Hard to argue.
The Oceangate Disaster
An unofficial assessment from a submarine captain.
Rickover built a hell of an underwater navy, but basing the nuclear-power industry on submarine designs has been a mess.
The Rot At The Department Of Justice
…goes much deeper than Merrick Garland.
Though, as noted there, that doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be impeached. He clearly lied to Congress.
[Update a few minutes later]
The NYT confirms the story, though it buries it deep.
SpaceX Update
Stephen Clark has moved over to Ars Technica to help Eric Berger cover the increasingly busy space industry. He has the latest on plans for the next Starship attempt.
Intermittent Fasting
I do this, but not to lose weight. I generally only eat once a day, in the evening.
Who Let The Dogs Out?
CBS is going after Hunter and Garland. Is the dam about to break?
Leftism And Long Covid
The correlation is strong. Perhaps leftism could be considered a form of mental illness.
The Human Suffering In Our Cities
…is a symptom of deep cultural rot.
Ramaswamy is a pretty articulate guy.
Tent, Meet Camel
Thoughts on the relentless fight against our freedom by the Marxists.
Computer Weirdness
Since a recent update, my desktop has quit booting. I just says “Loading kernel,” with kernel number, and does nothing else. What’s worse is that I can’t even boot it from an external drive that I boot a Windows laptop with when I want to run Linux on it. The desktop doesn’t even recognize it as boot media, though it continues to work fine with the laptop.
[Sunday-afternoon update]
Patricia’s Windows 10 machine is the same MSI motherboard as mine, and I confirmed that it, too, does not recognize the external drive as bootable. I went back into Windows, and created a live-USB for Fedora, which did boot into both her machine and mine.
So, I decided to just create a new installation. I put it on a spare Samsung 250G SSD that I had. It has no problem installing it, but when I tried to boot from it, at first I couldn’t even see it in the boot menu in the BIOS. I changed from UEFI to CSM, at which point it appeared, and I made it the first boot. But when I tried to boot it, I got the same error message as when I tried to boot from the external drive. The machine continues to not recognize a Fedora boot disk as bootable.
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[Update Monday afternoon]
OK, after talking to MSI, I found out that I had been setting the boot order wrong, and finally got it working. I’m pretty much back to normal, except I need to clone the Samsung over to my M.2. If I didn’t keep /home on a separate drive, though, I’d be in a world of hurt.
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