I’m a midwit so for me it’s inxi.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    11 months ago

    Just need the power LED to know it’s on, hard drive and keyboard LEDs to know it’s doing something and POST beep codes to know why it’s broken.

    • CypherPsycho@lemmy.world
      4·
      11 months ago

      Been building a new pc every 2-3 year since 2006-7.

      Just did a X670 upgrade… no post codes on motherboard. $500 motherboard. I’ve always had post codes… I had post codes on my fucking $50 trash motherboard I used for my old NAS.

  • whimsical_spleen
    3·
    11 months ago

    dmesg is always fun though nowadays it requires root or sudo

    other hot utilities that start with ls: lsblk lspci lsusb lsmod

    or you can just cat random /proc or /sys files

    I suppose if you want to read some logs and are running systemd you can journalctl

    honorary mentions to hdparm, smartmontools, lm-sensors

  • Mouette@jlai.lu
    1·
    11 months ago

    There’s also dmidecode command that can parse BIOS info in shell it’s useful