The other Arch user body type

In a sort of way, yes. Everyone makes the decisions they feel a bit better with, even the selfless ones.

The way you describe, I don’t think so. Maybe if you include “for a good feeling”.

I connect to mine with a USB serial adapter, since my laptop doesn’t have one built-in, which I wish it did. Software-wise, I just use screen because I am lazy to use something like Minicom.

Just don’t set any low baud rate for Linux. It will wait for logs to be printed out while booting. Though perhaps you can reduce the loglevel, I haven’t tried that. I’ve tried 300 baud for fun, and that wasn’t fun. I think it was over half an hour to boot up just waiting for logs to print.

I honestly don’t remember what I did, but this lies in my /etc/default/grub and looks relevant:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="console=ttyS1,115200"
GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="console serial"
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm serial"
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=1 --speed=115200"

Also it’s useful to then set width, height and terminal type. I think terminal type is in $TERM , and size is set with stty, but I am not sure. It’s been a while.

You may also need a “null modem adapter” to reverse RX and TX, but oddly enough, that actually makes it not work with my adapter, despite it also working when directly connected to a switch. Maybe it can figure out which end it’s supposed to be? Dunno.

That rare occasion where you’re actually on a console

Actually having login console on a serial port can be pretty useful if you screw up something with network on a headless PC. I wish modern computers still had that as it also works better than USB adapters.

You forgot one m.

A lot of uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAP

Did they say “six to seven”? Perhaps because it’s 6-7 MM-DD. Only idea.

In Slovakia we also ask about bricks in the same way.

More battery drain with anti-skip.
The tables have turned later on. The anti-skip would extend battery life. It would get enough buffer allowing the CD to spin-down and then it would spin back up when needed. This time could be even longer if playing MP3.

For example, my Panasonic SL-CT520 does 100 second “anti-skip” (at this point it’s not really just anti-skip), and with MP3 cites up to 155h of playback time. Unfortunately, the unit I have can’t play CD-RW (it is mentioned in the manual) which probably means a degraded laser.

But even with CDDA, my Sony D-EJ000 cites 16 hours with anti-skip and only 11 hours without anti-skip. Unfortunately, in this case the anti-skip also reduces audio quality slightly since it uses lossy compression, so I keep it off.
At least I think that’s what the manual is trying to say

To enjoy high quality CD sound, select “G-off”.

Let me think, when did I last use a CD player like that?

Oh, I remember. Today morning. Oh, it’s been a while.

Perhaps a problem in museum, but at least where I live any highly portable CD player like this gets called “discman” same as with portable cassette players being called “walkman”.

Yeah, I’ve seen such stuff on old forums. Unfortunately, a replacement GPU would cost around €50, and that is just not worth it to try obviously.
The CPU was €1.38 on AliExpress, so that was worth a try, but for the most part it just produced more heat

Some different GPU would probably work there, but then again, I don’t know if it is a GPU issue. It wouldn’t even show any drive activity when attempting to boot.

Perhaps early Windows 11 was a bit different. Plus I disabled Superfetch and BITS which would otherwise max out CPU, and when still on HDD, that too.
Though I am not entirely sure if I also disabled something else.

It could idle at around 5% I believe.

Also, unused RAM is wasted RAM. Just because it’s used doesn’t mean it’s unusably full. Linux too will eat up entire RAM for caching, but it can be freed when needed.

No, the hardware died. Just randomly shut down a few times until it didn’t boot nor POST anymore. The most it could do is spin a fan and output 5V to USB.

I don’t know what you guys are talking about?
I’ve used an old laptop with Windows 11 (just because I wasn’t supposed to) which had Core 2 Duo T7500 (upgraded from T7100), 4GB of DDR2 RAM, GeForce 8600M GT, but with an SSD rather than HDD. Pretty usable with that thing.

Unfortunately it broke, but I think it would still be just as good.

otherwise I fell bad for my bro

Not sure if you meant to write “feel”, but it is too late now.
Maybe you should get in touch 😏

Time for Ed Jeeran.

Holy shit, that was unexpected.

Reminds me of this gem: “Download now”

Download what?