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[โ€“] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Today reminds me why I stopped being super into IT in my personal life.

spoilerFor those who get it:

Have 2 identical thin client lenovos. One is a torrent box, the other is supposed to be a media player.

Spend insane amount of time cloning the drive from one to the other. Normal solution won't let you deploy because it's locked behind a pay wall.

Grab cracked version. Doesn't work. Try several more. Eventually find nfo that states everything works EXCEPT DEPLOY!!!! (fuck you Macrium Reflect).

Finally find a solution (I love you clonezilla). Burn boot iso with Rufus. Re do imaging.

It works!!!

Plug into TV. Boot logo, but blackscreen in OS. Fuck around until I finally get it working.

Onboard graphics card too weak to decode large mkv.

Get angry. List it on marketplace.

Edit: just for the record, all of this, was to avoid reinstalling the OS and some apps. It would have been easier to just give up and accept defeat.

As an aside, the part of Egypt my old man is from are known Egypt wide as "stubborn headed donkies".

Draw your own conclusions lol


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  • [โ€“] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Ooof wtf? I have emvbedded pc 3000s that we use for media players

    (Actually i may even have a spare....)

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It was stuttering on anything larger than 50gb and that's reading of a usb C ssd.

    Streaming off an smb share was better but not worth it. I'm keeping it to create a private cloud with a spare 10tb drive.

    Google has started scanning my cloud drive for pirated software and blocking the upload.

    Apparently works by hash but who knows.

    Fuck em.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Ugh. Bus issues. Thin clients arent the beefiest of beasts but that's ridiculous

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