SexualPolytope

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[–] SexualPolytope 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not surprised. From what I've heard from pretty much every German person I've talked to, Bavaria is basically their Texas (read UP if you're Indian, not sure about analogies for other countries).

[–] SexualPolytope 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm gonna let this one stay. Everyone has the right to embarrass themselves.

[–] SexualPolytope 24 points 1 week ago

Probably still a more positive influence that these scums have on their kids.

[–] SexualPolytope 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, I can tell from experience. In India, the older folks almost have a taboo against divorce. It was getting better, but with the re-emergence of religious extremism, it's probably gonna get worse.

[–] SexualPolytope 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
touch: cannot touch 'your': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch 'mother': Permission denied
[–] SexualPolytope 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Statistics don't matter to bigots.

[–] SexualPolytope 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Let me introduce you to spices. /s (Only somewhat, I know people who actually don't use any spices.)

[–] SexualPolytope 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Exactly. I never see people actually liking Cinnamon as a DE, but everyone keeps recommending Mint. It's so frustrating, and perplexing.

[–] SexualPolytope 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same in many other places. Around 2015, I remember recharging with a prepaid package that gave me 100 messages/day. (I think it was like ₹10/day). I used to save from my lunch money so that I could text my then gf. Man, I was so happy when she finally got a smartphone.

[–] SexualPolytope 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Hope that isn't coming from personal experience, brother/sister/anything you prefer.

[–] SexualPolytope 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In Bangla, we call the color peyaji, which is basically "onion-y". It's also what we call onion fritters, and they're absolutely delicious.

Edit: Just remembered that we also use it as a slang for fucking around. Not sure where that came from lol.

[–] SexualPolytope 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The idea is that someone is checking the code. And by building it yourself, you can at least ensure that you're getting what's built from the code. It is possible that some malicious stuff was inserted while building the binary that doesn't show up in the source code. Building from source solves that problem.

Reproducible builds try to solve that problem by generating some provenance from a third party. A middle ground can be building the binary using something like GitHub Actions, since that can be audited by others. That comes with its own can of worms since GH is owned by M$, but I digress.

So it is technically sane to do it, just not very practical in my view. But for lesser known apps, I do sometimes build from source.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by SexualPolytope to c/hardware@lemmy.ml
 

Hi, I bought a used Dell constellation HDD from eBay. Here's the link for the listing.

It's supposed to be tested by them, but when I received it, it didn't spin up. I tried putting it inside my Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny, and also tried using an external SATA to USB adapter, but none of them work.

Now, it's a bit weird and different from the usual HDDs. It's 2.5 inch, but thicker than usual, 7200 RPM, and is supposed to be enterprise grade. So maybe I'm doing something wrong, and need a special adapter for it. Or it can be a faulty drive. I'm not sure. If anyone has experience with these drives, please let me know if I should be doing something different. Thanks.

Edit: I came to the conclusion that the drive is faulty. I contacted the seller, and was given a refund.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/43150819

I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny (10FL) which has been working fine. Recently, I had an HDD failure, and replaced it with an SSD. This time, I decided to go with ZFS (single drive, kinda pointless, but I get scrubbing). Every once in a while, I'm getting errors while scrubbing. It's always 1-2 read or write errors. And it never reappears if I clear the error and run another scrub.

The data isn't important, and it's backed up, so I'm not too worried about it. But, the symptoms make me think that it's an issue of the SATA port inside? Is it possible to replace the SATA port inside this device. I wasn't able to find anything like part number etc. online and it looks like I need to replace the whole board. Any help is appreciated.

 

I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny (10FL) which has been working fine. Recently, I had an HDD failure, and replaced it with an SSD. This time, I decided to go with ZFS (single drive, kinda pointless, but I get scrubbing). Every once in a while, I'm getting errors while scrubbing. It's always 1-2 read or write errors. And it never reappears if I clear the error and run another scrub.

The data isn't important, and it's backed up, so I'm not too worried about it. But, the symptoms make me think that it's an issue of the SATA port inside. Is it possible to replace the SATA port inside this device? I wasn't able to find anything like part number etc. online and it looks like I need to replace the whole board. Any help is appreciated.

 
 

I'm sorry but I'm frustrated by the blatant misuse of AI by my students and colleagues alike. It's so obvious when they don't understand what they've written.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by SexualPolytope to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
 

Sure, playing chess needs intelligence, dedication, and good chess players are smarter than an average person. But it's waaaay exaggerated in movies. I'm a math researcher, and in any movie, my department will be full of chess geniuses. But in reality, only about 10% of them even play chess.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by SexualPolytope to c/coffee@lemmy.world
 

I'm trying to pull manual shots from my Breville Bambino, and it simply isn't working. I'm following the steps in the manual. (Press and hold the double-shot button for pre-infusion, then release it for the extraction to start, and then press again to stop.) The issue is, the machine stops midway, before I press the button. Seems like it's doing the pre-programmed double shot volume, and stopping after that. Does anyone has experience pulling manual shots from this machine? Should I contact Breville for a repair?

Edit: It fixed itself after performing a factory reset.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by SexualPolytope to c/zfs@lemmy.world
 

I currently have a zfs pool with mirrored vdevs, and it's working well. It only has HDDs. I was planning to add an SSD I have lying around as a Metadata Special Device, since I've read that it can improve performance by quite a bit. I've also read that if I do that, and if the special device dies, I lose my pool.

Now, I don't want to buy new SSD pairs for mirroring this one, so is there a way to ensure that the metadata is also stored on the HDD as usual, along with the SSD? I guess I want it to work like a cache for the metadata, and not the only place for it.

 
 
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