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Cake day: March 11th, 2025

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  • You wont lose access from switching. I have the same scenario. Multiple drives, coming form windows. However, your drives are probably formatted NTFS which doesn’t play nice with linux. You will want to backup and then reformat them as EXT4 before long. Thats probably the biggest pain with moving to linux. But it’s not that bad. I recommend getting an external backup drive or maybe a cloud backup for a month to have somewhere to put your files before you switch fully.

    I made the switch a few months ago after using linix maybe 13 years ago. I rarely boot windows now.








  • Thats funny, I am terrible at woodworking and can’t get into it! But yeah i probabky do have too mucb stuff also. I try to donate what is useable. As far as cars, I want less tech in all cars. Computers are fine because I can control it. Propriitary car technology is evil and garbage. And yes while now all cars have it bad, electric cars are among the worst offenders. The only thing a car needs is efi, maybe abs but not necessary for a daily. I’d be fine with a carb since they are just as efficient when tuned right and cheaper and easier to repair and not proprietary. I should have stated unneccessary electronics are what I hate. I don’t need a screen, electric mirrors and windows and seats, gross.









  • That is true, there’s a lot of great volunteers out there and I commend them! But full scale, I don’t believe it would work like you are wishing. Im not sure natural disasters and firefighters are really in the same realm of the day to day. You’re saying the average taco bell (random example) employee is still going to go into work when they have no reason to do it? Or that garbage collectors are still gonna get up at 4 am to collect trash? Or that office workers will still sit in front of a computer for 9 hours working on documentation? I’d be down for a test though, bring on the UBI! I know if I had UBI I’d work half the hours I do now just to make money for fun stuff. The rest of the time I’d be reading, playing games, building stuff in the shop. Also, im not sure if you’ve met many younger people. But from my experience managing them, about 1 in 10 show any initiative and are the type you are talking about that would work hard no matter what. The other 9, they’ll play COD all day long if you don’t force them to work. Thats kind of human nature.

    This is very interesting though I like hearing your thoughts as it differs from many people I deal with in the day to day. You could be right. But we have no way to ever test it.