good morning
its time for rats to actually get to do things
🦨🦔: my brother got one of those human chew toys for our nibling and I really want—
🐀: no rat time
im gonna get started on linux from scratch
oh yeah i need to like set up an actual distribution first
think im going to go with mint just because i used it before years ago and it seems very popular
this is just to have something to make lfs so i dont want to go too out there
i kind of forgot that like ill not be able to do things on the laptop im installing stuff to
ok yeah i guess i should have known to disconnect my backup usb drive
like i _could_ install it to there but not really
oh boy partitioning trouble
basically my laptop is meant to only be windows and beyond the c drive that has the lions share of the disk
so like i need to shrink that disk in windows
im beginning to shave yaks
ok finally installing mint
basically i didnt notice the little set button when disabling the page file so I could shrink the c drive
i will say that the fact that the live drive just recognized my monitors kvm wifi and sound was a great sign of how far linux has come from like when i first started using it in the 90s
ok its installed but booting into windows so im going to need to get some food and then look at the bios
ok i dont think i actually installed a linux bootloader
oops
🐆: stop doing the thing and go get food dear
🐀: rawr
🐆: ...
🐀: ok
ate some food and watched some more poker face
feeling a little suddenly down and tired so i think nap time
@zebratron2084 I just wrapped up episode 4, with the metal band!
@chimerror That's a good one. I've been pondering a magpie 'sona ever since. :D
@zebratron2084 I'm up to 7 now and while I don't think I agree with their ideas of praxis the retirement home revolutionaries are so goals
@chimerror oh whew, if there's been any one episode my friends have found tough going it's been the nursing home one because... yeah. way to let us down, comrades.
@zebratron2084 yeah, don't get me wrong, I have opinions about that episode and it feels like someone complained that money was the motivating factor of most of the murders and felt like they needed to get one on those lefties
but it was a delightful romp anyway
@chimerror a lot of folks excepted charlie to be a TAD more ACAB about everything, too :> i *liked* her FBI buddy, they really went out of his way to make him a pleasant liberal Marge Gunderson type -- the sort who'd rather be going after Trump, I bet -- but i also really REALLY liked how much it was Charlie's style to serve justice any way BUT involving the authorities... ntm, i know you're Best Puppy and love everone but isn't trusting a fed kind of a lot for a wanted fugitive, Charlie hun? 🤔
@zebratron2084 yeah
it's that sort of copaganda that feels hard to get rid of because it's based on the simple idea that cops actually generally want to do their supposed jobs even if they are incompetent
like we also like to see doctors who aren't assholes to their patients and the little guy winning sometimes
it's fiction, one of the opiates of the masses
@chimerror And I can't say much, because I'm still a huge fan of Liberal Cop shows like Barney Miller and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
I think there's *some* room for such things, as they kinda implicitly shame the system by making it look so easy to be a good cop.
But it does make me nervous that they're all predicted on the idea that you *can* be Good cops under this system and they're out there somewhere just under the rainbow (the one with the suspiciously thick blue line)...
@chimerror (e.g. in a episode i recently rewatched, he paid off a friend on the force to take his firearm training class under his name, because he Just Refuses... :D )
@zebratron2084 I'm definitely thinking of looking at Columbo next because I've seen so many references and parodies of him and I need to see the real deal
@chimerror Columbo is a joy. Little awkward guy solves crimes by raw intellect and being a master of weaponized humility. He is such a personal inspiration and taught me it's A HUGE STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE to be dismissed as a harmless idiot. :D
@chimerror Nonetheless, Columbo will always be my exception that proves the ACAB rule... because I LOVE how consistently they stick to the lore that he hates guns, hates police work, is considered a nuisance by his fellow cops, and wants NO PART OF the headcracking whatsoever...