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[-] ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago

Everyone is an atheist until they do kernel/full system update on their daily driver machine

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

pacman -Syu hangs after updating kernel but before mkinitcpio.

Jesus, take the wheel.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I just have a script that repeats the "install-kernel" command and the "bootctl install" one that I run after every big update. It should be fine without them, right? Too many times the kernel one fails in the pacman update chain and I've had to chroot from a live USB too many times to do the bootctl install to put the correct bootloaders in the efi partition to skip the manual bootclt install from my actual PC after updates.

Just in case. It takes 2 seconds vs searching the pendrive, loading, typing in an European keyboard when the live USB asumes it's american, searching the chroot command on my phone... All of this when I just want to relax. Weird stuff I know.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 day ago

I still love the particular way that Garuda configures some things from the get go. I always knew it was Arch based and might break eventually. What I didn't expect was the stupid power button deciding that it doesn't want to work anymore.

[-] ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah that kind of device failure is really frustrating, did you manage to make it work?

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day ago

I did, by pushing really hard in random directions =/ I'm going to have to take it apart and clean things with a hope that it gets fixed. Until then, I'm going to have to only use sleep and not turn it off for real.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can just yank it off and short the wires manually to boot ☝🏻🤓

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

instructions unclear: hooked the power button circuits up to a car battery and caused 2 battery fires

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Nice, now it is warm

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

That's how I used to turn my tower on when I was a teenager. The motherboard was also outside of the tower, lying on a piece of bubble wrap on the floor. When playing an exciting game, we'd sometimes kick the graphics card out of place.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago

I got the power button of my laptop repaired at an electronics repair shop, you could try that. It has been running well for 8 years with Arch.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

How much did it cost? This laptop needs other repairs.

[-] aniki@lemmings.world 3 points 1 day ago

Honestly, momentary switches are the simplest of all circuits. The only hard part will be soldering a new one into the old leads. What laptop is it? I can look and see what I think.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago
[-] aniki@lemmings.world 3 points 1 day ago

I did a quick look and it doesn't look like the switch is directly on the motherboard so most likely there's a JST plug or something similar with wire leads that then hook into the switch and/or a daughter board. If it's just two wires into a JST plug you can replace the switch with anything similar or if you wanna be ghetto about it just touch the two wires together to make a short.

You can probably get the exact switch if you look hard enough since almost everything but the exterior shell will be commodity components.

Good luck!

[-] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

I can't remember, but something negligible compared to the price of a thin laptop.

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 3 points 1 day ago

I like how you felt the need to specify "with Arch".

[-] oce@jlai.lu 1 points 19 hours ago

Because it participates in keeping an old laptop fast and up to date.

[-] Voltage@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I rarely shutdown my laptop. Most days I just close lid when I am done and back to what I was doing next day instantly.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

I can't do the lid shutdown thing because the built-in screen also has serious issues. It is very finicky. I just use either the terminal or KDE's built-in feature to do it. I've really put this poor machine through hell.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 day ago

Me updating my Arch install in the morning at school (there's faster connection):

But, with current install I finally started writing logs of all manual changes I make (config updates, created symlinks outside home dir, package installations, etc...). I'll finally know what I did instead of trying to guess what weird thing I did 2 years ago.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago

This is a fantastic idea. Keep a config diary. I can imagine a teenager doing this and eventually getting in trouble with the law. Parents open the diary only to discover scribbled bash scripts in confusion.

For real, though, I'm going to journal it all and upload to NextCloud.

[-] exu@feditown.com 2 points 1 day ago

Until recently I kept (most of) my initial setup and config files in a repo with some hacky bash scripts.

Until recently because I finally replaced the bash mess with Ansible and it's so much better.

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

True. I started to pray to GabeN recently too.

[-] ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Let us pray that he will be succeeded by a worthy descendant. At least we can always find refuge in BSD - it has not yet started to ensh*tify as I've heard

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Me, installing Linux mints major update like a month ago after finally getting things just right:

If it breaks, new distro I guess 🤷

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

chuckles in immutable distribution

this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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