• Lulzagna@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Read the changelog, might take 5 minutes to fix. Don’t have time? Rollback.

    It’s not hard

  • cockmushroom@reddthat.com
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    4 months ago

    What do modern devs need more than ttys for if they’re just shipping ai generated code that nobody takes the time to review properly?

  • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is why you keep 2 computers. One that is dull and as stock as you can. And then you have that beater box to get stupid with. Drive the sum biotch right into that kernal panic at 100mph just for fun.

    So therapeutic some days…

    • banause@feddit.orgdeleted by creator
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      4 months ago

      That’s not how it works.

      1. Okay, let’s read a chapter of this book about Software Design.
      2. I need to take notes
      3. Ugh, it sucks that I have to do three steps to open them
      4. Let’s write a short fish script
      5. Actually is there a more elegant note taking app
      6. Research
      7. Setting up the most over engineered zettelkasten solution
      8. It’s time for bed, you have two broken note taking apps, but still an open to do to read a chapter of that book

      If you think that is a true story, you are absolutely right.

    • amgine@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Mac and a half a dozen server homelab. Plex was a homelab test that’s now “prod” (family won’t let me shut it off) so it’s in the prod environment outside of my homelab

  • alecsargent@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Not a developer or power user but the tinkering and unstable mindset fades away as one gets older.

  • red_tomato@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    My computer is just a bunch of duct taped config files I’ve forgotten about waiting to be invalidated by the next update

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Corsair specifically has type 4, type 5, etc so yea even the same brand’s cables aren’t safe to use across PSUs

    • Coriza@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I read about that a couple of years ago, I am speechless that such a thing is even allowed to exist.

      • auntieclokwise@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        As bad as proliferation of standards is, the only thing worse is no standard at all. That’s how we got that. Everybody just did whatever they wanted.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I am hoping that you put your config in a git repository so that you can revert it.

  • KiwiTB@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    People who know what they are doing use snapshots and backups so this doesn’t happen.

  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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…)

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      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.

        • redsand@infosec.pub
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          4 months ago

          No it’s not. I’ve got arch up right now. I ran it for years. It’s far from Debian. Packages are super new and plentiful

          • Footer1998@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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            4 months ago

            i’ve not had a problem with arch breaking due to updates for years - that’s what I mean when I say stable, that’s what really matters… op never mentioned that they even wanted stability, you just injected gentoo into this for no reason lol

      • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.socialEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Yeah… I don’t think that’s the right distro for me from what I heard of its complexity. Even manually-installed Arch is a stretch. I’m more likely to move to something like Kubuntu or openSUSE.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    My cousin is 30 years a mechanic. The only reason his car works at all is because he retired at 48 (#union).

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      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…

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    xkcd TV Problems

    And also

    xkcd Computer Problems

    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.

      • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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        4 months ago

        I mean I’m not sure I could actually boot off of my phone as a USB drive. That would be an interesting concept.

        • Chais@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          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.

          • Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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            4 months ago

            The USB protocol and UEFI aren’t a problem, but Android/iOS might be. I’ve booted various PCs from a raspberry pi (USB-OTG), but the last time I tried to boot an iso from my android phone I couldn’t get it to work. It’s been a while so I can’t remember exactly what the issue was.

          • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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            4 months ago

            i had this feature when i installed ubports (ubuntu touch) on my phone in 2021.

            much before that in 2013 my phone’s stock rom had a ‘driver install’ mode that presents an iso file in the system partition to the computer as a virtual cdrom, i could swap out that file with a linux iso and it would boot

          • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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            4 months ago

            That looks like a program that is using your phone to write an ISO to a USB using your phone, not using your phone as a bootable source. But, still useful.

    • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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        4 months ago

        Fat USB is called USB A. The one you use for printers is USB B. Then there are mini-A, mini-B, micro-A, micro-B and USB 3.0 micro-B which are all different shapes physically. And USB A 3.0 has slightly different contacts from USB A 1.0/2.0

        Anyway, that was when USB nomenclature was still simple. Don’t google anything they did past version 3.0, for your own sanity. We’re now down to mostly the USB C and A shapes, but USB 3.2 gen 1x1 is the same thing as USB 3.1 gen 1 is the same thing as USB 3.0.

        USB 4 simplified things a bit, but now you can get things like Gen 4 asymmetric 3:1

    • iocase@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      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.