ProfessorProteus

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Never heard of the greengrocer's apostrophe so I looked it up. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-greengrocers-apostrophe-1690826

I absolutely love that there's a group called the Apostrophe Protection Society. Is there something like that for the Oxford Comma? I'd gladly join them!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

As I read all these classic lines (and try not to roll my eyes out of my head), I can see them scrolling up a TV screen—some in yellow text—just like those old "Greatest Hitz" CD commercials.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I nominate Steven Ogg for the task.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

They live kinda far away but I'll definitely do that next time I see him!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Holy shit lol, that's my sister and her cat! I never thought I'd see them on Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus, that ruined city looks like the backdrop of a Beksinski painting.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Thankfully the chances of that happening would be reduced by the difference between the solar system's ecliptic place vs that of the Milky Way. According to this Stack Exchange user, it's a 60.2-degree difference. Illustrated beautifully here.

Then again, it isn't called a "cloud" for nothing. Still, a large chunk of it is theorized to be aligned with the plane of the solar system.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would also imagine other countries bordering Russia might take notice.

It would be kinda funny if Finland started moving stuff toward the border near St. Petersburg, just to troll putin / make him waste resources in kind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I absolutely love PSO. Still play Blue Burst on Ephinea from time to time.

I want to thank my best friend for introducing it to me all those years ago on GameCube.

It's too bad PSO2 turned into what looks like your typical shitty MMO. It was really fun back in 2012-ish on the SEA servers with the fan translation patch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I have nothing to add, and for the record I agree with your argument.

But holy fuck, is tattooed eyeliner really a thing? I've never gotten a tattoo, but that one sounds unbearably painful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All the lyrics to Weird Al's "Hardware Store"

 

Let's assume we're not stopped at a traffic signal.

This is only anecdotal, but I heard once that you're not supposed to stop altogether, rather drive at a slower pace so as to let it pass quickly. The person said what was more important is that drivers don't make sudden changes to their behavior. An EMT driver can more safely maneuver if they don't have to predict what any one knucklehead will do the moment they get close.

If this is wrong or needs clarification, please enlighten me!

 

TL;DR: Have a very expensive laptop and want to make sure I can create a partition on two SSDs in RAID 0 without messing up everything.

Hi everyone!

I'm pretty new to Linux and I'd like to get Mint running on my Windows machine. I used Ubuntu way back in maybe 2010 and I didn't really get why it was so great, except for "holy shit look at the kickass desktop cube!" I also use Arch By The Way with my Steam Deck, but that barely counts as "using" Linux.

These days I'm much more privacy- and FOSS-minded (not to mention more tech-savvy and comfortable with the CLI since becoming a web dev) so I'm ready and excited to take it more seriously. I definitely want to keep Windows on here to keep a more reliable option for playing games.

Now to the meat and potatoes: my laptop came with this storage configuration (capture from the product page): From my limited understanding of RAID 0, the two m.2 drives are used as if they're one, with the data being "striped" across them. Would that lead to any issues when I create a primary partition for Mint? Maybe I'm just paranoid, but the last thing I want to do is ruin my laptop.

Here's what Disk Management shows, in case the additional info. is needed:

I would really appreciate any advice y'all can offer!

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