Post B6sTo6zFDWyFvKQuno by Mammal@shitposter.world
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(DIR) Post #B6sPLLMeHdWKIfPIsS by Mammal@shitposter.world
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My windows boot drive just broke for no apparent reason. No new updates. Worked fine yesterday. Total boot failure now. Probably going to have to replace the OS or the drive.
(DIR) Post #B6sPLLXdcmJKqkY50S by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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Are you sure it's not the cmos battery?
(DIR) Post #B6sTo6zFDWyFvKQuno by Mammal@shitposter.world
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@Humpleupagus I mean I still get the bios menu and everything it just fails to load windows and startup repair also fails
(DIR) Post #B6sTo7AEYflGTPZgvo by JollyR@nicecrew.digital
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The default bios menu .. if Humps is right, its little coin cell battery has expired, and it can't do anything without the date and time and a few critical parameters kept in volatile storage by the battery.
(DIR) Post #B6sUAhaXoWf9oQeTJI by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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Shot in the dark, but a dead battery can do all sort of stuff depending on the motherboard, os, etc. I'd check that first before assuming it's the drive, though it may well be the drive. Even if not dead, low current can be enough for fuckery.
(DIR) Post #B6sUY02TNj0DhCpAJs by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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Also check bios to see if any parameters have been reset to default. I have a laptop that did that once mid-use, causing a kernel panic, and making it unbootable until I fixed everything. If everything looks good, it's probably the drive. You may be able to repair from a usb too if you have or can make one.
(DIR) Post #B6saacKyYkHmmS6tjk by Mammal@shitposter.world
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@JollyR @Humpleupagus but it does have the correct date and time in the bios menu
(DIR) Post #B6sakYlsflp8cHR5CC by Mammal@shitposter.world
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@Humpleupagus @JollyR I think windows 10 is end of life anyway so it's out of date. Updating itunes broke this boot recently too. I don't want want to bother with cloud accounts I do local only so that's why I didn't upgrade to 11.
(DIR) Post #B6sakZGMqQD68phQiO by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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Install Linux on that machine, and never look back. 🤨
(DIR) Post #B6sbYgzUO3QcaVhpuC by Mammal@shitposter.world
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@verita84_64 @Humpleupagus @JollyR what kinda linux we talkin because I don't know shit about linux
(DIR) Post #B6sbYhCbbHv7FBqJLk by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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I think manjaro kde plasma is the closest to windows and one of the easier builds to install and maintain for noobs. It also has a stable repo, it's about 1 to 6 months behind bleeding edge. It has a usb installer. You just have to flash it to usb.https://manjaro.org/products/download/x86
(DIR) Post #B6sbZ807xmywMJDE9I by Mammal@shitposter.world
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@verita84_64 @Humpleupagus @JollyR Guess who just got this shit to boot baby? Wooo! Goddamn I wish I had another beer.
(DIR) Post #B6sc6jrKEGDXKV7clE by Mammal@shitposter.world
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@Humpleupagus @JollyR @verita84_64 I haven't really used a USB boot much besides this program called hiren's boot disk which basically you can bypass the login passwords with it by overwriting them at the admin level with the backdoor that software provides. Same guy I learned that from had this other USB using an app called parted magic to unfuck these storage drives.
(DIR) Post #B6siX37porlCKxm0WG by JollyR@nicecrew.digital
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Lunduke has this combination that looks like Windows 95, but there are a number of fiddly bits to install .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75joO14Tlt0
(DIR) Post #B6siX3aY66jFm1CwHA by JollyR@nicecrew.digital
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Then don't install the Chicago95 part. You'll be back to the desktop of whatever Linux distro you're using. Lunduke's point, however, is that you can run any app or game or widows thing you want, and don't really need any closed system underneath it.
(DIR) Post #B6siX3lXRFWGK6LiPA by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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I'm simple. I like i3wm and run as much shit in terminals as I can. GUI / mouse apps are overrated. There are a lot of tui apps that are just as good and sometimes even better.
(DIR) Post #B6sicSWYoZacYeuz4K by ApocalyptoLatte1488@nicecrew.digital
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Simple that's for sure
(DIR) Post #B6sjI7kiQwgaIYPGF6 by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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As a general day to day matter, I have no need for windows at all. I don't have wine installed on any system. I do run win11 on my studio rig, but that's because of plugins. Linux has quality daws now. Just not full plugin support for certain genres. EDM you could do on linux. Metal not so much.
(DIR) Post #B6sk6DhEbnQrDCfL2O by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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I really don't want to. Linux has no comparable guitar / bass vsts. I use bitwig and renoise on both though. Linux would be preferable because of rt kernels, and pipewire / jack.In windows each ASIO device can only be used by a single program. It can be bridged, but windows is way behind in pro-audio. I also have a rednet-dante card, and in windows there's a software layer, while Linux would run it via kernel module.
(DIR) Post #B6skKk1ZD8SbWt6HgG by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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Not comparable to Ample or Shreddage or Native Instruments or Amplitube or Recabinet.
(DIR) Post #B6skiPa0sGgD4XV0Xg by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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You can use wine in most cases, but that comes with latency. Renoise does have an autosampler, vsts can be jumped to audio samples, but I'd still have to run windows to do that then move the instrument file to a Linux box, and it's not always perfect.
(DIR) Post #B6sl3MHqJSzKwLzL4C by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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I doubt it. Rednet runs at 2-3ms latency round trip. 80usecs card to card once its past the software layer. Adding additional software layers would kill the speed.
(DIR) Post #B6u8MPU98akYSwkyae by chud-the-builder@tsundere.love
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@JollyR @Humpleupagus @verita84_64 @Mammal did you know lunduke is an israel supporting jew that "converted" to judaism - according to his twitter.HE IS A DEMONIC child killer
(DIR) Post #B6umJJxLEbWOcDUhg8 by verita84_64@poster.place
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@JollyR @Humpleupagus @Mammal No way this point is accurate:
(DIR) Post #B6umJKNvdkmxwfvw7U by JollyR@nicecrew.digital
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I wouldn't know, I'm just running Manjaro here, with libre office and so forth. It's a new computer, came with Win11, but I have done this ever since 1995, when I get a new computer. Just blow it away and install Linux. I don't run Wine. There were some of us sending a bill to Microsoft every time for a refund, but nothing ever came of that.
(DIR) Post #B6umJKhmRwfUwFDn3w by verita84_64@poster.place
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@JollyR @Humpleupagus @Mammal yEA. I remember Dell started giving people discounts if you choose FreeDOS instead of Windows lol
(DIR) Post #B6umJKx1XGrThWLxp2 by JollyR@nicecrew.digital
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In other news I just reinstalled manjaro because it crashed after running an update that left a defective init kernel in UEFI space. Lunduke was aparently correct when he said nobody's driving the bus over at Manjaro HQ. I'll still prefer that to Microsoft malware but other distros are more stable.
(DIR) Post #B6umJLDgXKBmXC9GnA by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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If running manjaro, set pacman to exclude meta packages, especially kernel. They will remove your backup kernels and bork grub. mhwd-kernel -i is your friend.
(DIR) Post #B6unR2a5omZkzyrg7k by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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Also, your issue couldn't be fixed via chroot and reinstalling grub?
(DIR) Post #B6uov0ktGrF1yfloae by JollyR@nicecrew.digital
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Probably. I am disorganized and all I have at hand is a usb with the manjaro intall iso. Unlike mx, it doesnt keep the old initrd images around. MX had better boot repair tools. If a mx update failed i could just boot one of the 3 previous kernels.
(DIR) Post #B6uov0xIWjAMb9Zivg by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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I thought manjaro iso boots into the OS. If not, get the i3wm community build. It does. I've even used it to chroot into debian etc. It's a good recovery iso. manjaro-chroot -a
(DIR) Post #B6upbJVfvqbyJ3pCXQ by JollyR@nicecrew.digital
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Thanks, man. I don't have any experience with chroot. The iso i have is just push this button to install. I need to study..
(DIR) Post #B6upbJfbKwYEnqT80e by Humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club
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Chroot just means change root, so you can access a root partition on another drive as if it's root. So if you bork something, like an update, you can chroot in and run pacman to fix it, etc.
(DIR) Post #B6ussTjhSq9Wo9GGA4 by tyler@nicecrew.digital
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Saved my ass a bunch of times before I stopped borking things left and right
(DIR) Post #B6yOLEha324QECwLb6 by not_br549@jollyville.net
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Pacman, manpac, whatever manjaro calls it. Frickin pileocrap. Probably because they don't have dependencies properly mapped. I tried 'manjaro-chroot -a' and got an error message. Nothing is there. So the install that crashed was on btrfs. I still think intead of attempting repair i will reinstall on ext4. Because when i look at the old partition it just has a bunch of directories srarting with @. And when i try to drill down,there isn't any data in them. Or just some random bits and pieces. It's btrfcked. On the bright side, ddg ai (chatgpt mini) was able to answer my search for how to mount the defunct system. The old search just gave long manpages, voluminous 'theory of btrfs' docs, reams of advertising, and almost nothing useful... the ai was able to distill it into CLI commands in 2 seconds. They worked. I'm posting this on my phone and will be away from fedi for a couple days. Life calls! Not just the computer, I'll have that back running. Bills to pay, etc 👣 😩