I have had to explain some of the seemingly random rituals I do when either a device isn’t working or it needs some kind of setup or upgrade and was curious what some of the rituals y’all have are

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    5 months ago

    When thou must press F12 to enter thine boot menu, thou must not presseth F12 only once. Only by pressing F12 a multitude of times and with great speed mayest thou enter the holy menu.

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      5 months ago

      i also do the delete key and f2 since some wierdo companies used to use those in the past; my reilgion is open to all. lol

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    5 months ago

    I curse a lot, and if I fix the thing I’m absolutely positive that it helped. Otherwise I didn’t curse enough.

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    5 months ago

    I always type sync into the terminal after copying large amounts of files to external storage. One time it didn’t unmount properly. Never again.

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      5 months ago

      Idk if this is an issue on any other Unix-like OS because I have this exact same issue on MacOS.

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    5 months ago

    Reinstalling GRUB in chroot so it ‘registers’ with the BIOS when cloning an install of Linux