We still have $185 left on our Angel Match from frosty, and we are only $1,529 away from being able to fund both of our candidates for $10,000 each.
CAN WE GET TO $20,000 today? Frosty is matching up to $25 per person! Match is complete.
$300 in donations will meet our goal. YOU DID IT! Thank you so much.
TIME IS SHORT. PEOPLE ARE VOTING. LET’S DO THIS.
Three races have just been designated as toss-ups in this last leg of the race, and two of them are the races we are funding!
Details about why this election is so important – from one of our Virginia peeps:
The House of Delegates is where the focus really needs to be, so thank y’all for that. The trend over the past two years has been that the crazy, awful bills go through the HoD, but get killed in the Democratic-controlled Senate; while more practical bills get approved in the Senate, then die in the HoD. It was also the reason why our state budget did not go into effect until late September, instead of July 1.
The ideal situation is to win the HoD, and get a supermajority in the Senate, to counter Youngkin’s veto & amendment request powers: In his first year of office, Youngkin vetoed multiple bills that were popular and bi-partisan, but were introduced by a Democratic state senator he did not like.
Chaz Nuttycombe is the go to guy for Virginia election forecasting in Virginia. Don’t take my word for it – Ben Wikler follows him! :-)
📊FORECAST UPDATE📊
With 30 days until the election, we’ve got 8 rating changes in the @CNalysis VA state legislative forecast. 6 toward Democrats, and 2 toward Republicans.https://t.co/fx1VAm8fWB pic.twitter.com/hpfNCRBWn5
— Chaz Nuttycombe (@ChazNuttycombe) October 8, 2023
Opinion piece by Chaz Nuttycombe on Oct 9.
Open thread.
raven
a little
Subcommandante Yakbreath
In for $25.
Old School
What is frosty’s match? $25 per person? $50?
Whatever it is, thanks frosty!
Almost Retired
I’m in for $25 more! Feeling good about our chances in Virginia and about our two candidates!
WaterGirl
@Old School: Sorry, it’s up to $25 per person. I will add that up top!
Guessing that you donated?
WaterGirl
$135 left on frosty’s match, unless Old School donated. :-)
skerry
I just put $25 in the pot. Thanks for the angel match, Frosty.
WaterGirl
@Subcommandante Yakbreath: @Almost Retired:
Thank you for your donations!
WaterGirl
@skerry: Thank you, skerry!
$110 left on the match.
Old School
@WaterGirl: No, I’m not included in today’s match. (But I was in a match earlier this week.)
MisterDancer
In for $25!
WaterGirl
@Old School: Well, I appreciate your getting me to clarify the rules anyway!
WaterGirl
@MisterDancer: Thank you, Mister Dancer!
$85 left on the match, and $1,234 left toward our goal!
These Virginia elections are huge – an opportunity of a lifetime, really, with elections for most of the seats at the same time.
Memory Pallas
I just put in $25 more.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
Put in $50
sixthdoctor
In for $25.
C Stars
I’m in!! love to donate to dems on a friday morning!
ChrisSherbak
Thanks Frosty! Donated $25.
KrackenJack
Meant to do this earlier. Hope Dems continue to over perform.
WaterGirl
@Memory Pallas: @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: @sixthdoctor: @C Stars: @ChrisSherbak:
Thank you all!
frosty’s match is now complete!
Just $859 more and we will have funded both of these candidates $10,000!
rodwell
Donated $25. These are the important races for this cycle.
eclare
@WaterGirl:
Yay frosty! Thank you WaterGirl!
jowriter
In for $25. Go Blue Virginia!
Madeleine
I’ve put in another $25 (first for this angel).
WaterGirl
@rodwell: @jowriter: @Madeleine:
Thank you all!
WaterGirl
Just $634 more in donations will get us to $20,000 goal!
Alison Rose
That last name could not have been an easy one for Chaz to have growing up.
Lacuna Synecdoche
Okay, open thread Linux question here. (For the IT uninitiated, this is probably going to read like that Steve Martin plumbers joke from Let’s Get Small – in other, feel free to skip it.)
A few months ago, I installed Nobara Linux (an unofficial Fedora spin for gaming by Glorious Eggroll, who works for Red Hat and also creates the Steam GE-Proton spins for Linux gaming).
Like many modern Linux distros, Nobara comes with a casefold enabled kernel, for creating case-insensitive directories on EXT4 and F2FS. I formatted a 2 TB Ext4 partition with casefold enabled to work with Windows games that may have case-insensitivity issues (like, for instance, inconsistent capitalization in game mods).*
So, for the past few days I’ve been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 in Windows (because, while I have BG3 working in Linux, I haven’t figured out yet how to get Vortex or BG3 mod managers working in Linux), and decided to set up Windows Subsystem for Linux 2(WSL2) to see if I could install BG3 mods to EXT4 from Windows.
Stop laughing. We haven’t even got to the good part yet.
So, anyway, after installing WSL2 on Win10 (yes, they’re compatible now if you have the latest Win10 updates, which is why I decided to give this a shot), I was able to access both Ext4 partitions on different drives, and a different partition on the same drive as the 2 TB Ext4 partition I set up for gaming.
But I couldn’t access the 2 TB Ext4 gaming drive – the one drive I went through all this rigamarole for. For about 3-4 hours I tried to troubleshoot it and it just kept spitting out the same error messages. Finally, I discovered in my troubleshooting research that: the Microsoft WSL2 Linux kernel DOES NOT SUPPORT the casefold option.
If you’ve gotten this far, I probably don’t need to tell you that this is part where you start laughing.
I mean, seriously, I set up that partition to work with Windows games, and now Windows can’t read it – because I set it up to work with Windows! Jesus H. Christ on fucking cracker, I’ve seen a lot of stupid Microsoft decisions over the years, but who the fuck decided not to enable the capability to use a case-insensitive function on on the Linux subsystem of a case-insensitive OS?
Anyway, I guess my technical question here is: Do any of the cross Windows/Linux experts here, if there are any, know if there’s way to set up WSL2 to use a different kernel than the Microsoft WSL2 default kernel?
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*Why not use an NTFS partition? Well, believe it or not, NTFS isn’t actually a case-insensitive file system – casefolding is implemented in the OS (or maybe the driver) and not the file system itself. (And, yeah, that sounds dumb too, but I actually get why that might be the easiest way to implement it.) So, in Linux, NTFS is not case-insensitive, and, as far as I know, isn’t compatible with Linux kernel case-folding.
**Edited to fix formatting errors.
evap
I added another $25. almost there!
Tim Ellis
I tossed in $50. Thanks for organizing!!
raven
@Lacuna Synecdoche: I see nowhere on this threat that it says “Open”?
raven
@raven: thread
Joy in FL
I love living in a democracy (even though Florida’s governor wants to make it a fascist state), so I donated another small amount.
Alison Rose
@raven: The last two words of the post say “Open thread”. After the link to Chaz’s post.
WaterGirl
@raven: I forgot to add Open Thread as a tag, which i usually do on the fundraising posts.
But it says Open thread right at the bottom of the post up top.
WaterGirl
@evap: @Tim Ellis: @Joy in FL:
Thanks you guys! Almost there, just $400 to go!
raven
@Alison Rose:
@WaterGirl:
OK, now answer the question???
WaterGirl
@raven: I thought I did. I thought you were asking where it said Open thread? No?
Mike S. (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
In for $100.
Alison Rose
@raven: What question? Lacuna’s? I lack the knowledge to do so. Yours? WG and I both did.
raven
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: Not mine!!!!!
WaterGirl
@raven: Oh. I know nothing about Unix, so I stopped reading right there!
WaterGirl
@Mike S. (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!): Thank you Mike!
only $300 left!You guys did it! Yay!!!
Lacuna Synecdoche
Sigh. Oh, well.
Alison Rose
@raven: I can’t tell if you’re being jokey or you’re actually this annoyed, but neither WG nor I are equipped to answer the question. Not sure why you’re demanding it of us.
Lacuna Synecdoche
@raven:
Water Girl @ Top (bottom of the post):
As also noted by WaterGirl in Comment #35.
WaterGirl
@Lacuna Synecdoche: It’s an open thread, that’s fine!
Sadly, I can’t help with Unix! But maybe someone else can.
WaterGirl
@Alison Rose: Well, in fairness to raven, he knows I’m an IT person, so I might know Unix. But I don’t!
WaterGirl
@Mike S. (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!): Thank you Mike!
only $300 left!You guys did it! Yay!!!
Alison Rose
@WaterGirl: Nobody’s perfect!
Lacuna Synecdoche
@WaterGirl: Thank you. For the record, I didn’t think you had a problem with it.
I know I’m not the only dual Windows/Linux user here, so I thought maybe someone else here had, maybe, run into a similar problem – where they had to set up WSL with a non-default Linux kernel, whether for personal or business reasons – and might know the answer.
raven
@Alison Rose: joke
Betsy
I’m very heartened by this, and coming from me, that’s saying something.