Tim: >> I still have one ancient motherboard that cannot boot from USB >> sticks. Go Canes: > Once upon a time you could use "plop boot manager" to boot off of USB > devices if the motherboard didn't provide support. Of course this > meant that you had to have something that could boot plop, but as it > was very small this would typically be a floppy disk. I thought it used to be possible to use a GRUB boot floppy. Not that there's a floppy drive in this PC, though I could connect one. It is old and quite useless. I'd probably be better off with something like a Raspberry Pi if I were going to try and use something low grunt for running things around the house. But since I have a server running all the time, it makes little sense to run yet another thing. I'd like to run the few WiFi controlled lights I have locally, all this cloud stuff goes against the grain, I loathe things controlled by mobile phones, even though I am doing that. For that reason all the main lighting has no smarts. And I've heard tales of ambulances coming to someone's rescue, and being unable to switch the lights on. I'm also dubious about automatically switching on devices that could be the cause of a fire. If something went "pfft!" when you switched it on, you'd immediately switch it off again. But automatics switch things on when you're not observing them. Lightbulbs are relatively safe, in the grand scheme of things. The old incandescents especially so. I have seen a compact fluorescent sizzle, smoke, and spark. I don't know if it would actually have caught fire if I didn't immediately switch it off. But all the electronics packed into them aren't that trustworthy. LEDs seem a bit less kablooey than compact fluoros, more likely to die with just a whimper. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list. The following system info data is generated fresh for each post: uname -rsvp Linux 6.2.15-100.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu May 11 16:51:53 UTC 2023 x86_64 -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
