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March 23, 2025 04:00
How I solved Issues Installing Linux on a Dell Inspiron 15 with an AMD processor
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| It was so hard to install Linux on a brand new dell Inspiron 3535. It came with windows 11 with bitlocker | |
| enabled but I didn't remember that it was enabled at the time. Tried to install Linux mint and the | |
| installer registers the Mok secure boot keys before trying to perform the installation. | |
| I should have | |
| disabled secure boot whatever it seems like it can't really be disabled on this machine, even when you | |
| disable it it's still active in some way somehow. Anyways install fails because of bitlocker but after | |
| the MOK keys are registered. Shoot. This triggers a BUG in the UEFI so when I turn off the computer, | |
| unplug the drive from which I was installing mint, and turn it back on boom my computer turns on but | |
| doesn't boot like anything at all not windows not mint. |
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March 30, 2025 06:43
Watching TV on an RTL2832U R820 USB dongle stick
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| I got one of these dongles with the RTL2832U | |
| and the R820 chips. But I couldn't find any | |
| Guides on how to use it for watching TV. | |
| If you have a Linux system and use Ubuntu, | |
| no drivers are necessary. If you use another | |
| Linux distro, chances are you won't need | |
| drivers either. Just plug in the dongle and | |
| open VLC. If you installed VLC as a snap, | |
| you will need to connect VLC to Linux's |
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April 12, 2025 04:16
How to repair a fat32 drive on linux
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| 1. Use ddrescue to create an image of the drive and create a disk image. You will need to mount the disk image later, | |
| 2. Mount the disk image as a loop device. This will trick the software we will use, TestDisk, into thinking it's a real device. | |
| 3. Use TestDisk and follow the documentation here to repair the FAT boot sector: | |
| https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk_doc/repairing_filesystem.html | |
| 4. unmount the loop device, and create a copy of your disk image. | |
| 5. Increase the size of the file from the command line using the truncate (yes, the truncate command) which can also increase the size of files by using it like this: truncate -s +N where N is the number of bytes you want to add. | |
| 6. Take the copy of the disk image, mount it as a loop device, and run gparted from the terminal by typing this on the terminal: "gparted /dev/loopN" where the capital N is the number of the loop device. |