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Six habits of happy people

  • doom scrolling on lemmy
  • feeling superior to people who use reddit
  • closing the app because no new posts
  • installing gnu+linux
  • bootoader not found
  • doom scrolling on lemmy
  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Thankfully all the bootloaders in all my Linux systems are in working order, but the Windows partition on my laptop won’t boot and I think it has to do with bootloader corruption. Otherwise I’m all of these.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
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      9 months ago

      https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB

      If you’re not using grub idk but here would be some potential troubleshooting steps for Arch or any distro that doesn’t change grub (pretty sure Debian has its own specific set of tools for grub)

      Mount your Windows partition, install os-prober, enable OS probing in /etc/default/grub, and run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

      You might wanna mount the ESP partition too if it isn’t already

      • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        9 months ago

        My understanding is that GRUB (using the chainloader command) successfully calls the Windows bootloader when I ask it to run Windows, but I think the Windows bootloader is corrupted. It is corrupted to the point that I cannot even use the recovery disk or install disk to fix the system.

        I think a Windows update broke it. I have OS probing enabled, and it successfully detected (and booted into) the Windows partition back when I first installed Debian. It still detects the Windows partition, but Windows bluescreens with an error message that I can’t remember off the top of my head, but both Microsoft’s support forum and other resources basically indicated could only be fixed with a reinstall. Debian, of course, boots just fine.

        I ran chkdsk on the Windows partition with the Windows Recovery Disk and I also checked the partition in Gparted, and both processes found no errors. The Windows partition is perfectly readable from Debian.

        So I’m inclined to believe that Windows broke itself.

  • THCDenton@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Eveytime I see a fear mongering news post on lemmy, I ban that community. I’m here for shitposts and tits.

  • einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    duno if its the homeinstance i am on but lemmy fells like 95% less doomscrolling that reddit, there is less content and less brutal stuff since videos are not supported

    • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      I feel like Reddit atleast had more other stuff to dilute the news and politics stuff. But without a lot of the smaller communities from Reddit that used to contribute to my home page it feels like all I get is memes and news.

      • Hathaway@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Yeah, Reddit will actually need to kill itself, which, with how it’s being run, isn’t out of the question. Or, something no one else has thought of has to do something better. I don’t know that you can have essentially a Reddit clone ever have the user base for a lot of those niche communities to exist. Because they already do.

        It’s hard for me to use Lemmy largely due to this. Unfortunately the communities I used Reddit for, really don’t exist anywhere else, so I still use Reddit, granted, in browser, and I no longer comment or engage with anything. But, it is the only place to get news and discourse for some of the things I like.

        I sometimes consider attempting to create a more niche community here occasionally, but, to what end? I don’t have the sources or inside knowledge for some things. Nor do I have time for it realistically. Sad really, I’d like Reddit to die as much as any of us. But, I don’t see it happening. I do like it better here though in terms of actual engagement, when it happens.

  • recursivesive@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    My bootloader didn’t fail. I modified my fstab without setting nofail nor noauto, took the laptop on the road, rebooted, and learned the hard way. ib4 RTFM.

  • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    9 months ago

    The meme I stole from is pretty funny:
    Alt text below Idk who made it. Alt Text:
    Six habits of happy people

    • find meaning in consumerism
    • learn to laugh at suffering
    • work yourself to exhaustion
    • abandon your [redacted]
    • become insane
    • stop observing objective reality
    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      9 months ago

      My bootloader is often “Not found” because HP’s UEFI deletes non-Windows boot entries after booting up from external drives. The correct boot entries cannot be put back from within UEFI, but instead you need to use tools like efibootmgr (Linux) or Bootice (Windows). I use the latter as it’s in Hiren’s Boot CD.

      • Pleb@feddit.de
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        9 months ago

        AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

        Thank fuck my ancient HP laptop doesn’t do this and my desktop is also running fine ever since figured out at least one pitfall of a dual-boot.