I checked the user stats, and #9 for the year is John T, at over 4,400 rep for the year. I didn't remember ever seeing any posts from him. Out of curiosity, I checked his profile. He hasn't visited the site since January 2012. All of that rep was generated by his 2,330 ancient answers. Guess that says something about the long-term value of posting quality answers.

@fixer1234 yup

One of @JourneymanGeek's goals is to beat JohnT some day ;p

@rahuldottech err both

Out of curiosity I tried playing a 4K video designed for smart tv's on my computer. It was very studory and CPU use went to 100%. Why would CPU usage go to 100%? I thought the graphics card is used instead of CPU

Depends on the way the video player is set up

it's bsplayer

@northerner well, the underlying decoder's the thing

@djsmiley2k Yea, we have some pretty gnarly ones here as well.

@djsmiley2k @MichaelFrank 85% of the front of the box is a warning here: google.com/…

That image is not so gory. There are some that are much worse out there.

@Aibobot Hehe. One of mine is to beat you some day. And I'm catching up ;)

@DavidPostill I'm good with that

Beat johnT too 😁

hmmm

I want a small, 1Gb desktop switch

Don't mind it being a dumb switch, just something reliable

suggestions, ideally from Amazon UK?

amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-SG108S-Ethernet-Lifetime-Warranty/dp/… something like this. I should prob specify, I think I need 8 ports

(There's 6~ plugged in on my current crappy netgear

Hmmm, that one is claiming 16Gbps backplane, most claim 2Gbps

Does it actually need to be non-blocking (full bandwidth for all ports, all at once)?

No,

but I just don't want one that has some horrible 1.5Gb backplane or something

or overheats because I looked at it funny.,

To be fair I've not had a lot of trouble buying switches in the past, but not brought any for ages

The NETGEAR GS108 is probably the most reliable and straightforward solution. I have one sitting in the attic here...

@bertieb @djsmiley2k @Bob and whoever else

I'm retrying the process without the hub now

BUT

I'm still getting that GDK error

rahul.party/files/a-410.txt

So it's not working again :(

I try to like and use Ubuntu, I really do

But then one simple install takes two weeks with no clear indication as to what's going wrong and it's just... tiring

I've confirmed that there are no issues with the USB drive, btw

I want to break something

I needed this

shut up clippy

can't you just install ubuntu in the 'normal' way first?

That GTK error is nothing important I don't think

errors in linux are just meh, something happened somewhere, maybe

same way if you go trawl through windows log files, there's errors everywhere

@rahuldottech I'd ignore that tbh

Have you run a mem test of RAM?

And/or verified the install medium (corruption unlikely but should be relatively straightforward to test?)

and I'd maybe test with a different install destination

for completeness

and like provide dmesg or whatever logs

hmmm is there 4 storage attached?

@djsmiley2k three sata drives, the usb I'm booting from, the USB I'm installing to

five in total

k

So it seems to start having issue when trying to write ext4 to the disk

do you have a command prompt?

@djsmiley2k yep

What do you want me to do?

fdisk -l

I was going to suggest formatting the disk yourself first

explains it better

@djsmiley2k already tried this

did the formattijng work?

or did it fail then too?

Did you try badblocks as well btw?

(I assume so when you verifIed USB was working fine but worth checking)

...welp. I'm spoiled by biometric auth on my other devices and I want to add the same for Astaroth but I'm not willing to use Windows Hello without a TPM and the TPM that ASUS sells uses an Infineon chip which is unusable without a firmware update due to a known vulnerability. Apparently, ASUS has an update, but this seems like a huge hassle...

dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/Add-on_card/… (manual for the TPM)

I refuse to use biometric authentication without some sort of hardware-enhanced security.

rog.asus.com/forum/…

But if I can get the TPM up to date and providing the security I expect, I'll happily get a fingerprint reader or IR camera.

@djsmiley2k idk what's happening

I started the process one last time

let's see...

I have my doubt that it'll work if you're doing the same thing again

Hate to be a negative Norman

@rahuldottech oh ffs. How big is the drive?

It might be faster for me to bootstrap an install, image it and upload it for you ;p

Though...uefi or bios?