Help! #Boot / #GRUB advice:

I have a relatively new laptop. Recently when rebooting it just went to the GRUB bash-like interface rather than booting.

99 times out of 100 when rebooting the laptop doesn't recognize any USB key is plugged in and goes straight to GRUB recovery. #EFI boot sees the drives EFI files though.

1 in 100 times the whole thing boots just fine from either the drive or USB key.

BIOS hard drive diagnostics says it's fine.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot?

Hey #lazyweb, I'm a current #Ubuntu user who successfully switched from #gnome to #sway

I'm debating switching to #bazzite but noticed #Fedora Sway Atomic 42 is also one of the Fedora Atomic Desktops (although I note that Bazzite does not get listed on https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/).

How can I get the Nvidia and Steam support as from Bazzite but get sway support as from FedoraSwayAtomic? What can I do? I don't understand the implications of ostree rebasing to know how to blend the support.

Next one for the hive mind. You've suggested Synology but not Qnap. Both are Taiwanese so not US (Good).
Why Synology over Qnap?
If Synology why not the j (the cheaper one)?
With this many questions am I even qualified to embark on this project?!
and yes, I've tagged everyone who chimed in on the HDD questions...

#NAS #ITAdvice #LazyWeb
@leighelse @futuresprog @thomasbeagle @stojg @haydng

Dear #lazyweb

If you needed to do a full stack bootcamp to learn how to build web applications, where would you turn? Anything you think is great, or also stuff to avoid would be very helpful.

Thanks!

Do I remember someone mentioning a simple solution for preventing Mastodon instances from hammering a website when a link is posted?

(Might have slightly broken Mrs E's website, but I think it's recovered now.)

Dear #IoT #Lazyweb (esp Mr @fast_code_r_us) established wisdom (i..e 20 mins of googling and scrolling past the AI Lies) is that the ESP32-CAM camera module is too wimpy to generate native portrait-format JPEG's on-device (either by rotating them or adding magic metadata). Anyone know different?

How can I tell which is going to last the best in a hard working Raspberry Pi?
I don't see any 'read/write cycles' data.
#SDCards #LazyWeb #Rpi

good evening #WritingCommunity and #LazyWeb

it's 11 pm in the UK and my brainstorming session has to stop because I'm going to bed.

However, you could help me with the following

Aside from magpies, bower birds, and domestic cats, what other animals collect things?

There is a mini mystery to be solved and I want to establish who the culprit might be.

I look forward to catching up on any ideas in the morning.

Thanks.

Anyone have recommendations for a macOS app to manage and organize PDFs? I have somewhere over 1000.

I used to use the Books.app, but the rewrite a few years ago took away a bunch of the organization ability (tagging, metadata editing etc).

I Ideally want something that keeps the PDFs stored in a folder of my choosing and keeps all the metadata in the files themselves. It should have it's own database that is simply an index of those PDFs to make searching/organization quick and easy.

Would it be possible to "toggle" requests with #htmx? Like, first click makes the request, second one doesn't, third one makes a new request and so on...

Any cactus experts out there in socials land? Are these lighter green blobs just more growth or are they the first sign of buds?

If I wanted to know what concerts were played on the date 2006-06-21 in a certain city, where or how could I get that information? Sorting through search results full of totally unrelated dates and events seems useless.

Is it possible to use a view transition for an exit animation of something in the top-layer? For example, a popover that’s open, but following a link within it causes a transition (and consequently the popover is closed after the transition). #CSS #LazyWeb

Does anyone have a bookmark for that article that was making circles a few years ago about interactive accessible SVG? It used a map of Canada as the example. #SVG #LazyWeb

Are there more up to date, and not entirely useless acrobat reader admx files than the ones from 2015 I could find? Like, what use is “Disable JavaScript” when users can just open the pdf, and klick “enable all features”? That shit even works from unsafe locations…

Ideas for the best backup HD & software for my elderly parents?
*& for me, I'm too old to do tech support!!
#LazyWeb

Dumb E-bike question: what do I look for to pull kids in a trailer?

Was nimmt heutzutage, wenn man mal eben ein 50+MiB File jemandem zur Verfügung stellen will und keinen auf adminhassle hat?

Dear #LazyWeb #FediHerd,

with different disasters - both natural and otherwise - on the rise, I am looking for recommendations on a radio receiver that would be well suited (also) for in such occasions.

What I imagine - but if you thought it through better, do let me know - one would need:
- AM, FM, DAB (I imagine internet radio is most fragile)
- battery - either easy replaceable or rechargeable
- also work without batteries
- good quality and sturdy
- portable
- world coverage would be cool

Dear #lazyWeb & #lazyFedi,

I've built a small model in @OpenSCAD and I'm looking to get it 3D printed. Does anyone have any recommendations for 3D printing services?

I'd like it printed with a decent bit of mechanical performance. It will get wet, it will probably get oily and grimy. Part of it will be under "reasonable" compression load.

Are PCBWay or JLC any good? What about Treatstock? UK or EU preferred.

Personal experiences desired! I know how to Google/DDG.