Exactly! Why so many people seem to think you can’t do both is bizarre to me. Makes you wonder if they’re actually arguing in good faith or not.

What a beautiful thought.

The best waffle is better than the best pancake, but the median pancake is better than the median waffle. It’s a complicated world out there.

…why not just try either installing another distro like Debian to test it or reinstall Fedora.

I’ll be trying that last since while I did get most of my data off it thankfully (this was a real kick in the ass to get better about keeping backups!) I wasn’t able to get all of it and I would inevitably lose some of my settings. That said it will be my last resort.

Maybe just try cleaning the pins with some isopropyl alcohol first

That’s a good thought, I’ll give that a try. I’m not much of a hardware guy if it wasn’t clear before 😝

Ya, I get

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0         7:0    0   2.8G  1 loop /run/rootfsbase
sda           8:0    1  28.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    1   3.1G  0 part /run/initramfs/live
└─sda2        8:2    1    30M  0 part 
zram0       251:0    0     8G  0 disk [SWAP]
nvme0n1     259:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 

when I run lsblk, and

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk model: PC SN520 NVMe WDC 256GB                 
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: B7455548-7C25-4CAD-8783-51BD02CDFD1E

Device           Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1    2048   1230847   1228800   600M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 1230848   3327999   2097152     1G Linux extended boot
/dev/nvme0n1p3 3328000 500117503 496789504 236.9G Linux filesystem
GPT PMBR size mismatch (6579459 != 60437491) will be corrected by write.
The backup GPT table is not on the end of the device.

when I run sudo fdisk -l. (minus the bits concerning other disks)

A corrupt boot partition is one of my new leading theories. I’m really hoping that’s the case actually.

Noted! And ya, funny as it is to have to consider such things it might actually be worth waiting for a trade deal if I do need to but new and can get a stop gap measure in the meantime.

Could the CMOS battery have died in your laptop, which has caused it to not detect the SSD?

I’ll be honest, I have no idea what that is. But I’ll look into it, thanks for the lead!

I wouldn’t necessarily call a new ssd a cheap debugging step (for me anyways), but you raise a good point about putting it in an enclosure; I could use a new external drive anyways. That may be the first step I take.

Yes! While colour names are admittedly arbitrary cultural artifacts, tigers are famously considered to be orange and black striped. The Wikipedia article where you appear to have gotten that image of a tiger from even describes them as such in the first paragraph.

Funnily enough this is actually why tigers are orange. Since many of their prey animals have bad colour vision the orange that stands out to us actually looks the same as the foliage to them.

That’s just a wallet glued to your phone though.

It’s still founded and based on utter bullshit which doesn’t actually work beyond providing a placebo effect, so I’d argue it’s actually worse that they get any sort of credibility in that way. A five year degree in baloney is still baloney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Confucianism

You should probably cut your earlobes off too then, you don’t really need them and it’s possible they could get infected at some point in your life. And I’m sure you shave your and your children bald regularly, right? You don’t need hair and it removes the possibility of lice which can carry blood-born diseases.

That’s really not what they’re saying at all; I get the feeling that you may be taking this too personaly. It’s a reasonable argument that engaging with the cultural phenomenon, even if not financially supporting it directly, still signals support or at least tolerance of the controversies so closely associated with it these days. You may disagree of course but I think calling it “a demonization of everyone who ever enjoyed the series as a child” is a gross misrepresentation of their position. It is, at most, a condemnation of those who would continue engaging with it since then. (And, ironically, likening them to Dolores Umbridge is engaging in the very type of cultural normalization that they were arguing against. Although if you disagree with them I don’t suppose you’d feel that matters anyway.) Anyhow, that’s enough arguing on someone else’s behalf for me today. I just can’t stand seeing arguments misrepresented like that.

So for fucks sake pick the one that’s slower at it so you have more time to do something about it. It’s not like voting locks you out of any other actions.

It’s not a review though?

I think it’s safe to assume she wrote something like [insert date here]. That seems like a pretty obvious explanation to me anyways.

Their point still stands

Good points! I think I’m leaning slightly towards the Pixel at the moment. It’s true that while I’m not interested in a custom ROM now that could change down the line.