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Cake day: March 2nd, 2025
  • Gronk@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux no longer boots after updateEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    My common solution to boot issues that lock me out is,

    1. Get a USB Live distro (always good to have a backup lying around)

    2. Boot into live distro

    3. Chroot into the broken distro (Arch wiki has an article on this)

    4. Fix any bugs that I can find and/or reinstall the bootloader

    5. Test, repeat until the problem has been found and fixed

    Hope it helps any newcomers!

  • Gronk@aussie.zonetopictures@lemm.ee•This is how much food you can get for the cost of a pack of cigarettes in Australia (50 AUD)English
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    3 days ago

    Eh the tax on cigarettes increases every year I think it’s literally $2 a smoke now, it was 1.67 when I quit.

    I’m conflicted on this tax though, the money doesn’t go anywhere it should. Our healthcare services should be propped up with this money because smokers are actively damaging themselves causing increased stress on the medical system, it could also be put towards harm minimisation in general not just for smoking but all sorts of addictions

    But the government doesn’t actually care about this issue, if you look at the stance towards vaping it’s apparent that they tried this ban to prop up big tobacco considering the only ‘legal’ vapes on the market are manufactured by the big tobacco corporations

    The other issue is this tax is severely damaging for low socioeconomic areas in Australia, who already have a high amount of smokers. Lots of places just sell cheap imported cigarettes for 20 bucks now, so that money is going to some kind of organised crime.

    I just think it’s a form of prohibition that’s gotten out of hand, rather it should’ve been used to bootstrap and fund better infrastructure and policy around the issue.