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My motherboard is from MSI: PRO Z690-A DDR4(MS-7D25). I have installed the OS from a bootable USB drive, and sel......Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:59:31 -0400https://pop.com.sg/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-a-nvme-disk.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-a-nvme-disk.htmlI have a DELL XPS with 2 NvMe Disks. The installation does not see any of those NvME disk. How to be able to see the NvMe Disks during initial installation? 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For example, if I depend on libvtk6-dev being at least version 6.0.0 I can wr......Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:09:37 -0400https://pop.com.sg/mdadm-trying-to-resync-rebuild-array-automatically.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/mdadm-trying-to-resync-rebuild-array-automatically.htmlPreviously I had setup a ubuntu server using mdadm with 4x 2TB drives. One of my drives died and since this was my backups of my data on different servers I didn't care about losing it. Since then......Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:06:20 -0400https://pop.com.sg/photorec-no-file-found-in-a-full-64gb-sd-card-what-to-do.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/photorec-no-file-found-in-a-full-64gb-sd-card-what-to-do.htmlRecently my memory card (Samsung Evo 64GB, almost full) was showing 'corrupt' on my Tablet. So I tried to recover the important details using photorec. 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But the problem I find is that the battery runs out very fast (< 2 hours) when I use Ubuntu. It would have been great ......Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:55:30 -0400https://pop.com.sg/journalctl-says-failed-to-search-journal-acl-operation-not-supported.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/journalctl-says-failed-to-search-journal-acl-operation-not-supported.htmlWhen I run journalctl -xe as a non-root user, I get the following error: bgeron@machine:~$ journalctl -xe Failed to search journal ACL: Operation not supported No journal files were opened due to ...Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:47:35 -0400https://pop.com.sg/something-like-parallels-desktop-for-linux.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/something-like-parallels-desktop-for-linux.htmlI'm not normally a fan of mac software implementations, but recently I saw a copy of Parallels Desktop for mac that I was very much impressed by. 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The printer is ...Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:34:48 -0400https://pop.com.sg/old-ssd-filled-up-couldn-039-t-boot-cannot-mount.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/old-ssd-filled-up-couldn-039-t-boot-cannot-mount.htmlPlex DB got so big that it entirely filled up my disk. I rebooted my PC and it wouldn't boot again but get the message: "started session c1 of user gdm" then to c2 or something etc. Googl......Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:32:47 -0400https://pop.com.sg/you-are-in-emergency-mode-during-first-boot-after-power-failure-how-to.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/you-are-in-emergency-mode-during-first-boot-after-power-failure-how-to.htmlFor a few years I'm running Ubuntu on my home server. New thing this year in my area are short but frequent power grid outages. 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The contents of my......Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:41:55 -0400https://pop.com.sg/samba-shares-only-work-with-force-user.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/samba-shares-only-work-with-force-user.htmlI seem to have trouble understanding the configurations of samba on Ubuntu. Let’s say I have 4 folders in /srv, these are media, share, bob-personal, and joe-personal. I also have 3 users: bob, joe......Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:36:46 -0400https://pop.com.sg/root-user-and-super-user.htmlhttps://pop.com.sg/root-user-and-super-user.htmlHow is being the root user different from being the super user? If it is different anyways, is there a way to use the shell as the root? Is there a root password for that? Is it different from the ......Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:35:21 -0400