Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Giving up is unforgivable.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

We still have time to mess this up!

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Everybody saw this coming.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

White supremacy is terrorism.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Come on, man.

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Our Two Candidates for Virginia House of Delegates (you guys did it! we reached our $20k goal!)

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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! :-)

Opinion piece by Chaz Nuttycombe on Oct 9.

Open thread.

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  4. 4.

    Almost Retired

    I’m in for $25 more!  Feeling good about our chances in Virginia and about our two candidates!

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    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.

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    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?

    ————–

    *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.

  33. 33.

    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.

  45. 45.

    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.

  51. 51.

    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.

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