Why so short?

Oh no, not profanity too.

No I realize that, for me it was stuck on a windows partition , which was irrelevant to Linux running. It sounds like it found some corruption and wants to do a full disk check. Or maybe their is a hardware fault arising.

Others may have better answers for you.

Smarter people than me can answer, but I had two similar issues before. 1) I added nofail to fstab because in my situation it wasn’t finding a certain drive and getting stuck, and 2) windows fastboot or hybernate had somehow made drive locked or appear dirty to linux

It’s a monsterlabo case. They used to make a few models that were all heatsink so you didn’t need fans. I think they might have gone out of business because their website has no stock left for ordering, etc. Too niche a product to sustain sales probably.

Edit. No website anymore either.

But here’s the case I have. https://www.vortez.net/news_story/monsterlabo_the_first_chassis_now_available.html

Its a monsterlabo case, they made fanless heatsink systems…I think they may have gone out of business a few years back because a silent case is very niche.

https://www.vortez.net/news_story/monsterlabo_the_first_chassis_now_available.html

The case has an opening for a vertical fan but it is not needed unless you do heavy gaming and run a high end GPU. For video rendering and other tasks the fins are rated to keep it at a decent temp.

I have good hearing, and a HDD spinning or even a “silent” fan is still audible droning noise to me.

This build is totally silent. The PSU is over-rated on purpose because it has a below 30% max draw mode that is fanless.
So this case makes 0 noise.

The empty copper block is for a GPU, but I’m running this primarily as a silent server so I didn’t bother with the GPU since it has integrated Graphics.

Till it all gets to temp then it won’t do much. It needs some more surface area to convect heat better.

With enough fins you don’t need fans.

Are these the same guys that wouldn’t wear COVID masks?

Or headscale, or plain wireguard if you have any qualms about the tailscale servers that moved from Canada to the USA several years ago.

It must be a personal issue because I have been a screen starer for 35-40 years and don’t have this issue. One of my kids got itz and the remedy was morning and night eye washing.

I like the meta of this comment

Their solution is hilarious.

8gb RAM on that machine. kDE used less than GNOME, but when you check the memory stats the extra was cache, not bloat

I have a 2010 laptop. Tried KDE and GNOME (as well as other DEs). I found KDE lagged on the laptop, and GNOME was super responsive. People told me it would be the opposite of that because GNOME was a heavy desktop, but it just caches stuff so its always ready and on a 15 year old laptop the cache was faster than the processor :)

This ^. I had an NVidia card from 2007 or something worked fine on OpenSUSE

I had a vendor ship me a hard screen protector for a phone in a plastic bag envelope. It arrive shattered because it had zero stiff packing around it.

Are you trolling us with your choice between 25K and 50K drives?

I would never trust that much data to a single drive.

Duh.

The time where corporations valued documenting everything is gone. So much is “we don’t have time to mentor, create training, or work instructions, just show them how to do it over zoom”.

With the tribal knowledge gone, what do you have left?