I'm on my second install now. I fucked up the first one pretty handily by accidentally wiping the boot partition in gparted. (Like a complete idiot, because the partitions are labeled.)
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Both, to the point it doesn't boot, and just tweaking enough bugs that it's easier to jist start over.
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Bricking hardware is a form of enrichment for me.
Ah, have you found the land of IoT? Bricks everywhere, you'd love it.
You're suggesting I should follow the yellow brick road to find the Wizard of iOT?
Why not... or try another brick in the wall
I would actually be amazed if I ever bricked a PC fucking around with installing software to it. At the very worst, I might have to move a jumper pin to flash the CMOS and start fresh like I never even touched the thing. If somehow even that fails, it would be a unique experience.
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I always think of Kiwi / Ozzie slang when I type chroot.
Of course that's after consulting the ArchKiwi to remember how to mount it
Ah Chroot bro
Once you break it a few times, you start to understand the value of btrfs or ZFS snapshots.
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I've never in 15 years of Linux use and tinker have ever screwed a kernel. And I compiled LFS once.
Just did a fresh install after attempting to migrate from a proxmox VM to baremetal (turns out my mobo only supports UEFI and after spending an hr trying to convert I just gave up and reinstalled)
I just spent 11 days not using my PC. Your sweating after an hour 😂 I was thinking about what laptop I'm gonna buy to replace this broken desktop.
I am very happy I am doing this on a ProxMox machine. So fast to flip them up again
I just spent 11 days on a dual boot repair in fstab, passwd, loads of ecryptfs, amongst other boot and login issues. Before restoring from the full system backup after getting mad to finally want to use my PC. 11 fucking days almost all day in terminal. TOO many partitions and too many folders inside of folders to get to my ecryptfs files. I got so lost LSing around.
After it all though, and it was an aneurism and a half. I still want to finish my goal and reinstall my dual boot this time correctly aiming the folders correctly.
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