It was just my media rips. So to say it was “lost” is a bit dramatic I suppose. I just had to spend another two weeks re-ripping my DVD and Blu-ray collection to restore the lost archives. (Without the RAID this time lol)

I ran a software RAID5 via LVM2 and when a failure occurs it becomes some voodoo magic that not even the maintainers understand.

Lost 6TB of archives.

Any chance you can open up a Shizuku instance to disable the system launcher? That should cause the TV to automatically boot into your installed launcher instead.

I used aShell to accomplish this on my device.

You sound like you are one step short of wiring up a giant lever to dramatically pull down when you want to power on the computer.

I’m the idiot who tries -Up

same here, and I don’t know how long ago you had this problem, but the GUI can handle that as well.

If you click the View menu, and choose Linux Kernels, it’ll give you a list of all installed and available kernels. You just need to click the “remove kernels” button and check the ones you no longer need for it to clean up.

(There is an option to remove old kernels automatically in Preferences-Automation but it doesn’t seem to work)

back when my team had proper coverage, we used to do chaosmonkey style tests for hosted health systems. We’d schedule an event with the hospital IT staff. Say… 1 hour on a specific day near midnight. The local IT staff would put out a notice that for the hour the system may be inaccessible. Then we’d start a test suite, as ungracefully as possible. We’d run a abort shutdown command on one server, see how RHCS would handle it. Bring it back up stable. Silo a database instance. See how that handled. Yank out the Red1 cable from the switch, see how the network balanced the new traffic over Red2/Blue. That kind of stuff. We caught a few problems that way.

The clients hated it, but it really made the system more bulletproof for when a new recruit ran a command in the wrong window and took down an unrelated resource.

I’d say the 10 Chrome tabs were probably affecting memory usage more.

A few things that people seem to have forgotten over the years:

The “Fisher-Price” visual style fiasco. (People claiming XP’s UI design choices were too unprofessional)

Extremely unstable on base release, with things only getting better after Service Pack 1.

Activation servers required to install the OS.

The start of Window’s Customer Experience Improvement Program telemetry.

Integration of Windows Update into the OS, which re-enabled Microsoft defaults like Internet Explorer, after patches were complete.

The start of confusing SKUs: Home Edition, Professional Edition, Media Center Edition, and Professional x64 Edition which was confusingly a re-badged Server 2003.

I’m sure I am forgetting a lot more. It wasn’t all sunshine and daisies like people seem to remember… but it was a lot better than now.