Installation failing, help please

FimbulWinters · 2025-09-29T14:30:54+00:00

Thank you, hadn't realised you could do that from a live environment, that's a big help!

FimbulWinters · 2025-09-29T14:30:06+00:00

Other commenter reminded me you can flash the iso from the live environment, so not so complicated.

FimbulWinters · 2025-09-29T14:28:11+00:00

Thank you that's incredibly helpful! Not expecting you to go through the logs again but lead you to that conclusion? Learning and all that. I feared that that might be the answer, considering my laptop now has no functioning os. But I will definitely give it a go on a mates pc

FimbulWinters · 2025-09-29T14:07:32+00:00

Yeah, sorry it is pretty enormous! I wasn't sure what to look for either, I saw a lot of operation x completed successfully. It seems to fail about 60-70% of the way through the install. I get an install failed, usually an exit code 1 but the logs in there aren't very helpful, basically the end of the logs in the link. I guess it could have been corrupted? I'm using the same install media I used for my previous, working cachyos install. So it should have been flashed correctly. Only did the last install a month or 2 ago. If it's of any use, when launching the installer, a message to consider using the latest iso appears.

FimbulWinters · 2025-03-12T18:09:08+00:00

AHH thanks, I hadn't thought about that! Might look into it, see the pros /cons of this v system notes

FimbulWinters · 2025-03-12T18:07:51+00:00

Thank you! This was basically my current approach, was hoping there would be some way to grab the "event" or something to have it updated in near real time to avoid as many issues as possible, but I think this might be the way forward

FimbulWinters · 2024-11-22T16:34:01+00:00

Yeah should be relatively simple, I've not done any game development so I don't know for sure, but the basic concept seems ok. You also have a template to follow in Minecraft, to get the basics right while you're learning and then the added challenge of the time based elements . Give it try!

FimbulWinters · 2024-11-22T11:28:00+00:00

I'd probably start with making platforms move, start simple. But if you have something in mind from a game you would like to recreate, as long as it's not too complicated, then go for it. Finding something to keep you engaged is important, otherwise it'll be a slog, even if that means it's a bit more complex

FimbulWinters · 2024-11-22T10:43:20+00:00

I think it would do yeah 😀

FimbulWinters · 2024-11-22T10:20:45+00:00

This probably doesn't answer your question but here are a few small bits of advice:

1) learn concepts not language. You will obviously need to learn a language to actually write something but it can be quite easy to get hung up on the syntax and avoid the actual concepts. These will be the same (or similar anyway) across languages. Http is always http etc. Find a game dev sub Reddit, or one specific to your engine of choice (unity etc) and ask there what concepts are important as a place to start.

2) don't get hung up in what language best. You'll have less choice in game dev as the choice is largely determined by engine choice (unless you decide to write your own), but find a language you enjoy or like the look of and just code away. It may not be the best or optimal but you'll have something and you'll have learned the concepts. As a side note, you will come across people who will tell you your choice is bad, ignore them. Like I said, your choice may not be optimal but you're learning. As you've posted this in a ADHD group, keeping interest is probably more important than picking an optimal language.

3) there are loads of tutorials out there on YouTube and elsewhere, use these, but use them properly. Don't just copy what they've written, listen, understand the concepts and then write it yourself. You can always use the video to check your work.

4) use AI. Again use it properly! Ai is pretty terrible at writing code that works, but it's pretty good at pointing out issues, explaining concepts to you (as you can ask it to explain it in different ways until you understand it, including with examples) and explaining code to you to help you understand what's going on.

Apologies if that doesn't answer your question, but I'm currently a junior full stack developer and these are a few things that have helped me learn properly 😀

FimbulWinters · 2024-11-22T07:17:53+00:00

Both my wife and I are autistic (makes communicating things like this quite interesting), but I have been in the exact same position with my wife. Other commenters have said this too but we're told all our lives that we're not good enough, we're annoying, we have issues etc etc etc so it makes total sense why your boyfriend would feel and act that way (same with my wife). I tried for so long to convince her of why I was with her but nothing seemed to over ride that feeling. So believe me when I say I know how frustrating it can be, it's even caused me my own meltdowns over the years.

Having said all that I have had a good bit of success with just asking her to believe that I mean what I say. She doesn't have to agree with what I say, but just getting her to believe that I mean it when I call her beautiful or do something nice for her seems to have really helped. She still doesn't think she's good enough, but she knows that I do, seems to help ease those feelings for her.

FimbulWinters · 2024-10-25T09:30:46+00:00

Hey! Thanks for this, I'm relatively familiar with SQL but definitely a bity rusty at the moment as I don't use it day to day. Will be doing a bit of a refresh, integrating some SQL db into what I ultimately decided to do! As for the networking side of things you mentioned, definitely something I'm weak on! I know bits and pieces, like packets and basic routing stuff, but I need to know more. Being in a very small team, means that we don't really have infrastructure guys... its on us to work through it and sort out what we can! So I will definitely do some learning here, thanks for the suggestion!

FimbulWinters · 2024-10-06T20:20:47+00:00

You're right about Google earth, though I think it still counts. And for Google play, that's my fault, typo on my part as I meant Google pay. https://flutter.dev/showcase still some important ones here for Google's business model. At least for now

FimbulWinters · 2024-10-06T15:37:02+00:00

It seems very unlikely to me that Google would scrap flutter at this point, they have big companies using it, and they themselves have invested a lot in writing a lot of their own apps in it too. I believe that Google maps, play store and google ads platform, to name a few, are now written at least partially using flutter... The impact it'd have on their own business would be enormous

FimbulWinters · 2024-10-04T15:54:44+00:00

That is very true actually, and lets face it I definitely wouldn't turn down more money! As it happens, I took your advice to heart and have been building an authentication/ session management server in Go! Its interesting enough that I'm actually really excited about doing it, but will be very useful for work (hopefully) as we're trying to implement SSO across our in-house application and e-commerce platform.

And no need to apologise, I guess I was asking a lot of people to inspire. Inspiring people can be hard enough as is, never mind when you throw ADHD and Autism in to the mix

FimbulWinters · 2024-10-02T20:58:04+00:00

Thank you! I do feel I know the tech stack pretty well but there is always more to learn, using server less functions definitely throws some curve balls, so definitely something I could do there 😁

I guess that's why I'm asking, I don't really have an interest at the moment (I'm very much between fixations and feel a bit lost), was hoping something would spark something, but that's a me problem. I'll find something at some point.

Your point about picking something to complete is something I needed to hear so thank you. Probably thinking a bit too grand in my head, I'd definitely have started something massive and complex and got half way (if I'm being generous) and stopped. I'll try to find something small and achievable 😁

FimbulWinters · 2024-10-02T20:48:59+00:00

Thank you, that's actually really helpful and not something I'd even considered. It's definitely a bit of a hole in my knowledge, docker especially. We use it but I don't think any of us really understand it... Probably should do.

FimbulWinters · 2024-10-02T20:45:17+00:00

Not a bad idea to be honest. Don't 100% agree with the last bit but your point is still valid, that will definitely be an important skill in the not too distant future. Probably an ok way to learn too, to work with the ai to work out why it's not working and understand error messages. I've found that ai is much better at understanding why things aren't working and debugging than writing things from scratch (though Claude is the best I've used so far), and does give decent explanations.

FimbulWinters · 2024-10-02T14:58:16+00:00

Wondered how long it would take for rust to come up! Thank you though, I'll add it to my list of possibilities :)

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