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UnityHub is also broken. It asks me to sign in, and when I do, the website claims it's launching Unity Hub. Nothing happens after that. I don't see any way to proceed.

I tried

apt-get check

and got:

$ apt-get check
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

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Seriously, how do I fix this? There's an additional warning icon in the bar at the top of the screen, which says:

An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu* or apt-get in a terminal** to see what is wrong. The error message was: ' Error: BrokenCount > 0'. This usually means that your installed packages have unmet dependencies.

*There is no such entry in the menu I get when I right click on the desktop.

**apt-get wants command-line arguments, and of course no clue has been offered as to what they should be.

Help!

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My new, seven--minute update on #COVID19 status in the US.

Key points:

The CDC has strengthened its guidance

COVID is surging across the US

COVID is very high in select locations

We can all take simple steps to protect ourselves.

medium.com/@augieray_66704/us-

D'oh! I (black) won this game, but it counted as a loss because we failed to mark the five white stones in the upper center dead.

Campaign news has overshadowed this.

For all those who missed it: the Biden administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards.

dhs.gov/news/2024/07/02/presid

some of you are taking the weighted blanket thing too far

Did you know half of Americans think Trump should suspend his campaign after becoming a felon? They do.

#USpol #election #trump #president #politics

A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister.

For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.

Fred: ... and the person behind all the "Biden should drop out" talk is actually ... *pulls off rubber mask*

Scooby gang: Corn Pop?!

Corn Pop: It would've worked if it weren't for you meddling geezers!

@aral Female hair is either long or political. Sexual orientation is either heterosexual or political. Gender identity is either cis or political. Clothing is either gender stereotyped and boring or political. City infrastructure is either car-focused or political. Energy is either fossil fuels or political. Education is either white christian propaganda or political.

Everything follows the same pattern, tech included.

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