Yes. I don’t think I beat Hades until around run 80, possibly higher. You’re not doing anything wrong.

Just keep at it, and like others have said, once you do it that first time, it gets easier. I think the Adamant Rail was my first cleared weapon, but find one that works the way you like and try different combos of boons; think about the effects that might synergize with how the weapon attacks (speedy hits + flat damage, big hits + damage over time, etc.).

You’re tilting at the wrong things. What NASA does is science. Science benefits humanity, and we always learn something by going to space, and we’ve been able to do experiments that would be otherwise impossible to do on Earth. In this capitalist hellscape, it unfortunately costs money to do science, so I can understand balking at the $93B + $4B price tag (spread over 7 years) but we currently spend trillions of dollars (over 7 years) just on the military and if ICE were to get their current budget over 7 years, it would also be over a trillion dollars.

We could absolutely feed and provide childcare for every child in this country for under $100B, but we don’t need to defund science to do it. The annual budget of ICE alone could take care of all of that and still have some leftover.

The problem isn’t spending $13B/yr on space science, it’s spending $85B or $175B on ICE and the military (just as two needlessly wasteful examples; there are more).

Windows 10 has been sitting unused on a separate drive…

Maybe you could clarify a few things. You say Windows was on a separate drive, but then you talk about dual booting. Do you mean that Windows was on another partition on a shared drive, or do you have two separate hard drives?

If you have Mint on one hard drive and uBlue on another, seems to me what you should be looking at is adding an entry to Grub. I’ve only ever done this with Limine, but I would imagine it similarly involves editing some config and running a rebuild command to refresh Grub. There should be plenty of info about how to do this, given how old and ubiquitous Grub is.

If it’s two partitions on the same drive, it might be similar, but I don’t know.

Tbh though, I’m at a loss as to why you want to dual boot an atomic distro and a typical one. You should be able to do almost everything a normal distro can do by using Distrobox. If you prefer having total control over everything, why bother with an atomic distro? What problem are you trying to solve?

Hell, you can also get Portmaster, which is still open source.

I agree, I don’t know why this bit of software is getting all this attention.

Also there are already a lot of binary blobs in the kernel, that also makes me nervous a bit.

You can compile your own kernel, you know?

Thanks for this! That’s kinda what it sounded like. I’m going to have to give this a try this weekend.

What a great April Fools puzzle!

Can I ask about the last bit? Is it like having different dev environments or profiles, and you can just use them as needed?

No, the point I’m making is that both parties serve the same masters.

To what end? What’s the logical conclusion people should draw from this?

…do you think they’re wasting their money when they give millions and millions to both parties?

I mean, yes, but to which party do they give more? You’re essentially saying “follow the money.” Here’s where the money went in 2024. You’ll note that the top eight biggest donors gave to Republicans.

They might serve the same masters, but the masters have favorites and not by accident.

Agreed. But the point they’re making (wittingly or unwittingly) isn’t “they’re both directly and indirectly responsible for the rise of the surveillance state.”

The fundamental point is: “Both parties are the same because of this one issue.” And that position is reductive to the point of being indistinguishable from the positions of centrists and conservatives, both of which often prefer easy-to-digest, broad-stroke politics over wrestling with the nuances.

What a reductive thing to say.

I don’t, and I didn’t think to save it, because it wasn’t a book I was planning to buy (even though I’d like to). What I can tell you is that its a guide to help English speakers know what to look for when buying directly in China (and what to avoid). It’s kind of like a specialized translation guidebook. She was a co-author.

I wish I had saved those comments’ sources, but it took some digging to find them. Apologies to anyone who wants or expects those, but I’m not going to spend time looking again.

Nevertheless, they are out there, and anyone with the drive should be able to find them. I don’t imagine she’s made much other public commentary, since that would put both her and her partner in danger, so I’m not surprised she’s been radio silent since then.

Who, for anyone unaware, is mostly safe at this time.

She was visited by government goons and basically had her entire activism and tech business confiscated, and she said that anyone who wants to support her should purchase the tourist tech-buying guide she’s produced over the years. She also said that any further content on her YouTube should be considered suspect, as she’s not going to be making more videos for the foreseeable future.

ETA: she has also said that she has the ability to leave China, but because her partner can’t, she’s opted to stay, because she’s also a cool human being.

My thought, too. Guess I’ll just have to run what I’ve got until it breaks, then make my own retro handheld, because I’m not paying for cloud bullshit.

I’ve been on Arch full-time for about two years, and even though I use some similar software, I’ve had to troubleshoot and do things differently from my friends for a while (installing mods manually, adding launch options to certain Steam games, using entirely different software stacks to do the same things). My brain just can’t contain troubleshooting info for both, so the Windows stuff gets lost over time as Widows becomes more buggy and stupid.

Congrats!

Set your machine to Prime95. Bake for 30min.

What’s this jargle of a URL you posted?

http://5.78.129.127/ebook/

I can’t really help my Windows friends anymore when they need troubleshooting for things like: why their audio channels aren’t working in OBS, or why their config is suddenly corrupted. I used to be able to when I was on Windows, but now I just have to watch helplessly while they struggle to make things work.