Tag: Linux

I haven’t been able to do it. The short version is, I had a good conversation with Thaura (aka Qwen) and it said the NAS uses a proprietary format, and requires software installed to use it. https://thaura.ai/?share=2aa94050-af42-4a00-95cc-8b4776ef65c4 Why? Because it doesn’t have a file system. The CS101 presents the disk as a block device over…

Why: Linux is a good way to get more out of your hardware. It runs less “spyware” like monitoring. Itʻs a little less automated. You donʻt need to log into Microsoft or Apple to do things. How: create an external SSD disk connected over USB-3 to boot the machine. This way, you can reboot into…

Symptoms: rebooting immediately goes into the grub command line. The easiest way to fix this is to use a USB boot, and run tools to fix the boot. This page explains how to fix it from the command line. The following commands are how I fixed it. grub> set root=/dev/sda2grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda2grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img.oldgrub>…

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I upgraded my MINT 20 install to MINT 22, and everything ended up a bit of a mess, because so many things were updated. Normally, it’s easy to figure out the situation, but I couldn’t find docs to get my Regolith + i3xrocks working right. So here’s what I’m doing. First, create .config/regolith3/i3xrocks/conf.d Then, copy…

I recently had a partial server outage due to a failing RAID, but the problems were due to a cascade of software-based dependencies failing.