Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

So, the second hard drive replaces the CD drive. To get to that, all I had to do was take out the battery, remove 2 screws to get the bottom cover off, then remove one screw to take out the CD drive. It was that simple. I've also taken it apart to replace the thermal paste and while that was more complicated, Dell actually provides step-by-step instructions to disassemble the laptop that far. These kind of laptops are seriously quite nice in terms of repairability.

Okay, if you're in the market for a new laptop, seriously consider a used business-class laptop (e.g. Dell's Precision and Latitude lines). I've got a Precision M4800, and it was already pretty good, right? I've now got a dock, which lets me just take it and go. I've got a *second hard drive* in it. And, it's *really* easy to fix. I literally just had to remove three screws to be able to put in the second hard drive. They're expensive new, but used? I got mine for $300.

Let this be a reminder that they get you young. If I hadn't taken the intellectual pathway I did, the first thing I would have found challenging that narrative would have been my Texas Government professor during my second semester of college. Even as it was, I was a junior or senior in high school before I really found out that narrative is bullshit. Children are the future, and it's children that fascists will target.

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Let that sink in. Fourth grader. Told this during social studies. By an outside speaker. Like, this would have been bad enough if I was a senior in high school. But at least I would have had the ability to, if not call it out, do my research and find out how bullshit it is. To intellectually defend myself, as it were. As a fourth grader, though? No. Not in a million years could I have hoped to defend my young, impressionable mind.
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So, if you asked me what the most insidious lie I was ever told was, there's one that easily wins out over all others: Lost Cause of the South nonse. Now, on it's own, it's bad, but not exactly "the most insidious lie". But here's the kicker: I was in 4th grade, and I was told this by a speaker who my social studies teacher brought in to tell us about how the civil war wasn't actually about slavery.
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Ya know, sometimes I hear about the state of modern dev tools, especially in web dev*, and become thankful the OS I'm writing is in C, assembly, and the occasional makefile or lex/yacc grammar combo. Like, yikes.

*Okay, almost exclusively in web dev.

My stickers are here! (Well, two of them. Still waiting on the industrial werewolves of the world one, but I'm sure it'll arrive soon enough.)