Yes and the answer is you can’t do it in anyway that’s fool proof that won’t eventually result in data loss. Just buy another one and be done with it.

Mount it on a spare PC and share it on the network with samba.

I would be careful if they wanna use zfs though. Fedora can be a bit quick on the kernels meaning a kernel can come out that isn’t supported by zfs. This causes zfs to fail to build the kernel module on the new kernel and so you lose zfs on the next boot.

Almost happened to me tracking debian testing a while back.

I once had a huge 20ish GB file in windows I could not get rid of, move, or delete. It was related to hibernation or something like that… Even though I had hibernation disabled and no amount of googling could get rid of the file.

This is something that would completely baffle a non-tech literate person. They’d just observe their computer becoming slow or not having space and say “well, my computer just broke itself better throw it in the trash and get a new one”

I wonder how that stands up with Israel now bombing hospitals. Are we still going to be expected to defend them now that they are committing the same atrocities that was once done against them?

Shhh don’t say anything too loud or they will see your awake and come for you.

I know there is a way to install glibc in alpine. Worked for my admittedly hobbyist use case. I just don’t remember the package name but it’s in there.

I feel like this article was farted out by AI and just barely checked by the intern before posting.