Thy this, get the real massive paper copy of the Grainger catalog from your local outlet.
Then download the catalog in PDF form.
Compare the speed with which you can page through 100 pages or more at maximum physical speed which is useful enough visually for you to get enough of a grasp to stop exactly where you need to, when you wouldn't know exactly what to search for in text form anyway.
The early USA gave rise to a party known as the Democratic-Republicans which had the critical mass of officials and candidates to rival the Federalists and eventually dominate them so badly that by 1824 no opposing party even had a candidate for President. There were actually 4 candidates on the ballot though, but they were all from the same Democratic-Republican party. In that case none had enough electoral votes, so Jackson won that one when it was decided by the House. He had a total nationwide popular vote of 151,271, so you have to figure that each vote had so much of a stronger voice back then under a system quite similar to today. Unless you were there I don't think the difference in scale would be easy to fully comprehend. The party was supposedly doing well in lesser races across the growing US too.
Then apparently the party just kind of split up and re-organized into the "two-party" system that has continued to dominate ever since.
There was no threat until decades later when the Free Silver parties arose based strongly on reversing the trend where increasing economic opportunity was being systematically pushed further beyond reach of average citizens, in the face of bonanza precious metal discoveries that would have been able to pull the whole population ahead of Europe decades sooner if the Free Silvers would have had their way. Bipartisan effort was resurrected as if from a single party again, and the third party was crushed by a well-maintained machine which was bigger than either one of the major parties on their own. Before the citizens could be allowed to get a little taste, the Silvers were assimilated by the Democrats in a platform expansion that was over-dramatized but badly diluted their objectives. It does seem to be the first real big platform deviation between the Democrats & Republicans to start off the 20th century with, but the Silver supporters continued to be systematically disadvantaged for decades to come.
No third party movement has presented that level of threat to include such economic clout, but if so, deeply rooted underhanded countermeasures would be deployed, it would apparently take more than anyone could imagine, so no third party for you.
> The early USA gave rise to a party known as the Democratic-Republicans which had the critical mass of officials and candidates to rival the Federalists
The Democratic-Republicans formed before the Federalists, actually.
> There were actually 4 candidates on the ballot though
Unlike the modern system, there weren't even ballots in a quarter of the states (a popuar election for electors is not a Constitutional mandate, and it wasn't a statutory requirement to have such an election for a states' electoral votes to be considered regularly-given until much more recently.)
And the candidates weren't on the ballots that existed, party electors were (unlike modern ballots, where the Presidential candidate is listed and you get the associated electors if they win, the actual electors -- and not usually the candidate they were pledged to -- were listed on the ballots, where they existed.)
And in most states, there were not electors for all four candidates on the ballot, the four are just the candidates that received electoral votes from somewhere in the country.
> In that case none had enough electoral votes, so Jackson won that one when it was decided by the House.
Jackson won a plurality—but not the required majority to win outright—of the electoral vote, but the House elected John Quincy Adams in the contingent election required to resolve the absence of an electoral vote winner, not Jackson.
> He had a total nationwide popular vote of 151,271, so you have to figure that each vote had so much of a stronger voice back then under a system quite similar to today.
As discussed above, the system was not "quite similar to today".
> Then apparently the party just kind of split up and re-organized into the "two-party" system that has continued to dominate ever since.
The new Whig Party which was its initial main opponent did form in part from dissident offshoots of the Democratic-Republican Party, but a lot of its strength was from bringing in existing regional parties that were never competitive national parties (like the Anti-Masonic Party) as well.
> There was no threat until decades later when the Free Silver parties arose
Kind of leaving out the entire rise of the Republican Party and the displacement of the Whigs...I could go on with responding to the blend of oddly selected facts and complete distortions, but I'll just note that it doesn't get better.
Plus Eno is brilliant, which is a far cry from most politicians.
In music his works can sometimes be considered way different than most, because of even further distance from the familiar composer/songwriter/conductor/bandleader paradigm.
Even more so than things like pure jazz improvisation which can be one of the most "democratic" combos where each person has equal creative input and a wider-than-average freedom of expression. Sometimes the bandleader here is actually voted into position as the one most qualified to do the unavoidable "guidance" tasks of leading even free-form musicians.
As "opposed" to classical orchestral works where each musician's part is well-prescribed, they may have an equal voice among themselves but this is art intended to express the composer's efforts, overwhelmingly more than each individual musician's talent. The conductor here can be more like a dictator and get away with it more often because this tradition has much closer roots to medieval practices.
All these ways, it's the resulting sound that counts to the most significant degree, and it can be a wonder to behold across the spectrum.
Now if there's one type of conductor or bandleader who would be most suitable under all conditions, I would have to describe their most valuable quality as being "magnanimous". Otherwise you can not expect the music to be as satisfying as it could be from the same talented underlying musicians.
Check the Thinkpad firmware settings to make sure the external monitor and/or dock GPU is the primary display which is effective during boot. On some PC's though you will then see nothing during boot on the laptop's own screen, sometimes even when the laptop is standalone. If Initial Graphics Device is set for "Auto" instead of a specific device, that may be OK but also may not be any different than you have now.
The external monitor may also have multiple inputs to choose from, like VGA, DVI, HDMI, which also might be set to "Auto" scan for which one is active, and that can sometimes take more time to succeed than it takes to boot. If so, using the Input Option settings on the external monitor you may be able to specify your preferred input connection exclusively, or as default, and then be able to see something during the time that it's blank now.
I still prefer Syslinux but it's still not officially supporting UEFI yet :(
The only time I would want Grub is for that reason primarily. But it makes sense to be very familiar with Grub so you can not be screwed up by systems you encounter which may have been set up, "grub-reinstalled", or configured by those who are not as familiar as they should have been.
Once you do have a regular ordinary multiboot system or SSD that includes one or more Linux installs, with Grub working well, then adding the themes like this is only the icing on the cake.
When I'm on the move I'll power up a PC without sitting down and come back to it later, but never "wander off" if I'm already sitting there since it only takes about 20 seconds to cold boot, 5 seconds of which is intentional delay in case I want to choose something other than my default OS from the bootmenu.
I say it is really nice not to have any problems with the boot process myself.
As others have eluded to, you have probably reached the point where mindset needs to be carefully molded around what you have and where you are going with it. Which has probably changed gradually up to this point.
Not to frame it more ominously or anything, but when you pull the trigger, that's the day you make a stepwise life change into being a business operator if you have never been one before. Just a little life change, no big deal, that's what you have been working on the whole time, how long has it been? A flying leap from the uphill trail you have been on, that you're going to jump further upward from sooner or later as the intended goal.
Single-handedly it's not like lots of other ways too, even when technology is not involved.
If it flies off the shelf as-is, you may never have enough time to complete it "properly". Or worse, if there is not realistic interest, you'll need to spend more time promoting it than you were probably spending coding. Either way can mean no more coding at all for the foreseeable future, which you have to be prepared for even if you have incredible advantages there and that's where all your progress has come from up until that point.
I've done it and my technology has never been perfect, not even as good as it could be.
I guess I distilled it down to a business concept I wanted to live by, the day I decided to change my life, abstracted from the tech.
Not the same concept as other people, but I have to be able to live with it.
I just want to give clients their money's worth.
If the bugs and rough edges are not show-stoppers on those terms, the greatest obstacle has already been lifted for me.
I can then launch based more on strategy than undue hesitation.
I think problems like this can be best informed by those who have interacted with very different kinds of homelessness on its own terms.
But there are so many people already where actual bare-bones housing is so inadequate, and it's been that way for so long, that desperation can only increase. More & more of whom are working for a living but that's just not quite enough to maintain domestic life as much as it used to be. There is just no substitute for more housing in the most generous way.
OTOH whether it's somebody who's penniless, or a rock star on endless tour, or anything in between, if they are not congruent with domestic life, or domestic life is not suitable for them, this is not where domestic housing effort is helpful. Depending on need or desperation, other kinds of help which can make a bigger positive impact is where effort should be concentrated.
Accelerated transition from homeless to a domestic environment should turn into a successfully beaten path with stronger force enabling it, but is most sensible only for those who are most suitable.
Actual "socialization" may still be too high a bar for some of those who thrive domestically otherwise, but the reverse can also be true.
Then download the catalog in PDF form.
Compare the speed with which you can page through 100 pages or more at maximum physical speed which is useful enough visually for you to get enough of a grasp to stop exactly where you need to, when you wouldn't know exactly what to search for in text form anyway.
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