Hello!

I'm Snips (she/her). I live in Europe with my gf. In my free time I like to watch tv shows, YouTube video essays, read the newspaper (I like to say I'm an old lady even though I'm in my 20s!), sew my own clothes, make video games. The last one also work related. I compose music. Often contemporary, but also for video games :) I also like to make fun programming projects! I've recently made a mealplanner app for me and my gf that meals plans our dinners for the week!

There's probably loads more I enjoy! I have loads of hobby's.

I am chronically ill, so I'm home a lot. I've had ME/CFS all my life, and got covid around a year ago which made the disease worse. Not fun! So I'm home a lot.

I've been looking to capture that vibe of older internet and I think Lemmy could be fun. It's hard to find a place as a trans woman, I've found. But this place seems so lovely!

How are you all's days going? Did you drink some water or tea?

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SSDs can only tolerate a certain number of writes to each block. And the number is low. I have a 64gb SSD that went into a permanent read-only mode. 64gb is still today a very useful capacity. Thus the usefulness is cut short by hardware design deficiencies.

Contrast that with magnetic hard drives which often live beyond the usefulness of their capacity. That is, people toss out working 80mb mechanical drives now because they’re too small to justify the physical space they occupy, not because of premature failure ending the device’s useful life.

Nannying

When an SSD crosses a line whereby the manufacturer considers it unreliable, it goes into a read-only mode which (I believe) is passworded with a key that is not disclosed to consumers. The read-only mode is reasonable as it protects users from data loss. But the problem is the nannying that denies “owners” ultimate control over their own property.

When I try to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mydrive, dd is lied to and will write zeros all day and report success, but dd’s instructions are merely ignored and have no effect.

The best fix in that scenario would generally be to tell the drive to erase itself using a special ATA command, like this:

$ hdparm --security-erase $'\0' /dev/sdb
      security_password: ""

      /dev/sdb:
       Issuing SECURITY_ERASE command, password="", user=user
      SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 01 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 1d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
      SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 0b 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Not sure why my null char got converted to a yen symbol, but as you can see the ATA instruction is blocked.

Here is a take from someone who endorses the nannying. The problem is that there is a presumption on how the drive will be used. Give me a special switch like:

$ hdparm --security-erase $'\0' --I-know-what-I-am-doing-please-let-me-shoot-myself-in-the-foot /dev/sdb

and this is what I would do:

$ dd if=KNOPPIX_V8.2-2018-05-10-EN.iso of=/dev/foo
$ hdparm --make-read-only /dev/foo

When the drive crosses whatever arbitrary line of reliability, it’s of course perfectly reasonable to do one last write operation to control what content is used in read-only mode.

5 years later when a different live distro is needed, it would of course be reasonable to repeat the process. One write every ~5 years would at least keep the hardware somewhat useful in the long term.

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Hallo alle, Ich habe schon vor einer Zeit angefangen Pflanzen vorzuziehen, unter anderem Hokkaidokürbisse. (Mit Blähton, danke für die Empfehlung @Guenther_Amanita!)

Ich hab die kleinen Pflanzen dann in Erde umgetopft um sie später, wenn es warm genug ist, in Kübel zu pflanzen.

Jetzt meine Fragen: Wie in dem Bild zu sehen ist, blüht die eine Pflanze bereits. Liegt das an den falschen Nährstoffen in der Erde? Ist jetzt keine spezielle Anzuchterde. Sollte ich beim nächsten Mal andere Erde verwenden?

Sollte ich die Blüten erstmal abschneiden um das Wachstum der eigentlichen Pflanze zu fördern, oder ist das erstmal egal?

The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating.

https://explainxkcd.com/3078/

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Tous les retours (positifs comme négatifs) sont les bienvenus!