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Today is #Signet Saturday and it's not off to a good start. 🫤

My new motherboard arrived and after moving the CPU, RAM and storage over, I found out that my case is too small. It can't fit both the motherboad and the power supply into it at the same time.

The board is just too tall. So now I'm trying to figure out if I have a case that is big enough and not in use (or can be taken out of use).

If I'm lucky, I'll find something, get to swap even more things around, and have a working desktop by the end of the day.

I am going to be SO GLAD when this is done. I'm still recovering from a motherboard failure from about two months ago, and I'm fed up!

#GrowNostr #hardware #computer

Dr. Hax 1y ago

It's been several hours, but I have a new case (and a now-caseless older computer) and I was able to boot into the Qubes installer.

I have no fucking idea why Qubes on a M.2 drive can't be just plopped into a new computer and be seen as a bootabke device. It works fine with Qubes on a USB device...

Backing up and restoring is very easy with Qubes, so as long as you back up before migrating, it's not that big of a deal, but I'm still annoyed. Given how my day has been going so far, it doesn't take much.

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Dr. Hax 1y ago

And as I was attempting to restore from backups, I found the backup drive has read errors which causes restoration to fail.

I was in a rush again, and this is the price I pay, again.

I just feel like I am so slow at things already that I can't afford to back my data up in duplicate or triplicate. Or to do a fake restore to verify the integrety of backups each time.

Apparently, I should just go slower, because now I am spending a bunch of time restoring things one VM at a time and keeping notes on which ones already failed, which ones build upon those ones that can't be restored and so forth.

I am just so exhaused by these setbacks all the time...

Dr. Hax 1y ago

Yes, a screen that goes black and never comes back is just what I needed today. I'm signing off for the night. I don't want to keep bringing this level of negativity to #nostr.

GN all