• Auster@thebrainbin.org
    65·
    2 days ago

    If I had a nickel for every time my phone saved me from massive failures in Linux, I’d have 4 nickels. "<.<

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      18·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been there. I’m 100% sure my PC is now a brick, but I run across a post by some random person online:

      "Press these keys, then type this exactly and hit “Enter”

      And roughly five minutes later my PC is stable, purring happily, and two minor annoyances have gone away thanks to package updates.

      Thank you all, kind Internet Linux guru strangers.

      Edit: More like 25 minutes, really. 20 minutes of my reading docs to verify why this solution can work, and then 5 minutes for it to work.

    • axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      If I had a nickel for everytime I had to borrow a laptop to write to a USB, I’d have a nickel.

    • shoki@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 days ago

      your phone? my phone only helps when websearching for stuff while my desktop isn’t working or ssh’ing into my machine when the video output doesn’t work

      • Auster@thebrainbin.org
        13·
        2 days ago

        Meant in that sense, yes - searching for errors and their solutions as I see my computer having such major failures