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It turns out that my concerns were greatly exaggerated. After completing the build with all parts mounted it booted up the old SATA III boot drive. It works just as in the old machine. Disconnected the SATAIII drives and booted up with Linux Mint 21.2 ISO burned to a USB stick and made a new clean i...

xenopeek and AndyMH thank you for your replies.

Finally got all the parts delivered. Now it's time to put it together.

The drive that I wish to disable from booting and keep the data intact has the following specs.

GUID partitioning table
EFI System

With three partitions
Boot FAT(32-bit version)
/ EXT4 (version 1.0), Linux Filesystem
/home EXT4 (version 1.0), Linux Filesystem

The names of the devices don't really matter that much. This my first experience with a NVMe drive and I didn't know that the naming scheme is nvme0n1, nvme1n1 etc. I'm used to sda being the boot device and the other installed devices follow in alphabetical order. Once I'm sure that the NVMe device ...

My desktop mobo and/or cpu died. Don't know which one for sure. I suspect the mobo, no splash screen on power up. I built it way way back in 2015. It has served me well. The only upgrades to it were to a larger boot drives from 250 GB to 500 GB finally to 1 TB. Anyhow it is time for an upgrade. I de...

After further digging around in the printers network config page on the new modem the URI for the printer is 192.168.0.3 With the old modem the URI was: lpd://192.168.0.8/lp Changed the device URI to: lpd://192.168.0.3/lp Current Make and Model is: Canon MG6100 series - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.3.3 Printe...

I had this problem way back 2019. With help from brian_p the problem was solved. See https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=299311 The solution worked for a long time. About six months ago the modem died and was replaced by telco, CenturyLink, with a new one. Model No. C4000LZ. My laptop conne...

No ethernet port! That would almost put it out consideration for me. How do you fix wifi problems if it doesn't work OOTB or develops problems later on?

If you like blue cheese you might try one from Oregon. Best cheese in the world 2019. Not all the great cheeses come from the east side of the pond. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/world-champion-cheese-2019-rogue-river-blue-trnd/index.html From the above link. "Rogue River Blue has taken th...

"For her gift I got her a couple of pots of Bluebonnets to plant where she wants them."
I hope you intend to do the planting part. After all, she shouldn't have any work to do with an anniversary gift.

There is the Winter Olympics running right now. Skiers hurtling down mountains at 60+ mph on a pair sticks. Skeleton sliders running down an ice tunnel on their bellies. Jumping off a mountain. A lot of insanity just for a medal. Then there is the beauty of figure skating. Curling, combination of bi...

I used to play poker, real money, way back in time when I was in the navy. Watched a couple episodes of the World Series of Poker. Tried a couple of sites that advertise free play. Found one that is free to play and doesn't push constantly to buy chips for extra advantages. Starts with 5k chips. If ...

From the beginning time(?) we have been brainwashed that blue is for boy and pink is for girls. AFAIK this is a global phenomenon. Pick your own inane gender reveal party on YouTube. Has anyone seen a pink LED? Would a pink LED signify end of times? Or no need keep males for species reproduction? Ca...

Update. Installed Pychess interface and Stockfish chess engine. The above combo is brutal and gives no mercy or take backs. I managed a win chess1.png I'm white. Did I just got lucky or did it let me win? As far as I know chess programs have no mercy rules, no matter how many games won/lost. It is p...

I guess "Those who must obeyed' and daughter's' are all part of a hive mind. Genetically impossible change. You and all who are fighting against microsoft's total control are DOOMED. You are a colective hive of male drones Don Quixotes who die shortly after acquiering senescence. https://simple...

Thank you to all who replied. I used to play chess in my younger days. My uncle taught me how the pieces move then challenged me to a game. Then instantly showed his prowess with a "Fool's Mate" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_mate It took a while to one up him and he didn't really ...

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Just got my Pfizer booster jab. It was at a large chain grocery store which has an agreement with a major pharmacy. Set up an appointment for the jab on line. Filled out necessary forms on line. All I needed to do was to show up on time. As usual of any medical appointments I was delayed. Not much, ...

Just to clarify things in my past as a hardware techie my indispensable tool was an o-scope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope I used one similar to the one pictured in the link above. I'm pretty sure it was a Tektronix 547 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_analog_oscilloscopes The so...

Used to be a hardware techie way way back in the 1970's when I was testing and repairing the CDC CYBER 18 PROCESSOR down to component level. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/1700/cyber_18/96768300B_Cyber_18_MOS_Processor_Macro_Level_Hardware_Reference_Sep77.pdf A hot soldering iron on standby all the ti...