Kraven_the_Hunter @ Kraven_the_Hunter @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I just sold my Pixel Watch and bought a Withings Scanwatch.

Daily charging is annoying. I stopped using it to pay because then I'd have to set up a PIN, and then type in the PIN every time I want to use it. I'm not without my phone and it's more convenient to pay with.

I did like the health monitoring features, but the daily charging made it intrusive and another thing I had to actively monitor.

Scanwatch gives me 30 days of battery, all the health tracking, and some basic notifications, which is fine but I'd get it even without that.

Where are the Teamsters these days? I hear they don't like people messing with their livelihoods.

I'm not always working in the office, and they've asked us to connect to VPN only if we need access to the internal network. Email and Teams work without VPN, but now you want me to log in for web access? A browser blocker is better imo.

GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER USA !!!

oh wait, that's me. nvm

Gals will be gals

Stewart is a smart, insightful, quick-witted and tenacious debater

Yes, well, but did you consider that Musk (probably) threw some money at Dave Chappelle in order to join him on stage during one of his Netflix specials? So he's basically a professional comedian too.

We don't all call them fukkking morons? What do you call the dumbest white supremacists?

Evolution doesn't trend toward good it or bad, only what survives. It's up to us to make sure only the good mutations survive.

Why hasn't the market dropped yet with all the fuckery going on in DC? Because the impact of said fuckery has not occurred yet.

This is s completely incorrect take on the stock market.

Rule #1 of the stock market is that none understands how it responds to inputs.

Rule #2 is that it attempts to factor in future expectations, so if you wait for something to happen, the impact is already accounted for in the price if the stock.

Market frenzy, people piling on when FOMO takes over, etc all make it impossible to have any level of certainty. So it's a valid question to ask why all of the current fuckery has not translated into market chaos.

Yeah this is what I'm doing now. I tried all of the tricks but they aren't working. Unfortunately this dock is USB 2.0 so I think it will take quite a while. These are "only" 3TB drives, but I need to clean 2 of them before I can test. Hopefully sometime next week??? Haha.

Thanks, this looked really promising but didn't work for me. lvremove said it couldn't find the volume group and dmraid said that I have an unsupported sector size and it didn't see any raid disks at me drive location.

I'm currently using dd to write zeros to the drives. I'm not sure how long that will take me on this old USB 2.0 dock.

I want to use RAID 1 but I've tried single disk as well.

hdparm wouldn't let me run the security-erase or security-erase-enhanced commands. It was indicating an IO failure. I thought maybe that was due to me not giving the drive a file system so I went back to Disks and gave it one, but still no luck. When I give it a file system the drive mounts though, so no actual hardware issues that I can see.

I found a thread on another site about using dd to remove the last 1-10MB of a RAID disk in order to make their RAID appliance see the drives as unconfigured. That's basically what I'm trying to do here so I followed those instructions but this Mediasonic bay is still not coming to life with the old drives. I might be at the point of sending it back and looking for something else.

Just for completeness, the command used to wipe the end of the drive is as follows where you specify the amount to wipe using the "mb" variable and you change /dev/sdX to the correct drive. From a thread on Stack Exchange.

disk=/dev/sdX && mb=10 && dd if=/dev/zero of=$disk bs=512 count=$(( 2048 * $mb )) seek=$(( $(blockdev --getsz $disk) - 2048 * $mb ))

I've never used this before so I'm not sure what to make of it. I am currently letting it analyze one of the disks and it's seeing a lot of HFS+ blocks (I assume that's what it's reporting) and a handful of ext4. That makes sense I guess, since I'm not wiping the drive, just trying to delete any partition info and/or formatting.

The only thing that seems like it might affect how the disk looks when inserted is cylinder geometry but I don't know enough about that to even guess at what to do with it. Is there something I should be looking for in testdisk?

Big Gil Gunderson vibes..

Remember when Biden said some idiotic thing earlier in the war about how Ukraine wasn't thankful enough and felt that support was owed to them? That's when I knew Biden want taking this seriously. It was theatrics to him.

How much for you to paint them to look like toy eggs and ship to the US?

I went into the Mullvad settings a bit deeper to see why my Surface might be using wireguard tunnels while my desktop doesn't. I didn't see anything related to that, but I did notice that Mullvad has a "Lockdown Mode" which requires you to be connected to Mullvad in order to access the internet. I don't have that active, but I wonder if it is in that mode anyway. I did a quick enable/disable of it to no avail.

I took a bit to reply because I wanted to wait for the next update to Mullvad. I just installed it this morning and even though I haven't re-started the program, my network connection is dafaulting to go through the Mullvad wireguard servers which is letting everything work. I'm not sure why I have so many copies of the same wg0-mullvad server in my list so that seems suspicious.

Here are the resolv.conf and systemd/resolved.conf files.. really nothing unique other than calling back to 127.0.0.53 for the nameserver like I showed before. My desktop has the same settings and nameserver though. The only difference is that Mullvad on my desktop is not using wireguard servers, so maybe that is causing the issue on my Surface?