Last month I was doing some normal computer maintenance, and when I had gotten everything set up I found the computer wouldnt turn on. Took me a full week to diagnose the problem: it wasn’t plugged into the wall.
nvidia user moment
Well if it’s a software issue you can just hold it down to force cut power.
Not software. Actual hardware hardware button.
Oh i assumed it was like most modern systems that a short press sends a shutdown command and a long press just cuts power
Power button broke: Kalm
(True story: too bad it happened 2 days before finals)
I wish laptops were a practical thing when I was in school. I had a PDA and it was useless.
Everyone is an atheist until they do kernel/full system update on their daily driver machine
I still love the particular way that Garuda configures some things from the get go. I always knew it was Arch based and might break eventually. What I didn’t expect was the stupid power button deciding that it doesn’t want to work anymore.
Yeah that kind of device failure is really frustrating, did you manage to make it work?
I did, by pushing really hard in random directions =/ I’m going to have to take it apart and clean things with a hope that it gets fixed. Until then, I’m going to have to only use sleep and not turn it off for real.
I got the power button of my laptop repaired at an electronics repair shop, you could try that. It has been running well for 8 years with Arch.
I like how you felt the need to specify “with Arch”.
Because it participates in keeping an old laptop fast and up to date.
How much did it cost? This laptop needs other repairs.
Honestly, momentary switches are the simplest of all circuits. The only hard part will be soldering a new one into the old leads. What laptop is it? I can look and see what I think.
You can just yank it off and short the wires manually to boot ☝🏻🤓
That’s how I used to turn my tower on when I was a teenager. The motherboard was also outside of the tower, lying on a piece of bubble wrap on the floor. When playing an exciting game, we’d sometimes kick the graphics card out of place.
Debian fans talking about how “rock stable” it is after I smash their computer with a rock:
Imagine how i feel installing dubious drivers in my qubes dom0.
These things can be so funny sometimes. My old PC from high school decided to die the exact day when I bought my new laptop. Mf won’t boot up no matter what I did. Had to connect that hard drive to another machine to recover some data. Now I keep backups of everything.
i plan using garuda. can i save the backups on a sata hdd to even get saved if my m.2 drive with garuda on it corrupts and everything breaks on software level?
I am not entirely sure what you are saying here (English as a second language?), but here is a good overview:
https://wiki.garudalinux.org/en/restoring-snapshots
Remember that most of the Arch Linux wiki also applies.
