@cannedtuna <laughs in nixos>
This literally made me switch to niri
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.
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.
/me ((Cries in Linux Nvidia driver upgrades.))
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.
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.
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.
Unlikely. The USB protocol requires one master and one or more slaves (or whatever less charged nomenclature you prefer). I’m 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
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…
Crying in GPU and USB kybd/mse/snd ported into a PVE-housed Nobara43 VM right now.
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…)Gentoo has the stability you seek
I learned last week, after over 30 years of assembling my own computers, that there are (at least) two types of modular power cables for SATA drives. The way I learned this was to grab a cable that fit between my power supply, two hard drives, and a DVD burner, and turned my computer on. In the past, in my experience, if the cable had the right connectors, it would work. Apparently, there is no standardization for the power side pin-out, and some manufacturers (Corsair, at least) wired that end differently for some cables, and using the wrong cable will blow up any drive attached.
Or something like that, I dunno, I was too mad to look into it any further. Fortunately, I didn’t lose anything irreplaceable, so all it cost me is money and embarrassment.
afaik there is no ‘standard’ for modular power supply cables. you have to make sure the ones you’re using are for the specific psu you’re using, and that can even vary between models from the same manufacturer.
I read about that a couple of years ago, I am speechless that such a thing is even allowed to exist.
Verycomputer?
Wantonly?
Huh?
Since this is linux memes, I am on day 10 of my work being unable to fix windows 11 (and I am not doing it for them) while I continue to use my Linux machines for everything because they just work.
Wantonly
Normal word: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wantonly, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wantonly
Verycomputer
It said “Very Computer”, which is a humoristic way of saying highly computer-savvy
Thanks, I knew the term wantonly but didn’t know it was spelled that way.
Thanks!
The computer thing, meh. Just say it.
The Very Computer part made me pluck at the hemispheres of my face to insure they hadn’t gone numb
Just because it’s in a dictionary doesn’t mean it’s a normal word. Wantonly is a weird word. I keep reading want-only and an very confused.
If you read it as, want-only, I could see that. But wanton-ly doesn’t seem that uncommon to me.
I am hoping that you put your config in a git repository so that you can revert it.
I am also hoping that I do that, but I still don’t
