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After being there that long the tux means "gman003-main" not "linux".
Yea, any tux in this thread means the main gman.
... I should have changed my username to just "GMan003" when I migrated, shouldn't I? I only tossed that onto it because I'd gotten "GMan003" and "GMan003Alt" banned. If the forums stay around (and I really hope they do - even with the growing pains from the software switchover, this is still the best forum on the web), I'll celebrate with a new avatar/background combo. Probably gonna ditch the ninja Tux, though... it's just not me anymore.
Nah, the -main is part of your identity.
I don't post a lot anymore but I still lurk FP. I would hate to see it gone. Garry pls no.
I hope FP lives atleast until Inacio et al make a clone.
Did you ever use that key I sent you on steam? You never replied lol
So I've been tasked with helping setup some backups and network storage for that record label I used to work for. Was over there today for a bit going through who had local storage like a external drive to use before we move to a NAS. I'm a bit stuck on the software though. I of course like the software I use, but it's not totally hands off. I've heard of Veeam before, but that seems to be for VM's not standard systems.
Yeah, I guess on here it is. I kind of want to consolidate all my internet identities a bit - I'm usually some variant on GMan003 (had to hyphenate it for Tumblr, wtf?) but not always, and it irks me a bit. If we do end up exodusing to a new forum, I'll probably drop it then. Like hell I'm paying fifty coins to do it here. I don't care that I've got like seven hundred, it's the principle of the thing. Like how I haven't bought a new phone in four years because they don't make good $400 phones anymore, even though I could totally afford a Pixel.
I wanted to watch some UHD Blu-Rays on my PC, and goddamn is this a convoluted process. Basically, unless you have a Skylake CPU, and use the iGPU in it, you can't "officially". However, you can rip UHD Blu-rays now, it's just a real pain. You have to find a "UHD Friendly" BR drive, which I happen to have, then make sure you have the right/older firmware (Yeah, that's right, they patched out UHD disk reading from later firmware). If you don't, you have to patch the firmware, which can only be done with a windows 7 install, using IDE-mode SATA interface. You also have to hex-edit the BR drive's certificate into the patched firmware, and hope everything goes A-OK. Just to watch some 4K Blu-rays.
but piracy!! at least the RIAA finally came up with a system that isn't awful - pay some botnet like Spotify $10/month and unlimited access to basically everything
When? I think my gaming PC is still on but I haven't used it in like a week. I should probably shut it off
The evolution of ripping your movies: DVD: Lmao you can crack the encryption with a Pentium II in 5 seconds. Blu-ray: A little more convoluted and you need a keylist, but w/e its not that bad. UHD: "Sodomize yourself with a rusty shovel. Then kill yourself." sincerely, the MPAA. No wonder most people have turned to piracy or streaming.
Anybody ever seen an SSD fail to where it only shows as 2mb of unallocated space? I moved my 256GB mSata ssd to my new laptop and what was once a full Windows install has now turned into an unbootable drive that only shows as 2mb of unallocated space through a linux USB boot. Any thoughts on fixing this? If the drive is actually physically hosed I'd be very surprised considering it had been working fine for weeks.
SSD's fail suddenly, and out of nowhere, unlike mechanical drives that often fail much more gracefully. I assume you tried wiping the partition table? Maybe even see if there's a firmware update.
I'm going to try the manufacturer's firmware utility. Allegedly this can happen if the SSD controller gets confused and starts pointing to the wrong flash area or something of that nature. I want to postpone a full wipe for as long as I can because reinstalling windows + all my programs is a bitch and I'd rather not have to do that the day before I travel for work.
I mean, I like blu-ray, and I really like UHD. But only in terms of quality (and price sometimes). You really can't get this quality from streaming. Standard Blu-Ray for comparison.
TIL It's actually impossible to install AMD drivers on a Windows server (don't ask)
Turns out it's likely that my SSD is in safe mode as appearing as a 2mb device is a very common symptom. I guess the only thing left to do is to try and shove new firmware into it. Gonna try the Phison SSD tools first and if they don't work I suppose I'll look into messing with hdparm. Of course it's an msata ssd meaning I need to get windows running on the laptop itself before I can run the windows-only SSD tool software.
I wouldn't necessarily call HD failures graceful. Maybe gradual. Harddrives failing is like watching an animal break a leg and try to still crawl along the ground until it gives up.
That's why this is even more frustrating. I'm almost positive that my SSD is locked in some kind of safe mode and all the data I had is still there but I can't get to it. It was a brand new SSD like two months old and while it's not name brand (ripped from new OEM computers) it worked fantastically. If I wasn't so stupid and had interrupted the Windows startup before changing computers it probably would be fine.
Radeon 17.12.2 will work. Unless you mean something else
SSD's are magic in both good and bad ways. I've only had one SSD go bad and it was a Sandisk. I now own something like 25 SSD's with a combined runtime of like 100 years with otherwise no issues.
Yep, drive's fucked. The manufacturer's own software won't even write firmware properly. All the data's still in there somewhere but the stupid controller's borked. Didn't lose anything but OS + programs but fuck now I gotta get a new drive and reinstall all my shit again, and I'm gonna be without a laptop for a week.
Good to know, after I ordered a cheaper nvidia GPU to put in there
Still haven't encountered an SSD dying on me on its own. When my NVMe drive went out, it just had some liquid metal across a power rail cap that had dripped from my CPU. I desoldered the cap, cleaned the solder, soldered it back on, and it was fine.
I haven't had any SSD fail on me but I've come across a few dead ones in customers machines. Backups are a friend my dood.
I've never had an SSD fail. The only hard drive failures I've had were from things like "someone tripped on my power cord and sent my laptop flying", which is going to break some things. I'm not completely immune, though. Every single optical drive I own has failed. Granted, that's like, five, but still.
I've got plenty of backups and actually on this laptop in particular had all my non-OS data on a secondary drive so I'm fine. It's more of an inconvenience because I'm travelling for work this week and will have to use my giant Y50 as opposed to my tiny X220.
what How do you even break them? I barely even use mine and I have like 3-4 or more laptop optical drives on my shelf with no use for them, all of them working.
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