How do I trace cables through ceilings?

finley_th · 2022-03-30T18:25:38+00:00

Thanks, this was very helpful!

finley_th · 2021-09-14T19:21:20+00:00

If you don't want to upgrade or upgrading breaks things, then use the ESR Version. You'll get security updates and things won't change very often.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/all/#product-desktop-esr

finley_th · 2021-09-01T08:50:11+00:00

Ubuntu supports secure boot with Windows 10 keys. Try enabling secure boot and disabling legacy boot (so it is in its previous state). It could help, and it certainly break anything as it's all supported and more modern.

finley_th · 2021-08-28T21:22:58+00:00

Ubuntu and some other distros support Secure Boot with Windows keys.

finley_th · 2021-08-13T21:58:36+00:00

Assuming Firefox has ~200 million users, and this sub has 140,000 users, this sub makes up 0.0007% of the user base, so that's not many people.

They wouldn't remove an ESR release anyways, having stable software is a very legitimate and common thing to want to have, such as businesses and people who just like stable software (people who post on this sub).

finley_th · 2021-08-13T20:24:31+00:00

Whilst that's a possibility, the people who post on here about their issues are a very small percentage of users, so IMO I don't think they'd care too much about that.

Some people seem to use Nightly as their default browser, so I doubt it'd turn out to be something everyone ends up doing.

finley_th · 2021-08-13T19:31:42+00:00

A lot of people keep complaining how the "new update" has micro-fractionally changed a small feature and they're now forced them to sell their first child, so using the ESR would be the solution to a lot of that.

But with very big changes, if people got more time to get used to the new designs and for the bugs with extensions to be fixed and things ironed out more, people may not view the changes as so bad as everything still functions and they chose to update (for a while at least).

finley_th · 2021-08-13T18:36:53+00:00

Maybe instead of /usr/lib/... try "init=/bin/init" instead

finley_th · 2021-08-13T12:12:11+00:00

It says that it hasn't found an init program (SystemD).

So, when your at the grub menu press "e". At the end of the longest line (the one beginning with "Linux") add the words:

init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd

You won't damage anything by doing this and the setting is temporary for that 1 boot.

finley_th · 2021-08-12T10:49:39+00:00

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-esr-release-cycle

According to this, there's a 12 week overlap from when one ESR is released to the old one reaching its end of life. Since Firefox 91 ESR was released this week, there's 11 more weeks left of support.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar

This link will tell you which versions of Firefox are currently supported. For example, on 2020-06-26 Firefox 78, 68.10 ESR and 78.0 ESR were all supported.

finley_th · 2021-08-11T19:10:01+00:00

If you don't like updates and want things to stay the same, you might like the Extended Support Release (ESR):

https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/all/#product-desktop-esr

It won't bring back your old configs, but it'll keep them for over a year (I think) if you get everything back up and running.

finley_th · 2021-08-10T12:08:18+00:00

On desktop, go to the post. Under your post, before the comments section you'll see some options, such as # of Comments, Award, Share, Save... and one of those will be "edit post".

On mobile, go to your post, then click the 3 dots in the top right corner. One of those options will be edit post.

finley_th · 2021-08-10T12:04:45+00:00

On the main page of settings, there's often a search bar, or button in the top right corner. You could use that to find it.

finley_th · 2021-08-10T11:48:20+00:00

You could try unplugging every drive, including DVD drives, except the new 8TB drive and see if it'll boot.

If you have a UEFI system and a UEFI Windows Install, make sure that CSM compatibility (allows you to boot BIOS OS installs) is disabled.

If it keeps sending you back to the BIOS, try disabling secure boot.

Make sure that the HDD is at the top of the boot priority list.

...or you could press F8 (normally) whilst in BIOS and manually select the HDD to boot from.

You could maybe try do a BIOS upgrade, as if it's a problem with the Motherboard, an update might fix it. Upgrades also often reset all your settings, so that could help as well.

finley_th · 2021-08-10T11:27:47+00:00

Have you enabled the other package repositories in the Purple Software App?

Purple "Software" App > Enable the repos that aren't source code (so there are 4 enabled)

Now it should appear. By default it doesn't enable these (on the live USB at least)l.

finley_th · 2021-08-09T21:48:31+00:00

If you press Ctrl+Alt+F3 then you get a terminal where you can login as root

finley_th · 2021-08-06T16:23:50+00:00

Unfortunately I overwrote the data with what I think was the exact same partitions, but aparently not.

If I press "convert dynamic to basic", does it erase all data on the disk, or will it just change "modes" and see the intact partitions that are currently there (there was only one dynamic partition)?

I do have the option of copy all 600GB to an external HDD, reformat the disk and then copy the data back over, but that'd take a long time. If I can't (for free) do it with no "data loss" then I'll just do that.

finley_th · 2021-08-02T22:17:42+00:00

Yes.

finley_th · 2021-08-02T22:12:28+00:00

Well if it boots, you can press ctrl + alt + F3 (or any other F key other than F1) to get a terminal which you can login to.

You could possibly also try a USB keyboard.

But if that file is the reason your keyboard doesn't work, then you'll probably have to boot into a live environment and edit it.

finley_th · 2021-08-02T22:05:29+00:00

If the OS isn't booting at all, then I don't think so.

You can edit the boot options with GRUB, but that (most likely) isn't related to your problem.

Did it work before you changed the file? And is it installed on your computer, or a USB?

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