I was surprised to see an error message when I connected my WD Elements 1TB external hard drive, especially since I use it regularly.

The error read:

In Linux Mint 22, one solution is to:

1. Run Disks (via Mint Menu > All applications > Disks).

2....

NB Puppy Linux is not meant to be used as a primary OS installed on a hard disk drive:
https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/install.html

It is designed to be used from a bootable USB drive.

Download FossaPup-9.5.iso from:
https://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-fossa/

Burn the ISO image to a bootable USB drive:

(a) With a Windows computer, use Rufus:
https://rufus.ie/en/

(b) With a Linux computer,...

I was googling a lot to figure out what could be happening, but already under the assumption that one of the HDDs I have in a USB dock station was about to fail definitively. In fact, part of my reading was around trying to understand if maybe Linux itself doesn't deal well with this kind of set-up, in ways that could be perhaps more damaging than the normal internal usage of the HDD.

But then I found a piece of information suggesting that maybe what happened was just that the USB...

Qemu still befuddles me at times. It doesn't help when various command line options are deprecated and changes. For qemu-3.xx, there have been some changes to setting up USB passthrough. This all all came to a head when I needed to restore an iphone. The powermac G5 is dismantled at the moment, so I thought, why not use the Windows 10 VM? After letting Win10 grind along updating itself (I don't fire it up very often), I installed itunes (win10 has an "app store"? ugh.), the fun began....

Hello holy hell,

I hardly saw this before. So an introductory hi hello salam namaste..

Now today has been a fruitful day, I wanted to put a Linux preferably with codecs and things intact onto an USB in persistent mode for some time now. Finally, Linux Mint 6 got releases a few days back and I set about the task to put it on.

Started off with many tutorials digging Google and ending up on various sites, a prominent one being pendrivelinux.com. However,...