President Biden Signs the Paycheck Protection Program Extension Act of 2021 Into Law
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President Biden Announces An Increase In Vaccination Sites
This is partial; while I was compiling this, the comments were turned off, so I am missing quite the amount of comments. But still, it's here.
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President Biden Signs the Paycheck Protection Program Extension Act of 2021 Into Law
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03/24/21: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Cecilia Rouse, and Heather Boushey
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Vice President Harris Convenes a Roundtable Discussion on Equal Pay Day with Women Leaders
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Older, more complete one
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President Biden Delivers Remarks on the Boulder, Colorado Shooting
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This one is a little newer, but as I was compiling this, Xiden's handlers disabled comments, so this one is just partial. But this one has some newer comments.
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03/22/21: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jen Psaki
This one is partial because while I was compiling the PDF they turned off comments. Sorry.
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03/22/21: Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials
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Dr. Fauci On The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
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Vice President Harris Ceremonially Swears In Isabella Casillas Guzman
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Oh my god I'm losing my mind
The beauty of online school is that I can turn the volume down and shitpost on Win
So you're sick of Microsoft and Apple spying on you. That's great. Here we go.
WARNING
I do not take any responsibility for your actions. If you brick your computer, you are on your own. If you lose your data, you are on your own. But if you are careful, you should be fine.
Many programs are written only for Windows and some don't have equivalents on Linux. Keep that in mind. You can always run Windows alongside Linux, or have a virtual machine that you start from within Linux in case you need Windows access.
Virtual Machines
I HIGHLY recommend that if this is your first time, you practice in a virtual machine BEFORE you do the switch. Or you go out and buy a new computer and mess with that. A virtual machine is basically a machine in a machine, you can erase and start over without losing anything. You can also try multiple distributions without losing anything -- I would spend a day (or even a week) using Linux within the virtual machine to get acquainted.
Now how do I get a virtual machine? Download Virtualbox. Click the big "Download" button then look under "Virtualbox [version] platform packages". Install it. If you need help installing, see this.
Once you open Virtualbox, you can then create a new virtual machine by clicking the "New" button at the top of the screen. Pick a name, a place to store files, pick "Linux", and then pick your OS (choose "64-bit" if you have the option) or "Other Linux" at the bottom.
Give it at least 2 GB of RAM (2048 MB). You will need to create a virtual hard disk - pick "VDI", "dynamically allocated", then pick a size (10-20 GB is more than enough just to try it out). After you download your Linux distro's ISO file (see below), you can click "start". When you are asked to select a start up disk, click the yellow "folder" to the right of the DVD drive selection, click "add", and pick your ISO. Then you can start and do you install (see below).
When you are ready to trash this VM, you can power it off, then right click the VM in the menu and select Remove then "Delete All".
Distros
When you refer to Linux, you could be referring to the kernel. A kernel is the "backbone" of the Linux operating system. It was written (and still is maintained!) by Linus Torvalds (this guy).
There are many distributions (distros) available; they package together the kernel, sometimes a GUI (graphical user interface) and sometimes popular programs. It's up to you to pick one. Personally I would look at screenshots on your favorite search engine to make a choice.
Here's a list of some. Definitely not all-inclusive.
- Ubuntu. Arguably one of the most popular, but maintained by Canonical, which has been flamed on Win and another time.
- Ubuntu is quite popular, there are multiple "forks" (variants) that have different desktop environments (appearances). These include, but are not limited to:
- Kubuntu (KDE)
- Xubuntu (XFCE)
- Linux Mint.
- Ubuntu is quite popular, there are multiple "forks" (variants) that have different desktop environments (appearances). These include, but are not limited to:
- Debian. Ubuntu is based on Debian. Debian uses the GNOME desktop environment, just like Ubuntu. I would recommend this.
- Fedora. Maintained by Red Hat, however Red Hat is a subsidiary of IBM, and IBM has been flamed on Win.
- Manjaro, based on Arch Linux but reportedly with a simpler install process.
The below -- I wouldn't start with. (Doesn't mean that I wouldn't use them, but they're not really beginner friendly.)
- Arch Linux. My personal distro of choice, but the install process is complicated. You are dumped into a command-line environment (think MS-DOS) for install and you are responsible for installing a GUI yourself. However, this gives you a ton of customization options, because you choose what to install and what not to install.
- Gentoo. Arguably more complicated to set up than Arch.
How to install
After you've chosen a distro, you will want to download its installer ISO. For instance, you can download Debian's installer with the big "Download" button on the front page. You can then use a virtual machine (see above) to try it out, or you can use something like Balena Etcher to write to a USB drive, or if you still have a DVD drive and DVDs, you can use that (on Windows, right click then click "burn disk image").
You will then need to BACK UP YOUR DATA. DO NOT SKIP THIS UNLESS YOU'RE USING A VIRTUAL MACHINE.
Then, you will need to start your computer (virtual machine) from that install media. This is largely dependent on computer. For instance, you could try this. However, if you have secure boot enabled (and most people do), you will need to disable it first (see this too).
Most of those distros above have a straight-forward install process. Some things to look out for, though:
- Disk encryption - you typically cannot enable full disk encryption after the fact. If you want to enable full disk encryption, you will need to do it during the install, but I've never done it before, so that is up to you. However, you can still encrypt your home (data) directory.
- LVM - if given the option, I like to use LVM, but you don't have to.
Then once you're in, you will likely want to find and install other stuff.
Some distributions include "software centers". On Debian it is reportedly called "Synaptic", on Ubuntu it's called "Software Center".
However, you can use the command line to install packages. You will have to look this up. See this for Debian and Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo.
The beauty of online school is that I can have class open on one monitor and shitpost on Win on the other.
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
- You will need a Smartrip (who the fuck came up with that name?) card. (Or if you have a phone or a watch by Tim Apple, you can use that, but I've never tried it before. See this) It is the DC Metro's farecard. There are no paper farecards anymore, there are no cash payments (well, you can add cash to these cards). You can purchase cards here or you can purchase them at any station. The card costs $2 and I believe you have to add $8 to the card = $10. I'd wait to purchase at a station because it takes time for these to ship out, they won't arrive come January 6th.
- I would not use the Smartrip passes. A fare from, say, your hotel to Metro Center and back, plus fare to DCA roundtrip doesn't make the pass worth it. (Now, if you want to Metro the day of to other places or if you are doing everything within 24 hours, sure, but I don't think it's worth it that much.)
- Download the Metrorail map onto your phone (here). Last I rode there was no cell signal down in the tunnels.
- You may want to have some extra funds on you (cash or card) so if you run out of fare on your card, you can add some so you can exit. (Fares are calculated by time of day -- fares are more expensive from 5 to 9:30 and then from 3 PM to 7 PM -- and distance traveled, so you might not be able to exit at your desired station if you have too little money on your card.)
- Stand on the right, walk on the left on escalators.
Bonus tip for flying into DC:
- The three airports are IAD (Dulles International), DCA (Reagan National), and BWI (Baltimore).
- DCA has a Metro stop so transportation isn't an issue.
- IAD has a metro stop under construction, not open yet (so you will need to take a bus ($5 cash/credit card) or some other form of transportation).
- BWI - you may want to take the MARC, it appears that fare from BWI to New Carrollton (Metro station) is $6, to Union Station (also a Metro station) is $7 (source.
Parents went to vote, in person.
It says "absentee vote by mail" - "ballot approved".
WTF? Is this just something they put in as a placeholder because they can't pay for someone to make a "absentee vote in person - ballot approved"?
(Virginia)
