Try smartctl -a on the drive (install smartmontools if needed), to see the error counts. Yeah, back up your stuff, which you should do anyway.

Baaaaad idea probably.

I’m going to say it’s usually bad to suddenly disconnect from someone. It’s ok to distance yourself instead; but send some kind of response acknowledging the phone call and maybe say you want to keep to yourself for a while.

Flipper Zero?

Not normal at all, and you better wonder what he’s going to do with that ID even if you’re no longer in contact with him.

Being able to ruin a product presumes that it wasn’t vile to begin with.

Remember you have to say apt dist-upgrade to get the minor version bump.

IDK really. I’m repeating what I saw someplace years ago. I would say do a real RAID if you manage it. Maybe RAID 5 on 3 drives.

While I don’t exactly intend to run RAID, I ended up choosing nas drives for the 24/7 intended usage,

The purpose of a NAS drive is to be LESS reliable than a regular drive, not more reliable. Explanation: if a regular drive gets a read error on a block, it will retry for quite a while before giving up. The host, meanwhile, has to wait for the data to be retrieved if the retries work. That’s all it can really do, wait and hope. Meanwhile, the waiting slows the application down.

A NAS drive instead will fail once or twice, then give up immediately, since it knows that it’s in a RAID system and that the data is also present on other disks. The RAID then puts the data together from the other drives and gets it to the host, logging the error. It will also hopefully mark the bad block on the drive with the read failure, and rewrite the recovered data to a spare sector. So this is faster than all the retries even though the drive that had the bad block gives up on it rather than attempting recovery by repeated reads.

So if you buy NAS drives, put them in a RAID.

Drives are currently around 2x as expensive as a year or so ago but they are available if you can afford them. I guess that’s better than shortages where they’re hard to find even if you can pay. We’ve had that before too.

I like to think the current situation will settle out. Who knows though. Drive space is still way less expensive than in 2010 or anything like that.

The pi is pretty slow too, compared to a basic x86 laptop. I use a Logitech K40 wireless keyboard (USB dongle, not bluetooth) that has a built in trackpad though. So that gets rid of the mouse and two cables, and you can actually use it in your lap.

Won’t stop anyone, but luckily I lost my 3D printer in a boating accident.

One can support a social media age ban (similar to the porn age bans that have existed since forever) while opposing the implementation proposal (invasive age verification needed for nearly everything).

From what I can tell, the definition of social media in the ban proposals amounts to the presence of algorithmic amplification of clickbait and outrage. It’s not too big a stretch to support banning that altogether, not just for minors. Traditional forums would still be fine, and Lemmy would be fine if it changed a few features that are arguably bad anyway.

Um obviously it will depend on the cost, and tape in general these days is seen as an enterprise thing with prices to match. Are you going to make a tape drive? What about the tape?

1TB isn’t that interesting since you can get LTO-5 or LTO-6 (1.5TB or 2.5TB native) fairly affordably these days. The physical size of the cartridge isn’t that important for most of us.

Yeah trouble is those use a lot of power, from what I heard. I’m satisfied with a usable e-reader that can flip pages at tolerable speed.

This is a bunch of stuff that you can order from Adafruit, so idk where Steam comes into it.

Also the screen is 5.83" which is a yawner. It’s a drag that e-ink screens are still all so small. Wake me up when there’s an affordable 14 inch one or larger, that doesn’t take 20+ seconds to refresh. 1 second is tolerable. Motion video is not required.

I had to do a web search to figure it out. Maybe you can revise the post.

This appears to be about medical coding, nothing to do with writing computer software. When someone gets medical treatment, someone has to translate the treatment description into insurance billing identifiers, called “codes”. I don’t know anything else about it except that it takes a lot of training, and some effort goes into gaming the system to choose the most expensive codes for a given treatment. CPC stands for Certified Professional Coder.

I think ID for new customers is widespread now because of the growth of scams. I enrolled at Porkbun from the US a number of years ago without ID (before they started asking for it) and they haven’t asked me for it retroactively, so I don’t think it’s required, it’s just something they do as an anti-scam measure. I’ve never tried for a UK or other national domain from them.

Try https://tld-list.com/ for comparisons.

Thanks, I’m more interested in quality than speed, but will try the smaller models to see if the results are usable. My CPU has Intel Integrated Graphics 4000 (this is in an i7-3770 which is way old by now) and I kind of doubt Pytorch supports that, though it’s possible. I can imagine upgrading to a newer processor but probably not a real GPU. Actually it looks like everything is way more expensive than it used to be, no big surprise.