Ok this is cool

I created a live USB and ran smartctl and it didn’t show any issues. I went ahead and reinstalled fedora (the OS was to far gone to repair) and as for all my files they were backed up on my NAS.

Although files disappearing along with core systems files does point to a hardware issue of some kind, typically you wouldn’t expect a mainstream Linux distro to have a glaring issue like this. So wether it’s something stupid like a dirty contact or it’s a failing transistor there’s only one way to figure out what’s going on here and that’s to keep using it.

I’m using half mini PCI instead of sata.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, Microsoft can track everything you do on there platform.

Maybe I could hook my bench power supply up to the wires to test it? Although it only goes up to 14.4 volts so if it takes 24vdc I have no way of testing. I could go to the local electronics store and ask for old batteries and get them on the cheap just to test.

My other ups which is an APC will work and pass power even with out a battery. And it’s not hot swappable. It will just beep.

This UPS doesn’t even do anything, it doesn’t even beep. The cables going to the battery don’t seem to be pushing any voltage according to my multimeter when I complete the circuit. And it doesn’t help the tripplite isn’t consumer friendly when it comes to self service.

A repair cafe?? Im not from the EU so I’m not familiar with the customs, but is it like a cafe with tools instead of food? Or is it like a community repair shop where people go to work on stuff?

Edit: I normally would recommend choosing to bike or get rid of a car if OP wasn’t about to go broke and cars make for amazing shelter as long as you can maintain them.

I know how to find people, it’s in my name. Thus I also know how to make it difficult for me to find you.

Learn to do things yourself. Let me give you a few answers

• Car oil change: $35 for both the oil and oil filter. Would be a little over $75 if I had a shop do it.
• compare prices when buying food, same with the amount of food in the container compared to the price.
• spend in cash, easier to follow a budget if you have physical money in your hand.
• buy things from the second hand market, my laptop that I use was $1100 MSRP, got it for $750. That’s a good deal
• don’t eat out at restaurants
• eliminate monthly services.
• fix broken things. I fixed my aunts AC window unit for about $10 with a used run capacitor from eBay. Would have costed a little over $300 for a new one.

There are lots of things I could talk about, and some of these things involve learning a bit, and some time. As someone who was without a job for the entirety of COVID, it forces you to be thrifty.

That is some pure innocence right there.

No I haven’t seen it.

Username checks out

Other people have amazing reasons not to come, so Im not going to add on to that regard. But if your coworker chooses to come, here are some points to take into account when traveling

• Don’t make it look like you going to be staying for a while.
• Be the gray man: don’t take it literally, but don’t dress fancy or to rugged. Blend in. If someone takes a photo of you walking by someone else, you don’t want them to say “yeah he went over there”.
• be situationally aware: don’t be the bumbling idiot with a phone in there hand and earbuds in when walking in public. Keep your head up, wear sunglasses so people can’t see where your looking. Stay alert.
• avoid the bad areas: do extensive research on the area your going.
• Cash is king: harder to track and create a profile about your purchases with cash. Don’t carry to much otherwise that is a good questioning point
• shit hits the fan: if you noticed your being followed, stay calm and keep moving, make it look like your stoping in a store and go out the back door. Keep a change of clothes, hat and sunglasses. I’m not an expert on evasion but there are plenty of guides out there
• don’t bring your personal electronics, use 2nd hand burners for your travels, just use them a bit before coming as to not raise suspicion.

Classic blue jay

That AAA piece probably has a lot of deployments scratched into the side of the barrel.

Anyone want to take bets on when he falls out of a window?

Found them, and they do in fact, taste like bar shit.

I can find a pack of 6 for 1.25 but they taste like absolute garbage.

1955

He had to collect his darwin award