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(Solved) I would like a small laptop to use to log medical data (Weight, Blood Pressure, etc) as I gather it. I need it to be small like 10'. it can be low power because I will probably use it only CLI, no GUI, but I need it to be inexpensive. ARM-based is ok, as long as I can SSH into my desktop machine.

What if, instead of sending you into the past, weeping angels sent you into your future? Say the 'harvest' a 20 year old and send them into the future where they are 80 years old - the angel gets the energy of the 60 years.

Google Maps is changing and will keep drive log data on the phone. I like to go on photo-drives following roads to find "Kodak moments", I also would like a map of my random rambles. I would prefer that the data for that map be locally collected on my phone but the map itself uploadable to my laptop. Does anyone have an App for that?

I have a 'spare' Dell Latitude 7390 (Core i5 9gb ) on this machine. My production machine runs Debian with KDE.

What might be an interesting distro for me to try out on my spare machine?

I have worked on a file in Directory A. There is a file with the same name in directory B which is an older version of that same file. I rsync everything from B to A.

What happens to my work in the file in directory A?

(Solved) Apt seems to have gotten jammed somehow

dpkg: error processing package ca-certificates-java (--configure):
 installed ca-certificates-java package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up libwxbase3.2-1:amd64 (3.2.2+dfsg-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64:
 openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 depends on ca-certificates-java (>= 20190405~); however:
  Package ca-certificates-java is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libwxgtk3.2-1:amd64 (3.2.2+dfsg-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openjdk-17-jre:amd64:
 openjdk-17-jre:amd64 depends on openjdk-17-jre-headless (= 17.0.8+7-1~deb12u1); however:
  Package openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of default-jre:
 default-jre depends on openjdk-17-jre; however:
  Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package default-jre (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of minecraft-launcher:
 minecraft-launcher depends on default-jre; however:
  Package default-jre is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package minecraft-launcher (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up filezilla (3.63.0-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of geogebra:
 geogebra depends on default-jre | java7-runtime | java8-runtime | java9-runtime | java10-runtime | java11-runtime; however:
  Package default-jre is not configured yet.
  Package java7-runtime is not installed.
  Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java7-runtime is not configured yet.
  Package default-jre which provides java7-runtime is not configured yet.
  Package java8-runtime is not installed.
  Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java8-runtime is not configured yet.
  Package default-jre which provides java8-runtime is not configured yet.
  Package java9-runtime is not installed.
  Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java9-runtime is not configured yet.
  Package default-jre which provides java9-runtime is not configured yet.
  Package java10-runtime is not installed.
  Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java10-runtime is not configured yet.
  Package default-jre which provides java10-runtime is not configured yet.
  Package java11-runtime is not installed.
  Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java11-runtime is not configured yet.
  Package default-jre which provides java11-runtime is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package geogebra (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ca-certificates-java
 openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64
 openjdk-17-jre:amd64
 default-jre
 minecraft-launcher
 geogebra

What must I do to unjam things?

I have tried many suggestions from various websites but they don't work because it looks like there is some sort of circular dependency going on here.

Debian 12. HP Laserjet Professional P1606dn

If it prints at all, it prints the top inch of the test page or just random binary. I have tried the recommended driver, the driverless driver, the Generic PCL 4/5 driver, the Generic PCL 6 driver. And probably others I am not remembering.

I am trying to print over Ethernet, but I am about to drag the printer over near my desk and print via USB.

Fortunately, I don't have actual critical printing to do right now and I am only setting up a printer after installing Debian 12. BTW this means it is a fresh install of Debian 12 too.

I have been helpdesk support at a data center. I would not consider myself a dummy, but this is getting ridiculous. A task that should have taken all of 10 minutes has taken over 2 hours so far.

How are we ever going to get "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" if simple printing is and continues to be such a pain?

I have a laptop and a desktop-based-server on a 192.168.1.x segment on my network. I want to setup Tailscale between them.

Will it be bad if Tailscale connects while my laptop is local, on 192.168.1.x network?

Can I make it automatically connect via Tailscale when away and via the local network when home?

How can I best test the Tailscale network while I am at home?

I have some drives of various sizes, 1TB, 2TB etc. I am currently working with a 2 TB drive. I place it in a powered external USB-3 drive enclosure. I can see it in lsblk as the correct size (as SDA) , but the disk manager does not see /dev/sda, and fdisk only wants to let me create a 5 GB partition.

If I dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=400K status=progress writes 5 GB and claims my 2 TB drive (In this case) is full.

Is there a way to reclaim this drive? Any information on the drive is unimportant.

[[ solved ]]

I have a stack of SATA hard drives that I need to erase.

I have a USB drive dock, a box that a drive can be set into that connects to my computer via USB-3.

I am using DD to write zeros to the raw device, in this case, /dev/sdf.

No matter the actual size of the drive dd stops at about 3 to 7 gb. These are 300 gb to 3 TB drives.

I am not mounting the drives, but I do ensure they are visible to the system with lsblk. To change drives I turn off the dock. The drive then disappears from lsblk. When I insert a different drive and turn the dock back on again /dev/sdf re-appears.

Are all my drives bad? If they are I will need to have them "professionally" destroyed at about $25 a drive.

Next Update --

I started with a USB to SATA adapter that looked like a small box with a SATA connector on one edge and a USB cable coming out of one side, it had a power supply that connected to the small box - everything out in the open.

Then I went to a drive toaster - a dock where you slot the drive into a hole in the top of the dock, again powered and USB-3 (blue connector)

As of this update I have opened my USB-3 external drive and removed it's native drive and put in one of the 1TB drives I wish to erase. I also switched to my production laptop. Now I have issued a dd command and it has written so far 28GB from /dev/urandom.

I think this will finally work. - I am marking this solved.

I am zeroing out some old drive - some may not have secure erase. If I issue the command:

hpparm --security-erase-enhanced

Against a drive that does not have this feature, will it error? Man does not tell me.

I tried it once a long time ago. Does anyone here currently use it? What do you like about it? What do you hate?