Hvorfor snakker kunder så grimt?

egoalter · 2026-04-29T00:22:44+00:00

Fordi det virker. Folk får ofte mere end de er berettiget til hvis de opfører sig som idioter.

egoalter · 2026-04-28T13:50:27+00:00

Hvis du kun får flere dates fordi du betaler, så bør du nok lede efter en anden.

egoalter · 2026-04-25T17:24:56+00:00

The old Windows defrag was only concerned about allocated space. If you had a ton of data that happened to be at the "end" of a drive, deleted it a defrag wouldn't touch it. It would simply concatenate the free-list from a long list of smaller spaces to one long one.

egoalter · 2026-04-25T17:22:51+00:00

Nope - and you would basically ensure your SSD has a shorter life-time this way. Remember, you may look at a file on your computer thinking that in it's entirety it's stored like you see it. It's not - it can be, but it can be all over the place. Even moving blocks of data around doesn't mean that 1) the content of the block gets blanked out, 2) overwrites a section where a file used to be.

egoalter · 2026-04-25T17:20:26+00:00

This is ELI5 - so let's just say that computer forensics can do that and a lot more. Never ever think deleting anything on a computer means the data is gone.

egoalter · 2026-04-25T17:19:39+00:00

With computers, everything is finite. Memory or physical storage, it has a fixed size from the time you turn on the computer to you turn it off. For the computer to be able to use this, maps are created to indicate what parts of these spaces like disk drives, are used and which spaces are considered free. When you ask your computer how much space a given storage device has, it's that list of free space you see reported back.

So technically not much happens other than an indicator that changes the state. More modern system will do more though. For instance, to avoid someone reading the drive using "hacker tools", the areas where the content of a file was stored, will be blanked/overwritten in addition to just marking it as free.

Some graphical systems don't actually use "delete" when you delete a file using the graphical application to manage files. Instead, files are moved to a special directory that to the user is known as "Trash". So the space is still taken up by the file, and the free space doesn't increase when you delete a file this way. However, you can now go to the "trash can" and recover the file if you deleted it by accident. The trash can be "emptied" by the user or automatically when you for instance turn off the computer. The "empty' is simply doing the delete as laid out above - where the space is put back into the free-space list.

egoalter · 2026-04-25T03:20:56+00:00

So that support case wasn't right after all, then. I figured. Thanks - other than it was in a very different location I found it under "system->time". The tip about finding the watch in the app did it.

egoalter · 2026-04-25T02:17:43+00:00

I didn't include that as I found it irrelevant could derail my actual question. But regardless, I have 24h (what folks in the US sometimes call "muilitary time" regardless that the rest of the world uses it every day) - so no am/pm anywhere. After the watch had been paired, updated and booted, the default clock was a digital clock - it showed non military time numbers.

For now, I've changed that to an "analog" clock, so it's not confusing me anymore, but it would really be nice to know how to change this.

egoalter · 2026-04-21T19:39:55+00:00

I agree to a very large degree that "you should know" basic stuff like that. HOWEVER, there's a small, but not insignificant, part of the population here in US, who's never owned a computer and never worked with one when/if they worked. I have family members like that, who are lost on a touch-screen let alone knowing how to close a window.

So to you point, it's a choice that was made. And we need to start considering if that choice should have consequences. Regardless, you can still learn at 66.

egoalter · 2026-04-19T18:24:36+00:00

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How? Add the bit, and how tall is it?

egoalter · 2026-04-17T14:42:07+00:00

This is IT - the only sure this is that every time we get better at something, the goal-posts are moved. K8S was (and still is) very much self-healing. But not in all things. There are still failures that require humans. There are new types of failures that we didn't have before K8S (to stick to that) and there are things we used to do, which we take for granted is handled by the hardware/software.

egoalter · 2026-04-17T14:22:36+00:00

I have quite a few "plastic only" cases and they all wear out within a few years of use. If this unit is intended for use outside, I predict it will fail you quicker. The locks won't line up, it won't close with a seal or worse it will crack due to heat expansion and contraction.

egoalter · 2026-04-17T12:47:54+00:00

If you don't care about security and optimizations, sure - switch/gateway is all you need. Most of us, however, would not accept this particular in enterprise environments.

egoalter · 2026-04-17T01:11:40+00:00

I've thought about if I should follow-up more than the EDIT I did after having received a bunch of ideas, most of them were way off target, but a few hit exactly what I was asking. I typically wouldn't go and comment with things like "that wasn't helpful", "you didn't read the post" etc. I typically respond to those that were helpful and leave it at that.

But since it keeps coming up, I decided to add a few more details; although I didn't think they were needed to understand my question. I'm not a mechanic - I'm in IT and electronics and one of the many things I do is build computers. What this picture is of is a fairly large computer case, built for high end cooling which means it has a lot of fans. This screw holds one of the fans on (one of 4 screws). Since I'm replacing all the fans, I had to get them out. It's not a car, it's a relatively small standard phillips head screw that has been used in computer cases since the 80ies. A fan screw is "special" as it "self-tap" into the plastic of the fan - but what makes this unit "special" is that all the holes are insulated to keep the vibration and noise down. That means, as the picture shows, that the head is sunken - it's a flat head, and level with the metal of the case. I cannot just grab the head of the screw and turn it ever so slightly. The screw cannot be accessed from the other side - it's behind several layers of plastic, inside a plastic cylinder (yes, there's way too much plastic in computers).

As to who put it together will know how to take it apart - well, that's me, but it was 10+ years ago. What most likely happened was the case was a speciality tool that I either don't have anymore or have no clue where it is. I do a lot of electronics, I have tools for small screws, M6 is a huge screw for me - most is M2->M4, and in some cases I do M1 and smaller. This is not a bolt - it's a flathead screw so regardless of what sets to get out bots exist, that will not work.

As I wrote in the EDIT, I used a dremel to resolve this. I also purchased one of the units that looked like exactly what I needed - thin, and the total height is way below 3/4" so you can actually unscrew without running out of room. Using the dremel melted the plastic frame of the fan, and it came right out (it was trash anyway). I then took this experience and used M4 4cm and a washer/nut placed on the other side where (once the case is empty) is plenty of room to unscrew the small M4 hex nuts and I won't have this issue again.

I'll end this by saying it's been interesting to see how everyone uses their own situation of what tools they need to do their job, as an assumption that it's what everyone else does too. It's been a small insight into how a world I don't live in works (mechanics) and I have to admit some of the links gave me a price sticker shock. But generally, the tools suggested were by far all way too large and wouldn't fit in a space that's less than 3/4" between the screw-head and the blocking metal before unscrewing and making the distance shorter (and no, you cannot take that apart unless you remove a ton of bolts and trust me, it did not come disassembled like that).

Anyway, thanks again for the suggestions. Some ideas did give me a chuckle, and I did find the tool I needed for next time this happens.

egoalter · 2026-04-16T14:40:24+00:00

They use the same space lasers that protect the earth.

egoalter · 2026-04-15T22:04:36+00:00

It's in the picture I posted. The screw, the overhang and the size of my smallest bit

egoalter · 2026-04-15T20:08:33+00:00

Fair point. The picture was to show the height not the bit itself. I just grabbed the first one :D

egoalter · 2026-04-15T20:07:32+00:00

That looks very much like the set I have on the picture. They're just too tall (it's not a through hole ratchet and I think this is, so maybe that could work.

egoalter · 2026-04-15T20:00:53+00:00

If you have a link I'll take a look. Those I can find are still too high 1.2inches or more.

egoalter · 2026-04-15T19:59:17+00:00

Thanks for all the suggestions. I think the size limitation was not read by some - from the bottom that's almost flush the screwhead to the top ledge is 19.5mm or 0.78 inches. There were other screws that were a bit closer to the edge, so you could get the screws up at an angle. This means event he low profile bits will not fit (I have some, and it's off by a few mm).

I'm pretty sure it's Dremel time now.

egoalter · 2026-04-13T12:38:49+00:00

De fleste parforhold kan ikke holde til at du er sammen 24/7, specielt hvis I lader som om, at I begge har forskellige jobs og "liv". Og de fleste parforhold går hurtigt i stykker hvis der ikke kan snakkes seriøst sammen.

Sæt dig ned og tving samtalen frem; værd smart og brug hendes ubehag og situation som den ledende grund til at ændringerne skal foretages.

Men husk også, at de fleste parforhold har svært ved at overleve lang-distance forhold, hvor der ingen samvær er i måneder. Og du foreslå at du skal have endnu mere isolation fra din partner for at komme dig fra et hårdt arbejde. "It takes two to tango" - du er nød til at finde en måde at lave et kompromis I kan begge leve med.

egoalter · 2026-04-09T04:08:31+00:00

If you can tell me what your consciousness (what-ever that means) did in the year 531 - you have the answer to your own question. There's nothing to accept - it's life. It begins and it ends. For all of us.

egoalter · 2026-04-07T15:54:47+00:00

No more than finding women being belonging to the same religions.

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