SexualPolytope

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[–] SexualPolytope 3 points 2 days ago

Damn, I guess I'll stick to the older release for now. Hopefully a viable alternative/fork comes around.

[–] SexualPolytope 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

The Bengali word for multiplication is গুন, which is pronounced like goon. As the uncle with a math degree, I'm sometimes asked to help my nephews with their math homework. They're in high school. They can't stop grinning when we talk about multiplication. Brainrot is truly cross-cultural, I guess.

[–] SexualPolytope 9 points 1 week ago

I was just talking to a friend a couple of days ago, that Indian Americans are playing a weird role in US politics. They seem to be some of the worst folks in existence e.g. Kash Patel, Vivek Ramaswami etc.; and also some of the best e.g. Zohran Mamdani, Ro Khanna, Shri Thanedar, Pramila Jayapal etc. There doesn't seem to be any centrist Indian American politician lol.

[–] SexualPolytope 2 points 1 week ago

This happens to me pretty regularly while watching YouTube. I forget that I shouldn't be able to hear a siren that loudly over noice cancellation even if it was right outside my door.

[–] SexualPolytope 77 points 2 weeks ago

The error is ~1/log(x), for anyone interested.

[–] SexualPolytope 3 points 2 weeks ago

I have opened some before, but every single time, I'm just kind of awestruck that this thing actually works. It's such a delicate dance of these rapidly moving components, it's hard to even comprehend. SSDs are much much simpler in comparison.

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

Thanks, I'll see if I can find anything.

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

Btw, shiny platter lol.

hdd-platter

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

I guess I can try facebook marketplace. But then I'll have to reactivate my account. The local food pantry does keep some hardware. (I once found a VGA cable there lol.) I'll talk to them to see if they'll accept it in this condition.

[–] SexualPolytope 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Thanks. Yeah, I would take the HDD of course. I don't know if I'll take it apart, but definitely not giving it away lol.

Also, in case someone wants the rest of the machine for any reason, I'm happy to send it over if they just pay for shipping.

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How to get rid of my old laptop? (self.sustainabletech)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by SexualPolytope to c/sustainabletech
 

I have an old laptop that I'd like to get rid of. I've repurposed its SSD and RAM. It has an HDD on it, but it's so old, that it probably shouldn't be used anymore. A screw doesn't fit properly, so the chassis is a bit bumpy on one corner. But it works just fine. (Has an 8th gen i7 in it.)

I already have home-servers etc., so I just want to get rid of it. What's the most ethical way of doing it?

I'm currently living somewhere in southern USA, if that's relevant.

[–] SexualPolytope 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Paradox of tolerance type shi

[–] SexualPolytope 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That reminds me, there's this anti-capitalist, anti-war children's film by Satyajit Ray called Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. In it, there's a song that says that the king is sad and afraid since he has so much money. He tries to cope by punishing others, but it never makes him happy. The only solution offered was to let go of all his riches, and that finally made him happy.

It was for children, so I understand why sadness was used instead of fear. But they do need to be afraid.

As an aside, I think that movie had a decent impact in the communist revolution that happened in my state in the 70-80s. Ray has made some of the greatest movies in the history of cinema, but his children's films still hold a dear place in the hearts of many generations of Bengalis.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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That's only fair (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by SexualPolytope to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by SexualPolytope to c/showerthoughts@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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

 

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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