out I developed leg length discrepancy due to osteoarthritis in my hip, apparently this hit me early on in life most people get something like that in their 60s-70s so I’m 20 years early. Going to get hip replacement surgery soon and get it fixed.

Hopefully you’ve got nothing like that but it’s good to check.

Years back when I checked it out it was full of people into conspiracy theories and general bigotry. Interestingly they weren’t specifically right-wing at the time and in fact when the site was originally started it was named something like antiextremes as a reference to not wanting to be left or right leaning.

But you know, over time it just kind of filled up with the types of people that typically got banned on mainstream sites like Reddit. You’ll get an idea of how people in general are there by reading through the posts and comments there.

If I’m US based

Assuming you are then you should be looking for a USD ETF. The ETF itself doesn’t have to be investing in U.S. based companies (and in fact there are many, many USD ETFs focused outside the US).

ETFs I’m considering are MSCI World SRI Index (USD) https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/641712d5-6435-4b2d-9abb-84a53f6c00e4 MSCI World Climate Change ESG Select Index (EUR) https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/84e37acb-a91e-8ff3-a909-6f8c7c6306dd

Keep in mind those are indexes, not ETFs. You are going to want to look for an ETF that is following the particular index(s) you are looking at. So for example the second index you mentioned does list one ETF that is following that index, see the main page for that index and click “Index-Linked ETPs”

https://www.msci.com/indexes/index/728912

The only ETF listed there is a EUR ETF, there may be no USD ETFs following that index. Your next step is trying to find a brokerage in the U.S. that allows you to invest in that ETF… Thing is, those brokerages will sell you access to invest in USD ETFs, not EUR. A ETF for EUR markets is primarily going to be offered in countries that trade in EUR.

Main point: Tons of indexes exist for different purposes but that doesn’t mean that ETFs exist that follow those indexes, let alone USD ETFs. For your purposes sure you can look at any indexes you are interested in just remember you’d still need to find a corresponding USD ETF that is following the index.

SRI ETF = social responsible index exchange trade fund

You may already know this, just keep in mind these indexes that measure “SRI”, or climate change, or concepts like that will measure this stuff in different ways that people don’t always agree with. For example the MSCI World SRI Index you linked has TESLA as one of its top investments, many would argue that Tesla/Elon Musk are not compatible with the idea of SRI.

That’s a good tip, it’s a good idea to subscribe to a Lemmy instance that participates in Fediseer (IMO). It helps to keep spammy instances off your own instance hence lower spam posts overall.

A lot of spammers tend to spin up their own Lemmy instances just to spam the rest of the Fediverse, or they’ll create a ton of new accounts on an instance with lax admin/moderation to use for spam later.

You don’t even need to browse the Fediseer website directly, pretty much all Lemmy instances participating in Fediseer will have the “Guarantor” and “Endorsements” links in the sidebar of their homepage.

Later on when you successfully sign up on a different Lemmy instance just go into your new user’s profile settings again (exactly how you just did for https://lemm.ee/settings but it’ll be [YOUR-NEW-LEMMY-INSTANCE]/settings, in there under “Import/Export Settings” look for the Import section and there you can import the file you just exported.

PS - For a quick overview of Lemmy instances you can check out https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active&open=true and/or https://join-lemmy.org/instances

A few times a year, probably around 5-6 I’d guess. Some months I end up going to more than one and other months it’s quiet.

Almost always buy merch… I have a lot of t-shirts haha.

Great band! Been listening to them for years, first heard them live when they toured opening for MSI years ago. They’re doing a headline tour right now in the U.S. for those looking to see them live. For this tour I managed to see their NYC show on their first night of the tour and they sounded great!

Still need to listen to the new record (had just listened to the 1-2 songs they put out before the release), thanks for the reminder :)

So much so that I once wore a Birthday Massacre shirt not even thinking about it to one of my niece’s birthday parties lol.

Happy birthday indeed, LOL.

I really hate the idea of people not liking something and it being scrubbed from the internet.

It’s not, the devs themselves took it off Steam (and honestly I would have thought Valve might have removed it eventually). But it’s not like the devs disappeared from the internet, searching around I saw they still sell the game on at least one game platform outside of Steam. And those same devs could choose to sell it directly themselves if they wanted, to say they’ve been scrubbed from the internet is a bit of a stretch.

More Tor friendly instances would be nice. Most Lemmy instances use things like Cloudflare that freak out over Tor connections so just registering/logging into the instance is a PITA, let alone browsing. Extra bonus if the instance actually hosts the Lemmy instance in Tor itself (though realistically the rest of the Lemmy instance would still run on the clearnet since it still needs to communicate with the rest of the Fediverse).

Probably just need an executive order from the current U.S. president to rename the country “United States of Trump”. Going forward citizens would be called Trumpians.

Google will happily go ahead and update Google Maps with the new name.

What’s the elvish word for “hunter2”?

Misleading headline on the Daily Mail site, both articles say he might be stepping down “soon”. So that might happen eventually but I can’t find any news reports saying it actually happened.

Like the other commenter I pronounce it sen-tor. Just like the word “dinosaur” I would pronounce die-no-sor if that makes sense. Both words end in “aur”.

…though now you’ve got me curious about how you and your wife pronounce dinosaur :)

Debt consolidation feels like it was a scam.

Sounds like it, whatever that was that you signed up for does not sound like anything people recommend doing. If anything you could try doing promotional balance transfers onto a lower interest rate credit card if it gives you say 12-24 months 0 interest rate - that strategy is only temporary to give you some more time to pay things off.

When struggling with multiple credit card balances you essentially need to decide how you want to pay them off (debt avalanche vs snowball method) e.g. pay the minimum on all the cards except one of them, that one you pay as much as you can until it is paid off, then keep repeating until you’re done with all the cards.

https://www.creditkarma.com/advice/i/debt-avalanche

or

https://www.creditkarma.com/advice/i/what-is-the-snowball-method

And in the meantime obvs stop using them until it’s all paid off.

But I have such a poor credit score now that I cant imagine anyone renting to me now.

Yeah that might be tough. Maybe living with roommates or temporary prepaid subletting is an option? Those sort of arrangements are less likely to run credit checks.

Broadcom is pretty bad, I’ve had to migrate away from products after Broadcom bought them and jacked up prices, changed licensing, etc. Generally speaking it feels like Oracle and Broadcom are the worst of the worst IMO.