You are right, it doesn’t happen with any other O/S except iOS where you have to pay people/Apple to fix it (or reset the OS) or Windows where the stock response is “reinstall the O/S”

How valuable is the data on your laptop? Did you have it backed up? If so, stop worrying and just take the Windows approach. If not… Find someone local to you who is able to fix it (good luck with that…)

As for the rest - you come over as someone who expects someone else to fix your shit for free with no information other than “waaaa it’s stopped working”

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Fwiw, based on your brief description of symptoms, I would say your boot device file system is broken somehow. To fix you need to mount it on another booted OS and fsck it (however if it mounts, copy valuable data off onto other media, then fsck it) . How to do that is left to your powers of Google. Not warranting my response in any way.

Best of luck.

First up - I know nothing about your specific problem. Let me add some pointers as to why you may be having difficulty…

You need to provide way more detail than a screenshot (which shows nothing really) and “why is it broken?”

What is the hardware, what is the boot device, what is the boot loader (and version), what does the boot loader config look like… There could be any number of things that stop the boot, including a corrupt boot file.

No one is able to diagnose your problem from the information you have provided.

If you are unwilling to grab a USB stick from a retailer, boot a different OS image and try some diags on your original file system you may well find people reluctant to help (for free…)

I use it on every phone handset at work… I guess it’s the switch PoE not the pc mobo but the effect is the same. If you are talking pc mobo PoE I guess it could be handy if you had a PoE camera…

Why doesn’t my copy have that cover? Sigh. Those were the days.

How did the flap and, indeed, starship have enough control authority after the burn up during re-entry, to complete the soft landing?

The booster done good as well of course…

Flipping awesome outcome… Beers all around.

One thing other answers have missed is that some ssds encrypt data before writing and obviously after reading (this prevents a swap the storage controller type attack) A secure erase on such a device consists of changing the read/write key. Takes milliseconds. Irrevocable (unless you find a way to read previous contents of the key storage)

drawings do not exploit anyone.

Hmmm. I think you will find in many jurisdictions that they are treated as if they do.

Is this Westminster just being Tory or is it Wales bashing?

I suspect that if you look at all (! There aren’t many, if any, left) UK steel works they all have less spent on them by the Govt. than similar plant in other countries…

I am broadly in favour of independence, however not on the terms currently apparently promoted by Plaid - nationalism has limited use in the world today unless you are big enough and ugly enough to ignore what others might think.

Whatever the ultimate destiny of Wales, it won’t be a success if we are lead by people blaming the current situation entirely on Westminster and refusing to engage with the larger nation next door.

There seems to be a tendency, here in the Valleys as well as in Wales at large, to abdicate “personal” responsibility - everything is someone else’s problem (Westminster, local authority, police whoever can be conveniently blamed but never, ever, the locals or their actions) sadly, in the political arena, this plays right into the Tory playbook - they are masters of divide and conquer, having spent much of history doing just that.

The Welsh rosette is rather less blue than the English one… I remember when red and blue were distinct and different.

I suspect that many Welsh men who vote blue to get rid of “Dripford” would be horrified if their local authority were to go blue. Which is a distinct possibility if the anti-Tory vote is split.

So Plaid will team up with whom? Showing their true colours… Nice shade of blue that Ddraig goch!

That’s what the National Savings Bank was… Shame it was privatised. Can’t have the govt. making money!

Yup. The curse of the ‘fair to middling’… Too well off for social benefits too poor to be able to ignore money…

Hi it’s your long lost cousin Scratchy Bottom (dry valley west of lulworth cove) Our grandpa still lives in Shaggs (hamlet north of Lulworth) but grandma is in Shitterton (hamlet next to Bere Regis) …

Yup.

Boing will only fix it when the cost of compo for px deaths and FAA penalties looks like exceeding the cost of recalling/fixing during scheduled maintenance for all the engines…

Au contraire…

They want to lose them so that the Starmfurher has to do unpopular things to counter all the seeds of disaster already sown, so that in 5 years time the Tories will be back in for the foreseeable future. You read it here first.

If it was an SSD… Its possible you have an SSD that claims to be say 256Gb but actually has a 32Gb chip inside (or smaller) that lies about how big it is and just wraps the writes so they complete… However the format is broken, as is the drive.

And another thing… It appears to be drawing the post about to scroll on to the screen at the bottom over the top of the one scrolling off at the top.

Phone is a Huawei P20 Pro running emui 12 if that makes any difference

Yup. Never loses place at all

Here is a better screen capture that shows it happening… Its really not all threads that show the behaviour and manifestations don’t seem to be related to the number of posts in the thread.

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It appears I can upload it to imgur but it does involve a lot of dark muttering (sorry old guy here…) it’s the first few seconds of the screen recording you are interested in - the glitch only happened once but I scrolled a bit more to see if it would do it again.

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