Don’t worry about magnetic screwdrivers, the drives themselves have way stronger magnets for the head arm actuators.

Glad you found the failing drive though 👍

Interesting approach, makes sense.

Coming from automotive repair and using a section of hose to narrow down sounds.

Nothing wrong on my Android tablet, page renders just fine here. Fennec is my default browser BTW.

But also, the program is for Windows, Mac and Linux, they don’t seem to have a mobile version.

I just tried it, sadly it doesn’t have a camera sensor option to detect and translate flashing Morse Code from another source, but it does have a Morse to Text translator that you can manually enter the incoming dots and dashes and it’ll translate back to text.

The send feature converts plain text to the appropriate dots and dashes, with options to flash the screen, the flashlight, beep over the speaker and also vibrate. Dunno why they chose red as the screen flashing color with no option to change color though…

For it to be version 1.0.1, its actually alright, it does work, although slightly clunky (but simple) UI right now. Everything, even the custom text you enter, has to be accessed in the Settings menu.

Its worth a try, I’ll be keeping it on my devices to go alongside the Survival Manual app (different developer), and hope to see some improvements and new features down the road…

Just a friendly reminder, when the weatherman says it’s 35⁰ C, that temperature is measured outside, in the shade. Out in the sunlight gets way hotter…

Keep yourselves and your devices cool.

The cooler is made of lava 🔥

Haha, carry on 👍

liquid cooking?

Haha, stupid sexy autocorrect, or honest typo, either way I got a good chuckle!

I hear ya there, but…

I be getting really confused when one config boots from /dev/sda, but when I have my backup drive attached (not the boot device), it boots from /dev/sdb

Hell I dunno, I probably confused the hell out of my laptop plus myself with my cutout mod reconfiguration, but it’s happy to boot from almost anything now.

Almost…

Hey, at least I know how to restore to my previous state from backup via dd 👍

Wait wait, I just double checked.

Apparently my 128GB is a SATA M2.

Fuck I’m still learning this new hardware. 🤦‍♂️

I see someone missed the virtual machine memo.

My 128GB is meant as an integrated NVME drive.

Meant to be. I literally cut a service panel hole under the laptop to remove or reinstall it whenever I feel like, or maybe eventually upgrade it.

I’ve been booting off of other devices, like my 8GB USB flash, 100GB USB HDD, and even Live Boot USB DVD drive. It’s actually been very convenient, as I can boot off of whatever the hell I want from USB.

My backup is on a 4TB, so really no worries to me, I can more or less freely experiment around with whatever OS I want, and if it doesn’t work right, I can just dd my backup over whatever again, and it just works.

But why doesn’t the dd 100GB>128GB work as I’d expect?

Obviously that’s not the exact dd command I used, for privacy reasons.

🤷

The goal was to migrate the 100GB to the 128GB, hopefully expand it, and format the 100GB for future temporary/experimental use.

I never planned on having both drives actively running at the same time, so I don’t think there should have been any UUID issues, nor did I run across any errors suggesting such an issue.

But even without expanding the partition, the dd command should have 1:1 copied the 100GB, with space to spare, and be bootable, right? Or so I thought…

I had no problem dd restoring the original 128GB contents though, so at least I didn’t bork everything. Also the 100GB external USB is still fine. 👍

🤷

You sound like you know some things that perhaps I don’t know.

Slightly different question…

I have a 128GB SSD with Linux Mint MATE 20.3, and I did a full and successful dd backup to my 4TB backup drive.

I have a 100GB external USB hard drive as a test medium for Mint MATE 22.1. I am happy with my test setup, and tried to dd that over to the 128GB SSD. But it wouldn’t boot.

I restored the original 128GB SSD image and all is good right now, but why the hell didn’t the 100GB>128GB even boot?

Edit: Secure Boot has been disabled all along, screw that headache.

Site pings fine on my end, but also receiving 502 bad gateway ☹️

Gulf Coast USA here if that matters.

Tapes can have long term issues in storage, as the tape reel winds will eventually start to bleed over magnetic signals from one wind to the next.

In analog world, they call it tape hiss. In digital world, with good error correction, it can last a long time, but is still ultimately prone to data corruption, eventually…

I recommend a video surveillance rated multi terabyte hard drive, they’re designed to run 24/7. I have two 4TB Seagate Skyhawks.

Save the machine state after you get it booted up and configured. Host+T

Well shit, I figured out what the real issue was.

I’m on a laptop with only 3 USB ports, and I’m running a physical laptop hard drive on an adapter on one USB port, and a laptop CD/DVD drive on another adapter on another port.

Obviously that’s probably pushing the power limits of the USB power, but it’s worked before, so I didn’t see why it wasn’t quite working right now.

But this time I was trying a different DVD drive, an HP TS-T633P slot loader drive. Apparently that drive is extra power hungry compared to a conventional laptop drive, so I dug out my old tray loader drive.

Apparently the slot loader drive was competing with the hard drive for power, and they were apparently taking turns robbing power from each other. The system is perfectly happy with the tray loader drive though, no reconfiguration necessary!

🤦‍♂️😂🤣👍

Ah, thank you very much in advance! It’s a bit late here and I’m soon to head to bed, but I have used hdparm before, thanks for the reminder!

I’m saving your comment and will look into it more tomorrow, or soon at least. Thanks! 👍

Sure, some of the effects are basically useless eye candy, but the 3D Cube thing is a non-intrusive, yet very intuitive way of switching desktops. The 3D Cube doesn’t even activate until you use a hotkey combination plus the mouse. It’s almost like having a virtual KVM switch if you’re running virtual machines.

To each their own, but you might actually like the 3D Cube and possibly some other Compiz features once you see how they work and what they offer…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8UKuDidNQg

I can’t even function without the Compiz 3D cube anymore, it makes it super easy and visually intuitive to switch desktops. Very handy for someone running 4 virtual machines simultaneously…