Many Computer Mistakes on a Single Day

I tend to do only a few mistakes with my computers.

Yesterday was completely different.

Everything I tried went wrong.

I did not lose my temper.

When our dog was alive and well all I do was to take the dog for a walk which both of us used to enjoy.

After Coronavirus vaccination abreaction, I think I lost the temper tantrum part of the brain and I do not lose my temper.

Thankfully my memory is intact and only thing I now forget is telephone numbers.

I used to remember by heart about 20 telephone numbers in the pre-cellphone era.

I have never carried a note book in my working life but only when I travel.

Now my travel is limited to Singapore.

It was pain to go to UK with stopover in the desert.

I hated Dubai except duty free lounge and first time in my life I am not going to watch soccer or football world cup in Dubai.

There is no fair play to women and labour force in Dubai.

I am nothing again players like Lionel Messi, Maradona, Lampart and many more.

World cup without Maradona ranting is an antithesis to me.

My multiple mistakes were mainly due to EndlessOS handing up on me.

It is painfully slow to boot and to install even Abiword my favorite FireFox it took ages.

Need for constant rebooting and wireless connectivity was pain in the arxccsex.

All it did was to deplete my prepaid data.

Any way I got it booted with a trick from Debian 11.5......

I won't disclose it here.

I have only one SATA Disk of 40GB in a plastic box left now.

If I remember right I pulled it out from an old IBM server.

I am intrigued by so many defaults motherboard and in hardware.

I know it very well.

Bloat-ware of Windows and energy hungry graphic cards melts the lead sealing on the motherboard.

Answer is Linux.

Linux allocate resources precisely and no bloat-ware.

Abiword is an example by which I published all my books.

I am going to publish my first book by LibreOffice, soon provided no Power Cuts and data in my dongle and mobile WiFi.

No Ethernet at all which is super fast.

I had many fire hazards when cathode ray TVs were used.

Even the circuit board caught fire.

This is going to happen in this winter in Europe and America but not in Russia.

Three of them caught fire.

In one it's front glass panel broke to thousands of pieces.

A heavy speaker fell on top of it.

I also had three episode of fire when I was using old second hand IBM computer, an assortment of 15.

When the electricity bill went up, I dismantled all of them except my first assembled PC which is running Puppy and Ubuntu on a 10GB (on board video of 1MB and it never heats up) hard disk.

The bottom line is EndlessOS is pain to mount onto a hard drive and I mounted it on two USB sticks (one 8GB SD card other 32GB USB).
With some perseverance I mounted EndlessOS on a 80GB IDE hard disk.

It is all booting well but very, very slowly.

I am not going to use it instead I am going to mount three or four (including Ubuntu 22-04 version not yet downloaded) Linux distributions on a 240GB SATA heavy disk.

I have five or six light weight SSD SATA Disks mounted on external cases only two of them have data.

Rest of them had data on them and I have an astute method of storing data which started with large floppy disks and later smaller floppy version.

I cannot recover any of the data in them in exe files.

I have decided to mount Windows 98 on a slave disk and install either SOT Office or OpenOffice 3 and convert them to odt files.

That is of course if I have free time.

I am going to activate my Intel NUC with a standalone, nice wireless speaker with a radio and inbuilt rechargeable battery and bluetooth.

All my films are on SD cards.

What a change in my life from heavyweight IBM computers to 18 watts Intel NUC without any games.

Games with high frame rate consume lot of energy but our eye and brain physiology cannot go beyond 36 frames per second.

It gives an ILLUSION of movement to our brain without thinking.

Brain is made to THINK and Ukrainians and Americans do not know how to think.

I think President Putin will make them to think in fear.

Either fight or  flight is the animal instinct and Americans have lost even animal instinct.

This is where AI and Drones will take over humanity which I fear a lot.

AI have no empathy or emotions.

Yesterday I downloaded 5 Linux images.

For some unknown reason the Internet was fabulously fast and I got everything downloaded except Ubuntu desktop and SparkyLinuxGames.

I even downloaded Chinese Linux derivative (it is not live and I could not make a live USB) and I do not want it to erase my two hard drives.

It is not a DreamOS but pain.

It does not dual boot and it's boot record, I guess is not compatible with dual or triple or quadraple booting.

I have lot of spare IDE and SATA hard disks and a few external cases.

I decided to install EndlessOS on 80GB IDE hard disk.

It had multiple Linux 32 bit distributions and none booted.

It's partition table was clumsy.

I looked at its back and made the mistake of (I pulled the metal part of one of the jumpers in this process and the copper piece got stuck with the jumper pins) by putting an extra piece of jumper that restricted the hard disk to 32GB.

I used a tweezer the lady's use to pick the metal piece.

Mind you, I was a neonatal surgeon by training and doing extremely difficult surgical work on 250 gram babies in early 1980s have come good in computer hardware restoration.

EndlessOS detected only 32GB portion and I quickly realized that one jumper two many was placed in.

I love SATA without jumpers and Master and Slave mentality.

I can remember in early days when computers were primitive even 40GB was too much to handle.

Changing jumpers and formating the hard disk took an inordinate time.

That was the reason for mistakes and breaking my sleep due to mosquitoes  was an added bonus.

I hate mosquitoes!

I do not hate flies from them we Iearnt, the genomic base of little over 25,000 proteins, in evolution.

There are millions of molecules but base is only 25000 which even the tiny worm also has.

The Internet was so slow EndlessOS got stuck 3 times.

I could not get even AbiWord installed.

I wanted FireFox and it too got stuck.

I did not want to give up since I wanted the tomorrow to be fully free.

So I went back to basics and to Debian and I got everything fixed.

Then it was past 2AM and Internet suddenly became fast.

So by 3AM I got everything working and had a few sandwiches, as an early breakfast.

I am going to sleep now.

PS.
The editing and additions were done after, 4 hours of nice sleep without dreams.