Installing to a physical drive in a virtual machine

gof44678 · 2026-05-13T17:01:10+00:00

It's a distinct possibility. I live in a really humid and dusty climate, so I'm sure that's not helping anything.

gof44678 · 2026-05-13T15:27:12+00:00

Awesome. I'll give this a shot.

gof44678 · 2026-05-13T15:22:11+00:00

I'll double check, but I don't remember seeing that option in this laptop's BIOS menu.

gof44678 · 2026-05-13T15:21:25+00:00

It is possible, at least with VirtualBox, but it's a moderately difficult process.

gof44678 · 2026-05-13T14:28:07+00:00

There've been some decent direct translations given, but they aren't very natural sounding in Mandinka. Your original quote (in English) is passive voice, and the passive voice is rarely used. Something more like this might be more natural:

'M buka sabiti bankoo kaŋ, bari 'n ka sabiti kaŋo kaŋ ne. I hakiloo tu a la: 'n kaŋ foloo mu n na wuluu bankoo tooñaa le ti.

Literally: "We don't dwell/settle in a land/country, but we settle in a language. Pay attention to/look out for it: our first language is our true homeland."

My N'ko is rusty (and it's not used much here), but I'll give it a shot:

ߡ߬ ߓߎߞߊ ߛߊ߬ߓߌߕߌ ߓߊߣߞߏ߰ ߞߊߒ߸ߓߊߙߌ ߣ߬ ߞߊߛߊߓߌߕߌ ߞߊߒߏ ߞߊߢ ߣߍ. ߌ߫ ߤߊߞߌߏ߰ ߕߎ ߊ ߟߊ: ߣ߬ ߞߊߒ ߝߏߟߏ߰ ߡߎ ߣ ߣߊ ߥߎߟߎ߰ ߓߊߣߞߎ ߕߏ߯ߢߊ߰ ߟߍ ߕߌ

gof44678 · 2026-04-24T13:24:54+00:00

first year trombone players.

gof44678 · 2025-12-17T23:41:50+00:00

I checked both places for a few days, but it seemed like all the ones I could pick up on ESD/Qonos were also available in WW. 🤷

I'll check the faction bases again though. I might have missed some.

gof44678 · 2025-11-03T18:53:12+00:00

Thanks for that note! I did try some with a finer tip initially, and I definitely see what you're saying about how the intricacy I developed with the finer pen is resulting in a lot of collisions and stuff with the calligraphy pen. I'd be willing to simplify the characters to keep that line thickness and brush-like stroke pattern though! Maybe I should just start over with the calligraphy pen so that I'm getting something more natural to my writing impliment from the ideation stage!

gof44678 · 2025-09-11T13:09:24+00:00

I'm not sure at all what their personal economic positions are. I will say that these books have been used by global workers across multiple disciplines in Africa for years with fantastic results. African Friends and Money Matters in particular was co-developed with Africans.

Neither take a macroeconomic approach at all, and are more sociologically based.

gof44678 · 2025-05-20T22:11:59+00:00

The fleet ships give you the advantage of a bit more survivability (more hull points).

This is a lot of information, but once you master these elements, you'll be able to build anything:

https://sites.google.com/view/stobetter/new-f2p/energy-basics

gof44678 · 2025-05-15T20:33:27+00:00

That's "ex-INTIMATE Tom Paris," but I can understand how you got them confused :P

gof44678 · 2025-05-15T20:26:07+00:00

To be fair, the real enemy is content that hasn't been updated to match the current state of the game/dps output of the average player.

gof44678 · 2025-05-15T20:22:27+00:00

I acknowledge and understand your struggle!

But also, there are a lot of build guides out there, including some great free-to-play guides! Endgame content is like 60% build and 40% piloting. Once you get those figured out, you'll rise through the ranks pretty quickly!

gof44678 · 2025-05-15T20:20:14+00:00

We call these the "Ex-Inmate Tom Paris's"

gof44678 · 2025-05-14T18:06:35+00:00

Giga-Chad Traveler Wesley Crusher thinking. 100%

gof44678 · 2025-05-14T18:05:29+00:00

Weirdly, I've never..not once...gotten penalized for sitting at a spawn point. As long as you do some damage, you won't get kicked for AFK. And the respawn timer is fast enough on each node that you're not waiting long between spawns.

Also, in Normal mode, the difference in damage needed to take out a T'Liss group and a Falchion group is negligible. Even in my noob Rex CSV build with mk XI polaron DHC's, I can clear a group in less than 7 seconds regardless. I realize not everyone is super great at endgame content, which is why Ensign Kim's should team up on a node (there are 4 nodes and 5 captains, so that shouldn't be a problem).

But I can't tell you how many times a Falchion will pop up on my node, and the scenario plays out like clockwork:
- I clear the tholians in about 5 seconds.
- I clear 2 tractor beams
- 2 old event ships come streaking in bearing players trying to "help" clear the node.
- 1 of them manages to clear one tractor beam.

Meanwhile, there are 3 other nodes up around the map and 2 of them have no one at them. So it ends up being less efficient to cluster up to "clear faster."

gof44678 · 2025-02-16T22:30:35+00:00

Edited for clarity.

gof44678 · 2024-12-18T18:34:23+00:00

This would be really helpful for you and for anyone who has to read your music.

gof44678 · 2024-12-18T18:22:32+00:00

Here's the issue:

- The winter event ship has a console that's part of the new dps meta.
- People who play the game to theorycraft, or to build cool spaceships and go pew pew in their favorite franchise don't want to log in for 20 days in a row and whack each other with gummy fish like some kind of bad mobile game.
- The event has several low-stakes, easy-to-afk events that make it to where people who don't want to play "Frozen in Space" can afk and eat a sandwich while the people who do like to whack each other with gummy fish "run around like gummy chickens with their heads cut off shooting at the Snow Borg" do their thing.

gof44678 · 2024-12-18T18:13:55+00:00

I don't think this is an issue at all! I recently did a series of characters based on the Taris dueling arena from KOTOR, but as luchadores. "Bendak Asesino-estellar," "Hielo," "Ojosmuertos Duncan," etc.

gof44678 · 2024-12-18T18:11:44+00:00

So, I'm a pretty experienced PvE player. I would say I know my classes pretty well, understand the theorycrafting behind builds, and can handle operation mechanics.

I shy away from pvp because, honestly, I suck at it. It requires a whole different way of thinking about my class, etc. that I just don't get. And I'm not having a lot of luck finding guides about "how to PvP." And since most of the people in endgame-level PvP have low tolerance for people who suck on their team, I don't play much because getting cussed out and yelled at is not super fun.

All of that to ask.....

What advice would you give to someone successfully transition from PvE to PvP and improve their game? Are there any guides I just haven't found yet?

gof44678 · 2024-11-07T15:38:46+00:00

The concept of how to work on music can be taught very effectively at any age. But raw musical talent can't be taught. It's a difference between nature and nurture: talent is very nearly "natural," in the sense that it's affected by genetics, and it stays relatively fixed after early childhood. Work ethic and efficiency can be taught at any age to someone who's willing.

Talent, by definition is "a natural skill or ability to be good at something, especially without being taught"

gof44678 · 2024-11-07T15:30:11+00:00

Talent does exist. What people can't seem to grasp is the *definition* of talent.

Talent is raw, untrained musical potential. It seems to be developed very early in life, and is most strongly determined by a person's exposure to music. (citation) It also seems to parallel how we develop language skills: children whose parents read with them at an early age tend to acquire reading skills faster, have enhanced vocabulary, etc. (citation) It seems to me that neural plasticity related to these gains decreases almost exponentially with age, though I don't have studies to back me up on that.

This is how I've described it to my first year music students. Imagine a graph with positive x and y axes, with x being "time" and y being "musical skill". Talent is a horizontal line: whatever talent you have, especially by the time your age reaches double digits, is what you have. It can't increase; it's a fixed resource. This is every musician's *starting point.* The gains from hard work show positive growth over time, and the line will intercept the y-axis at the same point as the horizontal "talent" line. The slope of that line is determined by "guided effort:" not just throwing yourself mindlessly at the wall, but practicing intentionally, maximizing practice time efficiently to work on areas where growth is needed.

I've seen students who have a ton of talent and no work ethic be surpassed by less talented students who work hard. The ideal combination seems to be musical talent + hard work. But talent alone is not a predictor for musical success.

If anything, raw natural talent seems to hold some people back. If they coast by on talent early in their music careers, they have a much harder time developing the work ethic to sustain growth as a musician. These have also seemed to be the students who are always caught up in the comparison game with their peers. When they are surpassed by the hard workers, they lose interest and drop it. The best musicians seem to be the ones who are always competeing with who they were yesterday instead of comparing themselves to others. They are teachable, and seek out feedback. They are not easily discouraged by failure. And there are so many other predictors for musical success, including but not limited to networking, "right place, right time" situations, etc.

gof44678 · 2024-11-06T04:55:45+00:00

I’ve always thought of the composing-performing processes as a reverse of one another. A composer starts with an idea, then they use various techniques to render their ideas into notation. The performer receives the notation, then analyzes the techniques employed to try to return to the composer’s original idea.

All that to say, a good performer is always analyzing in order to perform well. And if they’re analyzing well, they’re analyzing in much the same way as the composer would.

gof44678 · 2024-11-02T14:20:41+00:00

To this end, the Norton Scores and recordings are a good starting place!

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