infinitevalence

infinitevalence, 11 months ago

dont: Used HDD are not worth the risk/cost as the chance of failure outside of warranty is too high. Maybe: Enterprise SSD’s, sometimes you can find low ware SSDs that are cast off from enterprise organizations at reasonable prices, often more so if its used SAS as average consumers need an HBA to utilize the drive. Be cautious as some SSD’s are discarded because of firmware bugs that cause early failures.

infinitevalence, 10 months ago

I love my chemex because it’s nearly impossible to mess up. As long as my beans are fresh and fresh ground it’s going to be a decent cup.

infinitevalence, 10 months ago

Y’all acting like 10 years is a long time… I expect that to be the minimum out of any capital expense for a “durable” good.

infinitevalence, 10 months ago

Same except for being attacked and being an arch user.

infinitevalence, 10 months ago

depending on the type most NVR’s are just custom linux builds, so VLC has few issues. I have yet to find an NVR video I could not run on my box, but my sample size is not huge, and its not corporate surveillance level gear im testing with

infinitevalence, 10 months ago

Manjaro KDE

infinitevalence, 10 months ago

*******

Just shows stars on my screen.

infinitevalence, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

That’s so cool! I did not know that Lemmy would automatically put in stars when you type a password!

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Damn that’s cool!

infinitevalence, 10 months ago

G-compris is great for kids. Both of my kids have only ever used Linux or Chrome OS.

infinitevalence, 9 months ago

College is 4 years and then you live your life for the next 40+. So what if you don’t pass every class.

Blow stuff up learn something from it even if it’s just that you didn’t like or find something interesting and move on to the next thing.

infinitevalence, 8 months ago

boo, and this is one of the few low cost camera systems I will recommend to non techie users.

infinitevalence, 8 months ago

How long ago did you delete everything?

SSD’s dont work like old HD’s depending on the generation of tech it might be storing multiple values per cell which means when you “filled” the SSD you put a charge into every single storage cell on the drive.

Garbage collection and TRIM will slowly over time clear out all the cells flagged as deleted but if one bit is still valid in a cell that was holding 3-4 other bits it cant overwrite that, or relocate it.

That means that your files/videos and such stay fragmented and may never get put back together sequentially or in a way that the controller can optimize again for speed.

The only fix, may be running a factory wipe from the Drive MFG’s tool set, that should fully blank each cell and let you re-install and make it feel fresh again.

Be warned though, you have already done a full drive write once at least, this would be another. You can expect some dead cells and while there is over provisioning that should provide replacements you could see a loss in usable space sooner than later.

infinitevalence, 8 months ago

in theory time, it should slowly rewrite everything to consolidate it. If you dont have time, then factory format and reinstall.

infinitevalence, 8 months ago

Same, I run 3 devices all on Lineage and its great. Who know that you could still get updates and support for a device from 10 years ago, suck on that apple.