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Joined Jan 2020
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This will be my last time trying to comfort a Kingston drive during clonezilla copy.
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The Kingston drive dropped again during copying a file. I immediately ordered a SN580 2TB ssd.
I'm done with this shit.
@skyblond This is an excerpt of a Tom's Hardware review on the line of drives.
"The Kingston NV2 is simply not a drive we can recommend in most cases because the range of hardware it can have makes it too risky for the buyer. You could get the great SM2269XT or the mediocre SM2267XT controller. You could get BiCS5 TLC or much slower QLC. None of these will have DRAM and it’s probably unfair to call this a PCIe 4.0 drive on top of all that.
In testing, the drive also ran hot even when idle and it draws a decent amount of power, making it less than ideal for many machines, including laptops. Its saving grace is its amazing price, which does make it perhaps good for something other than a primary drive."
I did suspect that it was the Memory Controller. I've bought four SSDs with three having Phison MCs and the other having a Silicon Motion MC.
I'd recommend checking the performance of the MC of a drive before buying it. The three SSDs with Phison MCs were bottlenecked by the MCs and not the flash. I got a random, no name Chinese SSD after the first four disappointments and it outperformed them with ease.
I would recommend a Samsung as I've seen them perform and I've never witnessed one die. I also question the thermal solution on the Kingston being a sticker.
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Reverse-Engineering a Disposable Vape (Arm Cortex-M0)
So I recently got the chance to install LineageOS on a device. The performance is good and I don't have to deal with as much spyware as OEM.
I've been installing it for the past day. I've yet to make a successful call or text but it's still better than the standard experience.
LineageOS is the best Android experience I've had since Gingerbread or Lollipop.
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it's 3AM. I can't sleep, and I'm thinking why. I don't know which is the root cause. I'm thinking because I can't sleep? Or I can't sleep because I'm thinking? Or maybe both?
Anyway, I think my current job offers a perfect opportunity to let me escape reality. Remote work, meet with different people from different place and they are so nice. I mean, the job opportunity itself is very, emm, I don't know how say, but it's a rare opportunity to me.
After getting a job, I can feel both my mental health and my life getting better. Although I spent a little bit too much in the first month, I got a decent monocular and dip my toe into digiscoping and bird watching, I got a Intel nuc as my first linux not running as a vm, today I figured out how to watch anime on it, a decent progress towards daily drive machine. Feels like I'm packing myself up and I'm about to start a new life, a life after almost two years of self doubting and frustration without getting any mental issues (at least not diagnosed). But this is the typical timing when you're too happy that you didn't mentally prepare for a bad thing.
although I try my best to escape from any family arguments, but I still need to live in a house, and I don't have one. So as you guessed, my parents again become the most contributions to my mental issues. I'm trying to make myself not care about them, so my mental health can be better, but it's petty hard to do. I mean, you live with someone every day and try not to care? I definitely can't.
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Writing at here, I actually don't what to say. Based on what I'm writing, the rational part of me has already run out of battery and died peacefully. I bet myself will be super embarrassing after wake up and find this piece of text. But f*ck it, it's for tomorrow me to worry.
Sometimes (especially now) I wonder, am I really don't have any issue with my mental health? Or is it just not get diagnosed? I don't know. I haven't figured out my medical insurance yet, so probably I won't worry about it in the next 6 months. Time will tell.
And... For now, I really need some sleep.
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Good news from Voyager 1.
NASA teams were able to move code that was on a section of corrupted memory in one of the spacecraft's computers. Now it's sending back usable engineering data for the first time since November 2023.
@thor I didn't know it was a common thing.
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They say you'll have more success with women as you get older. I'd like to file a complaint about that...
@thor The drink on the right isn't a good choice. It should have a blue and barely visible flame.
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Legally speaking, bars in Norway can't serve you if you're "clearly inebriated". In practice, what this means is more along the lines of "if he can't walk, send him home".
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FISA extended to make every business from apartment rentals to cofe shops with wifi to spy for the government on the company’s dime. This saves money for Big Tech! But hey TikTok now has to be sold to facespace, so China has to give their psyop weapon the US.
Wait that’s not a tradeoff at all you say. You’d be correct. It’s just two piles of shit on top of each other. Changing who is shitting doesn’t matter that much.
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Touch? You kids need to go cut grass.
@thendrix Go outside and pickup brass. I heard that quite a bit in my life.
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Running Tiny C Compiler in the Web Browser ... Thanks to #WebAssembly and a little JavaScript
Article: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/tcc.html#appendix-javascript-calls-tcc
@skyblond Kylin Linux is one of the best distros I have tried.
Okay so it got that spot because of actual Pinyin support but it's surprisingly lightweight and quick.
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No wonder Linux desktop can't beat Windows.
Today I was planning for my new Intel NUC. It comes with a 500G NVMe SSD (the bare bone version is out of stock) and 2x8GB RAM. So I'm planning on the disk layout.
The nuc13 can take one 2280 NVMe, one 2242 M.2 SATA SSD (NGFF), and one 2.5 inch SATA disk. Of course, I'm using openSUSE TW, so I got Btrfs out of the box. The question is what profile to use.
My first plan is to use 3 disks in raid 1. But then I found out the NGFF disk is really slow and hard to find quality ones. So I moved to 2, one NVMe and one SATA.
And then there is secure boot and LUKS things to handle. I want to use TPM to seal the LUKS key so I don't have to type password too many times. And if I'm going to add disk in the future, I should first let luks handle the disk, then add the mapped device to btrfs. Not mention the TPM issue. The TPM support is still under experimental stage, so every time there is a kernel update or bootloader update, the TPM can't unseal the key and I have to deal it manually.
Based on my current poort knowledge with those components, I think I'd just stick with the stock ssd, set up encryption and backup, then call it a day.
Despite I hate Windows, but this part Windows wins. Setup bitlocker is not that hard. And a system upgrade will not break it. And I need to see if I can get secure boot working on intel nuc with linux. If it's not working, then I have to type password anyway.
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