Great American humorist. C# developer. Open source enthusiast.

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  • A bullet point list of his policies for those with a short attention span like me.

    • Abortion: Supports abortion rights; signed legislation protecting access in Minnesota.
    • Climate Change: Aims for 100% clean energy by 2040; streamlined renewable energy project permitting, secured EPA grant.
    • Immigration: Backs pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants; expanded state services regardless of status.
    • Israel-Gaza: Aligns with Biden-Harris on two-state solution and humanitarian aid in Gaza; condemned Hamas’ actions for Oct. 7th attack.
    • Gun Control: Evolved stance, now supports assault weapons ban, universal background checks, “red flag” law.
    • Economy: Advocated progressive pro-labor legislation; tax cuts for residents with corporate/high earner increases.
    • Paid Leave: Signed bill providing paid family/medical leave up to 12 weeks.
    • Education: Supports free school meals, tuition-free public higher education for eligible low-income students.
    • Marijuana Legalization: Signed legislation legalizing recreational marijuana and expunging/resentencing lower-level convictions.














  • If I release something free of restrictions to the world as a gift, that is my prerogative. And a third party’s actions don’t affect my ability to do whatever I want with the original code, nor the users of their product’s ability to do what they want with my code. And the idea of “property” here is pretty abstract. What is it you own when you purchase software? Certainly not everything. Probably not nothing. But there is a wide swath in between in which reasonable people can disagree.

    If you are an intellectual property abolitionist, I doubt there is much I can say to change your mind.




  • I don’t know off the top of my head. I think that Clonezilla can modify images in such a way as they can be booted on a different type of device. My knowledge of the black magic of boot sectors and partition stuff is lacking. Also, you’d have to make sure the motherboard/BIOS is properly configured for reading the device in the same way that the original device was read. UEFI/BIOS stuff can be a pain in the ass to get right.

    So my short answer is probably, but I wouldn’t be able to walk you through something like that. Wish I could be more helpful.


  • Would this work

    Yes.

    or would I have problems

    Also yes.

    I used to do this backing up my “servers”. By that I mean some Raspberry Pis and random old PCs running Debian. I even did so successfully when needing to restore the images. But it was fragile and also failed at times, sometimes to great inconvenience when it was a machine serving something important.

    I’ve since moved to a different backup strategy for servers, but if I were to do this with a bare-metal machine I want to preserve, I’d use something like Clonezilla. The maintainers of that project know a whole heck of a lot more than I do of the ins and outs of disk management, backup, and restoration than I do with my simple dd commands. If it is something you’re just wanting to do for fun and experience, dd can work. If you’re concerned with the security of your data/image, I’d use Clonezilla.