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the news on regular tv last night was totally lopsided. tons of ‘reaction’ from the right and far-right, hardly anything from anyone else.

i half expect a hung jury. there’s bound to be one maga on the jury that won’t budge.

i bought a few smr drives, knowing they were smr. they were cheaper, a lot cheaper than the same amount of space in cmr. used only for static media storage, so that’s not a big deal, really., but holy hell was it slow getting stuff on them initially.

i have a few self-powered externals that are also smr (quite common with those as they use 2.5in notebook hdd). when those things have to start shuffling bits around and rewriting tracks, sustained write speeds fall well under what even usb2 can send.

i bought a big external hdd recently on impulse… a clearance sale. it was really, really cheap. with the thinking that i could ‘shuck’ it because i’m short on space in a couple storage systems. i checked. i can, but i haven’t. hell, i haven’t even used it yet other than to run a full smart diag on it, followed by a full format and a read/write verify. took days. then i put it back in the box and have basically forgotten about it until now.

you have to be careful on what models you buy. some have usb built onto the controller board (no internal sata) or other things (e.g. encryption chip, weird power) that make it more difficult or even impossible to use the internal drive in an environment other than the enclosure it ships in.

these clowns have shifted so far to the right, they’re in danger of falling off the edge of the earth.

small town, middle of nowhere in the upper midwest. an hour away from basically anything other than walmart and a few fast food joints, and more than our fair share of climate change-denying maga morons.

we have multiple locations with chargers.

patents is what you’re thinking of. and all (afaik) of them relating to mp3 format have expired.

being a convicted felon would make him eminently more qualified to be a republican candidate for office.

usb nvme adapters are not expensive and it likely won’t be the only time you need it. they are a handy accessory to have on hand if you have nvme storage.

don’t mess around with imaging to a file on the zfs, then restoring it. simply clone nvme -> nvme using a usb nvme adapter then replace the internal with the clone.

another $1000, paid out of the minnesota event proceeds, for skipping the graduation ceremony he was granted a day off from court to attend.

judge harold t. stone would have him in lockup for contempt before the first commercial break.

this was gonna happen.

most of the ‘conservative’ far-right congregations in the u.s. broke-off from umc over the last several years.

the moron majority sitting on bench do know exactly what they’re doing. they just dgaf about ramifications of their idiotic rulings.

a pallet of 4th gens? i have a dozen left here from around that era that i can’t get rid of without literally giving them away. they’re ‘tolerable’ for a gui linux or win10 with an ssd, but the ‘performance per watt’ just isn’t there with hardware this old. i used a few of them (none in an always-on role, though), but the rest just sit in the corner, without home nor purpose.

these 800 g1s are, iirc, 12vo, so upgrade or reuse potential is a bit limited. most users would want windows, and win10 does run ‘ok enough’ on 4th gen, just make sure they’re booting from ssd (120gb minimum). but they’ll run into that arbitrarily-errected wall-of-obsolescence with trying to upgrade or install win11 when win10 retires in ~ 18 months (you can ‘rufus’ a win11 installer, but there’s no guarantee that you will be able to in the future). that limits demand and resale value of pretty much all the pre-8th gen hardware.

“Dad was so proud of being able to fill up almost as much of the tube as my thumb would have.”

Donny Jr. same interview.

d.c. has never, ever awarded its electoral votes to a republican candidate.

all he thinks he needs to do whatever tf he wants is his sharpie and a change-of-address to 1600 penn av nw.

more like 6-3 liberal majority, and arguably even 8-1 with Thomas being the sole holdout.

this is also true. but thomas shouldn’t even be there, either.

scotus should be a 5-4 majority the other way right now.