Well of course I know him. He’s me.

just trying to understand what I did wrong.

You might not have done anything wrong.

There is also the possibility of a bad USB drive or write memory failure. There is lots of things that could go wrong that’s not your fault. Might try a different USB or a different USB port on your machine.

You might want to try zeroing out the USB, if=/dev/zero. Then you might need to make a new partition table. You can use something like gparted. Or https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-manipulate-partition-tables-with-fdisk-cfdisk-and-sfdisk-on-linux

You can try GPT or DOS. I dont think it matters.

Not sure if the ISO will have the partition table so you might want make the new partition table just to be sure the stick defiantly has one. If dd overwrites it from the iso no harm no foul.

Thats all the troubleshooting steps I can think of right now.

Did you make sure that the of is correct? lsblk to make sure.

If your sure it wrote to the right drive i would make sure that you have a good download. Did you run your checksums?

I think fedora works with secureboot but you might want to disable it just to see if that is the issue. I believe you can reenable it after install.

Make sure to go into the bios and boot from external drive/usb.

Out of 15 years of using dd i have never had a problem.

Trump is an enemy of democracy. An enemy of all free peoples. A clear and present danger to us all.

They took their oath to defend the constitution. Clearly trump is the enemy from within.

If there are any generals in the US that are still loyal to the people and their oaths they took to defend our country from enemy’s both foreign and domestic, now is the time.

US has abdicated its role. Europe’s time to take the reins has come.

Fair enough!

I very much appreciated the xkcd, gave a good chuckle.

The LWDIS page should have a basic overview of the different distro family’s and maybe a breakdown of their specialty’s or focus. Probably have a breakdown for windows and mac specific easy ways to burn an ISO in the stickie.

Then people could field questions and guide people to the distro that might suit OP’s needs best instead of sponsoring their favorite distro.

From there they can go to the individual distros for more complete information and questions. If that distro and their community feels like a fit for their needs I think we could have a better retention rate than what we have been doing.

The other day I saw one of these which distro posts and most replies were not very helpful and mostly fanboy sponsorships which i don’t think would be very helpful to the OP. But their was one person there patiently and thoroughly answering OPs questions with the best info he could provide. It was tip top! That’s how we grow together!

I get it, the fanboy thing, I’ve got it bad for arch, endeavour and garuda. Im also the geekiest twat in my town. I don’t really recommend them to people I dont intend to be their IT guy when shit goes wrong. For the most part I recomend distros that have great communities people can draw from. If a newbie goes to the arch forum and hasn’t at least read the docs and researched their problem, provide logs or terminal output they arent getting helped. At least not how they might need. But on the mint, ubuntu, fedora forum’s they can plow through just about any problem with a little hand holding if that’s what they need, and that’s not a bad thing.

Friendliness, inclusion, understanding of the users personal needs, computer usage and goals is the way to keep people and expand our linux community IMO.

I want linux to be as welcoming as possible to everyone and the newbie question of what distro to use will come up a lot. I dont think it’s helpful in any way to bicker about why my choice in linux is better. We should be giving them the tools to make the best decision for themselves

What if we built a beginners linux community (Linux, Where Do I Start -> LWDIS) and point to all the distros communities, and on those distro specific communities they had beginner friendly install, setup, rice, maintenance instructions and advice along with a difficulty rating. I don’t know if stickies are a thing here but could be helpful in keeping relevant info on top. This could be a place for fanboys to shine on there favorite distro while keeping the basic inclusive LWDIS community free of bickering about distros that might cause confusion and turn people off.

I see no harm in it.

That sucks, i thought i had used it before to get some music videos.

I think newPipe has an age restriction toggle in its settings, its available on android, not sure about ios, pretty sure not available on desktops.

Its been a while since ive needed to do this.

Dammit, i replied to myself. Stupid self!

yt-dlp might do the trick.

M’aiq is very practical. He has no need for mysticism.

To expand on this with some small context albeit way older than the Romans. Egyptians gave the Peleset land in the Levant. Theorised that they were warrior peoples of the sea and the Philistines of biblical text somewhere in the late second millennium BC before the bronze age colapse. There is an incredible documentary by Pete Kelly (History Time) on youtube. Well worth the watch. Another great video he did about the Akkadians called The first Empire. He also did a great video about the Hittites. His whole channel is a goldmine of knowledge of the ancient world.

Any way the ancient world is filled with peoples from all over, moving around. Trade was a major factor. War was another. People from all over the Mediterranean and beyond mixed knowledge, their trades, their crafts, blood on battlefields and likely genes. Probably long before there was a written word pressed in clay.

Were all muts.

The military production could be good for your economy and create jobs, lots of jobs. Might inspire your tech industry’s as well.

Giving money to the US is no longer a viable option. Our election’s are likely over for good. When putin decides to invade Europe proper it will likely do so with the aid of the US.

If I were the EU I would lock trump out of everything. Stop giving him that level of respect. That is what he craves, the spotlight to wag his “power” like a dog dragging his ass on the carpet. Start having meetings with Ukraine without trump, if putin wants to treat let him come to the fucking Hague for a sit down. Pass some sort of special resolution to allow immediate entry for Ukraine into the EU as soon as the war is over. I would increase military production to equal that of the US and feed Ukraine the means to defend itself without the US. I would ban all US based social media and anything resembling the tech bro propaganda machines used to sway and interfere with your free elections.

I know this is not going to happen but that’s what I would do if I were the EU.

Tell them the they are the only gift you need and how lucky you are to have them in your life. Anything material just pails in comparison.

Here is a tool to see federated status of instances.

https://defed.xyz/