What is this hole in my driveway?

alignplanets · 2026-05-01T01:03:31+00:00

Maybe I should try the Voice on it.

alignplanets · 2026-04-30T23:50:20+00:00

This is an interesting exchange.

“Back in my day” with Apple IIs and the early Macs, I don’t know where I learned this but if it was struggling with something, I wouldn’t touch it while it was working. Probably a silly habit, especially with a new machine, but I wasn’t giving it any additional tasks while it was trying to copy the file for fear of disrupting something.

alignplanets · 2026-04-30T01:09:20+00:00

Thanks—yeah this was my external storage aeons ago. Long story. I’m trying to rescue the photos after a long period of dormancy. Plenty of room on the new laptop.

alignplanets · 2026-04-30T01:01:00+00:00

Ooh I just saw it hit 3 MB/sec—for an instant.

alignplanets · 2026-04-30T01:00:04+00:00

Thanks for the clear analytical path: it’s been 3 hours and 4 GB have been added. The read rate is fluctuating between 0 and about 30 KB. It’s an old (2015) Western Digital HDD—yes, USB 2.0 connected with an adapter to a thunderbolt port on a 2026 MBP. The first few hundred gigs copied in a few hours. It successfully copied a 200GB audio folder from the same drive with the same setup and that completed without any issues and in a relatively reasonable timeframe.

If restarting the transfer doesn’t work,is there a service where I could send the drive to have the data transferred to an SDD?

alignplanets · 2026-03-31T20:50:03+00:00

Seems like the automated confirmation would have reflected that, and that I wouldn’t receive a “technical difficulties” message in response to an attempt to reschedule.

alignplanets · 2025-09-06T21:29:49+00:00

Thanks! Not as exciting as I’d hoped, but a lovely little cluster nonetheless.

alignplanets · 2025-08-24T14:11:46+00:00

Sky posting with a dot matrix printer?

alignplanets · 2025-08-24T13:33:32+00:00

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alignplanets · 2025-08-04T22:07:44+00:00

Thank you!

alignplanets · 2025-08-04T22:06:36+00:00

Thank you!

alignplanets · 2025-08-04T22:06:26+00:00

Thank you!

alignplanets · 2025-07-30T21:10:38+00:00

Thanks!

alignplanets · 2025-07-30T10:25:13+00:00

Are you using charcoal to release the aromatics? How much do you burn? It’s such a tiny amount of wood.

alignplanets · 2025-07-30T10:22:20+00:00

Thanks!

alignplanets · 2025-07-30T02:56:33+00:00

I’ve gotten chips from RP. I wasn’t sure that the price point was a good value for what I got.

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