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

@chimerror which episode? #CharlieCaleIsMyCopilot #CoyoteLadySolvesAMurder

@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)...