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this is your fault.

New arch user. Just switched to LTS on my gaming rig. Only took 6 months to learn my lesson.

archinstall and wiki. Its easy if you’ve got nothing to prove.

Used to be embedded systems mostly. Microwaves and the like. Although with the advance of the smart home I don’t know I’d that’s still true.

I picked up obsidian because it is a perfect diary app w/ templates and daily notes built in. But it’s so damn customizable that my obsidian notebook has become an all consuming passion of knowledge base and personal project managment that requires me to be productive IRL to generate more content for me to catalogue. Really appeals to the data hoarder in me, been a game changer. Highly recommend. Perfect 5/7.

Obsidian.rocks

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I’m happy I worked out for you. Sounds like your laptop isn’t having issues with a hard drive, but likely there is a board or ram issue. So I would try that ram swap trick just to verify as it’s super easy if you’ve got two sticks. If the ram swap trick doesn’t fix it then that’s probably a board issue and at that point it might be easier to replace than repair, depending on the model.

If your laptop is having a hard drive issue, booting from a live stick will bypass the hard drive and load the OS directly into RAM. From there you can use any Linux disk flash tool.

If that doesn’t work you likely have a bad stick of ram. If you’ve got two sticks of ram in the laptop you can try popping out one and testing with just one and then the other.

Boot your laptop into a live OS.

I have multiple servers with about two dozen self-hosted services I run. It all started ten years ago, torrenting shows and then automating. And now everything in my life is self-hosted and backed up. But if I showed my current configuration to me 10 years ago, it would look undoable, completely out of reach. So my suggestion to you is to pick one project that you like, build it. Make mistakes. Fix those mistakes. If you want to access it from outside your network, use WireGuard so that nobody else can have access to your system and find your mistakes for you.

Don’t ask for advice. Don’t ask for opinions. That’s like going into a religion conference and asking which is the right God. You’re going to have a bunch of very passionate people telling you a bunch of things you don’t understand when all you want to do is tinker. So fuck all those people, just start tinkering.

Finally, Don’t host any mission critical shit until you have backups that are tested after multiple iterations. I have fucked up so bad that I have had to reformat discs. I have fucked up so bad that data has just gone missing. I have fucked up so bad that discs have overflowed with backups and corrupted the data and the backups themselves. It was all fun as shit. Because none of it was important. Everything important was somewhere else. The only rule is the 3-2-1 rule, otherwise go fuck up and come back when you dead end on an issue.

Pro tip, use ZFS and take snapshots before you make any changes. Then you can roll back your system if you fuck up. I just implemented it this year and it has saved me so many headaches.

Like this?

I have my books on a remote share managed with a local calibre install on my desktop for easy transfer

Just set up a Joplin cloud server for me and my buddy to do a writing project. It’s the most robust open source solution I could find for the situation and so far it is meeting every expectation.

You could use a different service like one cloud or google and encrypt your data. Or you could get a pi, run it as a mini server, and run any number of docker containers from joplin cloud to nextcloud, or a simple webdav server.

If there isnt a link in the readme.md I could be lost for days.

VW had a trigger in their software that would make the engines more efficient if they sensed they were being tested. Chip speed isnt indepedently tested so Intel just rigged the test.

Not everyone has a 500 GB yiff collection. Some people keep their yiff in the cloud.