For now this is the manner in which I have to monitor & access my storage devices, using an obsolete notebook.

Make no mistake the middle IPS LED panel is not, I repeat _not_ driven by The Notebook. A dedicated audio device is driving that screen. A device which runs 24/7 using an embedded Linux version. This is one of the devices I have connected to my Analog Audio network, to make sure that there's always an audio signal in the network.

I'm using a Live version of my favorite Linux distribution. As you may remember, none of my bootable storage devices can be used, since they all have EFI and the notebook doesn't even know what language that is let alone access them in a bootable fashion.

Regretfully, the most important music playback program Music on Console {moc} is not on the dvd image, meaning that without internet I cannot use that program

I'm thankful that the composers of my favorite distribution have made sure that using it live, in this manner, works so smoothly, you would almost think it's installed on the machine

#Hardware #failure #Gigabyte #enshittification #programming #OpenSource #notebook

Gigabyte Aorus B850M Elite WiFi6E ICE Lightning Review: Pretty-Looking And Sensible #amd #amdb850 #gigabyte #gigabyteaorusb850melitewifi6ice #hardware #lightningreviews #motherboard

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#GIGABYTE Announces MO27Q2A QHD 280Hz OLED #GamingMonitor with #ClearMR 15000 Certification
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6月の「Windows Update」適用で一部のパソコンが起動不能となるトラブルが相次ぐ。マウスコンピューターや富士通、ギガバイトなどPCメーカー各社が対象機種を公開・対応策を発表
https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/2506172b

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@Dendrobatus_Azureus

This machine The Old Goat only has obsolete parts

It is not encumbered by heat issues, which make it restart every 4 minutes or so, like the Gigabyte miniPC that I've put in its original storage box again.

It feels wonderful yet almost unnatural to be working on stable hardware again

I love how this old piece of hardware is bringing back that energy of Good in these surroundings.

Be in Peace

#Hardware #failure #Gigabyte #enshittification #programming #OpenSource #Android #Goat #energy #notebook

Im experimenting with live MX Linux setup as a temporary social ENV: on the old notebook (the old goat)

So far all goes as expected. I used the standard distro, changed the passwords and don't run any services facing the internet.
I copied some important configs from the drives which can't be booted from due to lack of EFI on the old goat to save config time

I did install tools like lolcat lsd & mocp because I always use those. It went smoothly

Notebook keyboards suck but are better than Android touch screens

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6月のWindows UpdateでGIGABYTEノートも起動不能に。更新しないよう設定変更呼びかけ
https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2023382.html

#impress #パソコン_タブレット_スマートフォン #ゲーミングノート #GIGABYTE

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Photographs to accompany the heat management toot

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Subject miniPC

Section heat management

I had done everything to get the cooling of the miniPC up to a proper level.

• In the beginning I didn't believe lm-sensors when it reported 90 to 94° C for the temperature of the APU when a browser was used!
  For the first few weeks the system got extremely hot but I did not believe the sensor system. I naively thought that it was just an error especially since when you felt the case from the outside no heat was coming up.
• Because of AMDs CPU and APU design, the heat was generated in bursts and dropped down exponentially fast
• It was only after a couple of months when I started to notice a strange pattern.
• At certain points in time when the temperature of the room reached 36 to 39 degrees Celsius the miniPC would crash into a typical bright green screen, no audible warnings from the fan, which later turned out to be so small, that even a GPU from 15 years before, would not be properly cooled down by it let alone a modern notebook APU which has a CPU and a GPU on one die!
• This is when I decided to hack open the system, drill holes into the top off it and get a push pull fan system.
• It took a couple of months to get me to this point, because of the way that heat was introduced to the APU, with little warning from the fan rotation speed.
• The holes did almost nothing; they only dropped the temperature from max 94° C to max 88° C
• I then decided to HACK OPEN the system. That has meant that I had to saw open the miniPC case, running the line past the holes that I had drilled
• This has dropped the max temperature from 88° C to 84° C
• An important drop was the Average Temperature which went down from the enormous heights of 72° C all the way to 48° C. Idle temperature dropped even more all the way down to 36° C which was close to the room temperature

This was a tremendous achievement

• The amount of time needed to get to relatively normal temperatures was so long that the permanent damage to the APU had already been done.
• The miniPC has never been able to run a modern browser in a good fashion. In fact the machine crashed more than 64 times a day, every time a browser whether it was Chrome or Firefox was run on a complex website.
• A site where the browser would crash the miniPC the fastest is Amazon.
• All I needed to do was rearrange my items from the overflow list to the main list.
• I was able to crash the computer in less than 90 seconds!

End of Heat Management section

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Links, the browser, even though it so small is not included in the installation ISO of MX Linux

I had to connect an internet gateway to fetch links

It took more bandwidth than I wanted, because I first had to do

sudo apt-get update

This eats MB here, on my metered connection

I'll include a toot with photographs RSN

#Links #browser #text #Bash #Hardware #failure #Gigabyte #enshittification #programming #remote #servers #Proxmox #OpenSource

I'm first posting this before I do the actual test

I want to see if links comes pre installed on the Live MX Linux ENV:

I'm using the standard variant of MX Linux

I shall update the post with the results

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@Dendrobatus_Azureus

I have to emphasize the following

• I cannot work on the old notebook
• I can only access my data.
• I can't edit My Master Tapes so I can't do audio
• I cannot run a gfx browser on the machine.
• Only If the links browser is in the Live ENV: shall I be able to do text browsing, without JavaScript that is not suitable for the work that I have to do {NSFW}
• I'm still working actively on a fix with a fallback

A good Plan of Action Plan Van Aanpak is

• getting a AMD miniPC with a large fan
• getting a Raspberry Pi with 8 gigs of RAM
• configuring both machines for work

The Raspberry Pi shall be tight, very tight on memory however it'll still be able to browse with a scaled down version of Firefox.
With this plan van aanpak I shall not have a Single Point of Failure anymore, when it comes down to machine suitable for work.

Oh yes I've read the connection between the notebook computer and NSFW. However there is no joke that I can make, about the fact that I can't work on the remote servers for now.

I miss Proxmox

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I have a lot of interesting news for your reading pleasure

You are seeing it correctly; I have been able to configure the old obsolete notebook computer, to boot from a live ENV: which is very familiar to me, then configured it to access all of my rEFInd enabled SSDs apart from my m.2 SSDs

The m.2 SSDs still need the piece of extra Hardware before I can use them on my USB3 SSD HDD 📥 trays

Now to properly describe the problem that arose;

I've installed rEFInd on all my storage devices. I naively expected my single and only EFI Computing device not to fail now, even though the device had run way too hot for a very long time. The miniPC was also taking slightly more and more time before it went past the EFI sequence of the POST.

AND SINCE IT'S MADE BY GIGABYTE OF COURSE IT FAILED EARLY!

When I put one of the devices in the old notebook naturally it failed to boot. What also occurred, and this was frightening, when I booted it from a USB device I still could not access the rEFInd configured SSD installed in the computer. Even though the drive was detected fine in the BIOS, it looked like the data was behind a wall of EFI.

Instead of panicking I just left everything for a day or two. I considered it like an aircraft that was crashing it couldn't get worse I still had backups Round Robin, in different places

Today I did the following, I removed the SSD from the old notebook. I took two other SSDs which are also EFI configured, inserted them in one of my USB3 trays, booted the machine from another USB device, and then calmly went to work.

It turned out this Old Goat of a computer will, not access a device which has EFI software and it's boot section.
If the devices come In from the USB buss, the same Old Goat 🐐 becomes a Gorgeous Sheep and accesses them just fine.

Go figure!

I did not look up why, it's not interesting, all I want to know, is that I now have access to my SSD & HDD devices, my data on the Old Goat 🐐 which is now a Gorgeous Sheep 🐏

#Hardware #failure #Gigabyte #enshittification #programming #OpenSource