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  • yeah, you need some help

    🤡

    On serious note, have you by any chance somehow saved the previous start and end values? Like in history of the shell, terminal or even a piece of paper?
    I’ve found out in the past, that if you recreate the partition table as it was, the data will be read fine

    Otherwise, you might need to use RescueCd to try and get the partition borers back. But if you haven’t rebooted since that fateful keypress, first focus on trying to get to what partition borders were printed in the terminal earlier. IMO it will be the fastest and easiest
    Even if you will get those in cylinders and will have to calculate those back to MBs


  • At that point just let me ditch the formality and send over the summary in the first place.

    A tangent a little bit but so much this. Why haven’t we normalized using fewer words already?
    Why do we keep writing (some blogs and all of content marketing) whole screens of text to convey just a sentence of real content?
    Why do we keep the useless hello and regards instead of just directly getting to the points already?






  • I’m not convinced that the number of questions asked is the correct metric. In the end the point is not to have a constant flow of questions, rather constant flow of answers found.

    There is a point in proficiency in language/library/whatever after which it is faster to find the answer in the code/documentation/test example than to wait until another person on even higher level will come and answer your question.
    Maybe we simply filled out what was needed to be asked in the beginner-bug found-intermediate space and, apart from questions stemming from new versions etc, SO does not need more questions?

    Expectation for everything to constantly grow is unrealistic






  • When catching up with hardware performance for Linux gaming, I always browse phoronix, try to find a few comparisons from different years to see how the card looked like in comparison to other options. There might be some sleepers now no-one remembers about, that you magically have an option to buy. Think which game in the comparisons might have similar requirements to what you want to play and see how the card/cpu did on the settings you find agreeable/non-agreeable/perfect

    Don’t go into its forum, though. There be dragons

    Maybe recently it started to change with NVIDIA opening their drivers but for years we’ve been second class citizens for them. Personally I say “fuck NVIDIA”

    If you decide to go AMD, definitely explore the landscape of fan controllers. I use corectl but maybe you would prefer something else (this is Arch wiki, but should be fine for other distros too)


  • Thank you for sharing that

    But that ties you career to a stance. Which for sure often is a boon for many but not necessarily. The fact that one decides that something has to be spoken out does not mean that they for sure want to be from now on “locked” in politically involved jobs. I’m wondering if HR in some “just business” corp would not see such point in CV as a red flag, and if so if that would be majority, minority, 50/50?