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i_am_hiding

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I jumped off Reddit’s cliff and landed here just like many other Lemmings.

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i_am_hiding ,

Fuck I wish the politicians would give this to us straight like that.

Why is Albo’s party spreading memes about three eyed fish instead of saying “yeah Dutton’s nuclear plan is safe, but it maximises fossil fuel use in the short term and we’d prefer to focus on renewables”

i_am_hiding ,

You’ve seen a Willis Jeep, right? Marginally faster than a golf cart, but slightly less protection.

i_am_hiding ,

Cinnamon doesn’t support it yet either, so I’m also not on it :(

i_am_hiding ,

I take it webmail is due to Exchange-based mail?

The €10 I pay a year for Exquilla is worth its weight in gold. It’s about the only thing on my system that’s not FOSS, but I’m not even mad because it works. 9.5/10 would recommend.

i_am_hiding ,

youtu.be/Bj9CiMO66xk?si=Gk3kRdQ9K3IFL1bQ

i_am_hiding OP ,

It’s ext4.

i_am_hiding OP ,

No - I’ve been working on a headless server, and ideally I need this thing to be written into /etc/fstab and work reliably from the command line. I could plug the drive into my laptop to have a look in some GUI tools if you think there’s one around that can circumvent the sector size mismatch, but in the end I’ll need a CLI method.

i_am_hiding OP ,

Yes, the last code block in my OP shows the result of attempting to mount /dev/sdc1 normally: mount: /mnt: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist.

Though I do not believe it is required as I can mount other drives to /mnt just fine, I have attempted to make /met/tmp and mount there to no avail.

i_am_hiding OP ,

The only enclosure I have that works out of the box is one of those “SATA to USB adaptors” rather than a bona fide “3.5 inch drive enclosure”. It’s not ideal for long-term use.

I wonder if there’s a place to find out if any given make/model of enclosure will report the sector size as 512 bytes. Then, presumably, one could purchase an enclosure off that list and be confident the disk will be readable.

i_am_hiding OP ,

It’s never been in a Windows machine.

i_am_hiding OP ,

I’m not using Windows. I run Debian on this server.

The bulk of external enclosures that money can buy tell the computer they’re plugged into that the disks have logical sector sizes of 4096 bytes, apparently for compatibility with >2TB drives on Windows XP.

I do not need compatibility with Windows XP as the current year is 2024. My disk has logical sectors 512 bytes in size, but the external enclosures don’t report that. I want to know how I can mount the disk anyway, despite the enclosure’s attempts to thwart me. I know the disk is fine, as it is detected with 512 byte sectors and mounts happily via SATA.

i_am_hiding OP ,

I suspect this is what I’ll have to do. I was hoping to avoid it as that’ll take a weekend of copying, but I might just have to bite the bullet.

i_am_hiding OP ,

Haha thanks. I think it’s a lost cause! Perhaps I shouldn’t have worded the post the way I did.

i_am_hiding ,

I’ll pass

i_am_hiding ,

Show me a reboot that doesn’t suck

i_am_hiding ,

They acquired K-9 Mail a year ago or so, but it’s still K-9 Mail. There’s plans and a roadmap, but not much has happened that the end user can see, yet.

Microsoft Can't Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device. (gizmodo.com)

Microsoft Can’t Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.::They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.

i_am_hiding ,

It really does just sort of “work”.

“Sorry, there was a problem. (Error code 0x0000fkn69)”

Nothing Microsoft makes ever works.

i_am_hiding ,

It’s alright. Personal preference has me sticking with Linux, and I’ll never touch Windows with a ten foot pole if I can avoid it, but MacOS is certainly commendable.

Before I went Linux, I daily drove hackintoshes for a decade or so - back when the hardware was bad and the software was first class. Now it’s the other way around!

If Asahi ever get their kernel perfect, I’m definitely buying a modern MacBook Pro. No doubt about it.

i_am_hiding ,

I would argue modern MacOS is not “bad software” per se, it’s just nothing to write home about. Back in the heyday you describe, it was innovative and quite spectacular compared to the competition. Nowadays it’s rivals are better featured in many respects, but it still does everything it needs to.

i_am_hiding ,

Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. The operation has failed.

As the de-facto IT admin in a small business, this message haunts my dreams and I hate that I know it by heart. Time to make a new mail profile and configure all the accounts again. Its not like it’s the seventh time on this computer. It’s not like I’ve reinstalled Outlook three times already as per Microsoft’s “accepted solution”.

There’s a reason I don’t use Microsoft software on my hardware.

i_am_hiding ,

Thunderbird is great for me. I’ve used it for near on twenty years, and it flies compared to Outlook, especially for searching.

i_am_hiding ,

And one of the last major holdouts from web 1.0 :(

i_am_hiding ,

The good thing about ChatGPT is that it gives you a starting point for languages you’re not familiar / rusty with.

i_am_hiding ,

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/305403817237938177/1165107523079127050/F82alHlWwAARF4m.png?ex=6545a5f0&is=653330f0&hm=8ae2295c594b35e810aefaaa1bd98df3849441d5fab119ce7f4a68f5b57b1ecb&

i_am_hiding ,

…

Maybe …

i_am_hiding ,

I drive a cool, classic car most of the time.

It attracts a lot of 60 year old blokes with names like “Terry” and “Ian” every time I pull up to a stop.

I haven’t seen a girl so much as look sideways at it.

i_am_hiding ,

Pixel 5 and Zenphone come to mind, too.

i_am_hiding ,

What about FreeTube? Revanced? Grayjay? You don’t need to host it yourself!

i_am_hiding ,

I use Xournal++, too. Note that the original Xournal is no longer maintained, but Xournal++ is.

It’s supposed to be a clone of Windows Journal - the precursor to OneNote. It’s very good at exporting to and annotating PDFs, and I use it for all my classwork. Windows Journal worked great for me back in the day, and Xournal++ continues to do so today.

All that said, I’m saving this post so I can try out some of the alternatives listed here in the future.

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    i_am_hiding ,

    My car is old enough to have kids my age, but at least I’ll never have to take it to a mechanic. No computers means I can do everything from valve timing to gearbox rebuilds myself, and parts are dirt cheap because they’re being thrown out all the time.

    i_am_hiding ,

    Yet the most popular new cars sold are V8s that weigh 2.5 tonnes and are the size and shape of a brick shithouse. In this country, you can’t even buy a small, economical hatchback new anymore, even if you had the money.

    Fuel costs in the 1970s were never anymore than 40¢/Litre, yet that was the “fuel crisis” and the driving force behind econo-boxes. Now at $2.20/Litre, Ford of Australia only sell two whopping big utes, a van, and three ugly SUVs.

    Cyberpunk runs 30% faster on linux than on windows 11 (m.youtube.com)

    The YouTube channel “Maximum Fury” conducted a technical test of the new Cyberpunk add-on called “Phantom Liberty” on an older AMD hardware system, testing it separately on Linux and Windows 11. The Linux system, specifically the Fedora distribution called Nobara, performed significantly better, delivering 31% more...

    i_am_hiding ,

    Don’t mind me and my ThinkPad X220.

    Modern computers cost too damn much

    i_am_hiding ,

    Look at Mr. FancyPants over here with a core 2 quad

    i_am_hiding ,

    Right? Somebody never read Animal Farm.

    Sure, the current system is fucked, but it’s tied and proven that Marxism doesn’t work. We need a middle ground.

    i_am_hiding ,

    Haven’t watched it in years, but now I’m whistling the theme tune!

    i_am_hiding ,

    I dunno what kind of car you’re driving, but mine will do 10mph in first quite comfortably. I wouldn’t be “shifting endlessly” in that scenario…?

    Also, just leave a decent gap between you and the car in front and idle along at 2mph without stopping and starting all the time.

    i_am_hiding ,

    I always stall it with those brake assist features. I’m coming off the clutch and the damn computer still has the brakes on, so it cuts out.

    Y’all can keep your computers. I’m keeping my carburettors for now.

    i_am_hiding ,

    I suspect OP still had the engine running. That said, a lot of Americans seem to drive automatics and never use the handbrake, arguing that the tiny little tab in the transmission can hold their fully loaded “truck”, so it stands to reason that there are people in the world who leave their cars out of gear and argue that the handbrake could not fail.

    i_am_hiding ,
    • put in first gear with right hand
    • activate starter motor with right hand
    • accelerate with right foot
    • hold wheel with right knee
    • Pull stick out of first. Gently slot into second as engine speed drops to the perfect RPM. Feather throttle if necessary.
    • accelerate through second
    • pull stick out of second, gently slot into third as engine speed drops to perfect RPM as above
    • to decelerate, pull stick out of third, raise RPM then release throttle. Drop into second at perfect engine speed. Apply brake. Throw into neutral before stopping. Switch engine off.

    Driving manual with one foot, one knee, and one hand (while completely screwing your baulk rings): a tutorial.

    i_am_hiding ,

    If you get the RPM just right, you can absolutely shift gear without a left leg. I used to drive the paddock bomb around the farm as a kid with my left foot on the dashboard. This is not advisable on the freeway.

    i_am_hiding ,

    AI can literally read minds. I don’t think it’s that great of a step to say it should be able to decompile a few games.

    i_am_hiding ,

    I’m back on internet forums now. Screw the big companies.

    i_am_hiding ,

    The Whirlpool forums are probably going to meet that requirement, though they’re local to Australia. I’m not sure of a global equivalent…

    i_am_hiding ,

    What’s the “load” in looking at the “200m ➡️” in the top corner?

    i_am_hiding ,

    I’d still run the command anyway if I were you. Clearly you speak English, so you can afford to remove some bloat /s

    i_am_hiding ,

    Sleep for dinner again? But I had that last night!

    i_am_hiding ,

    I agree GIMP isn’t great, but Krita is everything I ever wanted. It completely replaces Photoshop for me.

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