shows and movies watched long ago suddenly pop up in continue watching and won't go away; used to be able to toggle watched status and they went away, now they just hang there. had to move entire shows out of the library so I don't see them there no more. tiny annoyances that make me go get a mouse and keyboard as they can't be fixed with just the remote in TV mode. nothing's a showstopper but when you're used to the thing just humming along and not noticining it, it's a drag to constantly have to fix this and that.

DO A FULL BACKUP BEFORE YOU DO!

I didn't do it, yolo, whatever, and now I regret upgrading to 12. the reliable it-just-works appliance became a source of daily nuisance.

yeah. create a 8gb partition on the new drive, format it as fat32.

copy the ISO's contents (not the ISO, its contents) to the 8gb partition. shut down when done.

optional, disconnect the windows drive so you don't fuck it up.

power on, press whatever the key is for the boot menu for your UEFI. it should list the installer as a boot option. hit that.

final step, equally important. when the GRUB menu appears, press "e" on the menu item and find the linux kernel switches (where it says "quiet splash" etc) and add toram (debian/ubuntu) or rd.live.ram (fedora). this will boot the image to ram. so when you start the installer you can select wipe & use whole disk.

suerte!

edit: this assumes you're doing it on a EFI/UEFI system, which is any board/laptop after 2012.

that's a hella rad machine to convert because of something so easily fixable. could be due to a loose cable, or needs a new panel; provided it ain't of the ultra-spensive variety, 2nd hand laptop panels can be had for like $20-50 from your local junker. short of that, converting it to a full desktop would be the next best use case. using a hexacore ryzen with 3050ti as "media PC" is fucking bonkers, a potato can handle that.

can you expand on what hardware you're running, namely eGPU box, GPU and laptop/miniPC. did you have cable issues? also, how's the hot dock/undock situation?

thanks. the notification went away after login and I wasn't able to find its text anywhere in the myriad of pages.

also I'd take this "does not" coming from them with a bag of salt.

for $0 a day, you can utilize Codeberg pages for static hosting or VMs from Oracle Cloud Free Tier (4 cores and 24 GB RAM that you can use on up to four VMs).

for the domain part, you can get 'em from afraid.org or eu.org.

I mean I can't stand the thing but this is basically paid-for nuthugging - watch me dunk on the team you hate. fluff, bereft of any semblance of standards. you're allowed to pay for office but not install 7zip and any other utility. haven't tried in the past decade or so, but I am sure you can make a usable workstation out of any windows - rip out the irritants, fall back on tons of stuff developed over what four decades?

it ain't GUI inconsistency issue; you got that plenty on the other side of the fence with Qt/GTK/Ayatana heterogeneity. and also not the thing where you can change a setting in three places, that's also present ova here, in spades.

the issue is MICROS~1 and I have a fundamental disagreement on the concept of "whose shit is my shit". no other thing can alleviate that clash of interests, this is someone judging the quality of the chopped onions in a shit sandwich - don't matter how skillful the chopping was or wasn't, I ain't having none of the thing.

I'm gonna piggyback off of this to remind everyone to install OpenSnitch and go through the iinitial and super-tedious approve/deny outgoing connections.

there's stuff on linux that, despite being perfectly offline capable and having turned off everything related to clown sync and remote check this and that, still phones home.

let's get some pterodactyls going up in here, there's way too many of us causing too much trouble

the dev vibecodes; I make a distinction between using the crap as a boilerplate helper and a full-blown agentic "hey computer, do this but do it super-good!". not only that, they got a super-asshole vibe as they removed claude traces from the repo and then flaunted that it's so people won't know what parts were vibeshat. "good luck finding the cutoff point", I'm paraphrasing here.

to each their own, but that's a hard pass for that fork from me.

if you were looking for an excuse to torpedo this abomination, here it is. hosting this gargantuan stack just for an encrypted csv file? at least the client (electron) gobbles up RAM like it's free while being bug-compatible with whatever chrome version was current half a year ago.

sadly, news ain't great on the other side of the fence - keepassXC dev is all-in on vibeshitting; latest non-polluted version is 2.7.9.; works fine and the stuff they're working on is pretty far from essential. some unknown folks forked it but who's to say what their expertise is.

never thought I'd disable my autoupdate timers but here we are. keep your eyes open.