@mcc For at least 15 years now, GNOME has prioritized cool looking but only marginally useful stuff over what users actually need or want. I switched to MATE.
@gsuberland As far as I've ever been able to determine, there's no way for the host to inquire whether the SD card has flushed all of its dirty RAM buffers to flash, such that the host knows e.g. that it's safe to power the card down.
me: "i like it how the entire LLVM project is one monorepo"
her: "when are you going to compile the entirety of LLVM to WebAssembly?"
me: "yes."
her: "... I said that as a joke"
My HP 16702A logic analyzer has developed bad sectors on the disk, which today prevented me from accomplishing anything while trying to help John with his Z80 system issues.
(Current issue: peripheral card works when directly plugged directly into test CPU board, but not when plugged into test CPU board via an extender board, or into the "real" system with or without the extender.)
The 16702A has an internal SCSI drive. If I had money to spend, I'd get a SCSI2SD to replace that.
@narylis@philpem
The 16702A recognizes the BlueSCSI emulated CD and HDD, but it complains that the CD doesn't have a LIF header.
Maybe the .iso I used is bad. After lunch I'll try another.
@narylis@philpem It was operator error on my part in copying the image to the SD card. Did it again, correctly, and now the 16702A booted from it and is installing. Yay!