I might try that later if the issue comes back up. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed it. I did at the time think it was an issue with my HDD but disks wont let me check the filesystem because it can’t unmount a filesystem that is in use.

It seems to be working now, so I might not need to try that. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed the issue.

Right now it seems to be working fine, so I’ll try that later if I have issues again. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed it.

I’ll try that if the issue happens again because right now it seems to be working. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed it.

I just saw your edit, the closest to “remove duplicate dependencies” is “remove duplicate entries”, is that it?

The closest thing I see to “clear packages” is “remove foreign packages”, is that it? For the mirror, am I supposed to change the Linux Mint mirror or the Ubuntu mirror? It’s telling me to change the Linux Mint mirror but you mentioned “Jammy”, so which one am I supposed to change?

Would it lick me clean or would I still have to wipe myself?

To name something that hasn’t been mentioned yet, ArcaOS, which based on OS/2. It supports modern hardware and in addition to some preinstalled software, it also has some compatibility layers to run software from other OSs.

Fake Gamer

I once saw a video where a guy was talking to his sister’s best friend about Fallout 3. He didn’t know how to leave the vault without killing the overseer and she said that she would only help him if he banged her.

I didn’t see anyone else mention this but, as someone who uses Linux Mint, if you are going to install software through the Software Manager, read the reviews for the app you want before downloading it. Linux Mint’s Software Manager is full of apps that are so outdated that some of them aren’t even compatible with the current version of Linux Mint. There are other issues as well, like how there are at least 20 different versions of Wine and most of them are very old versions. I’d understand if they want to keep legacy apps for the older, still supported, versions of Linux Mint but it can be confusing to use sometimes.

I don’t know how to do any of that first part. All of the data on the drive is replaceable, it’s just going to be very tedious and time consuming. I’m currently trying one other method and I think after I’m done with that, that I’m just going to skip trying to recover the data. I had some other plans for what I wanted to do with this device and I think trying to recover the data isn’t worth it at this point.

Assuming I’m using it correctly, it doesn’t seem to be working for me. It sees the partitions but then it says that they can’t be recovered. But it’s weird because it’s for some reason saying that there is two unreadable partitions called “ms data”, which unless it’s referring to some partitions that were deleted when I install Ubuntu, I have no idea what they are supposed to be.

I don’t think I can use that mostly because my internet package has a data cap and I don’t want to risk exceeding that.

Also, I know it’s not really the time or place for this type of discussion but I’ve noticed recently (within the last few months) that for some reason the Lemmy community has changed. I don’t know if anyone else feels that way but it sometimes seems like some users are unnecessarily hostile/judgemental towards me. I wont say anything more because once again, this is not the time or the place but Lemmy wasn’t like this when I first started using it over two years ago.

I know you wont understand where I’m coming from so I wont bother explaining it. If I need another storage device than I’ll just have to wait until next year to get another storage device.

Edit: I don’t understand why I’m getting downvoted but it proves to me that I made the right choice in not explaining my situation.

That’s one of the solutions I saw that I currently can’t do because I have no other device that I can use for that.

Outside of having significantly more formats and methods available (some of which are experimental), the only other thing really notable is that 7zip doesn’t seem to have a “tar before” option, like PeaZip does. I can see that in the manual, that 7zip can tar files before compressing but you have to do that manually.

I should probably mention that my original comment was comparing PeaZIp to WinRAR. I actually didn’t use 7zip until I tested for the purpose of comparing it to PeaZip in this comment.

I’ve never really used it for movies and it can recommend more than just movies but I’ve used TasteDive before, if you haven’t already tried that one.

Ok, I’ve edited my comment to reflect that.

I recently found out about PeaZip, it’s a Foss compression tool that can compress and uncompress a wide variety of compression formats. For some formats, like 7z, it also has some pretty advanced options to help maximize compression ratios, if you know what you are doing of course.

I switched to Linux for two reasons:

1. I believe that it’s always a good idea to support alternatives.
2. I prefer to use products and services that I actually support.

I do still use Windows occasionally because not everything works or at least has an alternative available but Linux is and will probably always be my primary OS. Even if by some miracle Microsoft, Apple or Google actually start listening to their users and make their OS and business models perfect, I would still use an alternative like Linux as my primary because there would be nothing preventing these companies from reverting their decisions.