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Since OP uses it for freelance business, self-hosting and stuff, I recommend even one step further, by a new computer and try to replicate all workflows there. Don’t fuck with the old one until one day OP suddenly noticed that he hasn’t booted his old computer for one year, then he can sell it as parts.

Dude, look, I gave you some advise on how to get information from search engines, and efficiently ask a question when that fails to deliver. If you don’t like it, simply walk away. Feel free to block me or downvote me too. Argue with me does you no good.

That’s why it was right there in the title?

To me it wasn’t. The question would be “What terminals do you guys use?”

Please blame AI for internet search all you want, but there are ways to filtered AI-generated posts. For example, search on specific sites which you trust (I don’t know, lemmy.ml as the obvious choice, perhaps?).

It’s not nice to make people read through half of your post to find out your question, sir.

Moreover, does the result produced by a search engine not be sufficient? Do you genuinely want Lemmy user’s opinions?

Rust graphics driver for a GPU which I don’t have? I love how Rust-haters hate it!

Another way explicitly banned by OP is running a script, which prepares a live USB drive and reboot to it. One would argue it’s the same process as your resizing a mounted partition method.

A piece of software always runs locally. It is in some cases those who needs to communicate with the server fail to deliver the usual function you expect when offline.

Please do not confuse one to another.

And perhaps you can start by complaining which services you are using heavily rely on the server side? General questions attract general answers and IMHO you are better off just search on the internet.

1/10 Do not recommend

Want to learn? Buy a current computer (secondhand to save money) that has a blazing fast CPU, shit loads of RAM, and any AMD graphics card. Running into trouble is no fun for beginners. You’ll quickly feel depressed and lose interest.

For the learning part, follow any distro’s official installation guide and do it step by step. Learn which part of the systems does what, and how to set it up, how to debug.

And stick to Ethernet connection before you get comfortable. (Shitty) Wi-fi ICs more often than not have driver issues.

For the old laptop, sell it for parts if you’re not feeling nostalgic.

For the last time, buy a new computer, please.

What’s wrong with http://makemkv.com/? I’ve used it for years for lossless backup DVD/BD and no issue.

No. Feel free to download shit and even attempt to run shit. Chances are they won’t run because shits are compiled against glibc and my system is not.

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Seeking-Support-After-Equinix-Metal-Sunsets.html

Does anything show up in dmesg when you plug in the adaptor?

I read that you don’t have another adaptor or computer for debugging, but it’s equally sad that it’s most probably the best result you can get, knowing or not knowing what the root cause is. You literally need to test another adaptor, try another SD card, try a different USB port. Basically throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. It would work without technical knowledge eventually.

Generally that is not a concern because regular users won’t be able to rm anything else other than those in his own $HOME.

Another thing I want to say is, command line is for careful users. If someone is careless, they should create a wrapper around rm, or just use a FM.