If you’re currently running a rpm distro, you can make it easier on yourself by using the duke nukem forever command to make a list of your installed programs: dnf list installed.

Once that’s outputting an appropriate format, dump it into a text file with | oldprogs.txt.

On your new computer, that same duke nukem forever command can be used to install from the list with something like dnf install << oldprogs.txt

I bet you can come up with a way to stuff all that into a neat little one liner that’ll provide error handling, output teeing and everything else!

There’s gentoo options for a lot of older architectures. I even got it running on a 32bit power machine.

Back in the day gentoo meant compiling everything from source, but nowadays there’s precompiled binaries.

If you’re doing the evanescence routine on older hardware, check to see if there’s cheap ram and ssds available that work with its interfaces. Usually the trick with pata is to use old cf to sata adapters because cf is pin compatible with the little pata interfaces they’d put on laptops.

Consider cleaning and reapplying thermal paste to the cpu. You won’t even need to take it out of the socket, just don’t dump isopropyl all over the board while cleaning.

If your old computer has a cool old sound card there’s never been a better time to use a tracker that takes advantage of its built in synthesizer!

Shoo, it’s been a rough week for sddm over here…

I don’t have a 470 in front of me. Did you push the “external display” function key combo or configure it in your desktop environment?

If you still have the card those came off of you can put it back in a galaxy (or any android device?) and export them. Pretty sure the phone uses some kind of error correction scheme to deal with failing sd cards.

Do it the official way. SIM cards are cheap.

I use Debian and rhel. That’s basically the two things you’ll see in the world and the two toolsets that familiarity with is useful.

There’s some little computers running weird shit like 9front or gentoo but if you wanna branch out from Debian stable but not get weird I recommend learning rhel.

Of course, if your backup laptop is really a backup, install stable on it and be done.

usually monitors can be freely rotated. if yours can't, the back usually has a square vesa mount on the back and you can just take out the four screws and reattach it the way you like.

Thinkpads, macs and dells are what I use.

They’re cheap and have lots of spare parts lying around.

Yes. Make sure neither are mounted.

Use larger block sizes with bs=<like, idk, 16M> will make it go faster.

Before you start trying to figure out which ram stick or ssd is bad, run “apt clean”. That clears the cache that it’s saying is all fucked up.

No.

CIA Party USA

Damn, I thought I had you clocked.

Getting hot maybe? Some of those baseband chips are downright tiny and can’t really dissipate the heat they build up under heavy use…

Did you look at dmesg/journalctl to to see what the kernel says when it falls over?

E: spelling/autocorrect

Your computer is going into s1 and the driver for your card can’t wake it back up.

Already out of vantablack :(

I was reading this thread and like “damn, lemmy really turning a corner, proud of y’all mfs” then I realized its a hexbear thread lol

Your comments there are very funny

Yes.

Just go ask the 196 mods.

Okay, I’ll bite: how do they come up with that number? What in a computer is actually dissipating that much power and for how long?