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HardwareComputer wont start :'(

From:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	17 Jan 16:14
To:	ALL	14 of 24

So after hours of screwing and prying I managed to gain access to where the CMOS battery is - removed it and tried to boot, no change, restored it, no change.

So either the battery is dead, or it's the graphics card that died, or something else.

Or I undid a vital wire/ribbon that I forgot about and didn't reconnect.

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From:	Drew (X3N0PH0N)	17 Jan 16:25
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	15 of 24

43083.15 In reply to 43083.13
Ahh, for all those video-pdfs. , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	Drew (X3N0PH0N)	17 Jan 16:26
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	16 of 24

43083.16 In reply to 43083.14
(hug) , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	18 Jan 15:26
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	17 of 24

43083.17 In reply to 43083.11
I've searched all over hells half-acre for a good Linux pdf viewer. Best I came up with so far is Foxit, which isn't open source and (AFAIK), removed their Linux binaries quite recently. I run it in Fedora 40 (buggy) and also Win 10, though Adobe reader is slightly better on that. Dunno about the video player stuff. “Can I survive for 24 hours without GPS navigation?”

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From:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	18 Jan 16:46
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	18 of 24

43083.18 In reply to 43083.17
I stopped using Foxit on Windows when they started included adverts. Switched to Mupdf-based Sumatra PDF, which was lightweight and did everything I needed, but is Windows only. The poorly named qpdfview has fewer dependencies than Okular (is only Qt instead of KDE), but depends on Cups, which I'll need to recompile to remove Avahi crap. `3.1415P265E589T932E846R64338`

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	18 Jan 21:05
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	19 of 24

43083.19 In reply to 43083.18
Now they (Foxit and Acrobat) have AI junk shoehorned into the interface. “Can I survive for 24 hours without GPS navigation?”

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From:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	19 Jan 16:04
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	20 of 24

43083.20 In reply to 43083.19
Please elect me leader of the world so I can bestow well-deserved punishments on every arsehole involved in all this so-called "AI" crap. :@ `3.1415P265E589T932E846R64338`

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	19 Jan 19:35
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	21 of 24

43083.21 In reply to 43083.20
It's probably the biggest grift since crypto. “Can I survive for 24 hours without GPS navigation?”

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	24 Jan 08:48
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	22 of 24

43083.22 In reply to 43083.20
Any news on the computer, Peter? He May Be Your Dog But He's Wearing My Collar

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From:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	25 Jan 15:05
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	23 of 24

43083.23 In reply to 43083.22

Not really.

I disconnected the graphics and RAM, but neither had any effect on behaviour.

Trying to get anywhere with the supposed replacement machine is roadblock after roadblock, with a few brick walls and dead-ends thrown in.

Everything sucks. Anything that seems good is a lie or a temporary illusion.

:(

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	25 Jan 18:54
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	24 of 24

43083.24 In reply to 43083.23
Sorry to hear that. The world of fixing (trying to) a broken computer is like this most of the time. Replacing it is often doubly so. I'm sure it will all work out in the end. As you aren't at the end yet that isn't much use. He May Be Your Dog But He's Wearing My Collar

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