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You’ve probably seen this photo. It’s been mis-captioned as something after Pearl Harbor, or simply as a photo from California. It’s from the 1920s. The specifics are still not clear to me, but it’s related to the Hollywood Protective Association, a racist organization opposed to Japanese living in Hollywood. Larry Harnisch, a writer retired from…

I wanted to update the BIOS, but this was made difficult because I deleted Windows from the laptop. Here’s a recipe that worked. Why These Two Systems? Older BIOS updaters were DOS programs, and could be run through an OS like FreeDOS. This updater requires a Windows 32-bit environment to run. The computer had weird…

Append this to your .zshrc to apply updates: I prefer to update from the command line, because it’s less intrusive to me. This script runs when the Terminal opens a shell. That’s why I check that it’s already run within the past day. The update.sh script runs apt upgrade, and then flatpak update. The ssh…

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Why: Linux is a good way to get more out of your hardware. It runs less “spyware” like monitoring. Itʻs a little less automated. You donʻt need to log into Microsoft or Apple to do things. How: create an external SSD disk connected over USB-3 to boot the machine. This way, you can reboot into…

Symptoms: rebooting immediately goes into the grub command line. The easiest way to fix this is to use a USB boot, and run tools to fix the boot. This page explains how to fix it from the command line. The following commands are how I fixed it. grub> set root=/dev/sda2grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda2grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img.oldgrub>…