I take my shitposts very seriously.

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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • “But they did it too!” will not fly with me as a valid defense coming from an adult person. Your behaviour is your own responsibility. If you disagree with something, either respond in a polite manner or downvote and move on. Do not accuse others, either individuals or groups, of having a mental deficiency, brain damage, or aberration; and the fact that you would try to minimize what you said shows that you understand why I have an issue with it.

    Be nice, or leave.





  • The original creator of Wordpress and the owner of a Wordpress hosting site. He’s been having a meltdown for months because Wordpress is being used by WP Engine, a for-profit competitor hosting company, in compliance with the license. Since then, he has:

    • Changed the trademark license and retroactively sued WP Engine,
    • Disparaged WP Engine every time he had the chance,
    • Added a potentially legally binding checkbox to wordpress.com where the user must declare their disassociation with WP Engine (which also locked out actual employees),
    • Forcibly taken control of several community-made plugins,
    • Acted like an absolute fucking buffoon the innocent little lamb who’s been set upon by the wolves.





  • Bootloader no worky can be caused by a hundred different issues. The installer may have removed the kernel or a CPIO archive (initramfs or processor microcode) that the bootloader needs. You could be missing some EFI program. If the boot entry is set to identify the root filesystem by its UUID, formatting/reinstalling would have changed the real UUID and then the bootloader wouldn’t be able to find it. Maybe installing the OS simply wiped or damaged that partition.

    If you have to reinstall the OS, you should also reinstall the bootloader (the OS installer usually lets you do that from the GUI), or if you’re confident, update the boot entries to reflect the state of the computer. I strongly recommend using btrfs as your root filesystem instead of ext4, and use Timeshift to set up regular snapshots (btrfs) or backup clones (ext4) in case this happens again.