This is why you have a handfull of window managers configured and ready to go, always a fallback :)
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.
/me ((Cries in Linux Nvidia driver upgrades.))
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.
Sounds horrible. My Debian sway config shields me from such a life :)
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). 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
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.
making an IT professional scratch their head and go “What the… how…?!” is almost a badge of honor.
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)
N+1
Any functional bikes tho? [or should I guess lol]
I just bought my fourth oneplus 6 phone. Two are non functional. Maybe this will be the one where I finally get linux running on my phone lol
I also have four non functional bikes
Hey, I am also trying to get OnePlus 6 for that purpose.
Or N900 for shits and giggles.
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…)Gentoo has the stability you seek
Me. Now digging through init=/bin/bash/ to fix my non booting zimaboard. All because I lost my root password and proceeded to continue to fuck up my media server
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.
Ngl I always assumed it had a racist origin
Wantonly sounds like a place, like Wantonly Michigan or something like that.
I suppose they could rename Hell
My issue is all my data and hard drives and trying to keep it all backed up and running out of space and then getting more drives and going oh no now which one is backed up and which isnt ?!!
Meanwhile my friends are like “I just put all my files in g drive”
