Ancap Air

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This Thanksgiving, I am incredibly thankful. I have a beautiful wife, three pibbles, and two birbs that I love so very much. I also am thankful for: - Privacy technology which allow for financial transactions and communications that makes the surveillance state have to work just a little bit harder, - Ghost guns which the state has a harder time tracking accurately, - The Black Market (aka the TRUE free market) and the ingenuity of entrepreneurs who operate outside the law, providing goods and services that the government has deemed "too dangerous" for us to handle ourselves, - My followers (to include my haters). I love each and every one of y'all!!! - And finally, I'm thankful for the inefficiency of government and their sheer incompetence. If they were actually good at being tyrants, we'd all be in a lot more trouble. But luckily for us, they can't even run a post office without losing billions of dollars, so one day, the slaves will either wake up, or everything will implode. Happy Thanksgiving! May your turkey be moist, your family be tolerable, and your taxes be non-existent.
Well, my Linux system is pissing me off. I'm running Kali (no, I'm not cool enough to know how. It's what I taught myself on because I wanted to learn hacking). I just updated everything after a couple months, and as happens with rolling releases, my shit's fucked. I thought it was my nvidia drivers, because that's what it always is... My system wouldn't boot after the update. I'd get past GRUB, and but the Kali splash screen would never come up. Just black with the flashing cursor in the corner taunting me. I could only get in via root login in rescue mode. I should have been tipped off that my network manager hadn't started and I had to configure my network every time I rebooted, but I didn't even think about it. I purged and reinstalled the nvidia drivers, tried to downgrade, and all the things. Nothing worked. Then I went through the logs, and everything indicated that my drivers were loading as they should... I asked Venice AI for some help, and it confirmed my logs indicated the drivers were loading. It actually suggested something very helpful... Install Openbox and see what happens.... And holy shit, I got a window manager, and no more TTY! Did some more recommendations of looking at some logs, and then it said I should purge systemd and reinstall... Of course I'm not that retarded. I didn't do that. I got it to ask me to check my dbus daemon, and found that it wasn't started. Neither the dbus.service nor the dbus.socket were active. I could manually start them, but they aren't starting during boot. And this is where I quit for now because my brain hurts, and I will throw my monitor across the room if I keep working tonight. Any ideas? Thanks!