When critical kernel error messages start looping on you in boot sequence

Non system disk 💿 or disk error

If you ever worked on a single tasking operating system in a closed source form you know this error

This is the type of error you get just after the post when the BIOS has been loaded

I got an interesting scare early one morning on one of my older machines, when I got a interesting set of error messages, some even looping ➿

One of those errors was DRM. After that the /dev devices could not all be loaded

Then another was a set of loops by the operating system because it could not continue, when the DRM error occurred.

There were in total 12 different error messages thrown at me after every post regardless of which kernel I grabbed to boot the system from, so something was wacky with my hardware, in these expensive RAM DDR4 DDR5 SSD M.2SSD GPU times!

Staying calm is the best you can do and of course I did that, because I was with Spock Logic, troubleshooting this error sequence

Of course I open the machine up reseated the memory modules, DDR4, reseated the internal m.2SSD to no avail...

It turns out that the kernel was getting confusing error messages from the hardware, thus it was interpreting them based upon its internal error message tables and then threw the messages in a pseudo readable human form to me.

After at one of the startup sequences it was clear,

* DRM error stolen region
* USB blah blah error

Next boot

* DRM error stolen region
* USB blah blah error

At that certain point I yanked out a USB hub on which I have several devices. The machine then finished the startup sequence!

The fix was bloody simple, remove the power supply from the USB hub of course yank out the data cable from the machine and wait for 5 seconds

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China-linked viruses found on USB drives from online retailers
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Post Originaly from https://bsky.app/profile/fjox.win/post/3mofs2frbvs2v at 2026 06 16

my server had been down for like 5 days now. Now im stuck on this stupid place and don't even have acces to my nas. Then I found out I spend the last day and a half copying the wrong drive with ddrescue. Im soo done with this shit. I have decade old hard drives but ask a ssd to do more then 3 years hell no. I want a server that could run forever if electricity is provided. Ssds make it impossible. 3 months of 15 vms that probably didn't even do 500gb per day in total killed a drive that supposed to have a rw capacity of 2400 tb. Also I hate bluesky with its stupid twitter like post limit of 500. My mastodon had a limit of 65536. You could write a small book with that. And now that I have to copy shit with ddrescue again but instead of getting the same or better performance since its a ssd copying to a USB harddrive compared to a USB harddrive to the same USB harddrive its 30 times slower at peak. And that USB harddrive is 1tb bigger. now some might say just use the last backup. Well to even acces ir i need a vm on that ssd because nobody plans that ssd especially one from a reputable brand like samsung dies after 4 months of use. Even if mine was rather extreme compared to the usual use of one of them. it's ridiculousthat only 50 bad sectors and a passed smart test causes all the data to be inaccessible. Also the expectationthat I have backups that can survivea nuke is unrealistic. If i had the money i wouldn't use decade old hardware. Now you might say just play video games on your gaming pc. Well i don't have one, all my desktops are on my server and the only other computer that could game properly is copying the drive. I pirated gamesI alreadyown on a laptop for just to play some shitty DM for a dozen mins. This thread is probablybecoming longer then any serious post I made on the fediverse. Anyways now that i dont have a ssd for vms ig i gotta use a dozen decade old hard drives from the discard pile of a graphics design studio since im broke and you cant run multiple windows on a single harddrive cause that shit fucking lagggs. Im so done with this shit, i can even torture myself by editing long overdue videos and ive watched so many video essays that I can't watch anymore. I might just start looking on ebay for like epyc Rome shit or something. HAHA I GOT IT TO COPY AT 135MB/s. So now it's done at 0000... great. STILL BETTER THEN 10 DAYS HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHS OR THE PREVIOUS DAY AND THEN SOME ONTOP JAHAHHAHAHSHSHDHDHHDJDJFHDJDJDJDHHFJDJDJDHDJJFHDHDHFHNFJFNJDJFKFJFJDJDHFH it wasn't done, ddrescuetime calc sucks ass like it's not gonna be like 12 hours instead of 8... all the copying was fine no errors ddrescue didn't see any faulty sectors and yet all my data is shot. I can't boot truenas nor can I extract the config of it.

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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/framework-10g-ethernet-module-usb-c-complexity/

#HackerNews #Framework #10G #Ethernet #USB-C #technology #complexity #networking

Cargar el móvil en un punto público parece inofensivo, pero hay matices de seguridad y velocidad que conviene conocer. Android 16 cambia las reglas. #Android16 #SeguridadMovil #USB #Bateria #Moviles #Tecnologia

https://donporque.com/que-pasa-si-cargas-el-movil-en-cargadores-publicos/

Prime Day on a Budget? These 110+ Deals Under $50 Have You More Than Covered

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52 Prime Day steals under $25 you won’t want to miss

Everyone loves something affordable that doesn’t suck.

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