The Official Status Thread
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@Zenith it's been a while since I did it so I had to Google it as a reminder but if you've got something to either mount the ISO or extract the contents you don't even need to use Rufus just
diskpart
andbootsect
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@Zenith You're wrong. Don't be.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I don't know what to tell you. Rufus makes it the whole way though about once every dozen or so tries and the NUC says no bootable media detected.
Edit: Yes it's set to boot from and give priority to USB. Yes the drive has enough space at 64GB. Also Rufus secretly hates drives that aren't preformatted to FAT32. The part where it says it's deleting/creating/formatting partitions is stupid or lying. All attempts that at least wrote something to the drive without choking had that preformatting in common.
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@Zenith Suspicious. Are you sure that your flash drives aren't actually made by Handisk, Bamsung or Pingston?
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@Applied-Mediocrity Corsair Voyager Slider X1 and I bought them directly from NewEgg. Figured that was safer than the CNY, Magnetbox, and Bidenmemorex available at Walfart.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Every time I pick an IMG
or ISO, practically every option below that is disabled except the "check device for bad blocks" controls.Yes, that's DD mode, they just no longer have a toggle for it, it chooses for you now.
If the controls for selecting partition type and all that other junk are enabled, you're not in DD mode.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zenith Suspicious. Are you sure that your flash drives aren't actually made by Handisk, Bamsung or Pingston?
Oh yeah, have him format Fat32 and run h2testw on it!
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Lounge Status Status:
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@hungrier So, your status is hungry?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Meanwhile, here I am having never had trouble with Rufus for making bootable USB sticks or formatting large SD cards to FAT32
You need to upgrade to Windows 7 for that!
I've used Rufus a couple of times. Once to create a Windows 7 stick, and another time from that Windows 7 to create a Linux stick. Both times worked fine.
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STATUS This is your yearly reminder that the word magic doesn't have a k in it.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS This is your yearly reminder that the word magic doesn't have a k in it.
The word magick does though
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS This is your yearly reminder that the word magic doesn't have a k in it.
The word magick does though
*edit motherfucker! I'm failing all over the place with memes today.
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Status: So for monopoly reasons (or someshit) as far as I know, AT&T was historically not allowed to offer U-Verse in AZ.
They laid fiber down in my neighborhood, and the sales guys finally came around to offer services. All materials and things very carefully avoid using that term, calling it "AT&T Fiber - Internet 1000" for example. But I know the truth! Lo, I have a BAN!
Anyways, so the quote I got was rather attractive, $50/mo because the family already has AT&T services for mobiles, and so thus was quote:
Unfortunately, the systems haven't quite caught up and the AT&T auto-generated order summary says...
I sense there will be a few long calls to Sales in my future...
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@Tsaukpaetra "Credit may take 2-3 billing cycles" - see above.
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra "Credit may take 2-3 billing cycles" - see above.
Yeah but it's not retroactive, innit?
Edit: Besides, it's not like we haven't had a mobile account at this billing/service address for over a decade, there should be no excuse for this chicanery.
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STATUS fifth round with these people. I can't be arsed to shave anymore for the interview. Corpo contractor interviews almost be as soulless as the work.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
STATUS fifth round with these people. I can't be arsed to shave anymore for the interview. Corpo contractor interviews almost be as soulless as the work.
I might be getting good at faking enthusiasm. I was talking to my mother afterwards and she could hear me. She thought I sounded unusually enthusiastic and involved.
She also has odd opinions on mats.
Can I swap this mat for the mat in your room?
You can take the mat in my room.
but then you won't have a mat in your room.
I don't want a mat in my room.
but you need a mat in your room.
why do I need a mat in my room?
because you need a mat in your room.I have a new mat in my room that needs hovering.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I have a new mat in my room that needs hovering.
Does it need to hover? Seems like it'd be better as a mat if it didn't
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I have a new mat in my room that needs hovering.
Does it need to hover? Seems like it'd be better as a mat if it didn't
Two o's might have made more sense. Damn auto-correct. Might be an Irishism for vacuuming for those on the continent or over the pond.
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
Lounge Status Status:
I did that with the Garage recently. I don't think anyone was pleased with the output.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
this chicanery
You're not crazy, you know they swapped those numbers
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@DogsB Since posting that, I don't think I actually went back to that topic. So I'll have even more catching up to do
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@hungrier Allow you to be free: push the "Mark as Read" button,
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I have a new mat in my room that needs hovering.
Does it need to hover? Seems like it'd be better as a mat if it didn't
Aladdin?
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I made the mistake of thinking somebody's node project looked like a project.
It's a thing that serves some status information. It's nodejs, so best to isolate it a bunch.
- Create container, give it 1GB of RAM. That's more than most containers I have running.
- Checkout git
- Follow their node-y instructions until
- "npm run build" (that seems like a ridiculous sequence of commands, but whatever)
...
<wait>
...
[Error something allocation failed something out of memory]
Why the $¡@¥¤☠ do you need more than 1GB of RAM to build a piece of software that fetches some stuff via HTTP and then serves up some text (also via HTTP)? This isn't C++! :-( What the heck is it doing anyway? Wasn't the entire premise of interpreted languages that you can just run the thing?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't be arsed to shave anymore for the interview.
The interviewer (probably) doesn't care whether you shave your arse.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I have a new mat in my room that needs hovering.
Does it need to hover? Seems like it'd be better as a mat if it didn't
Two o's might have made more sense. Damn auto-correct. Might be an Irishism for vacuuming for those on the continent or over the pond.
Should have just said dust-sucking.
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
Why the $¡@¥¤☠ do you need more than 1GB of RAM to build a piece of software that fetches some stuff via HTTP and then serves up some text (also via HTTP)? This isn't C++! :-( What the heck is it doing anyway? Wasn't the entire premise of interpreted languages that you can just run the thing?
Anyone remember the requirements for ?
These things have absolutely mad memory consumption, and almost nobody seems to really know why. It all seems to be something that falls between everyone's responsibilities... and is probably down to a few settings being some orders of magnitude out, or holding a cache that gets no real use of the cached entities, or something else equally dumb.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
I can't be arsed to shave anymore for the interview.
The interviewer (probably) doesn't care whether you shave your arse.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Quotes Out of Context:
@DogsB has found new and better employment opportunities:
I'm stripping
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@dkf Modern Bill Gates: Infinity GB ought to be enough for anyone
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Modern Bill Gates: Infinity GB ought to be enough for anyone
Modern node programmer: Hold my beer.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Anyone remember the requirements for ?
"Always choose the most insane solution?"
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf Modern Bill Gates: Infinity GB ought to be enough for anyone
Modern node programmer: Hold my beer.
"We have virtual memory now!"
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Status: I am shamed.
I was wrong that the Intel NUCs had legacy BIOS support. I mean I read it all over before I bought the device and whatever the boot menu is called says you can enable it by disabling Secure Boot but that seemingly has no real effect on UEFI vs BIOS.
Rufus was finally able to make a drive without errors after I shut down all Explorer processes including the one that I launched Rufus from. It still can't boot from it because I guess the FreeBSD image from 12.4 isn't UEFI compatible or something. I really thought a 2022 version would support UEFI.
While I wait for DVD-Rs to burn ISOs to and try installing something from discs, my hopes had been pinned on getting some non-Windows OS loaded and using a VM to load an ISO or something.
Otherwise I just wasted a bunch of money on hardware that I can't use. I should be mad but instead I feel stupid. It's been a long time since I felt that way and I don't like it.
Edit: I used
diskpart
to change the USB from MBR to GPT so UEFI could see it. But Rufus can't make a GPT partition from an IMG because reasons so I had to manually copy files from a mounted ISO. But that didn't boot either. So I have no idea how to get any OS on this thing except praying that booting from a DVD-R decides to actually work.More: It's like the controls on Rufus are optional. I eventually got it to make what should've been a GPT boot drive in FAT32. But that didn't boot either because reasons. Seriously, no idea how to get an OS on this thing besides possibly a DVD. No doubt that'll be a fight too because why not? WTF is the audience for computer hardware that can't run anything that's not pre-installed?
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
I was wrong that the Intel NUCs had legacy BIOS support. I mean I read it all over before I bought the device and whatever the boot menu is called says you can enable it by disabling Secure Boot but that seemingly has no real effect on UEFI vs BIOS.
They apparently had it up until 2020's 10xxx processor ones.
Rufus was finally able to make a drive without errors after I shut down all Explorer processes including the one that I launched Rufus from. It still can't boot from it because I guess the FreeBSD image from 12.4 isn't UEFI compatible or something. I really thought a 2022 version would support UEFI.
FWIW, FreeBSD's docs say UEFI booting should be there for amd64 and 64-bit UEFIs since 10.1. It looks like the current version doesn't support 32-bit UEFIs, according to the Tasks listed there. (I doubt that's an issue with recent NUCs.)
If only the documentation could magically make yours work.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
FreeBSD image from 12.4
Are they even still hosting repos/ports for that?
Poke me Monday, I'll try and see if I have a NUC of your generation in the lab....
What's the model again?
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
might have made
What has happened here?
Are you infected with a CGV (correct grammar virus )?
Is that infectious?
Do we have to quarantaine you?
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
might have made
What has happened here?
Are you infected with a CGV (correct grammar virus )?
Is that infectious?
Do we have to quarantaine you?@HardwareGeek has been a shockenly bad influence.
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status: a shitload of emergency vehicles just passed by. Wonder what that was about...
Good to know.
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@Tsaukpaetra Phoenix on fire.
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@Zecc The Pun Thread is !
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: a shitload of emergency vehicles just passed by. Wonder what that was about...
We've had a cable fire. They dispatched pretty quickly, were here in like 5 minutes, didn't feel like they're coming all the way from AZ.
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Status: I tried to make a bootable USB from the amd64 IMG of Free BSD and that didn't work either. From what I can tell, UEFI won't boot from MBR and Rufus won't make anything but MBR. Like it'll recognize a disk with GPT partitions only to destroy them. I don't get that.
Anyway, I remembered I bought an Asus PB60 back in 2020 (introduced 2018) for the same reason that I bought the Intel NUC recently. Do you think I can find any information online about the BIOS/UEFI situation? Hell no. Have to find it and try to boot it myself.
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@Zenith I thought the whole UEFI-GPT link was a windows design decision and that on other platforms like linux UEFI-MBR or BIOS-GPT will work just fine.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
won't make anything but MBR
You're working off bad assumptions. When using img files it's literally a byte-wise image of the disk: there is no "I'm deciding the partitions" or "I'm going to format it like this". It writes what's in the image and that's it.
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@Tsaukpaetra No assumptions about it. I deliberately set a drive to GPT with a FAT32 partition. I point Rufus at it, it says it's deleting partitions, and it comes back out as MBR.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra No assumptions about it. I deliberately set a drive to GPT with a FAT32 partition. I point Rufus at it, it says it's deleting partitions, and it comes back out as MBR.
You selected an img file, yes?