The problems I described eventually happened again after 3 days or so. I got pissed, so I decided to RMA the drive and ship it to Denmark where the store I bought it from has its HQ. As a temporary solution I formatted the laptop’s original HDD, put it back and installed Ubuntu Server. A bit of setting up and now things work. In the meantime I won’t be running NextCloud though, as the drive’s only 250 GB.

I even ran MemTest86 and it showed things to be all fine. I recently bought new memory (2 GB) for the netbook.

Last week I released the blog post I mentioned previously. It’s now in Finnish and English.

I have an old netbook from 2011 that I have used as my home server since 2017. It has a 1 TB SSD, and for some time it had weird problems such as “Remounting filesystem read-only” and “EXT4-fs error”, usually leading to crashes. After rebooting, Ubuntu’s boot screen would not always appear. According to SMART, the drive was however all fine. At first I replaced the file system’s journal and ran fsck. That wasn’t enough, and the problems persisted. I was about to RMA the SSD, when I put Gparted Live on an USB stick and used that for fixing the file system. And it worked, now the home server has worked all fine for over three days!

Since Lemmy has gained a bit more traction in Finland recently, I started writing a guide in Finnish that will later be published on my blog. The structure is as follows:

• What Lemmy is, short history
• The 2023 Reddit blackout and its consequences, my own experiences
• Communities and how to find them
• Lemmy’s interoperability with Mastodon and other Fedi platforms
• Instances and communities to be recommended

What might be the repercussions of doing this?

Oooh, absolutely nothing! No side effects whatsoever, it really improves your quality of life!

Yes.

I may have used Skype for the last time in 2014 or so.

Didn’t know this is his first PC build, I assumed he had built one before.

Another variation of that is claiming how getting sick repeatedly is somehow beneficial for getting a strong immune system. That ignores research, as children who have a lot of common infections early in life have higher risk of moderate to severe infections and antibiotic use throughout childhood. That also ignores viruses for which a durable immunity isn’t currently possible, such as COVID.

EDIT: Basically the immunity system doesn’t work like a muscle.

Roni is a very talented developer and I feel bad for him. “This is why we can’t have nice things.”

This could be out of Street Fighter.

For those not getting the reference, this exact question was asked in the infamous Ugandan interview.

When interrogating, do the cops ask there “Why are you gay?”

New Funky Mode

Featuring Dante from Devil May Cry series

Not a single one.

It’s a really great alternative to OneNote, been using it for over a year.

20 years ago this would have been April fools.

I agree. So big screen and controllers that Nintendo Switch looks like a lilliputian. Not so portable.