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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • 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.




  • For me it’s “The Mighty Boosh”: https://youtu.be/FiU-oCWPhx0

    I fell in love with my now ex-wife (then girlfriend) in no small part because she had great humor and I liked a lot of the shows she liked.

    So when one day in 2010 she raved about “The Mighty Boosh”, of which she owned all DVDs including the live stuff, I had to check it out.

    I started watching S01E01 and felt like watching someone’s fever dream trying to recreate a kid’s show. Same for the second, third etc episode.

    Usually I’d have long given up on that show. But there had to be something to it, if she loved the show so much.

    So I started watching season 2 (“Milky Joe” or “The Priest and The Beast”, I can’t really remember) and it clicked immediately. From there I binged all other episodes + season 3 + season 1 again - and I loved it all and couldn’t understand how I didn’t like it initially.

    And thanks to that I discovered other gems from the same “circle” like “Snuff Box”, “Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place”, “Luxury Comedy” and “The IT Crowd” (some episodes haven’t aged well, but others are just filled with gold).



  • In the end, open communication platforms should be treated as what they truly are: infrastructure, that is too important to be managed by corporate hands.

    It can be built by competing corps and maintained by competing corps. But management has to be kept in neutral hands (=financed by our taxes and overseen by some rotating government body - but otherwise kept away from corpo and gov influence). So pretty much what should be standard for housing, water, electricity, insurance, banks, health care, mail, landlines, cable and some important media.

    Alas, instead all of the above is getting privatized to the max - so it’s looking pretty bleak for any major communication platforms.

    But a man can dream…