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I hope this sentiment never stops someone from uploading a textbook without OCR. Once it’s scanned it can always be OCRed at a later time.

Does lemmygrad have a bestof subcommunity?

Clearly I’m not communicating this very well, and I only meant it as an off hand comment not a world changing statement. No, I wasn’t concerned about efficiency, just pointing out that we know how to do voting, but bourgeois democracy chooses not to.

My point is that we know what introduces sample bias, that’s it. it’s already gamed to the point that it’s hardly worth talking about.

If you actually wanted to do democracy (and I think one day we will want to do democracy for many if not most things, once the average person is not quite so steeped in false consciousness) you would treat it the same way you would treat a survey. I don’t think each and every person voting actually matters, just like you don’t have to ask every soul in America to find out, say, America’s favorite pie. If only 1% were sampled to vote and it was done so in a reasonably unbiased way, your results would be 99.999% in line with the average American’s opinion/wants.

Takeaway: We’ve been doing studies and combating sample bias for hundreds of years, including before “democracy” began in the US. We know how to do it, it’s genuinely never been tried.

Apparently I’m wrong and Pop_Os uses systemD-boot not GRUB, which is surprising to me because unless things have changed I’ve always thought of systemD-boot as being underpowered for a lot of use cases.

If I’m reading the wiki correctly here, I think it’s saying systemd-boot cannot launch windows because it’s on another drive? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-boot#Boot_from_another_disk

But on the other hand it’s interesting that it’s able to “see” the windows partition so I might be completely wrong.

Well it’s there at least. Hmm. I don’t know a whole lot about windows but you can certainly get back to those boot options you saw before by pressing shift while booting, which will open the GRUB options. I’d give the windows boot manager another shot from there.

If that ends up working you can change the grub settings to wait for input instead of automatically booting pop. If that doesn’t work then something is probably wrong with windows and I would just try reinstalling since it sounds like you don’t have anything on there yet.

From Pop_OS, if you launch the “disks” program, can you see the other drive there, and the NTFS windows partition on it?

This reminds me of one of the best bits from the Xanth novels, where the male unicorns peacock for the female unicorns by leaping in the air and landing horn-first in the ground, then see who can balance like that the longest.

Which is second only to the part in the same book where the main character is taking a shit in the woods when a harpy shows up and he has to try to run away with his pants down, unwiped, while the harpy is shouting abuse after him

This “you can’t Forward your own ports” shit needs to be made illegal. It’s cutting off your ability to run your own service and making everyone a passive consumer on the Internet if you aren’t one of the big tech companies.

Is it a linux box, and if so would you be able to ssh into this box? You could rename them that way right?

Hello is this chapo.chat? I heard this website is called chapo.chat

Depending on how old it might be another method. Some have a switch somewhere, or a specific screw. Check out mrchromebox’s page.

And yeah you just boot it with the battery disconnected once and it disables the write protect!

And if you open it up and unplug the battery, then boot off the charger that disables the write protect and you can install actual linux, though a lot of chromebooks have unique hardware that might not be supported, particularly audio IME.

I used to have a dell chromebook 11, and with bitmap fonts it was actually a pretty slick little computer for <$100.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/10/1005263835/new-report-details-firsthand-accounts-of-torture-from-uyghur-muslims-in-china This is the first result when I typed in “uyghur firsthand account”
I’ll read it when I get home in a few hours unless you have another source(s) you’d prefer.

It’s very easy to say this, because it means you can just reject any evidence to the contrary as “not good” or “biased”.

Accusations of genocide aren’t a fucking game. It’s either happening or it isn’t. Either the evidence is good or the evidence is bad (and all evidence is biased) So give us some good evidence.

It? I sure hope you aren’t talking about a human person.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas evidence 😔

So it’s just the browbeating for me today then?

Pretend all you want that you’re “just asking questions”
That’s pretty much exactly the same as the Israeli line

vibes of a genocide denier

doesn’t change facts.

What facts! I’m still waiting for one. We can go round and round all day but until you show me something to center this on it’ll be a waste of time. In 30 years even your ABC will quietly walk back their claims of genocide and I hope when that happens you will tell the people around you not to trust the same sources that lied to you.