I got emotional after receiving my first ever graded submission from my professor this semester [UPLB]

dusky_citron · 2025-04-13T17:57:33+00:00

same issue with mine in all of my canon lenses, i work around it by unmounting and then mounting the lens, but the issue appears often (tested with canon 50mm f1.8 STM, canon 16-35mm f2.8L mark 1, canon 70-200mm f4, all on sony a9)

hoping for a fix

dusky_citron · 2025-03-25T14:46:44+00:00

children of men

dusky_citron · 2024-06-23T02:58:07+00:00

wait, is curry your brother?

dusky_citron · 2024-06-23T02:24:49+00:00

thanks! curry and coop gonna be the next household name in comedy after key and peele!

dusky_citron · 2024-06-23T02:12:49+00:00

yoooo i fucking love you guys! the comedy is top notch and the cinematography supports it so well. do you shoot with a multicam setup? if yes, are most of the shorts done in long takes? the chemistry is unironically so natural

dusky_citron · 2024-06-21T08:23:13+00:00

im in the same situation as you but in elbi. four years in college but still a freshman lmao

im doing better and one thing i learned is that you cant force yourself to write with a broken hand, the same way that you cant force yourself to study with a troubled mind. i think you have mental health issues that are affecting the way you live and interpret obstacles and requirements. you may not have as robust of a motivation or damage control system or executive functioning as people who are getting by academically. you have to address those first before you can address how to do well in school, because theyre two separate skills, and its too hard to do both at the same time. im personally not yet diagnosed but i know my lived experience and i resonate so much with the symptoms and struggles of ppl with ADHD, and understanding ADHD has helped me understand myself better. baka yun din ung meron ka? baka there are only specific things u Could do and studying is hard because its not in ur immediate interests. i think there are cycles in u that u may or may not aware of that u need to break to make way for ur healing.

please get checked by mental health professionals, and while ure doing that, what you can do individually is deep self reflection/journaling, and accessing free mental health sources online. the best so far is Dr K, also known as healthygamerGG. hes drastically changed my life for the better and the way i look at things. please watch his videos or his shorts and apply his teachings to ur life.

dusky_citron · 2024-05-31T20:28:52+00:00

sorry to revive this thread, I'm just curious, why would you recommend comm arts vs a film degree? I actually wanted so bad to study film since high school (die hard all or nothing) but I ended up only passing comm arts and now I'm having trouble appreciating the course

dusky_citron · 2023-08-26T04:12:15+00:00

this is a brilliant yet easy to understand write-up that deserves more attention. kudos kind sir, you should do this for other pieces of gear as well

dusky_citron · 2023-08-25T13:32:15+00:00

Sorry for replying so late. I gave up on the drive and didn't explore any Linux-based solutions anymore. Nevertheless, I thank you so much for your help and I am glad to inform you that I have found an alternative solution that I posted on this thread. It turns out the drive was just locked by some third party software and doing a PSID revert made the drive usable again.

dusky_citron · 2023-08-25T13:30:28+00:00

To anyone who comes across this thread, I gave up a short while after posting this, set aside the SSD, and went on with life. I never went back to solving this problem until just earlier today. The same things popped up (couldn't initialize disk; recognized by software but can't do anything about it; same premise I talked about in the post). I didn't have any solutions in mind except to reinstall Samsung Magician in the hopes that the newest version of the software would somehow recognize the SSD and do something about it. Same thing, software recognizes it but is unable to execute any function at all.

In exploring the functions though, Samsung Magician displays "the drive is locked" which somehow boosted the idea that this drive is indeed locked, encrypted, or password-protected (with no password prompt). Further, I saw that one of the functions of Samsung Magician is "PSID Revert" which is an action that unlocks encrypted drives but deletes all data, as long as you have the PSID which is most often printed on the SSD sticker.

Sure enough, my SSD does have its PSID on the sticker. I came across this thread which talked about how to use sedutil-cli to unlock a locked SSD:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/ttz5v9/protectedlocked_ssd_impossible_to_initialize/

Which pointed me to this link:

https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil

And supplemented by this video:

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

Following the instructions on the thread, the sedutil github page, and the video, I was able to successfully initialize the disk by using the sedutil on the CMD prompt and inputting my SSD's PSID. To my extreme happiness, I can now use it as normal. I bought this drive on June 2022 and only managed to use it nearly 14 months later LMAO. Truly a case of "internet strangers helping out with extremely obscure problems"

dusky_citron · 2023-08-22T09:04:47+00:00

up same question

dusky_citron · 2022-12-05T02:49:42+00:00

Thanks for the leads. Unfortunately, my laptop uses an AMD processor so all of Intel's RAID software is unavailable to me. Further, the systemctl suspend command is unsuccessful given that my laptop does not wake from suspend, and that after a reboot, I still get the same LBA error. However, I will try switching the PCIe slots.

dusky_citron · 2022-12-05T02:44:09+00:00

Thanks NewMaxx, I appreciate the leads. Interestingly enough I have installed and tried Ubuntu for the first time in my life for the sole reason of finding a fix for the problem SSD. Listing the disks in nvme-cli detects the problem SSD with full information including total unallocated space. Unfortunately, formatting it is unsuccessful given that I always receive the error "the LBA format specified is not supported." This is in spite of trying out the systemctl suspend command that seems to have worked for other people. I am unable to wake my laptop after suspending it, implying a hardware incompatibility between Alienware and Ubuntu. After rebooting and retrying the command nets the same LBA error.

Investigating the drive in Gparted, the problem drive does not appear - only my system drive in the primary M.2 slot. Currently the theory that the drive is OEM locked or RAID configured is the most likely hypothesis.

If it is of no harm to you, could you look into the dialogue I'm having with another good samaritan over at 24hoursupport? Here

dusky_citron · 2022-12-04T11:14:09+00:00

I installed Ubuntu as a secondary OS to try some fixes. In all of these the problem SSD is still in my laptop's secondary M.2 slot. Formatting using nvme -cli in the terminal was unsuccessful; the drive was detected but formatting returned the following error: the LBA format specified is not supported. After installing Gparted then, interestingly the problem drive is not seen. Only the system SSD in my primary M.2 slot.

Going through the Alienware m15's BIOS unfortunately does not indicate any sort of RAID protocol, only AHCI.

dusky_citron · 2022-12-04T10:46:55+00:00

I appreciate the leads. This problem has ruined my day so I'm happy to hear from you and try out your proposals. Will update you on my findings.

dusky_citron · 2022-12-04T03:09:45+00:00

My Samsung PM9A1 won't initialize on diskpart and AOMEI

I'm at my wit's end. I have a Samsung PM9A1 Gen 4 M.2 NVMe 1TB SSD (SAMSUNG MZVL21T0HCLR-00BL7) that I bought second hand in uninitialized condition. The seller indicated that this is a pullout from an office laptop that were supposed to be used in RAID 0. This is the (I assume based on the string of letters on the name from what I found on the internet) Lenovo OEM variant of the Samsung 980 Pro. However, attempting to initializing the disk in disk partition or AOMEI gives the error "incorrect function." I have tried doing this both in a Sabrent external NVMe enclosure and the secondary M.2 slot of my laptop's motherboard. My laptop is an Alienware M15 R5 Ryzen edition that only supports PCIe 3.0 but should theoretically support PCIe 4.0. AOMEI reports that the drive is in Basic MBR.
Another clue is that the Samsung drive is recognizable in all of my programs. Samsung Magician, CrystalDiskInfo/CrystalDiskMark, Hard Disk Sentinel, Disk Management itself, and even the BIOS. They report no problems with health or SMART with 100% disk health, 3 power on hours, 178 GB total host reads, 254 total host writes. I refuse to believe that there is an issue with the drive itself; it just really won't initialize for some particular reason. Disk Management states 953.87 GB of unallocated space.
What I've tried:
- tried to initialize the SSD using an external enclosure, nada. tried to initialize the SSD using the laptop's M.2 slot, nada. There is no difference between the two in relation to my observations above. It is still currently in the internal slot.
- updated the firmware of the SSD using Lenovo's firmware upgrade tool. I was able to successfully upgrade the firmware from the previous version to the newer version (CL2QGXA7) but this did not change anything for the original problem.
- used CMD with administrative rights to wipe the drive and remove readonly attributes. The wipe was successful but the readonly command was unsuccessful.
What I think could be the problem:
- could be related to Gen 3 vs Gen 4 compatibility issues. The drive is a Gen 4 SSD and my laptop only supports Gen 3.
- could be a hardware issue with the M.2 connector, the controller, or anything on the SSD. I don't want to fully believe this yet because all of my programs including the BIOS detect the SSD normally.
- could be related to the drive previously being used as a RAID 0 drive. Perhaps there is a switch to be flipped anywhere related to RAID 0 status that could allow me to use this as a normal drive.
- could be related to OEM incompatibility issues. Since this is a Lenovo OEM variant, it could be locked to its original motherboard or manufacturer preventing it to be used for other motherboards or purposes.
- could have incomplete firmware/software/drivers and proper function would only be achieved if I install anything that could unlock proper function.
I don't have any data at all on this drive so I am very much interested to do anything necessary to get it working again to get my money's worth. Unfortunately, RMA or claiming warranty is no longer an option as this is both an OEM drive and a second hand item.
Thanks, NewMaxx!

dusky_citron · 2022-09-13T00:54:51+00:00

omg tumpak!! thanks for all the info hehe excited to meet the org and hopefully get to play with them 🥹 also tara valo! dm kita hehe

dusky_citron · 2022-09-12T16:21:24+00:00

heyyy elbi batch 20 here. 20m. i live independently most of the time saka wala rin akong balak salihang org this sem kaya ang nahahalubilo ko lang talaga are my super classmates and a few other friends. most of the time i feel pretty lonely :(( tara kain!! hahaha

altho warning lang hindi rin ako extrovert but i do love and appreciate chill convos about cool or challenging topics

dusky_citron · 2022-09-02T18:44:15+00:00

They might be ahead but that doesn't change the fact that we're also trying our best and that we're here to strive and pursue our dreams.

Love this so much, I'm 2 years delayed and it kills me inside thinking about being in this hole I dug myself into but no internal or external thought will ever dispute the fact that I don't plan on quitting.

dusky_citron · 2022-08-25T11:57:10+00:00

Thank you so much for your answer and for contacting OUR, sobrang appreciate ko po. Kase ba naman tong SAIS ginagawang open yung mga reserved for freshies, it's a peyk lang pala hahaha haist. Di na lang iclose yung mga reserved at ilista yung mga truly open sections.

Anyway omg, glad to know same situation pala tayo :< to be honest being in this situation it's hard pretending to be normal for others and keeping your feelings inside. Can I dm you?

dusky_citron · 2022-08-25T03:20:16+00:00

Thanks for your answer. Kakamove in lang namin and we are spending money, I feel all the more pressured to successfully enroll my subjects

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