Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.

Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.

  • mihor@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I recently replaced the keyboard in my XPS-13 and in the process, of course, disconnected the button battery. When I tried booting into Mint I was greeted by some weird error, thinking my SSD somehow got scrambled. It didn’t even show up on the list of drives when using a live USB… Little did I know that when the battery disconnected, my BIOS restored to default settings and I had to set the AHCI mode again for the SSD to function properly. 😅