The Official Status Thread
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Interesting. In Poland, the second meaning is a very common word, while the first is literally only ever used is mathematics.
That’s not what I meant. I know the different meanings and what you said about common usage is the same here, too.
I meant that I almost thought that in English too “discreet” is spelled “discrete”, because as mentioned above Americans are terrible at homophones and I almost never read it correctly. When I see someone messing up their/they’re/there I know it’s wrong, but in this case I didn’t realize it. (It’s also a less common word in general.)
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@topspin oh. That makes sense. Honestly, I wasn't aware of that either, even though I've seen the "eet" spelling a few times. But I've also seen "discrete" used to mean secrecy. And it doesn't help that "discretion" in both meanings is spelled the same.
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status the "nuke Oracle from orbit" club has a new member.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"scameras" - is that the female version of "scammers" is Spanish?
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Dear whatever tool who silently replaced a - with an – in my configuration file and made me question the limits of my sanity:
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STATUS Just received an email from godaddy telling me a domain is about to expire. I have to stop getting hammered and buying domains.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
A motherboard from 2019 that'll fail after a second when booting off USB3?
I'm guessing Linux terminated UEFI boot services before loading its own USB3 driver ("xhci"?), so that problem is on whoever built your initramfs.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
newtwork drive
The drive where you store the spells to turn people into newts? (they get better)
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
"scameras" - is that the female version of "scammers" is Spanish?
Linux was cheeky when I put in "Security Cameras" as the fullname and so I kept it.
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Status: Hrm....
I should probably do something about that...
Edit: The SmartCtl report is much more dire...What an odd LBA to fail at...
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@TwelveBaud I followed the instructions on Ubuntu's website (for creating stick on Windows with Rufus; my Linux installation has issues and is next in line for repaving).
So... I guess not a lot of people move from Windows to Linux anymore?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
much more dire
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Status: What weird assumptions Samba has about the presence of certain files.
I just spent the last six hours hunting down why kerberos was trying to read a nonexistant
/etc/krb5.keytab
, which wasn't being used because there was an in-memory credentials file instead at/tmp/krb5cc_0
, but shit was assuming there was a fucking keytab there and spewing errors each time something tried to authenticate (even though it worked fine and authentication succeeded. Well, mostly).So I went through several wormholes and got the system to generate a keytab for me. It ended up with a completely different principal for incorrect accounts, but hey, the fucking file exists. Should report it but it's probably fixed already so why bother.
Now it's whining about not having permission to start sequence getting or something so it can't logoff ( ) so the error is now actually longer but fuck it, I should be sleeping right now.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Installed a newer version of Debian to my newtwork drive on Sunday, after I decided to swap the SSD in it. The installer froze just after booting from USB, with the Syslinux credits line halfway printed on the screen.
Troubleshooting time. I tried:
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Detach new SSD - Nope.
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Reset BIOS settings - Nope.
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Detach network cable - Nope.
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Reseat RAM sticks - Nope.
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Remove one of the RAM sticks - Nope. (And the motherboard BIOS does not seem to have any kind of memcheck tool. )
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Rewrite USB stick in DD instead of ISO mode - Nope.
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Use Ubuntu Server instead of Debian? - Nope.
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Use a USB2 port? - Will not show stick in bootable options.
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...Use a USB2 stick that I managed to scrounge? - Bingo.
I spent 3 hours on this. A motherboard from 2019 that'll fail after a second when booting off USB3?
Sounds like a pretty normal Linux install to me.
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@Parody Like Windows makes it any easier. Have to use a Linux machine to be able to download the latest installation image.
...Or use a tool that failed to recognize any of my USB sticks as USB sticks, the last time I tried to use it....And un-plug the Ethernet to be able to install without creating a Microsoft account.
On the other hand, the Ubuntu Server installation now uses The Cloud .
Debian merely needs me to fix the PATH for root and users manually.
Le sigh
It's like a race to the bottom on who can make the most fucked up installation process.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Like Windows makes it any easier. Have to use a Linux machine to be able to download the latest installation image.
...Or use a tool that failed to recognize any of my USB sticks as USB sticks, the last time I tried to use it....And un-plug the Ethernet to be able to install without creating a Microsoft account.
Did you get your hands on Tsaukpaetra's hardware? I had none of those issues when I installed Windows 10 last year. Also, never had any problems with bootable USB Linux made on Windows (I use YUMI).
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Like Windows makes it any easier. Have to use a Linux machine to be able to download the latest installation image.
...Or use a tool that failed to recognize any of my USB sticks as USB sticks, the last time I tried to use it.Thankfully I've never had these problems with Windows 10.
...And un-plug the Ethernet to be able to install without creating a Microsoft account.
I don't really like this decision, but I don't mind using a Microsoft account on my machines.
On the other hand, the Ubuntu Server installation now uses The Cloud .
Debian merely needs me to fix the PATH for root and users manually.
Le sigh
It's like a race to the bottom on who can make the most fucked up installation process.Kinda makes me miss
FORMAT C: /S
.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Like Windows makes it any easier. Have to use a Linux machine to be able to download the latest installation image.
...Or use a tool that failed to recognize any of my USB sticks as USB sticks, the last time I tried to use it....And un-plug the Ethernet to be able to install without creating a Microsoft account.
Did you get your hands on Tsaukpaetra's hardware? I had none of those issues when I installed Windows 10 last year. Also, never had any problems with bootable USB Linux made on Windows (I use YUMI).
But did you use USB3.0+?
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The Corona Warn App (that Bluetooth based Google/Apple thingy nobody knows if it really works (it’s based on Bluetooth after all and Bluetooth never works )) has shown a high risk contact for the first time in
70001.5 years.Status: Not pregnant.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Like Windows makes it any easier. Have to use a Linux machine to be able to download the latest installation image.
...Or use a tool that failed to recognize any of my USB sticks as USB sticks, the last time I tried to use it....And un-plug the Ethernet to be able to install without creating a Microsoft account.
Did you get your hands on Tsaukpaetra's hardware? I had none of those issues when I installed Windows 10 last year. Also, never had any problems with bootable USB Linux made on Windows (I use YUMI).
But did you use USB3.0+?
Yes. For both.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Like Windows makes it any easier. Have to use a Linux machine to be able to download the latest installation image.
...Or use a tool that failed to recognize any of my USB sticks as USB sticks, the last time I tried to use it....And un-plug the Ethernet to be able to install without creating a Microsoft account.
Did you get your hands on Tsaukpaetra's hardware? I had none of those issues when I installed Windows 10 last year. Also, never had any problems with bootable USB Linux made on Windows (I use YUMI).
But did you use USB3.0+?
Yes. For both.
Then the root cause of my pain is either Rufus, which was recommended by Ubuntu, or the motherboard like I stated earlier.
I'm not going to try to find out which one it was. I'll just try to preserve a USB2.0 stick in case I ever need to reinstall again.
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Status: Trying to hunt down a weird bug where the Outline panel in my IDE stops working occasionally when editing Typescript (or Javascript). It's weird because there doesn't appear to be any real reason for it to stop working, but might be correlated with the IDE deciding to restart all its the language servers (no idea why the restart happens, but it does). The logs are largely uninformative.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
Then the root cause of my pain is either Rufus, which was recommended by Ubuntu, or the motherboard like I stated earlier.
I've never had any trouble with Rufus, and I'm sure I've used USB3 with it
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Bluetooth never works
My usecases must be too vanilla.
Maybe you have hardware?
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Bluetooth never works
My usecases must be too vanilla.
Liar. The most vanilla imaginable is connecting a headset to a phone and even that only works half the time.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Bluetooth never works
My usecases must be too vanilla.
Liar. The most vanilla imaginable is connecting a headset to a phone and even that only works half the time.
The only problem I've seen with headset (or actually desk speaker) use is when I go out of then back into range. So might be sensitive to interference I don't experience?
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Our 15 minute scrum just passed the 1 hour mark.
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Our 15 minute scrum just passed the 1 hour mark.
Are you at least doing your daily stand-up while standing up?
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Status: The jar of mayonnaise I just pulled out of the refrigerator has a remarkably long shelf life:
Use by: Dec 2420
It's not moldy, and it doesn't smell or ( @Karla's opinion notwithstanding) taste bad.
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You've switched to Time Distortion Field?
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@TwelveBaud I followed the instructions on Ubuntu's website (for creating stick on Windows with Rufus; my Linux installation has issues and is next in line for repaving).
So... I guess not a lot of people move from Windows to Linux anymore?
I used Rufus when I nuke/paved an old Lenovo Yoga2. Ubuntu20 is running nicely...
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Status: Apparently CD-Extra disks cannot contain a UDF filesystem. Or, ImgBurn freaks out at loading UDF Isos for no apparent reason.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently CD-Extra disks cannot contain a UDF filesystem. Or, ImgBurn freaks out at loading UDF Isos for no apparent reason.
Who still has optical drives?!
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently CD-Extra disks cannot contain a UDF filesystem. Or, ImgBurn freaks out at loading UDF Isos for no apparent reason.
Who still has optical drives?!
I have no fucking clue, but I'm burning 20 discs for them!
Also, I do, of course!
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
Our 15 minute scrum just passed the 1 hour mark.
I remember when they were suppose to be 5 minutes.
The previous place I worked the scrum evangelist suggested 2 hours a week for scrum ceremonies. My response was "What!? What the hell are we suppose to be doing? Donning robes and singing our praises to Nyarlathotep?"
Noone got the reference. Much disappointment.
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STATUS I think java 7 might drive me back to alcoholism.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS I think java 7 might drive me back to alcoholism.
It could be worse. You could still be on 1.4 using that weird IBM version in Websphere.
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Status: Yay, more USB cables. (4 cables arrived in 3 separate shipments.) Now, if the hubs will arrive so that I can do something with the cables...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Yay, more USB cables.
Reminder: not for internal use.
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@HardwareGeek In the year 2525, that mayonnaise may not still be alive
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status: guess who's the idiot that didn't check the new NAS drives he ordered weren't the pants-on-head retarded SMR type?
Wow, their performance is really shitty.... I thought they were exaggerating....
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Status: It appears my crash diagnostics system will not work if two threads are crashing at the same time.
This causes me several problems.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Apparently CD-Extra disks cannot contain a UDF filesystem. Or, ImgBurn freaks out at loading UDF Isos for no apparent reason.
Who still has optical drives?!
Hard to rip my CDs without one!
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@PleegWat Suggested fix: put a mutex in so only one thread can crash at a time.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat Suggested fix: put a mutex in so only one thread can crash at a time.
That is not as silly a remark as it might seem.
void signal_handler_detail(...) _NORETURN { static int crashing = 0; while (crashing) {/**/} crashing = 1; .... abort(); }
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat Suggested fix: put a mutex in so only one thread can crash at a time.
That is not as silly a remark as it might seem.
void signal_handler_detail(...) _NORETURN { static int crashing = 0; while (crashing) {/**/} crashing = 1; .... abort(); }
You may want to make it atomic. GCC loves to "optimize" exactly this kind of code.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat Suggested fix: put a mutex in so only one thread can crash at a time.
That is not as silly a remark as it might seem.
void signal_handler_detail(...) _NORETURN { static int crashing = 0; while (crashing) {/**/} crashing = 1; .... abort(); }
You may want to make it atomic. GCC loves to "optimize" exactly this kind of code.
I'll go over it with a fine-toothed comb tomorrow. More likely it's segfaulting while examining its own stack or something and that takes out the process.