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Overheard: "I'm not sure where you get architectural pretzels."

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!

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