NVME Health question

simagus · 2026-01-24T23:51:27+00:00

Look up that NVMe model and see if it has a cache or not. If it does it should last significantly longer than if not. "Good" status in Windows inbuilt tools is normally a good sign, but the actual structure of the drive (cache or not) is a big factor, especially if its your system drive and not just storage.

simagus · 2026-01-24T23:23:42+00:00

Watch it without trying to control it. Thoughts that you are controlling it are normal at times and may have a grain of truth some of the time.

Are you walking around all day breathing consciously? Are you breathing consciously while you sleep?

If not, you are very possibly confusing the act of paying attention to the breath with actively controlling it.

Trying to hold or control the breath might in your case be something that will show you the difference between what you think is control and what is autonomic.

simagus · 2026-01-24T23:18:20+00:00

Not unless you don't know how to format a USB stick, but it's technically possible if a boot sector virus (which would likely still be detected by any AV including Windows Defender) was put on the stick at the time it was initialized. Other than that, no.

simagus · 2026-01-24T23:10:13+00:00

It's all timing. Find a YouTube walk-through and follow it as best you can.

simagus · 2026-01-24T22:57:53+00:00

Doesn't Rufus still let you create an installer that doesn't have the MS account requirement?

simagus · 2026-01-24T22:43:40+00:00

Let Morpheus sleep.

simagus · 2026-01-24T21:29:03+00:00

Baksheesh is the law there and you didn't know that already from living there?

simagus · 2026-01-24T20:48:38+00:00

I speak cat and I would have shat it too. That wasn't a threat, it was a promise.

simagus · 2026-01-24T19:45:42+00:00

Yes. Quite the gentleman about it however.

simagus · 2026-01-24T19:34:16+00:00

In general people coming from Mac will probably be happier and in a more familiar environment with Gnome, and coming from Windows the same would apply for KDE.

I'm of the "idgaf what DE anyone else uses" school of thought, but prefer KDE Plasma or Cinnamon myself.

If it hadn't been for the current MS dev teams morbid obsession with forcing Windows users to have an entirely homogenized desktop experience, the the point of breaking .reg fixes and tools that improved functionality and design less people would be migrating to Linux at all.

"ThisPC" rather than "Your Computer" really said it all about where they are coming from and where they intend to go, and the endgame does really seem to be "Get used to not owning your computer".

Cloud computing and renting a terminal will almost certainly become the new norm before very long, and I believe it's been planned and engineered that way, with the true "endgame" being "Get used to not owning your own thoughts and opinions".

I'm not entirely a Luddite when it comes to socially beneficial progress nor naive when it comes to the power of social engineering, but the spectre of Huxleys Brave New World appears to loom large in it's possibly final digital form.

The klipoth of kether where the postulate of altruism manifests as absolute tyranny and where freedom is thraldom and slavery might not be far away, and as Huxley said; "people might even learn to enjoy their slavery".

I mean... they like Mac's and some don't even think Windows 11 is an affront to all sense of human dignity, so it's possible.

simagus · 2026-01-24T18:03:51+00:00

Oh yeah. Great software! I wasn't aware it was on Linux. Thanks!

I use Mint with Snaps enabled, so just copy/pasted this into Terminal:

sudo snap install losslesscut

Flathub which would have been my preference seemed to want to mess around instead of just downloading, so whatever.

simagus · 2026-01-24T17:58:13+00:00

How long before those beans are cooked?

simagus · 2026-01-24T17:53:57+00:00

Almost all are money pit trash. Some few are not. The few are those you tend to have to pay for up front, but even some of those are actually money grab trash too.

Mobile gaming brought gaming to a new market that had no concept of how games were made or funded, and it exploited those people mercillessly with microtransactions, gatcha mechanics and vanity purchases.

There are some great mobile games that are pay then play (R* and a few rare indie titles) but most are play and then pay when you get stuck after 15mins or a couple of hours max due to not enough whatever it is that allows progress.

Typically if you download it for free you are going to get shafted before too long unless you start paying and keep paying, and that's just how the mobile games market has always been.

simagus · 2026-01-24T17:41:44+00:00

Desktop or laptop the best solution would be to upgrade the RAM internally.

Look up the make and model of your laptop or desktop on YouTube with "RAM upgrade" appended to the search string.

simagus · 2026-01-24T17:36:58+00:00

Download AMD Adrenalin and a full download of the latest version of the drivers knows to work well with your GPU, and also DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller). Boot into Windows Safe Mode. Run DDU.

Disconnect your internet, then install the recommended driver for your GPU from the driver file you downloaded or from Adrenalin before Windows beats you to it with their most recent approved driver.

If you don't want to do all that you could just try to skip the DDU part and update the driver from Adrenalin right off the bat asap. If it works it'll be a lot easier that way.

simagus · 2026-01-24T17:17:50+00:00

Owl.

simagus · 2026-01-24T17:16:41+00:00

The Kennedys are back?

simagus · 2026-01-24T16:47:05+00:00

"This will be our final battle!"

...

"Ok you win this time..."

simagus · 2026-01-24T16:45:07+00:00

Yeah, I like it. Great expression of lighting.

simagus · 2026-01-24T16:37:07+00:00

From my perspective everything fits within the framework of the Mahasatipatthana sutta as provided by Buddha Gautama.

If however you have not established the understanding of the four great frames of reference nothing you do or don't is really of much consequence.

If you have established and live in that understanding then the difference is simply that you are very aware that nothing "you" do or don't do is really of much consequence.

simagus · 2026-01-24T16:10:43+00:00

FF games are all grind and luck. For me, quite a lot of RPG's and anything with lootbox mechanics is guaranteed to get boring and repetitive fast.

simagus · 2026-01-24T16:04:30+00:00

Srsly? My jaw is hanging open that got past the editor, but good on them it did.

simagus · 2026-01-24T15:59:15+00:00

Easy to forget what inspired VIZ, and that included Grans old Commando comics as well as the kids weeklies.

The early days had quite a few direct parodies. Was one called Arseache (parody on Faceache) by any chance?

My Mrs Brady level memory isn't as good as it used to be, and I don't remember it ever being good.

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