Just a geek, finding my way in the fediverse.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • and the Mojang to Microsoft account migration for Java made a lot of people lose their accounts entirely.

    Hey, it’s me. I contacted support and got a list of info they needed to fix it. I responded with that info and got a reply from a different person with a list of info they needed to fix it. I responded with that info and got a reply from a different person with a list of info they needed to fix it.

    Then I said said “fuck this shit” and gave up to never play again.

    EDIT: You probably guessed, but I should clarify that it was the same list of info, verbatim, each time. Just copy/paste response without reading that I’d already supplied it.



  • Internal RAID1 as first line of defense. Rsync to external drives where at least one is always offsite as second. Rclone to cloud storage for my most important data as the third.

    Backups 2 and 3 are manual but I have reminders set and do it about once a month. I don’t accrue much new data that I can’t easily replace so that’s fine for me.















  • Anybody have experience with System76? I’ve been on the lookout for a replacement for my ancient thinkpad and they came up as a contender along with eluks. Looking for something with no OS or Linux since I’ll immediately wipe and install my own

    I’ll never game on it (just now realizing this is a gaming community :) so GPU doesn’t matter a ton. More interested in CPU/RAM/storage and cost. Even battery life doesn’t matter a lot since I’m rarely mobile, but nice to have.



  • clif@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mllooking for half-stable Linux distro
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    9 months ago

    I’ve been on mint for ages but when I updated my RAID this year it originally wouldn’t recognize it. I eventually got it recognized but it capped the 16TB drives at 999GB for some reason. For fun, I went up the chain to Ubuntu… Same thing

    In frustration I went to Grandma’s house with Debian and it worked perfect out of the box. I’d spent hours researching it but the best I found was a potential RAID related bug (lvm, specifically, I think) introduced in Ubuntu that, of course, filtered into Mint. Even fdisk reported the physical drives as 999GB in Mint/Ubuntu.

    I still don’t know the exact cause but I got it up and running so I’m a Debian guy now, I guess.

    Granted, my use case isn’t super normal since I’m using a BIOS RAID1 (and we all know how fun BIOS RAID can be) with full disk encryption.

    Worked out in the end but it made me sad to ditch Mint