US is not supporting Russia, but Iran is. Israel is atrocious and it would not surprise me at all if they absolutely know about Oct 7th well in advance. It was the result if their prejudice and Palestinian concentration camps before Oct 7th in either case that caused the initial attack. However it was not entirely without cause like with Russia in Ukraine. Everywhere is complicated. The USA is super polarized and in pretty bad shape, but it us not exporting suicide bombers. Is it better to target with 10 million dollar munitions remotely no, but those are not targeting crowds of people as the primary goal

It was the change in Syria and the mountain on the boarder that Israel now controls that changed the geopolitical situation and strategy. The radar shadow of that mountain was what prevented Israel from having an opportunity to stop or influence Iran’s nuclear policy. Some deeper depth geopolitical youtubers have done uploads on this change and implications. The position will likely end up back in Syrian hands eventually… or it might. Again like I have said elsewhere, I don’t support Israel or their escalations but Iran is shit. They are supplying arms to Russia, exporting terrorism, and run by a disordered misogynistic group of men that kill in the name of fantasy and a collective imaginary friend that no one has ever had a real conversation with. That is fucking cave man level bullshit from anyone anywhere.

I don’t support either.

If you can take out all nukes, hell yeah. Bomb all of them into oblivion. I’m for first do no harm and live and let live.

If my neighbor is talking about shooting up a school, and no one I report them to seems to change the situation, and I see them loading up the car to go shoot up the school, I’m not going to feel bad about shooting my neighbor then and there, if I have no other option. I don’t care to wait until they pull the trigger at the school to confirm their intentions.

I mean you’re ultimately talking to a physically disabled guy living in the USA where I face homelessness and a terrible future. I despise this country and know the lack of ethics better than most. Still, the primary exporters of jihad are still the primary exporters of jihad.

Israel should not exist, and is a crusader state. The boarders of the middle east were absolute garbage and the result of the colonial era of cartel like western criminality. I don’t support any of that crap. That does not change the fact that Islam has no reformation to stop jihad like how separation of church and state and the christian reformation put an end to church based crusades. People can try to tone down the message but fundamentalists will always draw power from the most ignorant using this element of teaching. That can never and will never go away.

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I’m physically disabled in social isolation where this is my only external human contact. I tried to share the abstract learning curve on the path I have taken from asking the same questions to finding more useful information. How should I engage with others so that I never have moments like this where I regret my only method of human interaction?

I’ve never engaged on stack overflow, only used whatever thing I’ve skimmed.

Is there something I said that triggered or offended you in some way worth mentioning and calling specific attention to?

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The UEFI boot system is tricky and you need to get along with Secure Boot to do this. Secure Boot is outside of the Linux kernel. Both Fedora and Ubuntu have systems for this. Fedora uses the Anaconda system and I believe they do it best. I have had a W11 partition for 2 years and never used it once. It can’t even get on the internet with my firewall setup, but it is there and never had any issues the 3 times I logged into it.

I think all of the Fedora systems support the shim key and secure boot but I know Workstation does. For Ubuntu I think it is just the regular vanilla Ubuntu desktop that the shim supports. This may be somewhat sketchy with Nvidia or maybe not. Nvidia “”““open sourced””“” their kernel code but the actual nvcc compiler required to build the binaries is still proprietary crap.

I have a 3080Ti gaming laptop. It isn’t half bad with 16 GB of video RAM from all the way back in 2021. Nvidia is artificially holding back the vram because of monopoly nonsense. The new stuff has very little real consumer value as a result, at least with AI stuff I run. The hardware is a little faster, but more vram is absolutely critical and new stuff that is the same or worse than what I have from 3 generations and nearly 5 years ago is ridiculous.

The battery life blows and the GPU likely won’t even work on battery. It will get donkey balls hot with AI workloads, especially any kind of image gen. This results in lots of thermal throttling. All AI packages run as servers on your network. If you are thinking along these lines if running your own models, get a tower and run the thing remotely.

I manage, and need the ergonomics for physical disability reasons, but I still would prefer to have a separate tower to run models from.

Anyways, you can sign your own UEFI keys to use any distro, but this can be daunting for some people. The US defense department has a good PDF guide on setting your own keys. The UEFI bootloader for the machine may not have all key signing features implemented. There is a way to boot into UEFI directly and set the keys manually but this is not easy to find great guides on how to do it step by step. Gentoo has a tutorial on this, but it assumes a high level of competency.

Other than signing your own keys, the shim keys mentioned are special keys signed by Microsoft for the principal maintainer of the distro. These slide under the Microsoft key to keep secure boot enabled.

If you boot any secure boot enabled OS, the bootloader is required to delete any bootable unsigned code it finds. It does not matter if it is a shimmed Fedora or W11. If you have any other OS present in the boot list, it should be deleted. W11 is SB only, and this is where the real issues arise.

Ghost of .ee – too soon

Not at my computer with my scripts, but you can grab the path variable and loop over each entry with ls. I often end up brute forcing this and piping it to /tmp/delete then I can just grep the file. First thing I do is add bash if possible.

Guided fireworks or Estes rockets are the class of hardware needed. It must be a tenth of the cost of a typical drone, or much less is more betterer. Lots may miss.

Wrong question really. The better abstracted question is what class of hardware is comparable?

It is faster than most routers, so anything along those lines. I like to look at what people have made with a Beagle Bone. That TI chip is a router class chip. Most projects that use a BB have a better intelligence and motivations filter compared to much of what pops up with a Rπ.

Look and see if there are any OpenWRT images for it. The Rπ foundation stuff is super bloated by comparison. Most OpenWRT images are 8-32 megabytes. You start out with an ultra stripped down POSIX system, but OpenWRT has a built in package manager and all your typical packages needed to expand into a more regular Linux desktop user like experience. If there is an image for the board, you go from underpowered to overpowered monster for the OS image and overhead. It can be a fun challenge just to learn the lower level terminal commands when stuff like compgen is missing and you don’t even know all your commands. You also don’t have manpage docs and help is rare and sparse too. That was my catalyst for really learning grep at a more useful level.

Spreading Democracy
We already have spreading at home Jimmy

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Are you insane? Debian is a base distro like any other and runs more hardware than any other. It has all of the bootstrapping tools to get hardware working.

Canonical is a server company and Ubuntu server is literally the product.

Arch is absolute garbage for most users unless you have a CS degree or you have entirely too much time on your hands and don’t mind an OS as your life project. Arch abhors tutorial content in all documentation and therefore dumps users into a rabbit hole regularly. Pacman is the worst package manager as it will actively break a system and present the user with the dumbest of choices at random because the maintainers are ultimately sadistic and lackadaisical. Arch is nearly identical to Gentoo with Arch binaries often based on Gentoo builds, yet Gentoo provides relevant instruction and documentation with any changes that require user intervention and does so at a responsible and ethical level that shows kindness, respect, and consideration completely absent from Arch. Arch is a troll by trolls for trolls. I’m more than capable of running it now, but I would never bother with such inconsiderate behavior.

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Fedora’s Anaconda system makes UEFI secure boot easy and ships with SELinux integrated but set to permissive by default. Their built in network filtering tools are pretty easy but I still just use OpenWRT on a separate device. Silverblue was nice for a few years but I switched to Workstation for a machine with Nvidia hw.

WHAT!