I’ve been following all the news on him and he’s clearly a trans groyper antifa gun enthusiast centrist who likes to play Helldivers II.

(/s)

That’s… a good point. When I make communities, I usually try to err on the side of more general rather than more specific (just because Lemmy doesn’t have quite the userbase of… that other site we never speak the name of), so in this case, I probably should have thought to name it in a way that limited it to just COVID.

But now, I’ve up and named the community. I’d be fine with making it clear in the sidebar that consciousness about the spread of other diseases is entirely welcome, but I don’t think I can change the name (like, the URL) of the community.

But, honestly, I’m also down with just making a whole new community and deleting this one. And, to be fair, I haven’t looked to see if a community like that already exists.

Yeah, if positive was clockwise in trig, y = sin x would have a negative slope at x = 0, which I guess Albert Sine found distasteful.

(I made up Albert Sine. I don’t know that there’s anyone specific we can attribute the invention of trigonometric functions to. But I like to imagine him sitting at a desk scribbling right triangles by candle light and scratching his head as to how he’d go about actually calculating the sine, cosine, tangent, arcsine, arccosine, etc of various arbitrary values within his lifetime.)

Yeah, 0F° is close to leave-a-faucet-dripping-lest-your-pipes-freeze weather. Quite a ways below the freezing temperature of water at standard atmospheric pressure.

Lucky.

Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.

Oh sweet! Glad you got it solved!

So, just from what you’ve said, without getting more info from you, my guess as to what’s going on is that Windows has set things up to where it uses its own bootloader which isn’t set up to boot into Linux or chain-load your Grub2 or whatever Linux-capable bootloader.

And this F11 you’re talking about is probably the key your BIOS uses to let you into the BIOS configuration, yeah? And from there you can tell it to load Grub2 or whatever bootloader Mint set up when it was installed – the one that was nuked by Windows.

(I keep saying “Grub2”. It’s possible you selected something else like Syslinux or rEFInd or something when installing, but I think Grub2 is default for Mint.)

I think, just from some googling, what you’ll want to do, assuming the assumptions I’ve assumed above haven’t made asses out of anyone, is (in Mint with both SSDs plugged in):

>sudo grub-install <whatever your boot drive is -- something like /dev/sda or /dev/nvme0n1 or some such>
>sudo update-grub

(And you’ll need to replace the angle brackets part above with the actual drive name. sudo grub-install /dev/sda or whatever.)

I think that first one should tell your system to switch from the Windows bootloader (which… I don’t think can even boot Linux… I haven’t used Windows since XP, so I don’t know for sure) to Grub2 which is capable of booting Linux, and capable of asking you which OS you want on boot. The second command is just to ensure Grub2 is properly configured. (It probably is already, but it won’t hurt to make double-sure.)

If that doesn’t work, it’s likely your Mint install is set up with a different bootloader. If that happens, I’d say:

• Let us know any error message you get from the above commands.
• Let us know what behavior you’re seeing instead of the desired results. (Like, no change and it’s still booting straight into Windows? Now it shows an OS-selection menu but only Mint as an option? Something else?)
• Search in your package manager for “bootloader” and report back which bootloader it says is installed.

Good luck! Hopefully that gets you going, but if not, definitely let us know your results!

This story has “sovereign citizen”/“insane people facebook” energy.

Followup question.

“As opposed to what?”

If everyone is “insane”, what would a “not insane” person look like if one hypothetically did exist?

All but you?

Huh. I’m also a mod of !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and I was able to respond to a comment on db0 like 8 days ago.

But if you get banned from vegan communities, then you can’t go into an active vegan thread and say…

“pssst… vegan cat food”

Edit: Right? I’m surprised to be getting downvotes. I’m not vegan, but I don’t particularly have anything against vegans personally. But the drama of vegans arguing about whether it’s ok to feed a cat a vegan diet is hillarious to me.

Just think how many pounds he’d have gained if he hadn’t been on Ozempic.

You should run for president. You’ve already got my vote.

If you haven’t seen this, I’m sorry and you’re welcome.

(SFW)

This is /c/fuck_ai, not /c/pretend_ai_is_only_partly_a_scam .

There is no baby in the bathwater. And the bathwater is sewage.

People are spending all this time trying to get good at prompting and feeling bad because they’re failing.

This whole thing is bullshit.

So if you’re a developer feeling pressured to adopt these tools — by your manager, your peers, or the general industry hysteria — trust your gut. If these tools feel clunky, if they’re slowing you down, if you’re confused how other people can be so productive, you’re not broken. The data backs up what you’re experiencing. You’re not falling behind by sticking with what you know works.

AI is not the first technology to do this to people. I’ve been a software engineer for nearing 20 years now, and I’ve seen this happen with other technologies. People convinced it’s making them super productive, others not getting the same gains and internalizing it, thinking they’re to blame rather than the software. The Java ecosystem has been full of shitty technologies like that for most of the time Java has existed. Spring is probably one of the most harmful examples.

My mother was neck deep in “Satanic Panic” propaganda. Literally thought Pokemon was “Satanic.” I think the thing that set her off was the Japanese-style art, and Japan isn’t majority-Christian like the U.S. is.

Don’t think that by explaining this I’m trying to make it make sense. The “sense” train derailed long before, but even more so when she decided that Pokemon had wiccan influence (which, by the way, isn’t the same as satanism, but again, it’s a foregone conclusion that none of this made any sense) for some random fucking reason.

Mine was “you can play Smash Brothers 64 with your friends as long as you don’t let anyone be Pikachu.”