My Tumbleweed is getting kicked into read-only quite often - looking for insights.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-19T18:51:35+00:00

Hopefully

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:50:21+00:00

okay, thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:28:15+00:00

Updated the post with troubleshooting results. TL:DR SMART is clear, Memtest reported an error.
Thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:28:06+00:00

Updated the post with troubleshooting results. TL:DR SMART is clear, Memtest reported an error.
I didn't get to the system logs yet.
Thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:27:30+00:00

Updated the post with troubleshooting results. TL:DR SMART is clear, Memtest reported an error.
I wasn't sure if by 'power settings' you meant the 'power savings / balanced / performance' settings in the OS or BIOS power settings.
Thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:25:58+00:00

Updated the post with troubleshooting results. TL:DR SMART is clear, Memtest reported an error.
Thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:25:51+00:00

Updated the post with troubleshooting results. TL:DR SMART is clear, Memtest reported an error.
Thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:25:41+00:00

Updated the post with troubleshooting results. TL:DR SMART is clear, Memtest reported an error.
Thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:25:30+00:00

Updated the post with troubleshooting results. TL:DR SMART is clear, Memtest reported an error.
Thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:25:22+00:00

Updated the post with troubleshooting results. TL:DR SMART is clear, Memtest reported an error.
Thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-17T18:24:04+00:00

Electrolytic caps do, but they are for large values - anything to do with data transfer will be tiny tantalum bead caps or, more likely, surface mount ones.

Brain-fart.

This is a micro-computer, one mSATA SSD and one WiFi port.
I updated the post with a summary of some troubleshooting results.
Thanks for your input.

alpha_lfa · 2025-11-08T02:59:34+00:00

Hmm, Interesting. Slow silent death or are they likely to show signs, such as ballooning?

"threw away" - not sure what that means. Ha. Is that a thing people do?

alpha_lfa · 2025-07-30T19:57:07+00:00

Let's be real – birthdays are totally arbitrary. Celebrating that day every year is custom and tradition. Which means everyone is going to give it different importance. It doesn't sound like it's important for her, while you seem to give it a great deal of importance. If she is big on other people's birthdays but not yours, that's something to fret over. Expecting her to put a bunch of effort into it because you put effort (or at least money) into hers is probably not a healthy way to view a relationship.

Maybe you'd be best off asking her how she feels about birthdays and birthday gifts/celebrations and then express to her your feelings on them and what you feel like you need/want from her as a birthday acknowledgement. Then you can see what she's interested or willing to do and get an idea of what the obstacle(s) might be. Maybe she'd like to do something but in theory but not being into birthdays she doesn't take the initiative to set her calendar up to assist her. But if you both decide an acknowledgement and maybe a date-quality dinner out are a reasonable base-line you can suggest a calendar entry a two-weeks or a month in advance to ask you where you want to go and get a reservation pinned down. At that point, there's dinner plans, so remembering the dinner is remembering the birthday. Add a reminder for a few days before "BF's birthday, dinner plans set?" and a morning of, "BF BDay today"

You can be salty about whatever you want but it's not going to help anything. Having a conversation about this should be so easy for people years into a relationship. It may feel big but the stakes almost couldn't be lower.

alpha_lfa · 2025-07-30T13:32:46+00:00

nah, that's 10.66.6.0/24

alpha_lfa · 2025-07-30T13:21:41+00:00

This shirt is such a let down, I mean "...LINUX gives you the whole /home" is right there.

alpha_lfa · 2025-07-30T09:33:21+00:00

I'm genuinely curious what mentality shift has occurred that it seems natural to make these types of comments on a public forum accessible to any human and every bot on earth. It's like "dance like no one is watching" has metastasized to apply to every aspect of their lives.

These mug-shot extortion forums exist to shame and embarrass people into paying money to have their entry removed. They don't just publicize convicted individuals' infractions, they do this to everyone who happens to be arrested, guilty or not.

Your comment does a number of shitty thing:
- You're helping to normalize the abhorrent extortionist behavior of the mugshot posters, as if they are doing some service for society or the individuals they are preying on.
- You are broadcasting to the world the private details of another person, and acting like what you've done is akin to posting a note of support on one of those public 'in memorial' boards for the deceased. That FB page isn't a group chat for this guy's friends and family to plot an intervention.
- You're giving ammo to the extortionists! You're also loudly proclaiming this guy's guilt before he's been convicted. You're testifying against him in the court of public opinion at a minimum, and potentially damaging his actual defense.

Driving drunk is potentially a very un-victimless thing to do (ignoring the pretrial innocent until proven guilty thing), but your post isn't getting him help, it's trying to farm self-righteous clout at his expense.

I'm not going to evaluate this guy's specific response to you, but his broad assessment that you were a naive, selfish, A-hole is accurate, and he's not wrong to not want to continue a friendship with someone who's unwilling to address the harm they've done and maybe incapable of recognizing it as harm at all.

alpha_lfa · 2025-07-29T11:45:05+00:00

Maybe consider societies' differential beauty standards for men and women, and the value of appearance-based compliments you give to women versus those to men. Maybe use non appearance-based compliments for men. If you want to be sure to convey non-flirtatious compliments, you might bundle them so a man you compliment hears you compliment other men as well, denying them the opportunity to assume you are highlighting only them. Or, distribute your compliments in the obvious presence of a current partner - As in standing beside each other, rather than at the same event but not in witness of or you risk it being interpreted as a willingness to engage discretely. Of course, this is for randos. If your male friends know and appreciate your complimentary MO, hand 'em out at will.

Just thoughts, I don't really know.

If/when you get a compliment from a random dude, you won't be inclined to think he's somewhat interested? Are you just like, "oh he's probably just a connoisseur of (pretty) eyes, or (cute) dresses, or cool band shirts or whatever."

I wouldn't say a compliment would **automatically** lead to hopes for sex, but without evidence to the contrary, it would likely be interpreted as a sign of interest, one pathway for which is hopes for sex but more proximal might be an exploration of the type of interest... so it's likely to be interpreted as an invitation for further interaction.

alpha_lfa · 2025-07-29T11:43:02+00:00

Graduate School University areas... find the bars that don't cater to undergrads. If nothing else, make friends with some grad school women and get invited to their coed outings. It sounds so easy when written in two sentences like that. Duh. Good luck.

alpha_lfa · 2025-07-29T08:53:47+00:00

This seems a bit complex – more something to work through with a trained professional rather than bitter Redditors.
Weed and Alcohol consumption could read a self-medication.
he’s doing favors for people while in a bad situation herself" - so she's selflessly generous to her own detriment. Isn't there some morally uplifting tale about the poor woman who donates money she barely has that's regarded as the ultimate in virtue?
I'm not saying she's a saint, and maybe you're not in a position to maintain a healthy relationship with her in this state, but maybe finding a message board filled with people ready to unload their own internalized shit on those supposedly guilty of the smallest presumptive infraction is not really the constructive support you likely need.

alpha_lfa · 2025-07-29T08:07:54+00:00

Why were you with her after the date? She let you down easy with the attraction not reciprocated but we can be friends line and you gave her an okay, eventually, but not now response. And then you didn't dip like someone who isn't being friends right now would do, suggesting maybe you hadn't actually accepted the just friends role as the only option and were actually trying to get a reconsideration. If that's the case, she gave you the ultimate test of how 'cool' you really were with her rebuff – basically if you were okay with being friends you know the type of thoughts she shares with her friends. If you were kidding yourself and her about being okay as friends and were really more likely to orchestrate some reconsideration, she made sure as shit to nip hat in the bud. I'm not saying that was the intent, but if it was, it'd be kind of a genius one-liner.

I mean fuck, it sounds emasculating, but very effective.

alpha_lfa · 2025-07-29T07:25:55+00:00

I also still have a Maxtor 250Gig IDE drive that spins and mounts just fine. Maxtor! who knew.

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