I feel like phone on pile should at least be yellow

Nah everyone is dead inside; don’t open

I have this thing:

But it went through laundry in my pocket and stopped working

This might be relevant? https://conspirator0.substack.com/

I have an old mac mini running nextcloud on Ubuntu, I did upgrade memory and plug in external ssd

https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor seems pretty active? Edit: nice link !programmer_humor@programming.dev

Use ddrescue to copy to a working disk, if I remember it will try a number of times and eventually skip the broken sectors so that at least you have a working filesystem on the copy.

At some, long ago, the Ubuntu installer was offering to use zfs for the boot and root partitions. That sounded like a good idea and worked great for a long time, automatic snapshots, options to restore state at boot etc.

Until my generous boot partition started to run out if space with all the snapshots (which were setup automatically and no obvious way to configure) OK no big deal, write a bash script that finds the old snapshots and delete them manually whenever boot is full again.

Then one day recently my laptop wouldn’t boot anymore, Grub could no longer read the zfs on boot. Managed to boot with USB installation image, read zsf and chroot. Tried alot of things but in the end killed zfs and replace with ext4. Then made it boot again.

Apparently I’m not the only one with this issue.

Thank you for mentioning libsmbios, I had tried to change the power mode but given up , turned out that libsmbios was already installed and working!