Rubin

In Windows 10, I am doing a backup of a drive s:/ to a destination folder (that I did not create) t:/dest with robocopy s:/ t:/dest /s (all but empty folders). The problem is at the end of the operation, the new folder is not visible in explorer or powershell […]

My Fedora system recently crashes with strange error messages, so I am worried that my ~5 years old SSD is failing. Now I want to rescue my data from this SSD and reinstall Fedora from scratch on a new SSD. I created a bootable Fedora USB flash drive and booted […]

In the Command Window, I’m trying to type a path. As I type, I’m getting suggestions. When I type a period (.), the top suggestion is chosen, which I don’t want to happen; I want to finish typing the name of the file. I can’t find the setting that lets […]

I’m thinking about attaching a serial terminal (real iron!) to my Mixtile Cluster Box (with ASMedia ASM2824), whose control board is equipped with a (hidden) UART interface. As my VT420 has died, I’d like to pick a serial terminal board like the VersaTerm or the FabGL Serial Terminal. None of […]

My PC’s Wi-Fi is insanely slow, and I can’t figure out why. Other devices in the same room—a laptop with Windows 11 and my phone—work perfectly on the same network. No matter what I do, the Wi-Fi on this PC is consistently terrible, even when I use a modern USB […]

I have a some spare HDDs from hitachi that I keep for offline backup. It goes a few months offline and then get a ton of writes, then back to storage. My drives always die after a year or so in this scenario, but this one died with some errors […]

I would like to use a live boot of Linux on an external SSD. First is this possible or should I use exclusively USB sticks ? If the first answer is yes, I’d like to still use the SSD to store data or programs. Is this possible and how should […]