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A AD screen that has failed to boot, it has been like that for almost 2 months! This screen is in the center of the city middle of the Metro & Train Hub. I'm not complaining though!

Edit: Fixed typo

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[โ€“] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Time to update fstab? At least they're on grub. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or the device (or its controller) has died.

[โ€“] Saapas@piefed.zip 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aren't these often being run from USB stick? Those dying iirc is a major cause of these errors

[โ€“] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

True. At least when they go off brand instead of SanDisk.

PS: this comment is not sponsored by SanDisk

[โ€“] Redjard@reddthat.com 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've had sandisk stuff break too.

[โ€“] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, as the Japanese say, even a dog (SanDisk) will eventually come across the stick* (malfunction) if it goes out for a walk (normal use).

*here, "punishment", "calamity" or simply "something bad"

[โ€“] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We Czechs say "The jug gets used to bring water over and over till the handle falls off." More obvious.

[โ€“] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Am I right to assume, that even Czechs who are not chaotic neutral would say that? ๐Ÿคฃ

The proverb is older than me, it predates plumbing.

[โ€“] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or the device was stolen. ๐Ÿคฃ

Interesting though, that it goes on to check for a filesystem after(?) it has detected no device with that UUID.