The arbitrary standard for the censorship in Fediverse is extremely bad.

“The pirates code… Be more like… guidelines.”

Yeah. It’s not hardware, then.

I would try searching “black screen <bios version>” with any name and version number you can figure out about your bios, next.

If you can get it back to booting from install media, I would do a full reinstall.

There’s recovery layers (such as grub shell) that ought to kick in if this was just a display config issue, so I’m thinking corrupted install files is more likely.

Also, do a careful check through your various BIOS settings - search each one with “Debian 12 <setting name>”, to find out if they work with Debian 12, or need adjusted. Debian 12 supports most boot security features, that I have encountered, but I believe there’s still a couple out there that have to be turned off.

I suspect your next practical goal will be to get the (presumably failed) bootloader install replaced.

Edit: Tried to add a lot of specific thoughts as search term leads.

9. Don’t truncate passwords for verification.

It needed to be said. Because some password system architects have been just that stupid.

Edit: Fear of other’s stupidity is the mind killer. I will face my fear. My fear will wash over me, and when it has passed, only I will remain. Or I’ll be dead in a car accident caused by an AI driver.

Who could have possibly predicted this?! (Sarcasm)

We’re not nearly as far into “find out” as we will be.

cannot have an active Hulu subscription, or an active or canceled Disney+ or ESPN+ subscription.”

It’s just a concession that they have no idea how single sign on works, and haven’t been able to hire anyone who has any idea, either.

Anything Cox claims about their speeds or service should be treated as absolutely bullshit until proven otherwise, and even then taken with a grain of salt until the proof has been closely examined in court.

I’m sure they already have, and I see no way leaving their defense to a hallucination-prone AI could be a problem for them…

So the good news is you’re probably not bricked.

I’ve had similar, and had to work through getting my bios into the right state to get the screen to load, and then escaping grub into a grub recovery shell to debug.

Edit: Do you have access to an alternate/external monitor? I would want to try another monitor, just to rule out a hardware failure, too.

However useless and abandoned Xitter looks today, we must remember that it is full of bots whose sole job is to make it look less abandoned.

For any advertisers or Xitter users relying on “reach” reading along - however bad Xitter looks, it’s actually much worse.

I’m about to have a heart attack and die of non-surprise.

Somebody had to try it first.

I would gladly point to the corpse of this newspaper in a couple of years as a lesson for the rest of us, except how the hell is a newspaper still in business in 2024 in the first place?

We will learn nothing from this one.

But it makes me look like a miracle worker which is nice.

Lol. Yeah. That part is nice. I would trade it for a more sane world. But it’s nice.

I thought that’s where I was reading about it…

As a Perl user who won’t shut up about it… Yeah. Yeah, that’s pretty fair.

Their out too git us!

This is great.

If I could make one change, there’s so many funnier languages that could have been Esperanto. I would have taken a shameless jab at F#, myself.

Hmmm…My current drive solution is not open source.

I’ll be looking into this. Very cool. Thanks!

Nice.

Yeah. I’m just joking about your choice of words.

Like with any specialization, I’m glad you’re doing yours so I don’t have to learn it or learn to live without it.

On the computer bullshit side, shareholders and CEOs are betting hard on AI, right now, and we’re - unbelievabably - headed toward an even greater shortage of talent.

Unfathomably, I believe folks are going to look back with nostalgia on today’s pathetic computer science talent pool.

(No offense to my peers, but there clearly aren’t enough of us who actually know what we’re doing.)

Specialised skills in a specialised industry are worth a fortune.

Unlike all that computer crap, which is, thankfully, finally all solved.

We can tell because our computer, phone, Internet connection, shopping websites, and government services websites all work perfectly, all the time, without any security breaches, now. (This is sarcasm).