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It's possible, but it'll cost you a lot more. It's cheaper to make backups and learn to restore from them, because your software is going to crash anyway, and y

by exe34 3y ago

It's possible, but it'll cost you a lot more. It's cheaper to make backups and learn to restore from them, because your software is going to crash anyway, and your disk will die and take your most recent copy with it. Backups are your friends. My friend recently had his 3090 die, and somebody was able to diagnose the problem and replace the dead components - but it cost something like £100. That makes sense for an item he bought for £600, but if it cost £10 for something, it makes more sense to replace it.

slipheen 3y ago
I would like that sort of service but often am unable to find it. Do you have any suggestions? Perhaps you just have particularly good local shops?
- exe34 3y ago
  I'll have to ask my friend, he sent his GPU to Wales for the repair. Personally I'll happily spend a week fixing something purely out of spite, against all economic incentives, but I wouldn't want to do it for a job. I have in the past replaced a friend's SSD and recovered his data from the older one that he somehow reformatted by accident. But it's a lot of effort.
- ChoGGi 3y ago
  North West repair on YouTube is one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SdymB1vLdF8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SdymB1vLdF8
RetroTechie 3y ago
> It's cheaper to make backups and learn to restore from them, because your software is going to crash anyway, and your disk will die and take your most recent copy with it. Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme? A tiny, immutable OS core? Low-level libs/drivers cached from a network, 'installed' on-the-fly / loaded as needed upon reboot? Apps loaded & run from their distribution archives, without intermediate install step? Sounds not too different from how computing was done in early days (apart from 'cache drivers from a network'). Makes one think what this "install software" nonsense is about, really.
- Tijdreiziger 3y ago
  That’s basically containerization, right?
- rlupi 3y ago
  > Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme? ChromeOS
  - exe34 3y ago
    ChromeOS and SaaS
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  > Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme? You might get some shade of nixos: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ (Frankly, default nixos already does a bit of the whole "apps aren't installed per se" thing - `nix shell nixpkgs#foo` gives you a shell with foo "installed" but only until you exit the shell and run garbage collection.)

by exe34 3y ago

slipheen 3y ago

I would like that sort of service but often am unable to find it. Do you have any suggestions? Perhaps you just have particularly good local shops?

exe34 3y ago
I'll have to ask my friend, he sent his GPU to Wales for the repair. Personally I'll happily spend a week fixing something purely out of spite, against all economic incentives, but I wouldn't want to do it for a job. I have in the past replaced a friend's SSD and recovered his data from the older one that he somehow reformatted by accident. But it's a lot of effort.
ChoGGi 3y ago
North West repair on YouTube is one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SdymB1vLdF8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SdymB1vLdF8

RetroTechie 3y ago

> It's cheaper to make backups and learn to restore from them, because your software is going to crash anyway, and your disk will die and take your most recent copy with it. Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme? A tiny, immutable OS core? Low-level libs/drivers cached from a network, 'installed' on-the-fly / loaded as needed upon reboot? Apps loaded & run from their distribution archives, without intermediate install step? Sounds not too different from how computing was done in early days (apart from 'cache drivers from a network'). Makes one think what this "install software" nonsense is about, really.

Tijdreiziger 3y ago
That’s basically containerization, right?
rlupi 3y ago
> Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme? ChromeOS
- exe34 3y ago
  ChromeOS and SaaS
yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
> Just wondering what you'd get, if you take the above to an extreme? You might get some shade of nixos: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ (Frankly, default nixos already does a bit of the whole "apps aren't installed per se" thing - `nix shell nixpkgs#foo` gives you a shell with foo "installed" but only until you exit the shell and run garbage collection.)