>Friend calls with laptop problem, pic related >"user my fan makes really loud noises, could you help clean it up and install windows 7?" >whynot.jpg >clean the fan, add new thermal paste, install windows 7, no drivers >"user I have all the drivers on my external HDD" >nice.jpg >install all the drivers, no wifi >search for hours in online forums, no wifi >"I need my laptop tomorrow afternoon, user. You can keep looking for a solution till then" >spend half of my weekend looking for a solution >realize this is an old laptop >hidden on the underside is a physical wifi switch >switch from off to on, wifi >I FUCKING HATE MY LIFE, WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
>>spend half of my weekend looking for a solution >>realize this is an old laptop >>hidden on the underside is a physical wifi switch >>switch from off to on, wifi literally my first debian expierience. I spend like 2 hours installing, renstalling, probing reprobing and praying at the proprietary iwlwifi driver and was almost ready to give up and blame it on GNU/Linux being shit until I realized i bumped the switch and the card was just turned off.
The next day I was exploring the magic of wildcards in the shell and put the space in the wrong place and ended um rm -rf' *'ing my entire /usr/bin.
Jack Evans
Back when having a network killswitch was a security feature. Now having your hidden botnet 3G radio transmitters always on is a feature.
Daniel Powell
>physical wifi switch More lappys should have this
Kevin Martin
Fair enough, but it's a feature that you forget about which will make you question your sanity when dealing with drivers. At least for me.
Brandon Thomas
How do I stop buying useless shit?
Jose Perry
Start buying useful shit.
Elijah Jackson
Not on the bottom
Charles Reyes
I was once installing Debian, and got scared that something was broken when I couldn't get a connection over the Ethernet port. The laptop was docked and I plugged the cable into the laptop itself...
Henry Torres
> Hey user, will you do me a favour? > Saying yes implies you will take on all responsiblity and it's your fault if anything goes wrong fell for the techcuck meme
>Someone asked me to help him with a problem and it took me a bit longer than I expected to solve it >I FUCKING HATE MY LIFE
I don't think you have any actual problems in your life
Hunter Baker
>Racing chair Where you gonna race, champ. :^)
Hunter Roberts
fair enough, but my point still stands. It's a good security feature
Owen Flores
care to share?
Andrew Robinson
>wake up
Adrian Martin
are you fucking retarded? first thing you do when wifi doesn't work is look for a hardware witch, they are on almost every laptop from around 2010
meh that's not all that stupid
Liam Mitchell
>Friend calls with laptop problem >sorry friend, I know jack shit about computer problem solved.
Andrew Nguyen
The DT990's will make you happy, but all the other crap make me cringe.
Carter Morgan
I have a netboot onwhich the soft wifi button isnt a bool, but instead cycles between different combinations of options for rfkill. To turn wifi on I had to push the button 4 or 5 times.
Ayden Young
>be you >see someone sharing a self-depreciating realistic fiction >start shaking, somebody told a story where the narrator was less smart than i am >fucking retard
Parker Cook
You could at least switch to buying useless shit from car boot sales. It still won't make you happy but you'll spend less.