That image compression is crazy.

I was just thinking about ways to justify “have a ftp” server. The only defence I can think of is that they pronounce ‘ftp’ not as ‘eff-tee-pee’ but literally as ‘ftp’, a vowelless word.

Nah, you’re looking at the underside of a 46 billion light years tall bride.

Even without any nefarious motives, they just do dumb stuff like that. I have Clone Hero installed. Whenever I press Super/Windows and I start typing ‘clon’, the FIRST thing that comes up is ‘Control Panel’, Clone Hero being the second guess.

So whenever I want to quickly start the game, I type ‘clon’, press enter, then get annoyed by the lack of Clone Hero and an unwelcome Control Panel window.

I sent you my desktop layout, please respond

Not a single mouse, cursor or command line in sight, but somehow they always type 84 letters per second, and get a flashy UI with animation, 3D models spinning, moving, zooming and morphing, or at the very least windows popping up and doing various stuff.

Just like in real life.

And this is Jackass.

A task that would have taken 1 person a few hours to do remotely, has now taken 8 people, 3 weeks of in office meetings and status updates and endless interruptions and discussions over every aspect of the project over and over again to finally complete.

You’re loving the RTO now, but then half a year later the management decides to fire dozens of people and replace them with this flashy new thing called AI, which gets the job done in 6 hours instead, even if buggy, and causing even more problems with unnoticed misinterpretations, but hey, 6 hours is so much less than 3 weeks, and we saved a lot of money!

And then the reduced staff will have to do even more work, get swamped, then gets replaced by AI (which still leads to inferior product), and by that point the management won’t even consider RTO being the reason for all that inefficiency.

You could have done the job at home in 3-4 hours, but instead they shot themselves in the foot and still considered it a win.

Oh, and the office that they are renting and that is now half empty because of the reduced staff…? Suddenly it’s not a problem like it was with remote working.

First I read Rickiest click of my career. I think it was a visionary mistake.

Weirdly, after a certain percentage of useless meetings (that should have been an email) it does become more productive to make the AI “do the job”: not because it’s actually efficient, but an AI is never interrupted for a pointless meeting for hours.

Things that are not bugs:

• snails/slugs
• rats/mice
• other insects that are not bugs
• poop of any state and origin
• thugs

I have played around before trying to install a few times, but I’m not sure if that exhausts the question: I brought up two terminal windows to ssh into my Raspberry Pi and to manage logs on the other, while I had a browser up to look up netcat usage examples. It didn’t freeze or crash during regular activity, if we’re looking for that.

If by live environment you mean the one running from the USB (before I start the actual install) then yes, the install itself starts from a live Mint, running from the USB already. Sorry, I’m not sure if that’s what you meant.

Yes, I have done a few things already, including memtest. I’ll copy from the forum:

The things I have tried:

• Updating my BIOS.
• The ISO I downloaded has been md5 checked, all fine. I have also tried 2 other ISO files from 2 other mirrors - same.
• Three (3) USB drives to install Mint, ranging from 8 GB to 24GB.
• Installing with or without multimedia codecs.
• Turning on secure boot before install (I was desperate, found a forum post with a similar error message, later I found out that it was for a different reason).
• Turning off secure boot before install (I found a different forum post where the exact opposite was recommended - later I found out that it was for a different reason).
• Installing in compatibility mode.
• Offering a sacrifice to Xebeth’Qlu, tormentor of souls.
• Running gparted before install, deleting the previously half-installed partition, formatting it myself to ext4, then running the installer.
• Splitting the aforementioned partition into a 16GB swap partition (I have 16GB RAM) and leaving the rest of it as ext4 (mounted at “/”).

• Running chkdsk -f on the SSD containing the MBR+Win10, then rebooting the PC twice, according to one of the error messages in my post below (then trying to install again).

That was the reason I decided to install Mint Cinnamon.

It’s been impossible to install for a week now. And I’m not even 100% IT illiterate. After ~3 days of struggling, I decided to do the walk of shame and post on the Mint forum, admitting my failure. It’s been unsolved for about a week now. >100 fails and errors, crashes, freezes.

I can’t even imagine where I would (not) be had I chosen Kali or Arch.