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Everyone knows.
The International Order keeps posting Thunderboots the cat strips as if people can not recognize that they are total propaganda.
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The new netflix death note.
They fucked up the characters and story so hard that my jaw hurts.
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CTHULHU
by Scott Purdy from Cthulhu tales
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Winxp HD cloning with Macrium Reflect.
I am NOT a Windows™ user, and I find this family of operating systems to be massivley cumbersome. It is very rare that you execute an operation on Microsoft’s OS and have it finish smoothly with no error or extra work to do.
A recent project of mine is the perfect example of the above stated issue. The goal was to clone an old dying hard drive from an XP system to a brand new shiny terabyte drive. Wanting to dive into the windows ecosystem a bit, I decided to research the top teir cloning application for windows. Every result pointed to Macrium Reflect. Reflect boasted tons of features as a general backup ancd cloning tool, even offering a “free“ version that had most of the workhorse options in tact.
In linux, The extent of cloning a drive is a single line in the command prompt using DD. It is quick, simple, somewhat dangerous, but has never failed me when doing clones. This is what I am used to, no bulky UI to dig through, no bullshit, just a line calling a program with a few options. *tips fedora*
Reflect was shiny, but the UI was uselessly indecipherable, needlessly complex, and had me digging through three different tabs and seventeen different “click this box“ diologues to even address the issue of simply cloning my disk. Is this really the top teir cloning software that everyone reccomended? Why is every operation a point and click adventure game?
After digging through the UI like a victim of the russian mob digging thier own grave, I finally found the correct set of options to allow a straight clone of my drive. After cloning the drive, I thought “well, it isn’t so bad. Maybe I could eventually get used to this“. I installed the newly cloned drive into the XP system, and pressed the power button. I opened the BIOS and ensured that correct drive was assigned to boot, then saved and rebooted.
The monitor lit up and gave the “no bootable disk error“. At this point, my blood had dried up. I checked and double checked what I had done to make sure I had done correctly, and I had. After some research, I discovered that this is quite common, and that you are supposed to make an entire recovery USB before doing cloning operations. Yes, you read that correctly, what is supposed to be a simple disk clone commonly becomes an entire recovery operation with a seperate bootable operating system. Why in the actual hell would I do this? if this is a common caveat, why not just reinstall the OS and move the files over?
As usual, dealing with the Microsoft ecosystem was clunky, prone to failure, hair-loss inducing nonsense. What could have been a simple operation became a giant excursion because the software is bloated and the filesystem is a fragile pile of garbage.
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