To leave absolutely no doubt that he’s both ignorant and an ass??

Are you on a single party state? If so you can record any meeting/conversation that you’re a part of.

The keyboard icon always in the system tray may have been an accessibility setting. I honestly don’t remember anymore.

I use Mint on a Surface tablet with detachable keyboard. When I detach the keyboard no virtual one appears automatically, which I prefer. If I need a keyboard there is a quick menubar icon that brings one up. I cant remember if it loaded itself there by default or if I went into settings to make the virtual keyboard icon always in the status bar, but that’s how I manage it.

Then you just don’t comment on a thread titled “rudest behaviour you’ve seen”. American isn’t a behaviour, thus the low effort comment.

Low effort comment is low effort

As a young adult of the 90’s all I see here is Legionnaire’s disease.

Back in my day, controls not matching the game play was kind of built in as part of the challenge… Frog Master, Dragon’s Lair, Space Ace. Probably others I’m forgetting.

I watched and enjoyed TBBT, but I don’t rewatch it. I saw one of these videos with the laugh track removed and was honestly surprised at how awkward the show was without it. It didn’t change the fact that I liked it when I watched it though.

I wouldn’t say dumb people. It’s a caricature, much like Dennis the Menace is a caricature of small children in a quiet, suburban neighborhood. Only Big Bang Theory wasn’t based on an existing comic. So more like Friends being an unrealistic caricature of a late-20’s/early-30’s group of people living n NYC.

Entertainment doesn’t always have to be authentic.

Anyone member, “you’re doing a heckuva job, Brownie”?

Grayjay

My wife actually buys a bunch of this shit. We’ve got packages arriving from China almost weekly and I hate it.

There’s only been one of her influenced buys that has been any good, but I’d trade it for not having a Chinese garbage dump for a house.

Yeah this is what I’m doing now. I tried all of the tricks but they aren’t working. Unfortunately this dock is USB 2.0 so I think it will take quite a while. These are “only” 3TB drives, but I need to clean 2 of them before I can test. Hopefully sometime next week??? Haha.

Thanks, this looked really promising but didn’t work for me. lvremove said it couldn’t find the volume group and dmraid said that I have an unsupported sector size and it didn’t see any raid disks at me drive location.

I’m currently using dd to write zeros to the drives. I’m not sure how long that will take me on this old USB 2.0 dock.

I want to use RAID 1 but I’ve tried single disk as well.

hdparm wouldn’t let me run the security-erase or security-erase-enhanced commands. It was indicating an IO failure. I thought maybe that was due to me not giving the drive a file system so I went back to Disks and gave it one, but still no luck. When I give it a file system the drive mounts though, so no actual hardware issues that I can see.

I found a thread on another site about using dd to remove the last 1-10MB of a RAID disk in order to make their RAID appliance see the drives as unconfigured. That’s basically what I’m trying to do here so I followed those instructions but this Mediasonic bay is still not coming to life with the old drives. I might be at the point of sending it back and looking for something else.

Just for completeness, the command used to wipe the end of the drive is as follows where you specify the amount to wipe using the “mb” variable and you change /dev/sdX to the correct drive. From a thread on Stack Exchange.

disk=/dev/sdX && mb=10 && dd if=/dev/zero of=$disk bs=512 count=$(( 2048 * $mb )) seek=$(( $(blockdev --getsz $disk) - 2048 * $mb ))

I’ve never used this before so I’m not sure what to make of it. I am currently letting it analyze one of the disks and it’s seeing a lot of HFS+ blocks (I assume that’s what it’s reporting) and a handful of ext4. That makes sense I guess, since I’m not wiping the drive, just trying to delete any partition info and/or formatting.

The only thing that seems like it might affect how the disk looks when inserted is cylinder geometry but I don’t know enough about that to even guess at what to do with it. Is there something I should be looking for in testdisk?

Sweet Caroline has always existed

I went into the Mullvad settings a bit deeper to see why my Surface might be using wireguard tunnels while my desktop doesn’t. I didn’t see anything related to that, but I did notice that Mullvad has a “Lockdown Mode” which requires you to be connected to Mullvad in order to access the internet. I don’t have that active, but I wonder if it is in that mode anyway. I did a quick enable/disable of it to no avail.