linux game machine: you have 2 new updates
linux game machine: (tries to update)
linux game machine: (fails silently)
me: huh. I wonder what's up
me: ok linux, open terminal
me: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
linux game machine: it's failing because apparently your drive is in read-only mode?
duckduckgo: looks like there might be some problem with your drives? can you check dmesg?
dmesg: you've got several errors here that ask you to run fsck and e2fsck
duckduckgo: BUT DON'T RUN IT WHILE BOOTED UP, run it in single-user mode
me: .......whoahhhh ok ok ok
me: how do I get to single user mode?
DDG: you need to access it from boot options
me: ok, lemme boot into recovery mode
me: what do you mean, what's that?
EFI: I've only got popOS, and these stubs that used to be Ubuntu and steam-os that you never really cleaned out
me: ok, ok, how do I get that back then
DDG: you *could* redownload the OS and burn it into a thumbdrive and go from there
me: which means I need to find a thumbdrive
me: and download a 2 GB ISO
me: (feels the weight of the universe land on my shoulder)