If you’re anything like me and spend a lot of time tinkering with apps and your home lab, you’re probably switching constantly between macOS, Linux, and Windows (and others!). And when macOS is your main system but you also run several virtual machines, keyboard shortcuts and modifier keys can quickly become a source of friction. Specially regarding modifier keys (most OSes use Control the same way macOS usses Command. Fortunately, you can modify that for macOS and keep our VMs behave with the shortcuts you’re used to —-without interfering, using Karabiner Elements… and a trick.
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Revive your RPi: SD corruption
If you’ve been tinkering with a Raspberry Pi for a while, chances are you’ve hit this annoying wall: your Pi just won’t boot anymore. No screen. No OS. No mercy. Most of the time? It’s the SD card playing dead.
Don’t panic. It’s often not fatal. In many cases, your SD card just has a corrupted file system — and that, my friend, can be fixed.
How to: repair a broken Ext4 Superblock in Debian
So one day you’re halfway through your morning coffee, and someone has already left you a message:
ext4-fs error: unable to read superblock
The system won’t boot. Files are completely inaccessible. There’s no obvious way to move forward. Looks like you’ve got a full-blown mess on your hands, and you’ve got no clue where it even started.
Alright, first things first—breathe. This can be fixed. Grab that coffee — and let’s clean up this mess fast!
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