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  • Pre-UEFI they were fighting over the boot sector, sure, but now that everything is more well defined, and every OS can read the FAT32 ESP? Never seen it…

    At worst the UEFI boot entry is replaced. There are some really shitty UEFI implementations out there which only want to load \efi\microsoft\boot\bootx64.efi or \efi\boot\bootx64.efi, or keep resetting you back to those.

    Assuming you were dumped into Windows suddenly, you can check if you have the necessary boot entries still with bcdedit and its firmware option

    bcdedit /enum firmware
    

    If you just have a broken order you can fix it with

    bcdedit /set {fwbootmgr} displayorder {<GUID>} /addfirst
    

    If you actually need a new entry for Linux it’s a bit more annyoing, you need to copy one of the windows entries, and then modify it.

    bcdedit /copy {<GUID1>} /d "Fedora"
    bcdedit /set {<GUID2>} path \EFI\FEDORA\SHIM.EFI
    bcdedit /set {fwbootmgr} displayorder {<GUID2>} /addfirst
    

    Where GUID1 is a suitable entry from windows, and GUID2 is the one you get back from the copy command as the identifier of the new entry. Of course you will have to adjust the description and the path according to your distro and where it puts its shim, or the grub efi, depending on which you’d like to start.

    Edit: Using DiskGenius might be a little more comfortable.











  • Seems to me like they were already aware when writing this Press Release, they mentioned the policy on DSD:

    Athletes that are deemed to be male at birth, as evidenced by the presence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a difference of sexual development (DSD) where male androgenization occurs, will be eligible to compete in the male category.

    Athletes that are deemed to be female at birth, as evidenced by the presence of XX chromosomes or the absence of Y chromosome genetic material (the SRY gene) or with a DSD where male androgenization does not occur, will be eligible to compete in the female category.


  • Is there some sort of rule that says that there can only be two political parties.

    No, but I think the issue lies with their system of government. As a presidential republic they don’t have parliamentary government where parties enter coalitions to form the executive, so smaller parties have no good way to get established and share executive power and responsibility while growing.

    Couple that with the voting system which also favours the trend to only two parties, and there you have the mess.

    PS: They have the Green Party and the Libertarian Party, but they remain at the fringe and largely irrelevant. No seats for either of them.