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    I somehow broke my Debian bookworm install… (lemmy.world)
    submitted 4 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program

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    [–] drathvedro@lemm.ee -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Re-installs are for ~~scrubs~~ windows users. We don't do that here. SSH from other machine, chroot from live usb, switch to TTY or even UEFI interactive shell. Fix your shit, and get to understand how it works while at it.

    [–] Tarqon@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

    Yes that's the "spend hours" part.

    [–] icedterminal@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Being able to do this is why Linux is so amazing. If Windows finds a corrupt file and can't repair itself, you gotta find the package it's part of (Windows update catalog), or create an ISO that's updated to do an offline repair. If the registry gets fucked, good luck fixing that.

    [–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Exactly! I rant about this a lot, but I know at least couple of people who run with laptops that have broken audio. As it turns out, installing sound card drivers is not really an option as the janky-ass drivers that the manufacturers put out nowadays can irreparably brick your entire system. It is beyond my understanding why recovery, restore, and even safe mode would even try to load them in the first place, but, apparently they do, and then crash before you could even do anything, leaving re-install as the only option.

    Meanwhile, I rm -rf-ed my /boot directory the other day, and then df-ed a couple gigs of /dev/zero straight into /dev/sda. Got it back up running in just a few hours... of kicking myself for why would I do such a stupid thing.

    [–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    and then df-ed a couple gigs of /dev/zero straight into /dev/sda

    do you mean dd ?

    [–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

    Oh yeah. Given how close the keys are together I might have tried to use dc and ss as well