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Lol just upgraded to 26.05 today, surprisingly smooth! This time...
I keep spare computers around just in case I break something but still need to be productive
I would regard myself as Quite Computer, not Very, and yet, have still managed to bugger my Linux box by messing with the bootloader.
No drive or USB ports recognised on boot. No way to boot from iso. Yay me.
This literally made me switch to niri
My rack is chained up in the garage and beaten into submission. I get an alert if something is down and an alert over a week if there's an upgrade. I put those alerts on silent so i only see them when i pull the shade down on the phone.
Computers are better seen and not heard.
And also
Btw, downloading a CD (.iso) on the phone to boot it, because your Linux broke while you had no bootable thumbdrive around. Is something a lot of people here did sometime.
PSA: get a cheap thumb drive and install ventoy. You'll never regret it!
Plus you can technically still use it to store files if you make a directory in the ventoy dump partition.
I keep memtest86+, clonezilla, Ubuntu 24.04lts, gparted, and boot-repair on the drive.
Justo a couple days ago I needed a microsd to usb adapter. Couldn't find one, so I loaded the files to a memory with fat usb(I don't know what it's called) and usb c connections. Then connected the memory to my phone and on my phone I moved the files to the microsd card.
Not the same but similar vibes I think.
It's sad that several phones are removing the memory slot.
I never even thought of that - you then plug in your phone as a thumb drive? Makes sense.
I mean I'm not sure I could actually boot off of my phone as a USB drive. That would be an interesting concept.
There's a tool, whose name I forget, which is included in Kali NetHunter to do just that. It does whatever trickery is needed to present the phone/tablet as a bootable thumb drive. It requires root and, to my dismay when I needed it, I never owned a device that was rootable to fully use NetHunter. It could do a lot of other cool stuff via USB too; phone as a Bad USB, Rubber Ducky, automated Windows login bypasses, etc.
Unlikely. The USB protocol requires one master and one or more slaves (or whatever less charged nomenclature you prefer). In all likelihood UEFI will blindly assume to be the master while Android and iOS require negotiation to figure out who's boss and what interface to present.
Although given UEFI it might be possible to patch that functionality in.
Been there, done that
This is why you have a handfull of window managers configured and ready to go, always a fallback :)
/me ((Cries in Linux Nvidia driver upgrades.))
Sounds horrible. My Debian sway config shields me from such a life :)
making an IT professional scratch their head and go "What the.. how..?!" is almost a badge of honor.
My server went from doesn't work and I don't know why to it does work and I don't know how
When I used to work at Microsoft I had an uncanny knack for making installs not work. Things that just simply worked for other people would die with errors and bluescreens. I started to think I emitted a weird bioelectric field or something. But this only happened at that company, and strangely only when I worked on the premises.
I don't know if it's been studied, but anecdotally, I've known a few such "bug attractors." As a software engineer, I am blessed that I know people that will turn my work into ashes in a matter of mere seconds - it's amazing.
If you really do have a knack for making computer software fail, a viable career in QA awaits you.
Strangely my knack seemed limited to making installs fail. I actually wrote some test automation software, including a language for specifying tests.
Sounds like a superpower to me. You haven't been around GitHub lately, have you? :)
Nah haven't worked there since 2005.
I'm not a computer guy. I'm a bicycle guy.
I build them up myself, buy cheap ones on ebay to fix and modify, know basically all there is to know about stem standards, drivetrain compatibility, etc.
I currently have 6 non-functional bikes in my garage.
Me but with cameras. I have 2, maybe 3 working ones. Lots and lots of bits of others.
The key is to call them all "pet projects" that are "still being worked on" and then not do anything with them for another month.
(Engineering/Tech guy here)
Any functional bikes tho? [or should I guess lol]
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Yes, "wantonly" is spelled correctly here. I looked at it and immediately it felt wrong so this is for any like me who's only ever heard it said.
Also, broke my Codium install today, no idea how but it won't load debug values now, woo.
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My cousin is 30 years a mechanic. The only reason his car works at all is because he retired at 48 (#union).
Yeah my cars all have problems but I know what they are so I can fix them later. I worry more about folks driving about with a failed wheel bearing and 0 brakes that they have no clue about..
Yup. My Arch+LUKS+KDE setup freezes on first boot half of the time and I can't be bothered to keep trying to fix it because it takes less than 5 minutes of my time per day and I run backups of the important stuff once or twice a week, and I'll likely distrohop within the next 12 months. Worst case scenario, I wipe the whole thing, archinstall from scratch, and restore from backup.
(well, worst case that doesn't result in physical/BIOS damage...)
Mine times out sometimes during boot due to an encrypted volume, but there seem to be no problems beyond that. Also I assume that wouldn't have happened if I hadn't switched to homed without need.
All in all I don't think I had any non-self-inflicted issues, and apart from this one, I fixed the rest within a day each.
Gentoo has the stability you seek
My computer configuration is best described as a construction of duct tape and chewing gum holding a house of cards in place
Tbh my server is getting a bit that way too, which is slightly more concerning
I have two live hdds resting on high density foam on top of my server. Will be three soon. I really should get a bigger case...
So you're running McGyver-OS?
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My partner would text me 'what did you do' when I had a day off and audiobookshelf stopped working. This is why I only tinker after midnight
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