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I have had to explain some of the seemingly random rituals I do when either a device isn't working or it needs some kind of setup or upgrade and was curious what some of the rituals y'all have are

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When thou must press F12 to enter thine boot menu, thou must not presseth F12 only once. Only by pressing F12 a multitude of times and with great speed mayest thou enter the holy menu.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

i also do the delete key and f2 since some wierdo companies used to use those in the past; my reilgion is open to all. lol

[–] Stizzah@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

I curse a lot, and if I fix the thing I'm absolutely positive that it helped. Otherwise I didn't curse enough.

[–] flameleaf@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

I always type sync into the terminal after copying large amounts of files to external storage. One time it didn't unmount properly. Never again.

[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago

Search on Kagi -> end up on Arch Wiki. Every. Single. Time.

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I always start with a prayer to the Omnissiah

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reconnect the VPN when internet outage

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Idk if this is an issue on any other Unix-like OS because I have this exact same issue on MacOS.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have no rituals, but I do have an anti-static band.

You first👏

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

i bless your computer, my child!

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Reinstalling GRUB in chroot so it 'registers' with the BIOS when cloning an install of Linux