Murdoc @ Murdoc @sh.itjust.works

Posts

3

Comments

413

Joined

2 yr. ago

If only they weren't so heavy...

This is called a Deceptive Pattern (or dark pattern). This feature worked exactly as intended in your case.

You can probably reuse an existing /home partition. But if you don’t have any files you want to keep, why bother?

I said no files I want to move, not keep. I would be keeping them right where they are, on the hdd.

Unfortunately that would involve a lot more physical work than I was hoping for, so not really the easiest way for me. I can't really work on the computer where it is, so all the moving and hooking/unhooking stuff would be a real pain that I hope to minimize if possible. I was hoping that I could just boot the cd/flash drive, get a partition manager and tell it to install to the currently empty drive, and use the existing /home dir as its /home dir. But since I've never done anything this complicated before, I wanted to make sure how it works before I tried anything.

Also, I don't have any files I really plan on moving anywhere, unless there's something I need to I don't know about? I'm sorry, it was a little confusing.

As for the encryption, "It also features XTS-AES 256-bit encryption that is enabled by default without user authentication and will prevent threat actors from reading data directly from NAND." Whatever that means, idk.

1. Ah, gotcha. Thanks. Exactly the sort of detail I made this post for.
2. Pretty sure, unless partitions can span multiple drives or something? I want to keep the data on my hdd home where it is, except for the games. Too much to move anyway. For the new ssd, I want an os partition and a data partition like I have now, but this will be mostly for games that will benefit from the speed; I'll use the hdd for media files and such. Once all that is up and working, I can get rid of the stuff on the old ssd and use it for more game space or whatever.
3. I just want games and os on the ssd, and data files on the hdd. 3 parts is all I know atm.
4. Idk anything about it, I just see all these ssds advertising their "256 bit aes encryption" or whatever. I tried looking it up, and could read how great it was, but not what it was like to actually use it, particularly under linux. It's not a big deal that I even use it really, I just wanted to make sure that I don't screw something else up just because it's there and I don't know what to expect.

Thanks, I was wondering how old it was when they said "Slashdot days."

True. Even though many will argue against this citing the 'practicalities' involved, this is just another instance of long vs. short term investment (in general, not just financial terms). Long term investment (like free education and state funded science) is supposed to be harder and more costly in the short term, because the payoff comes later, but it is much higher and leads to a healthier system, making things easier, incuding more investment. Whereas short term is usually damaging to the system and makes things harder long term.

I really like the saying that an idealist is a realist (or pragmatist) just using a longer timeline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be6YSwN8pX0

It would have to be Leslie Neilson's voice though.

😆 It might be nice to have a phone that tells me "Remember, we're all counting on you. Good luck." Otoh it would probably keep calling me Shirley.

It talks a lot about why he may have done this in that article.

Yeah, that was a great story, but an odd missed opportunity for a cyberpunk game on hidden mass surveillance. I'm thinking of NG Resonance from Deus Ex: Invisible War. I.e., it's odd that Bredan's a.i. was used to just sell more drinks, rather than as a mass surveillance tool. People were forming relationships with him, providing him with all sorts of personal information.

"Meiersburg", nice.

Except that "delicious" is subjective, never mind that "Mexican food" is an awfully broad category.

The in-flight movie was Twilight Zone: The Movie.

Escher is a fave of mine too.

Kinda reminds me of the old stick fight videos.

Next up, getting your AI to talk to the other AI too.

Not technology but economics I suspect. No one wanted to pay for it. Which would make sense if Google is trying this since they have money to throw at things.

Oh I'm sure that he'll personally put out his own fair phone. It will be the fairest phone, the fairest of them all! (His mirror told him so.)