Formerly @Vespair@lemm.ee
I'm sad to not even see Lights' A6 included ☹
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Armed ICE officer in Portland called 911 during confrontation: ‘I’m going to have to shoot this kid’
I don't think people think they're being "clever" when they reference that quote
Nuance. Two things can be true. We are doing this to ourselves, but not in a vacuum. And if you want to destroy a house, the best way isn't to send a man with a hammer, it's to give the kids inside a soccer ball and tell them their parents said "play ball!"
Countless terrible groups and people have been set loose with their own individual agendas and goals, yes, but that's as part of a greater plan whose only goal is to harm America and its interests and allies.
There's plenty of blame to share, I promise.
Thank you, my thoughts exactly. Tragic is not exactly the same thing as sad.
Then a day later a new stain appears and the cycle continues.
Our own Sisyphecal burden
The only big problem with drivers in VA, imo, is that while they're good they're competitive within the bounds of good. And moreso within/near city or big town limits. Really this just means that if you turn on your indicator to show that you're trying to change lanes, many VA drivers will speed up to pass you to allow you to merge behind them rather than in front of them. Comparatively not a big deal, but I didn't even realize this was a thing until I lived in NC and regularly experienced people happily making way for me to merge when I indicated.
We don't have to do pop culture opinions, especially corporately promoted ones.
Nobody actually cares when somebody says moist.
Nobody actually cares if you bite or pull apart either string cheese or kit-kats.
And for the love of God nobody gives two shits about what you put on your pizza.
We don't have to play this game.
Even in a shitpost
Ain't the first icy cold cunt I've met
I can help you make a choice in regards to the distro as well, if you tell me your hardware specifications.
I have a ASRock Z370 Taichi, NVidia GTX 1080TI, 32GB RAM, the drives are WDS256G1X0C-00ENX0, I have lots of USB slots, blu-ray/dvd. I'm fan-cooled because liquid cooling seemed very very scary to me, especially at the time I bought this machine. What else do you need to know?
I'd like to delete this thread eventually, but I appreciate all the responses immensely and feel those involved are owed some sort of update for their investment, so I will leave it for the time being.
Some context, and if you already think I'm too melodramatic or whatever, these next two paragraphs are the ones you should skip. First in regards to my meltdown, which I apologize for: it was largely less about this specific situation and more a straw that broke the camel's back situation; I live with a mental health condition and am in a less than healthy overall space currently. This condition never excuses any of my bad behavior nor absolves me of any of my responsibility, but hopefully may serve to at least explain some of it.
In regards to my knowledge: I once considered myself somewhat savvy, but did not work to keep up with advancements nor ever really stepped from the periphery of the field into the actual deep end. As a teenager, I worked at a computer cable company and worked a MarketPro Computer Shows booth on weekends. I did actually build my PC at that time from components with minimal, but not zero, help. I've installed and reinstalled Windows countless times on multiple PCs from the 90s through the 2020s, not without many problems along the way at times, but most often successfully. I used to use DOS on my oldest system, I paid for a domain and host for a crude website I wrote in basic HTML, and I knew enough Java (or Javascript? I don't even remember) from computer class in high school to write you a very, very basic game of blackjack, but that's about it. In terms of hardware, I've plugged things into slots on the motherboard, but never played with what looks like the architecture and chips on the board itself to me. When this current PC first arrived ("built" online custom through selection from CyberpowerPC), I panicked at first thinking I'd gotten ripped off because I'd paid for 2 SSDs and 1 HDD but there was only one storage drive plugged in! The very idea they could be "part of the chips" was unthinkable. And finally, importantly, I had booted Pop! from the USB multiple times without installing to play around briefly and see if I could at least feel comfortable with basic navigation and how to access the terminal, especially in the case of some unexpected failure in the GUI element of Pop, which, as I understand, can happen, and which I thought accounted for the resolution problem and could be solved once install happened.
Now I want to acknowledge my mistakes, though I don't presume this to be comprehensive:
- Taking lightly a task that deserved more intention.
- Not preparing for the at-hand moment with a clear guide instead of assuming it would just be fine because I'd installed Windows before.
- Not securing some means of support or other emergency plan prior to execution.
- Playing with hardware I did not fully understand (the SSDs).
- Not ensuring I had the most up-to-date, properly sourced distro install.
- Letting my fear of difficulty learning an unfamiliar step along the way (renaming the two identical SSD drives so they appear clearly distinct in BIOS) assume I could just skip it and would be able to figure it out.
- Breaking up my preparation into too widely spaced times: I don't even remember when I first read about Pop, but I remember liking what I'd heard about how Windows-familiar it was for learners and downloaded the install then. Then at least months later, I read up on the install process, from a couple tech/Linux sites and Reddit posts, and finally, another couple months later brings up to this post.
- Panicking.
- Taking actions while panicking.
The update: Windows seemed very broken. My girlfriend tried to make a Windows install USB from her Mac but was unable to make it work. Eventually, we went to a friend's house and used their PC. By this point, I was panicking and still facing the problem of identical SSDs, so after repair still wasn't working, I ended up using the install utility to wipe one of the SSDs completely and reinstall Windows. I believe I selected the correct drive, and of course everything on that drive was lost, but that drive mostly was my Windows install drive due to a past of having to format and reinstall Windows on machines in the past, so comparatively minimal data loss. As of right now, my second SSD is not visible in Windows, but that has been emptied in advance of the Linux install, so losing the capacity sucks, but in terms of data loss, it's negligible. Frankly, I have not yet been in a stable enough mental state to test if I can still boot Pop from the other drive or not.
For now, I'm going to get my Windows back in the state I want and sit on that for a while. Eventually, I will take a second swing at it, at the very least with current, of-the-minute, from the developer's site or distributor version of Pop, if not a different distro entirely if that might allow me to use my GPU and not switch my monitor to the motherboard (which is a tremendous solution I had not thought of, thank you to those who suggested it). I still don't understand if the Pascal thing is unique to Pop or is going to be an ongoing challenge with Linux or how to get the Nouveau driver if that might solve the issue.
To everyone who commented, thank you so much for your support. As somebody who has been chronically online since the 90s and at the border of normie and techie spaces to some degree, I don't think it's much overstated to say that the Linux community as a whole has long been the sort of "punk rock rockstars" of the PC space in my eyes. I am beyond sick of corporate overreach, nannying, and exploitation; I long for the knowledge to afford myself the agency over my own machine and a deeper understanding of what's actually happening under the hood, which is why I want to learn and make the switch. And just like my experience with the punk music community, a lot of you welcomed me in and shared incredibly kind words and, more so, related to me with stories that made me feel not alone or inherently incapable. I know we're all a bunch of strangers sitting in our relative corners of the world, but that really meant a lot to me, thank you.
A couple of you were less kind in your support but offered support nonetheless. I also appreciate your words and time, and I accept your criticism without disagreement as well. Cheers.
If it makes you feel better, I think you guys are a better state in almost every other way but driving 😂
edit: Genuinely y'all might have the best state flag in the nation, and that's coming from a Virginian and our flag is pretty fucking great
That's a crazy way to spell Maryland, famous for its awful driving.
Hey, the drivers in my state are fine. It's the drivers in the neighboring state that are all reckless idiots who don't know to drive.
I guess I can't reply to my own post as a top level comment for some reason.
I broke everything. I don't understand anything. I don't know what I did. I managed to get windows to reinstall but broke shit during that too and now my PC won't see my second SSD. I dont understand anything anyone in this thread said. People are telling me to do operations I don't know about and are berrating me for not knowing things I didn't know I didn't know.
I'm stupid, clearly too stupid for this. I don't know what else people want me to say. I thought I downloaded a normal distro from a normal correct place. I dont know how I didn't. I'm stupid.
Now I have to try starting from a fresh Windows install that I know is broken and I don't know what to do.
I'm sorry I'm having a meltdown, but any time I try to do anything I feel like I'm trying so hard to do it right, and do I carefully, but no matter what I do I always ruin everything. I think I'm just going to kill myself, but thank you everyone for trying to help me. I'm sorry I'm a lost cause
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
Linux @lemmy.world I tried to install Pop! and broke my system and really really need help if anyone is willing
A statement wise and truthful people say all the time