Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modde

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So I fixed this by using clonezilla (which seemed to fix things up automatically), but for my edification, how do you get the UUID of the device itself? The only UUIDs I was seeing seemingly were the partition UUIDs.

There wasn't any LVM involved, it's AFAIK pretty rare outside of MBR installs (as GPT typically lets you have more than enough partitions).

Very interesting. I wasn't finding anywhere what the device ID was. Everything was looking like it was copied over from where I was (at least noticing).

Clonezilla seems to have taken care of the necessary updates so if you do this again I'd recommend just using that. I hate that it's yet another special ISO tool to keep around on a USB thumb drive, but if I'd used that from the start several hours of my life would've been saved 😅

Most of the time, you want to boot a recovery mode from USB, mount your existing root and efi partitions, and then just reinstall grub.

I did do that FWIW, but it didn't do it/it wasn't enough/it still didn't work.

If this was a toy system and/or I was back in college and feeling adventurous, I would definitely be more inclined to try and figure out what happened. As it stands, I just want the thing to work 😅

Pretty much exactly my experience and takeaway on both Windows and Linux.

It's definitely not the smoothest launch... But the review bomb has felt a bit undeserved.

Thanks and thanks for the effort you put in.

I did update grub via a chroot as one of my troubleshooting steps... So I don't think that was it either. I actually recall it saying something about skipping updating grub (because it was a GPT system without some special flag set I think).

I remember seeing it do something to the EFI stuff explicitly and I'm wondering if maybe that's where it did something I didn't.

Clonezilla just worked. The fstab is unmodified/identical to what dd gave me.

I really have no idea what clonezilla did differently. Its output was so fast... But yeah, it just worked with that. So I guess I'll take it.

Absolutely baffling.

Thanks for translating ... my brain is completely fried from fighting with this.

I'm giving up on my dd attempt and trying clonezilla (a highly regarded option it seems).

But yeah, welcome to exactly what's driving me crazy. The dd "worked", grub loads, it starts loading Linux ... and then it gets caught trying to find... itself (?)

Like the exact drive that's missing is the drive it would have to find to even be partially operational. The other drives weren't touched and the original drive is unplugged.

There is a btrfs subvolume and they're both part of the same drive ... but it was also copied bit for bit.

IDK... We'll see whether clonezilla works. I've been using Linux over ten years, it's been a long time since I've been this confused.

What does that have to do with any of this?

Are you just trying to start a whimsical side conversation?

They're identical to what they were in the original drive, I've verified it in gparted on a live image.

It's driving me crazy because I can literally find this drive by that UUID in a live image, but when I go to boot the system has no idea what that is.

These things are like arguing about whether or not a pet has feelings...

I'd say it's far more likely for a cat or a dog to have complex emotions and thoughts than for the human made LLM to actually be thinking. It seems to me like the nativity of human kind that we even think we might have created something with consciousness.

I'm in the camp that thinks the LLMs are by and large a huge grift (that can produce useful output for certain tasks) by virtue of extreme exaggeration of the facts, but maybe I'm wrong.

The concerning thing is... I can't tell if you're joking.

A problem I've personally run into is a lot of reviews focus entirely on MTX/monetization and this can turn into a fun game getting thrown through the floor because the corporate side decided to put in a bunch of optional purchases.

I'm not saying monetization doesn't matter ... but sometimes I really don't care ... like Lego 2K Drive has a bunch of MTX bricks I'm never going to use and the option to grind them out with a lot of play time (another thing I'm not going to bother with). Those reviews almost definitely really hurt the sales of the game (which I did end up getting and it's actually quite solid in terms of PC kart racing) and probably killed any chance of it ever living up to its potential.

Artifact Classic (the card game by Valve) also got review bombed to hell about monetization (and that one I get a little bit more because you had to buy card packs) ... but if you actually play the game (and you can for free now with all cards unlocked)... I found it to be a really fun card game. I and all my friend stopped playing when Valve announced they were just going to redo the whole thing... I suspect a lot of people did the same thing which caused the chain reaction of "nobody's playing our game... this looks hopeless..." and the eventual abandonment of both the original game and the rework Artifact Foundry (which I ... didn't particularly care for). The people I know that knew about the game that didn't get the game said the negative reviews basically immediately disqualified the game from consideration for them.

They're probably not talking about using git, since git is decentralized by nature. You can use git without an Internet connection and then sync everything back up when you have an internet connection again.

Some people literally call GitHub, git and ... they're just wrong.

They also might be talking about review and project management facilities GitHub provides as a service.

The WW II US rail network is loonnnnggggg gone and doesn't really have any effect on the modern day. What remains is mostly freight rail run by a few oversized rail corporations... and they're surely in no hurry to abandon their diesel engines.

There's also not huge political pressure because rail is already a very efficient way to transport goods. Spreading rail would have better effects than electrifying rail.

Just because there's a "rule" that exists somewhere in the abstract, that doesn't mean folks should assail people for innocent mistakes. It's also not a rule of this community. It's not a rule of the instance this community is a part of. It's most definitely not a rule of "the platform."

In fact, these the W3C (the body most people are seemingly citing as a source for rules) isn't even calling their "rules", rules. They call them "guidelines" https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/.

Ya, I'm colorblind, but you're probably not and you probably didn't think about it. You're just some random person on the internet, you've probably got plenty of other things to worry about than hunting down the latest WC3 publication on accessibility.

To be clear, I do let folks know if there's a chart I'm interested in reading that I can't read, try to give feedback about colorblind relevant stuff, etc. (literally last night I was on the Deadlock forums giving Valve accessibility feedback). I just do it in a "matter of the fact" fashion and try to explain what I'm struggling with rather than with an attitude and command that they change something without any context.

I actually didn't realize their was support for alt-text. The clients I've used the few times when I've posted images ... I don't recall even prompting for alt text.

That seems like a lemmy limitation that probably needs worked on (i.e. prompting for alt text for images so apps can just read the alt text and folks are reminded to think of it).

EDIT: It's been brought to my attention that the Lemmy server software actually does support alt-text ... but I'm not sure how prevalent this is with clients (I don't remember ever seeing a prompt for it).