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If I had a nickel for every time my phone saved me from massive failures in Linux, I'd have 4 nickels. "<.<
I've been there. I'm 100% sure my PC is now a brick, but I run across a post by some random person online:
And roughly five minutes later my PC is stable, purring happily, and two minor annoyances have gone away thanks to package updates.
Thank you all, kind Internet Linux guru strangers.
Edit: More like 25 minutes, really. 20 minutes of my reading docs to verify why this solution can work, and then 5 minutes for it to work.
This when my little dual-booting laptop would suddenly start in GRUB Rescue Mode because a forced Microsoft update hijacked the bootloader again. X_X
REISUB
Same, I once had to use EtchDroid to make a bootable USB drive lol.
If I had a nickel for everytime I had to borrow a laptop to write to a USB, I'd have a nickel.
your phone? my phone only helps when websearching for stuff while my desktop isn't working or ssh'ing into my machine when the video output doesn't work
Meant in that sense, yes - searching for errors and their solutions as I see my computer having such major failures