Cyrus Draegur

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • … okay so uh

    i’m probably gonna have to go somewhere more help-focused and immediate than this but

    something weird happened.

    i bought a brand new USB drive to act as my linux mint boot media and flashed the iso onto it.

    it booted into the temporary instance easily! instantly! I started to install thinking i could just set up dual boot with the extant windows instance.

    well… it got to the point where it said “hey wait you have to disable secureboot or you have to reformat your entire windows installation”

    okay maybe i want to check ONE MORE TIME to see if there’s anything in this windows instance that I still want.

    so i halt the linux mint installation process and go back into windows. I take one last catalogue of stuff i’d want to reference later, and then try to boot back into the linux mint live session straight from the usb stick

    … nope.

    it says ‘something has gone terribly wrong’ and ‘failed to load UEFI’ or something

    but that’s not the thing that really spooked me because I thought I could go back into windows, reformat the USB key, and just re-flash the linux mint iso and start over from scratch

    that’s all background stuff, here’s the important crazy thing:

    the USB key is now reading that it only has a size of FIVE. MEGABYTES. FIVE.

    EVEN IF I TRY TO REFORMAT IT, IT STILL IS CONVINCED IT’S ONLY FIVE MEGABYTES

    the linux mint iso can’t even FIT on it now

    i can’t even reflash it

    i … but … how do i even …

    WAT






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    7 days ago

    seems you missed the part where I specifically mentioned how people may want to go someplace other than canada

    be it Canada or elsewhere

    wherever they wish to end up.

    At this point all you’re doing is making excuses to not help.


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    7 days ago

    We can’t expect Canada to take refugees lightly.

    People need someplace where they can feel safe enough to collect themselves so they can cross the border prepared and introduced to the proper receiving channels of the receiving country, be it Canada or elsewhere.

    There are places in the United States, though, that will remain somewhat safer for longer. Making it possible for people to clear out of the most dangerous areas to these halfway-havens is crucial to ensuring that they SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH to get their affairs in order for wherever they wish to end up.


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    7 days ago

    Do you know if there’s an underground railroad to help at-risk women, persons of color, and lgbtq people safely escape the United States yet?

    I want to sign up as a conductor because I can’t escape myself and as long as I still LOOK like a white dude and the government still thinks I’m cis I can at least be a useful for flying under the radar.