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  • shundi82@sh.itjust.workstoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix requiredEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’d done this some time ago via console.

    My RE partition had sat before my main partition - and since you can’t shrink partitions at their start (left) with fdisk and I didn’t want to boot up a Linux pen drive, I just shrank the main partition at its end (right) and moved my RE partition to the now freed space at the end.

    I’ve made the old RE partition available, but since it’s just a few hundred MB, I doubt I’ll ever actually use it. :-P

    PS: If you do it via fdisk, just make sure you first enable the new RE before disabling the old RE. Otherwise there’s nothing that can be copied to the new RE - I’ve made that mistake and had to get the missing files from a Windows ISO.

  • shundi82@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.world•Oh yeah, I had it on my old N64!
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    9 months ago

    You youngens and your “Tony Hoe’s Prawn Skater”.

    Back in the olden days “Skate Or Die” reigned supreme on our “Nintendos*” and we loved it. :-P

    *There was no reason to clarify which “Nintendo” console, because there was no Gameboy/SNES, yet. Of course our parents would call all the consoles “Nintendos”, even the C64 and the Master System - but what would you expect from the same people, that thought the “Turbo” button would always boost their 386s (when sometimes it did the complete opposite), because they didn’t read any manuals. :-P

  • shundi82@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Reddit is a shithole
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    11 months ago

    But the poster you replied to has a point:

    Just like most animals the greater majority of people try to avoid as many direct conflicts as possible IRL. And they’re full of empathy and compassion - even for other animals in distress and inanimate objects (saw off the fingers of a plastic doll in front of others and see how they treat you afterwards).

    But of course people will lose a part of that compassion etc once they move within society without feeling like a part of it. One example is driving a car. You’re way less aware of being a part of society even though you’re “swimming” in it. Feeling a strong individual agency and being empowered by two tons of steel while simultaneously being greatly restricted by everyone and everything around you will do that to you.

    Same goes for the (social) media landscape. We feel empowered by our own echo chambers and/or chosen media outlet while barely interacting with anyone who could challenge our beliefs (which, funnily enough, is often the right call in that context, because we can’t change strong opposing beliefs via social media). And since it’s all an indirect, mostly faceless interaction, our beliefs will automatically be strengthened and we’ll be more likely to agitate anyone with opposing beliefs (while still avoiding any direct conflict).

    So I’d say it’s more of a flaw in our design, that is being exploited, than a general lack of sympathy/empathy (of which we actually have plenty).

    Which means you can’t hold any one individual to higher standards. Because that’s not where we “fail”. It’d take a much broader appliance of social securities (housing, food, healthcare, education etc all over the world) and a fundamental change in the way we interact. But you and I won’t change that (though I guess it’s comforting telling ourselves that we could individually change things on a greater scale).