I was not aware that it literally had to be a LIVE image.

Funny how the only correct response is downvoted?
First link goes directly to newest testing images.

Absolutely, on way more cases than just 1.

Yes but the post I responded to completely turned around. So that’s fine for me. Probably someone thought my comment wasn’t necessary, but obviously it was for some, since it changed the voting both instantly and completely.

Americans are indoctrinated with values of individual freedom to a degree where Malignant narcissism has become a virtue, and it shows throughout all aspects of society.
Everything that benefit common good is demonized. Like food stamps, social welfare, healthcare for all, protection of minorities, lack of union rights, insane gun rights, and abolishing free abortion, and even sex education.
It’s in everything American in society, and USA is so far removed from other developed countries it’s more like a very poor developing country in many aspects.
It’s all about oppressing the non privileged, to give more privileges to the already privileged.

Now people are even getting away with claiming slavery wasn’t so bad!!

IDK why you are downvoted, maybe it’s the double negative?

But just to make it clear, keep from losing = winning.
So corrected for double negative:

The level of idiotic selfish spitefulness required for him to win…

And yes I agree completely, it’s insane he even had a chance, and it says a LOT about the American society as a whole is mentally ill.

Not everybody, but enough to make it a systemic problem throughout everything in society. It must be hell to live in USA as a normal person!

Well obviously Trump belongs in jail. And if they followed the law, he would be.

Congratulations to the American people, for having the guts to elect a crazy criminal malignant narcissist idiot for president.
I doubt many places would have the guts to do that.
To be entirely honest, this makes me doubt we will make it as a species.

Yes that’s annoying too, I have no clue why it does that, but when the sync says “clear”, I always wait a couple seconds, and run sync again a couple of times, to see if it’s actually finished. And only THEN unmount the stick.
Copy to USB does not seem very solid on Linux IMO. So I also ALWAYS buy sticks with activity LED.
But even that can fool you, sometimes when I think a smaller copy is finished, because the LED stops blinking, it suddenly starts up again, after having paused for about 1½ second?!?!

except linux waits on updating the UI until all write buffers are flushed, whereas Windows does not.

I wish that were true here. But when I copy to USB the file manager ( XFCE/Thunar ) shows the copy is finished and closes the copy notifications way way before it’s even half done, when I copy movies to a stick.
I use fast USB 3 stick on USB 3 port, and I don’t get anywhere near the write speed the stick manufacturer claims. So I always open a terminal and run sync, to see when it’s actually finished.

I hate to the extreme when systems don’t account for write cache before claiming a copy is finished, it’s such an ancient problem we’ve had since the 90’s, and I find it embarrassing that such problems still exist on modern systems.

You are absolutely correct, I’d also argue Q is more fantasy than SciFi, it’s probably more correct to say Star Trek was MOSTLY SciFi, while Star Wars had more fantasy elements as a fundamental part of the Universe that are the basis for the stories.

Personally I consider time travel as absolutely a fantasy element, I see no reason to believe the past and future exist at the same “time” as the present. Which makes time travel basically nonsense.
All time travel speculation quickly ends out in either infinities or paradoxes. Only a very careful author, who set up strict limitations prevent that.
To be honest I’m extremely tired of all the time travel babble Star Trek has turned into, where time travel is a key element of the stories.

Back in the days of Star trek the next generation, Voyager and Deep Space 9, I Would say Star Wars is not really Science Fiction but Science Fantasy.
But unfortunately that’s become true for Star Trek too.

As Science Fiction I clearly prefer old school Star Trek, but as Science Fantasy Star Wars does it way better IMO.

I hadn’t heard about Poul Anderson’s Polesotechnic League stories before, they look very interesting, I’ll bookmark that for when I feel like some old school SciFi. 👍 😀

I wonder what the fuck is in the water over there, since half the population is crazy!

A standard boot system for Arm would have been awesome 10-20 years ago! I dreamed about that already back in 2005 when the OLPC idea was new, but when the netbooks finally came out, based on somewhat similar ideas, they were exclusively Intel!!!

I must admit that after having waited in vain for 20 years now, I no longer give a shit. I cannot fathom how Arm didn’t create such a standard at least a decade ago?
Initial Netbooks with Linux were very popular, but when vendors switched to a deprecated version of Windows, that ran way worse in every way, popularity of Netbooks actually dropped for a while, and the entire concept was basically declared dead. Because they were next to unusable compared to the early Linux Netbooks.

Netbooks with Arm/Linux could have been HUGE!! But now the time has passed, because many use IOS or Android instead.

Ultimately, “the present” is something applicable to and that exists within the mind of a single observer.

No, it’s an objective thing. No observation can be exactly “at the present”, I clearly explained that earlier, there are always delays, that doesn’t change the fact that like a photo is not the past being real, so it is for all observations. That doesn’t change the fact that there is an objective “present”.

One of the hallmarks of science is that different people can independently measure something and confirm its existence. If no two observers can ever agree on what constitutes “the present,” then how can “the present” be said to exist at all? It’s a fundamentally unscientific concept.

Oh boy, yes I know that argument, and it’s a flawed argument IMO. It’s about definition. If we agree to meet somewhere at the same time, then when we meet we are at the present. There is no sane argument about that IMO. We perceive each other with a slight latency, but that does not prevent us from being together in the present.

To argue the present doesn’t exist is nonsense, and no more than a philosophical curiosity. Scientists absolutely work with a present too, and obviously compensate for latency.

I could ask the same question reversed: How can scientists compensate for latency to a degree they can measure gravitational waves, without an objective time frame, that requires acknowledgement of a present?

Clocks traveling near the speed of light don’t just appear to slow down, they actually slow down.

Which is EXACTLY the ONLY thing I said you can actually do.
You can slow down time locally. And for a photon it’s slowed down to a standstill.

That does not contradict ANYTHING I’ve claimed.

It can be argued that special relativity eliminates the concept of absolute simultaneity

That’s not the same thing. Obviously all experiences are delayed, and therefore about the past, even if it is merely picoseconds.
In that way we can only experience the past, that is obvious, and not relevant to the existence of an objective present.

Although we can only experience the present with some delay depending on circumstances, (can be billions of years astronomically) there is zero doubt that there is an objective “present” we all experience and act according to.

That’s not a concoction or a fantasy, but the actual reality. Or are you trying to argue the present doesn’t exist?

Time is seemingly an emergent property of causality. But the exact nature of what time is exactly, is not well understood.
Basic principles about whether time is linear or quantized isn’t even entirely clear.
But to argue the present doesn’t exist is like arguing nothing really exists, and then I don’t really have anything to say to you, because that’s like solipsism and that’s absolute nonsense not worth debating.

Maybe not because you can’t prove a negative, but since there is no proof that it exist, there is no rational reason to believe it does.
It’s all wishful thinking and speculation for hundreds of years with nothing to show for it.

I do however have the proof of logic, because if they do exist, all sorts of logical inconsistencies arise. Which is why fantasies about it, always end out in either infinities or paradoxes.

I can’t prove an invisible pink unicorn isn’t in my room either. But I can say I can’t see hear or otherwise detect it’s presence, even after thorough investigation, and closing the room off for an extended period of time. I still can’t prove it, but the logical conclusion is the complete an utter lack and absence of an invisible pink unicorn in my room.

All speculation on time travel end out in either paradoxes or infinities.
You are basically wasting your time, time travel is an impossible fantasy and not reality.
Time can be slowed, but there is no way it’s possible to travel back in time, because the past no longer exist. So there is nowhere to travel to.
In the same way the future does not exist yet, so you can’t “travel” to that either.
Time can however be somewhat suspended locally, so if you are suspended in time locally, it will appear as if you are traveling to the future. But in reality you are merely progressing in time faster at a slower pace locally.