Iirc the dirty secret of rare earth metals is that every country has them in at least some capacity even if there’s variability in how easy to access those deposits are. The dirty part is that the countries that produce them less so have a particular abundance and more so have a lack of environmental regulations.

Thank you! this solved it and I am writing this comment from Linux.

\EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi

Can you tell me where to get this? The threads are all written by people who seem to assume the reader already knows what it is and the GNU GRUB website appears to be completely dead with none of the links or pages working except for the introduction one.

No luck with secure boot, gonna see if I can find a bios update for this thing.
Edit: Aaaand Asus no longer offers bios updates for this model.

except MAGA level idiots

Crys in being British and missing out on the resurgance of European unity because our PM prefers to felate Trump.

Not making a choice is also a choice.

Well… their threat is more start selling off their US treasurey bonds that are worth more more than a trillion dollars and could potentially tank the value of the dollar itself if sold off on mass…

Been trying to install mint on an old laptop and it just gets into a crash/boot loop after installing. The USB preview on the other hand appears to work perfectly.

A doomsday device is useless if no one knows you have it.

We’re about 50 years delayed on the timeline, We’re just at the panamanian conflict which is what ultimately sparks the fragmentation of the USA and eventual birth of the NUSA. On the bright side that means we have like 30 years until data crash.

Also Trump and his rhetoric is pretty much following the canon of Cyberpunk 2077 to the letter just with a 50 year or so delay.

There are concensions and then there’s functionally disarming so you can be attacked even more easily in 5 years.

Chinas long term strategy really does seem to be just to keep calm and carry on while the rest of us fuck ourselves up repeatedly.

I presume by… making things? with the 800 billion euros?

Exactly its not some mysterious problem no matter how much the government and media try to frame it as one, people of the age to have kids have no time for kids and no money for kids so no wonder they have no desire for kids.

I’d go a bit further and say Camacho was actually pretty proactive, he did after all institute that nation wide intelligence test to find someone to tell him how to fix everything, and was humble enough to listen to that person once he found him.

Honestly fuck it we know appeasment doesn’t work, I’d rather have WW3 now when Ruzzia is still just a middle power with a ton of second hand equipment than let them take half of eastern europe and build up some serious strength before finally having WW3 anyway.

Fucking Idiocracy is competence porn at this point, Camacho was an idiot but damn was he actually really competent if you think about the events of the movie.

Unfortunate slight difference, The US was unwilling to go full scorched earth, the potential effect of the US bomber fleet using just conventional munitions was described as having the potential to do almost as much devastation as a nuclear strike, despite the warcrimes the US still held back. I doubt Putin would bat an eye at such a policy we’re simply fortunate the russian military simply isn’t capable of that kind of attack.

Because Ukranian troops have 2 things Russian troops will never have.

• Commanders that don’t use idiotic human wave attacks.
• Shoes.