I think it’s perfectly reasonable and human to be angry about child rape.

Well hey, I appreciate the recommendation. Maybe it’s time to get back into Windows 98 gaming. Just like mom used to make.

Not a bad idea. How do you actually partake that hobby? Is it more the same building things or the challenge of getting old hardware/software working?

Computer electronics are like my main hobby. It was expensive on a good day. This makes it unaffordable.

I’ve had wood ducks, but this one looks so lifelike.

Thanks to the invention of debt, we can continue taking from the poor what they don’t even have!

The backwards thing is, it probably actually is profitable, but we can’t see beyond the next quarter. We don’t understand that you can invest in your people.

I might have kids if I had the space for it. You know, future taxpayers.

Best I can do is fed interest rate cuts.

Precisely. This is extreme inequity. There are plenty of resources to go around.

The future was stolen.

Is this the same Jeffery Epstein, Trump’s closest and most intimate friend? The same one who ran the child sex ring and was killed mysteriously in prison?

My main SSD failed two hours ago and the prices are crazy. I’m considering buying on the secondary market.

The Arkansas Board of Corrections approved the change, which a Department of Corrections spokesperson said takes effect on Feb. 1. Prison officials said the restriction was needed in order to tamp down on contraband being smuggled into prisons.

Sounds like you need to fire these incompetent people rather than maximizing cruelty, unless maximizing cruelty was your objective.

It was always imperfect, but now we’re not even trying. There’s no point in maintaining a façade. They’re happy to just tell you to get fucked what are you gonna do about it?

Department of Prejudice.

I wish my English teachers didn’t beat me up so hard (figuratively) as incorrect use of ‘they’ when it has a long history of usage in the singular.

Bi-weekly password change policy is the bane of my existence.

I completely missed that detail! Thank you.

Some of us have to make sacrifices for access to Microslop’s 365 Copilot app, the most agentic office software available.

No seriously. It’s not just Office anymore. It’s 365 copilot web portal. This is the latest reason why we are cooking the planet, stealing from the poor to give to the rich, etc.

Hmm, well I appreciate you considering my hypothesis. The last thing I would try is unmounting using the terminal (not GUI, as this will remove the underlying device) and then mounting that mapper device again in the terminal, to see if it gives me any messages about why it can’t satisfy a request to mount as writable.

Beyond this, and based on the available information, I am not sure.

I’ve seen a few cases where Linux tries to be very careful and not mess with NTFS if there’s features in use that it doesn’t support. Is there any chance you had a swap file or hibernation file on that volume? Do you see any messages about the volume being dirty when mounted or in your dmesg? Was bitlocker ever used with those volumes?