Thanks for the detailed explanation, will definitely check those projects out!

The lack of a good cad software (fusion 360), and no, freecad and openscad are not worthy equivalents.

Same here. But I wouldn’t call that intimacy in the same sense as he was referring to in females. Me and my boys don’t cuddle

Me neither lol

I stumbled upon cyanrip, which seemed to be the most complete and up-to-date cli utility, and it did not disappoint! Highly recommend!

This

Bingo, that’s what I do

I did, yes, but no avail. The dmesg output I posted is after the drive was mounted as ro, and is the best i could get. After some time, the system stops responding completely

Unfortunately I don’t have a spare PSU, but I might try to measure the 3.3 volt rail with a multimeter (don’t own an oscilloscope unfortunately) while under load and see what happens

Thanks, I’ll try that. I loaded the drive using dd a couple of times, and that did bring the system down a couple of times. I was writing to the filesystem though, while the system was booted