1. OneDrive mirroring

Stop telling me that I am out of storage, I did not ask you to put my files there.

  1. Nvidia Linux drivers

A 2 month old driver from a desktop 3070 failed to detect a laptop 3050, and I had to chroot to remove the offending driver, buuuut

  1. Rescue USB

So it turns out the default Tumbleweed ISO is NOT a live image. Recue didn’t work nor did usb boot until I realised. Burned LMDE onto the usb key, and I was able to get back up and running relatively quickly.

  • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    • Resolving a complex case of circular dependencies (a recurring experience on Gentoo, not a deal-breaker, but makes updates tricky sometimes. Typically it’s something like GPM depends on ncurses which depends on GPM, just one-shot reinstall ncurses without mouse support then update as normal - but sometimes the circle involves three or four packages)

    • Getting a Brother USB scanner to work (These things suck. The wireless ones are driver-less like most modern printers, but the USB scanners require proprietary drivers which are only officially distributed for Debian and Red Hat. brscan5 is in neither the Gentoo or third party brother-overlay repository - someone did put together a functional ebuild though)

    • Been a while since I fucked with it, but I need to revisit getting a multi-drive bcachefs with encryption as the root filesystem working. Systemd still does not support the multi-drive fstab syntax introduced by util-linux, but I think the bcachefs tools now have a workaround.