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Try to sell it as art
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Make a shitton of cash
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Buy a new laptop and still have a shitton of cash
(maybe remove SSDs and HDDs before step 1 if those are still in tact and depending on what kind of information was stored on the device)
Genius just paint it
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Anger management
It’s bent out of shape; you need to install flatpak
It came with snap and the user snapped.
someone got it nixed
Ctrl + Z
Thanks that worked
I’d say that one got a little too much Ctrl+Z
Could not recreate issue.
Closing ticket.
Its just compressed.
Tar -xzv
achsully tar is store only, not compression. Use zstd, xz, rz for good compression 🤓
Are you sure?
-x extract -z unzip -v verbose
I could be wrong here.
neither of these indicate any actual compression. I do know how compression works, there are around 10-15 major ways, from which i can compress with 2, using a sheet of paper and a pen, no computer involved. Here is tar’s wikipedia: Filename extension .tar Internet media type application/x-tar Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) public.tar-archive Magic number u s t a r \0 0 0 at byte offset 257 (for POSIX versions) u s t a r \040 \040 \0 (for old GNU tar format)[6]
absent in pre-POSIX versions Latest release various various Type of format
File archiver (from file archiver wikipedia page: " The Unix tools ar, tar, and cpio act as archivers but not compressors.")
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_archiver
Basically, the key is to know the difference between a file archiver and a file compressor. Most tools are somewhat both, but tar, ar, cpio are exceptions, just like some very rare formats that doesn’t create an archive, only compresses raw data and prints in stdout, in the same format (just like i would do on a paper)
Well, I certainly wouldn’t want to get into a disagreement with someone who clearly knows more about file compression than I do.
I was trying to make a joke where his crushed computer was merely compressed and I was using a terminal command to decompress the computer, as if it were a file.
I wasn’t specifying tar as a file format. I was running the program “tar” using a terminal command.
I think that if you pointed the command I used at a compressed file, it’d decompress it but what do I know?
Yeah, you’re right and your “achsully” buddy doesn’t know how modern tar works. Yes, basic tar doesn’t compress, but adding -z triggers the use of gzip (hence .tar.gz) to add compression. You can also use other options to specify different compression algorithms/programs to use (eg lzma)
i know, but after you add a compression method to it, tar still doesn’t compress. Only the other, actual compression algorythm you add to it, like gz, xz, bz2, zst, rz, etc. I do know how modern tar works, but no matter how modern it is, it still can’t compress files. It only calls a file compressor at most
What does it matter? The OP never implied tar itself compresses, just that the mentioned command could try to decompress regardless of what happens underneath.
/sfc scannow
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
Now we just need
reboot in safe mode
andreset windows
and we have the four horsemen of Microsoft support forums
Have you tried putting it in rice?
At this point you are putting rice in it not the other way around.
Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?
put it in rice overnight
Google Colani design
That new Tesla Cyber Laptop looks difficult to use.
It’s HP… No hope.
Oh, and it’s a tad bent.
if it boots up, ram, storage, video adapter, cpu, and usb slot is intact then propably yes
Disassemble entirely, hammer shell back into shape. If shell can’t be salvaged, buy a mid tower and a CPU cooler. Desolder CPU, GPU, and RAM. Disconnect SSD and fans. Resolder chips back onto new motherboard. Replace display, keyboard, and touchpad. Put everything else back together.
Laptop fixed/laptop is now desktop.
it costs more than buying a new one at this point
I know; I wasn’t actually serious lol. You can’t just slap a laptop motherboard into a case and call it a day. Not without some modifications. Also would have to figure out a GPU cooling solution. It’s just not practical beyond making a silly joke.
Install debian it runs on even the lowest resources
If Debian is too heavy, try puppy Linux for even lower resource usage and because puppies are cute.
tiny core