Comments by "eDoc2020" (@eDoc2020) on "Veronica Explains" channel.

  1. I love your visual example, specifically the iPhone section. I also noticed your boombox appears to also be a TV. I tried using some smart TV apps on a 1940s TV (coincidentally also an Emerson) and ran into some slight issues.
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  2. Since 1975 the Magnuson-Ross Act has made it clear that self-repair does not automatically void your warranty. Unfortunately the law doesn't really matter until you get the legal system involved to contest an unlawfully-declined warranty claim.
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  3. I think the information should definitely be available even though not everybody should be doing the repairs. In a similar manner not everybody should be performing surgery. How do you ensure you choose a qualified surgeon?
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  4. ... and so are you!
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  5. Most of my newer laptops don't have an optical drive but my desktop sure does.
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  6.  @sharkuel  I don't think it's possible for Ventoy to break a drive. My main problem with writing an image directly is that I don't want to dedicate an entire 32GB or larger drive just for 2GB of data, that just feels wasteful.
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  7.  @sharkuel  Ventoy just uses block devices normally. Unless your drive firmware does very strange things (which admittedly some do) Ventoy is no more likely to cause problems than any other application. I don't doubt that your drive broke when using Ventoy, I'm only suggesting that it wasn't because of Ventoy. Let's say a car broke down when driving on I-90. It's (almost certainly) not the highway's fault. If you happened to be on I-95 the car probably would have broken down there instead.
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  8.  @sharkuel  That just sounds like a failing drive. Long response times often precede total failure. What if a car was down on power and blowing out smoke for 20 minutes on the highway? Still not the road's fault.
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  9. The fact that working on medical devices can be dangerous does not mean that repair information should be hidden. If I take something in to be fixed by someone else I still want to know what is going to be done so I am well-informed.
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  10. Tbh I don't know if I've ever verified a Linux ISO and I don't think it makes sense for an average user. These days the download is going to be via HTTPS so you're not going to be getting a tampered image unless an attacker is breaking TLS and in that case you also can't trust the signature.
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  11.  @johnandmegh  The chance of the download completing but being corrupted naturally crazy low. AFAIK TLS has strong transfer layer integrity checking. You're probably more likely to run into silent data corruption (either on your PC or on the server) than getting corrupted during transit.
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  12. I believe Mint is ignoring the push to Snaps. At least they still package browsers normally.
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  13. That used to be a common issue but more recently there's an official standard for how many sectors are on a disk of "x" nominal gigabytes. SSDs are after that so they probably didn't implement the standard correctly.
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  14. IMO that's a larger problem. It's much easier to ignore comments when they are an obvious scam.
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  15.  @oldogre5999  All of them. The different grades of cable all use the same pair colors.
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  16. And that's exactly why the manuals are important. If there are genuine safety concerns they should be known so people don't attempt to do things in a dangerous manner.
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  17.  @MrAranton  All the service manuals I've seen which have schematics also have parts listings. Somebody who is not familiar with ratings of parts can just get the exact part mentioned or one their parts supplier lists as a substitute. And if somebody is reading the instructions and the instructions say to do something they don't know how to do they'll either research it separately or take it to somebody else. If you're talking about hazards like charged capacitors consider this: every video about electronics repair mentions that. I can't imagine anybody solely using manufacturer supplied information unless they already have background knowledge. Consider this: in the old days (certainly the 1950s and 60s) you could easily get anything needed in order to repair your TV. Yet somehow TV repair shops still existed. That's because people who didn't know how to work on TVs would take it to somebody who did, either a professional or just somebody they knew.
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  18.  @MrAranton  There are some risks of people misunderstanding service info but I think the risk of improper service due to lack of service info is more serious. Would you agree that pros should get service info? I don't know how you'd limit access to professionals without gatekeeping what a professional is, which would clearly be problematic. Why not ban service info entirely to make sure nothing gets into the wrong hands? Another thing, large appliances and some smaller ones including microwave ovens usually come with service info which is in a packet and/or sticker on the back of or inside of the unit. I don't recall anyone getting sued over this. It also isn't true that custom ICs didn't exist in the 1950s. They weren't modern ICs but rather a collection of separately manufactured passive components encapsulated into one part. A well-known example is the "resistor-condenser networks" well known on Philco Predictas. The difference is the internal circuit was always published on the schematic and third parties were able to make their own clones. For modern parts which can't be replicated by hand it's obviously not so easy. Other R2R initiatives like the one up in California cover parts availability. But even without official availability, parts can be taken from other dead units, such as the case with an automotive junkyard.
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  19. Regular coin cells don't but these cylindrical cells are a different chemistry which does.
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  20. It depends on what the filesystem is backed by ;)
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  21. I don't believe that works because sdx is a block device.
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  22.  @UnixOath  A block device is the raw storage device. They behave differently than regular files.
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  23.  @UnixOath  Tbh it might work, I'm honestly not sure. My point is block devices often work different than other files. I'm pretty sure the opposite command (using cp to make an image of a device) would not work.
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  24. Of the three remaining big brands NVIDIA is the only complicated one, support for AMD and Intel is built in. If you don't need performance or advanced features I would stick with nouveau which should just be the default. If you want to use the proprietary driver do it through your distro instead of NVIDIA's website.
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  25. The GUI does do that, at least XFCE on Ubuntu does. Other environments and/or distros might be different.
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  26. I don't think it feels very apt. I think it feels more pacman. $APPROPRIATE_EMOTICON_FOR_STUPID_JOKE
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  27. Not optimized for multiple concurrent connections? I want to know if it's susceptible to race conditions if multiple users post at the same time.
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  28.  @lillywho  Virtual Machines are your friend.
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  29. Actually they did have optical media in 1900. Photographic film is the OG optical media.
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  30. I have the same netbook as you! It's small and lightweight with pretty great battery life. The downsides are the low-res 576p display mine is optioned with and the slow 32-bit Atom CPU. If you bridge a resistor on the motherboard under the keyboard you can overclock the FSB to run the CPU at 2GHz with no discernible side effects.
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  31. Just a little warning, the 30 gig iPods only have 32 megabytes of RAM. Assuming normal music file sizes you will most likely reach the stock firmware's database size limit before you come close to filling up the drive. 128GB would have been a better buy unless you are planning on using the iPod for video.
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  32.  @unconnectedbedna  I don't know offhand any distributions which don't work with Ventoy but there's plenty of hardware (really system firmwares) which don't. For example it doesn't seem to work on Macs. On a fully supported hardware platform the need to change Secure Boot settings makes it less user friendly. Ventoy isn't hard to use but I would not recommend it to beginners.
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  33. I think the Taylor ice cream machines actually would be covered. Sadly I think the issues are largely due to purchasing contracts prohibiting outside repair. There's a company called Kytch which made a device (apparently Pi-based) which aids diagnostics and now they are in court with Taylor.
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  34.  @u1f98a  Ventoy has worked on just about every non-Apple post-2011 hardware I've tried. Not working on Macs is probably the biggest problem, I don't know if the latest versions have fixed that or not. Other than that you need to enroll its key if you are using Secure Boot which is usually easy but sometimes annoying.
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  35. I spent a bunch of time crafting a nice injection via the URL field, but then I realized you already patched it. Thanks a lot, "realname" who links to google.
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  36.  @Arachnoid_of_the_underverse  If you find a nefarious download link they can just as easily give you a hash/asc for that nefarious image.
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  37. I wish I could keep up with the Commodore but I've been way behind with the "find" command before now. Numerous times I've done something like "find . | grep filename"
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  38. There have been some ARM-based Chromebooks.
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  39.  @northpoint1039  If you want progress info you can use pv which shows a progress bar. It can do transfers by itself, or it has a nifty mode where it will monitor the progress of other programs.
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  40. ​ @VeronicaExplains  My luck with Ventoy has been much better than that, it's mainly Apple systems and systems with weird Secure Boot setups that cause trouble for me. Btw Clonezilla works great with Ventoy. I find messing with Ventoy quicker and easier than writing a new image to a slow flash drive but that's just me. For beginners I'd definitely suggest burning ISOs directly.
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  41. The most useful thing I can comment is that if you use the "advanced" option when restoring the image it will let you "resize the partition table proportionally" and resize everything to fully use a larger destination disk. With basic mode your partitions will retain their original size which is not what most people want. For a less useful comment, Clonezilla fails when trying to clone APM-partitioned disks.
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  42. In a couple of decades the crappy modern junk will become vintage electronics.
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  43.  @WalterKnox  Most of the stuff made back then wasn't made to last, either. There's a lot of survivorship bias. You'd probably need to go back at least to the 70s, maybe as far back as the 50s, to get to where most electronics were made to last.
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  44. I don't know about 4kn disks but it works fine cloning a 512b to more common 512e disks.
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  45. My first Linux experience was after I found the CD for a dead distro called Freespire at a yard sale. It took what would feel like forever to boot up or launch anything on a Celeron 466 but it was still fun to play with. When I got a newer PC and installed Arch and Xfce I was much happier.
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  46. It's easier for folks not familiar with command line tools. Also Clonezilla will usually be faster because it only copies used blocks.
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  47. I don't think I've run into any issues like that, but I should also note that I mainly use Clonezilla with Windows systems. Perhaps they had problems in older versions that have since been fixed.
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  48.  @VeronicaExplains  Usually the antennas and connections are present for the LTE modem even if the unit isn't ordered with the WWAN option. It's probably easier to find a used one without the card and order a compatible card afterwards. But I am curious, why do you want LTE instead of a mobile hotspot/tethering?
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  49. I believe the x131e is the exact model I used the MrChromebox tools on last year. I don't recall any problems and now it runs Linux Mint just fine. I did swap the 16GB mSATA for a 64 GB one to gain some extra space but this isn't strictly necessary.
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  50. Whenever I do potentially dangerous actions with scripting I always do a "dry run" with echo before the actual command name.
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