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They are not leftists, they are tankies who are pro-Russia, pro-CCP, pro-Assad, and basically pro-every-authoritarian. They defend multiple genocides. They're fascists stealing leftist valor.

Rich old white man endorses rich old white man over rich old white man

Do you seriously think I don't know what a whataboutism is? Fuck off with this disingenuous bullshit tankie.

I'm not even a goddamn american!

What the fuck are you even talking about. Go back to bed. I'm not an idiot and I'm not falling for your shit.

I don't think so really. Google accounts are pretty hard to bot. I think they're just idiots and children and with Poe's law you can't really tell the difference.

My source is not being a fucking idiot. Yes, the guys with the Mao and Castro avatars whose entire personality is being MLs just chose that domain by chance. Jfc you are either so dumb or so disingenuous.

It also adds to the deployment complexity even more. Just from memory, to run Mastodon you need:

• any number of Rails web servers (horizontally scalable)
• any number of Sidekiq worker processes (horizontally scalable)
• a PostgreSQL database for persistent storage (vertically scalable modulo sharding)
• a Redis server for caching and Sidekiq (vertically scalable modulo sharding)
• a Elasticsearch server for full text search (vertically scalable modulo sharding)

So this is at least 5 different server processes to manage, In reality for almost all deployments, Redis and Elasticsearch are unnecessary; the database can be used for jobs and full text search. Further, it could even be SQLite for all but large instances.

The deployment story for Mastodon is a nightmare and a substitute like Pleroma or even better something in Rust is necessary.

My first account on Lemmy got banned for suggesting that ml was for marxist-leninist even though it clearly is.

Like why do you think Lemmygrad, the explicitly tankie instance, chose the same domain? Coincidence?

You asked a completely irrelevant question to deflect to a different subject, presumably because you thought I was American. Unfortunately I've slayed a lot of tankies and I know your tricks. I'm not falling for your misdirection.

I don't live under and don't want to live under either, because I am a radical anarchist and don't believe in states or borders. So, I did kind of answer your dumb, misdirecting, whataboutist false dichotomy with my first reply. Hope you are happy with the answer. It's bedtime now.

Yes, I'm a radical anarcho-feminist.

Yes to rsync. It will update the destination files in place without deleting the source files (unless you provide that flag -- don't.)

You might actually be screwed if you ended up overwriting the EFI variables in /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/414799/efi-variable-entries-in-sys-firmware-efi-efivars.

If you still have all your files backed up, it might be easiest to reinstall the base system and then selectively copy back over the directories you want with cp -a. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if you can't even attempt to boot, that's not good.

How did you mess it up? What actions lead to the problem and what are the symptoms? When you mount the disk from live USB, what happens? Do you see any errors in dmesg after doing that?

I'm not sure if this is the problem, but it might be that cp -r creates the new files according to the current user's umask and uid/gid. Which, if done from a live CD, would be a user that does not exist on the system when you try to boot it. What you want is cp -a.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44967/difference-between-cp-r-and-cp-a

You might be able to correct this without re-copying everything by using rsync. I don't recall the incantation off-hand (you'll want to google it) but I think you want rsync --partial --archive.

https://serverfault.com/questions/141773/what-is-archive-mode-in-rsync

Edit: Would also help to know if you are getting any error messages at boot time.

About to be one more. (In case it was unclear, this is a metaphor and an alt.)

I'm surprised there is anywhere fentanyl hasn't got to yet. No matter where I live I would be cautious about that.