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GMKtec NucBox M6 Ultra

In the afternoon the GMKtec NucBox M6 Ultra AMD Ryzen™ 5 7640HS Mini PC with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD arrived. The device was ordered the 18^th of August and was shipped from Germany.

In the early evening I connected the device. I had to wait for Jaiden because I had to borrow her USB keyboard and she was out. The keyboard I had also ordered would arrive on Friday.

After a quick set up of Windows 11 I started a download of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Desktop. I plan to run Ubuntu on the device. I used certutil -hashfile to verify the SHA256 digest of the downloaded ISO file.

Next, I downloaded balenaEtcher to flash the Ubuntu ISO file onto a Philips USB flash drive. When done I rebooted the mini PC but it didn't boot the flash drive. So I rebooted again and immediately pressed F7 repeatedly. Now a menu showed up and I could select the flash drive to boot from.

However, during the installation of Ubuntu a window popped up regarding a UEFI dbx update. I confirmed this and when it asked if I wanted to restart I selected no. And then it looked like there was no progress installing Ubuntu, so I went down to watch a movie with Esme hoping it would be done after the movie.

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Toy Story 5 (2026)

Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs are challenged when they're introduced to electronics, a new threat to playtime.

In the evening Esme and I watched Toy Story 5. I was expecting more from it and hence rate it a 6 out of 10.

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Installing Ubuntu part 2

After the movie, I tried to restart the mini PC because the installation of Ubuntu was stuck, but no luck. So I pulled the power, reconnected, and booted from the USB flash drive once more. Again I went to through the installation steps of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and this time, after some waiting, it was successful.

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