Thank you for the in depth explanation of hard drive noises! I have everything I care about backed up and will keep listening for changes. Hopefully it’s just an OS thing.

was not a medical condition and just a word

It is just a word. It means to delay or the opposite of “advance” and is still used like that in industries like aviation and terms like fire removedant.

But when you use it to call someone stupid, that’s when you’re using it in the context of ablism and as a slur.

Similar to the term for a female dog, which is still used in veterinary medicine and research to mean an actual dog that is female. Though like the R word, the context as a slur is gradually discouraging its use even as its original meaning because people don’t want to risk having it misunderstood.

I tried using smartctl but it doesn’t seem to like the fact that it’s in a USB enclosure and says “unknown USB bridge”. Trying smartctl -d sat does give some SMART information and says that the “overall-health self-assessment test result” is passed for both based on “Attribute checks”, but I’m not sure if it’s actually passed or it just can’t see the actual failing information. It also says “SMART status not supported: Incomplete response, ATA output registers are missing” above the passed result which seems to indicate that it’s missing the information it needs for a full assessment.

I run Pi-Hole and Ollama in containers, but neither have mount points or volumes on the hard drives, only the system SSD.

One drive is a fairly new Seagate IronWolf Pro, but the other is a refurbished server hard drive so if one is dying it’s probably that one, though the stuff I actually care about is copied on both drives and a third one that’s offline and unplugged.

The weird thing is that this only started happening when I reinstalled the OS, but like I said I reinstalled with newer version so that might be the cause? Maybe some disk/fs implementation changed and now does things automatically when the drives are idle that 42 didn’t do? But I feel like that would still trigger the indicators.

My next step is probably to use inotify to look at file accesses, experiment with only mounting one drive at a time to see which one clicks or if they all do, maybe even connect the drives to another computer over SATA to do a full SMART check.

Thank you!

Piece of shit. Simple and to the point. Shit’s pretty gross and it’s universal human instinct to avoid it. Maybe even shithead if you want a single word.

Asshole. Gender neutral and not tied to ethnicity since we all have one. Maybe even going further and calling someone an asshole related condition like prolapsed rectum or hemorrhoid, things that can happen to anyone, are pretty painful and definitely to be avoided, but AFAIK were never conditions that were heavily marginalized or shamed.

Clown or fool. Clowns/fools are types of characters people played historically (and still do?), IMO it doesn’t imply anything about a person’s actual intelligence or mental state, only their actions. You’re not born a clown or fool, but you can definitely act like one. Also lends itself to a snarky 🤡 emoji I’ve seen some people here use instead of typing out an insult.

Though there could be additional context or history to any of these terms I’m not aware of that push them into one of the -ist categories, IDK I’m not a linguist.

Super interesting. Thanks as always!

Is Erlang special in its architecture or is it more that it’s functional?

One day I’ll learn how to do purely functional, maybe even purely declarative. But I have to train my brain to think of computer programs like that.

Is there a functional and/or declarative language that has memory management features similar to Rust as opposed to a garbage collector?

but literally beating the flagship desktop chips in single-core performance

See, this is what I despise about x86. AFAIK it’s literally RISC on the bare metal but there are hundreds of “instructions” running microcode which is basically just a translation layer. You’re not allowed to write code for the actual RISC implementation because that’s a trade secret or something. So obviously single core performance would be shit because you’re basically running an emulator all the time.

RISC-V can’t come fast enough. Maybe someone will even make a chip that’s RISC-V but with the same instruction/microcode support as x86. So you can run RISC-V code directly or do the microcode thing and pretend you’re on x86. Though that would probably get the shit sued out of them by Intel because god forbid there’s actual innovation that the original creator can’t cash in on.

Doesn’t the Mac have hardware x86 emulation? Or did they remove that because they want everyone to move to ARM?

You can also put Asahi Linux on them

How well does this work? Is it like Linux on Chromebooks where something could break at the drop of a hat and you have to fight the computer to get it installed?

With Arch BTW

Or Nix

I don’t use any but I’m sure there are functional languages where () is a valid function.

Just a reminder, you can’t prove they’re not still conscious somewhere in their mind. Brain “dead” is a misnomer because having dead, rotting tissue in your skull will kill you pretty quickly anyway. You would at the very least have to remove the brain and IDK if you can still keep the body alive then.

Keeping them alive normally honestly sounds like torture if there’s anything resembling a consciousness still in there, this is just slavery.

Fail2Ban is a popular tool for things like SSH.

I’ve never heard Mandrake it but gave it a quick search and it seems they’ve been discontinued for a while.

KDE is alive and well! It honestly feels a bit like Windows 7 which was why I as a former Windows user like it. I personally use Fedora KDE and would recommemd it.

I need to be able to “RDP” into remote machines. I think that one is probably easy and built-in from decades ago.

KDE has a built in RDP server you can enable!

If you’re using X server and not Wayland, xrdp is also good.

Remmina is a good RDP client.

I also need to be able to setup a Hyper-V equivalent, to run other machines from my main laptop- haven’t figured that one out yet.

GNOME Boxes might be what you’re looking for? KVM if you need a full blown hypervisor.

That time Janeway and Paris hit Warp 10 in Star Trek.

Such a cool concept ruined by such a stupid episode.

Also Trip doesn’t die.

They are. But very very slowly.

Is there a good resource for determining how “effective” your donation to any given open source org is? As in how much of it is going to be paid to the actual devs, QA, and other related workers vs higher management?

IIRC that’s a major complaint with Mozilla and a lot of other large open source orgs.

“Hey Gemini write me a React app”

Academic tradition requires you to cite works…

Yeah looks to me like scaling artifacts from shrinking the image. AFAIK AI isn’t that consistent especially with high contrast shapes.