unless something changed, having your system setup to boot uefi means that I now cannot (easily) just take a dd of a full /dev/sda and then move it to another system and boot from it.

I always turn off uefi so that I CAN do this and clone systems at work for labs.

odd that systems that are installed fresh with uefi seem to have faster disk i/o than the same init'd disk but with old style geom and setup. all using aligned sectors, of course.

I dont use redhat crap anyway. my last good redhat experience was 4.2, something like 20 years ago. since then its been debian variants for me.

we should give russia all those old leftover FDIV intel chips.

tell them its a de-nazified microcode release. they'll love it.

but any new chips - russia should not get a single new chip from now on. not from intel or amd.

enjoy your pentium-1's, Ivan.

that's why the ONLY solution is to go after putin. yeah, kill him. take him out. any. way. possible.

russia (as in putin) wont accept anything less than their view of victory. and we cant let them have any sign of that.

therefore, he has to be taken out. then, russia can be reset. they dont want that, but they need it. world needs it.

it has to happen.

as long as he's alive, the world is in a state of instability.

we've killed people for far, far, less.

putin would never touch nato.

funny to think putin is so strong. he's a pussy. he uses his military to - uhhh - compensate.

call his bluff and he'll cry like a little girl.

we're too scared to call his bluff. that's what I hate about us - we have enough power to hurt him so badly and yet we hold back.

I think years of brainwashing has sunk in. thing is: russia was not nearly as strong as they acted and their arms are all rust buckets now.

its time we rethink the MAD stuff. it should not be a strangle to us, to stop us from using the force we paid for, for so many decades. why have it if you refuse to even bring it out and threaten the world bad guys?

seriously - we are seen as weak since we are too restrained.

I've come to believe this, also; that the russian mind is quite odd and there is something not quite right about people from that region. sorry if that comes off too strong, but we're really seeing the true nature of what people are like, nation by nation.

we're not going to convince the russians even if we could break thru the new curtain. BUT we are weakening them big-time and that's a really good thing. it will take them a long time to recover from this and its just getting started!

the russians that I knew from work always seemed to have an authoritarian and republican bend to them. I shrugged it off years ago, but now, I see it was characteristic of them.

we're not going to fix them. but we can weaken them and there's good fun in that.

yes, its fun to weaken your enemy. of course it is. they threw the first punch, but they're getting their hat handed to them.

sorry for ukraine. hope they can last thru this. I suspect they will, but such a huge price to pay. any ending that does not have double the cost needed to fully repair the damage done is no ending we should accept.

and for the record, I do think we should fully enter the war (nato, not the US alone) and enter russian territory and fuck them up where they live.

how long do we have to cower in fear for putin's rusty atoms? he's not dumb enough to use them. we seem to think he'd use them but no one in this world (short of religious fundies, which he's NOT) will go the nuke option against anyone who can fully retaliate. come on, guys. stop worrying about your own shadow.

fuck with him. he's not going to do shit back to nato. he knows THAT much, at least.

wild card, though: china.

and india: what the fuck are you doing? get with the program india. we remember - and we see which side you're on. dammit.

I mean we are in the 5,032,255,000,000,000,000th day of creation. Plus or minus 73,000,000,000 days.

I'm told it was on a wednesday.

"infinity is a really long ways away; especially toward the end."

wait, is this about the vile veggie thing or that single sign-on app?

so confused.

again, boris, how many times do we have to smak your borscht ass down?

stfu already. we know who and WHAT you are.

gig's up.

how does it feel to be a pariah?

lets just give this a bit more time, shall we? lets see you starve slowly.

russian tears are the sweetest. better than conservatives (actually, they mix well).

russian troll is russian.

how does it feel to be so hated, BORIS?

powerful statement. and true.

normally, you dont wish ill upon regular people, but then again, regular ukrainians are being killed and bombed and russia seems to ENJOY it, even a lot of their people are totally ok with it.

so, yeah, I would wish the same suffering on russians.

for as long as it takes

twenty dollar, same as uptown.

(wait, wut?)

well, there this:

the de-yachtsification of russia is in progress.

(wait, was that what they were saying, all along?)

They will see that the rest of the world is against russia and wonder why.

does not matter.

what matters is that russia ends up weaker and unable to do this crap again for a long long time.

if we have to pound russian people, so be it.

you know, after the last 2 years, I lost all my sympathy for regular humans. we have too many humans on this planet and about 1/3 of us are vile, no matter what country they are in. in the US, the vile bunch are known as trumpers but this happens all over, as we have seen during the last 2 years.

if we weaken russia ('stone age them') that's a good thing for the world. we reset germany and japan and that worked out really well (for the most part).

let that now begin to happen to russia.

nothing against russians, but their culture is broken (politically) and they need a huge hammering to put them in their place.

that country has shown it cant be trusted and needs to be hammered. or sickled. or both.

sorry, but you guys threw the first punch. the world will finish this for you, I'm pretty sure. might take a long time but it wont end well for russia.

only question is: when.

cube?

what century are you from? there have not been cubes, at least in the bay area, for well over a decade, perhaps more.

open friggin office is the norm and its rows and rows of desks, right next to each other or not even desks, just long long tables, reminiscent of the turn of the previous previous century. deep sigh.

no room and not even your own real desk.

this is what they want us to come back to.

are you surprised that we are not excited?

look, if you 'let' us go back to cubes, that might be some kind of upgrade. they are a cough barrier and sound barrier and visual barrier. that was something! you forced us to abandon even THAT little, and during the last 2 years, we learned that we can work from home JUST FINE.

you want us back? what are you offering that's going to entice us back?

there are options for remote work. you now have to ante up a bit more than 'just our old jobs'.

show us some respect. that would be a good first step.

(not holding my breath; and mostly I'm going remote from now until I retire)