Sigh :)

You already have Diehard and Gremlins, be satisfied ;)

The ones with metal pigment are still waiting to fail, the ones that died used a cheap organic dye, coz profit. This is Silica (i.e. quartz, a long lived rock) with variances in polarization and intensity,( hence 5D when combined with a 3D Crystal))

OK generic marketing crap and will you have their special reader in a century, but it’s a solid way to project knowledge into the far future (gotta wonder if we need to re-examine some quartz crystals with this in mind ;}

If you open the versions drop down in F-Droid it has a ‘suggested’ tag next to the 2.0.12.1 version, so they’re aware of the issue, I’m not sure if that means if you just click install that’s what you get as I pinned it there when this all started and don’t want to uninstall reinstall just for this post, but I’m guessing it’ll just install the non suss version.

And that rise needs to be based on $200 (the 100 he gave her given back and the hundred she lost).

through a means that doesn’t directly fund Rowling

YoHoHo, it’s Christmas on the high seas :)

And now I’m whistling in my head…

Also a good British one : Hogsfather

Yup, what I’d expect an expert to do.

This. Reasonable odds that it’s the drive controller that got fried, HDDs are fairly resistant, unfortunately the borked drive controller may have corrupted the GPT table, (unlikely the data unless the drive really is fried).

In some cases there’s a backup GPT table at the end of the drive, but by now you’re in the weeds and need to assess how much that data is worth to you, because you need to find an expert.

If it’s not worth much there’s a good chance you can just recreate a GPT table and reformat and scan for errors, at least you’ll get a drive back.

They’re not law as long as you can afford the lawyers and legal costs to fight them. Which is, of course, the problem and the system working as designed.

Hmpff, when I added the image it overwrote the original URL, not exactly intuitive, probably makes sense for memes.

Eh, I hadn’t bothered to read the comm rules and doing a filesystem check is a suitable pain in the ass. BTW the last word was originally shitfuckery.

why AI needs RAM like VRAM I get it but why RAM?

They use the same silicon wafers and OpenAI just made a deal to secure 40% of the global supply of wafers from both SK Hynix and Samsung (2 of the three large providers) ostensibly for project Stargate server farms. It gets so much worse, they made both deals on the same day without advising the other company, and have not provisioned any way to actually use (make chips from) the wafers. It looks more like they’re just trying to keep them out of the hands of competitors. See here for the gory details.

From there the laws of supply and demand and panic buying by everyone else took over, micron (the third big one) dropped out of the consumer market because they’re gonna make bank in the server market as the only unencumbered company. Consumer general purpose computer customers are royally boned. This will flow through into the SSD market as well.

TLDR: Fuck AI in general and Fuck ‘OpenAI’ and Sam Altman in particular. If you pray, pray that this deal gets a legal injunction in South Korea, coz you know the US will just applaud this shitfuckery.

Hooray, gotta make room for those High value Xmas goods and those essential foods don’t make the cutoff (Hope you like Ham) Yay Logistics…

Duh, civilized countries make education free because it;s a net win for the country. If your politics makes that a bad, dunno, sorry for your loss…

Actually acknowledges fear from reading. Kudos.

As someone with aphantaisha I sort of hate that, but the annoying part is that it still works. YMMV

OK, that’s horrible, but the difference between mucking around and science is writing it down. Do not dis the general principle because of one example.

pareto principle / 80 20 rule. Personally I’ll take comfort, as in wider bouncier tires, given your bike actually can fit then, but YMMV.

FFS, just adopt, it’s way to needed anyway.