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u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

@ user224 @lemmy.sdf.org

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I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.I am also dumb and worthless.My laptop is ThinkPad L390y running Arch.I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.

SDF Unix shell username: user224

  • How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)

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  • I wish I could see into the drive when it was clicking to see what exactly was happening, whether it was seek issue, or the head arm was just stuck (and not even entering the disk). It should have been functional before shipping. And also, I let it warm up for an hour, but there was some condensation after bringing it in on it, and I don't know how it was doing inside, though I think it should have been okay after that much time on table.

    But I guess you could also say these are always in the state of dying, and were since their manufacture. Welp, fingers crossed, all I can do.

    Anyway, as for the problematic disk, Iomegaware's full format manages to take care of it, but it's far slower than writing the whole disk.

    Long Format performs a complete surface verify on the disk as it is formatted. This option should be used for all disks that have developed read/write errors.

    It also shows disk and "formatting" life percentage, whatever those actually mean. I couldn't get Trouble in Paradise to work in either Windows XP or 2000, though I didn't try on bare metal.

  • How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)

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  • One I wish I could get is SuperDisk LS-240. It came some time later, so it wasn't quite popular, but the later LS-240 drives had one very cool trick. They could re-format 1.44MB floppies to FD32MB format as they called it, bringing them to 32MB through the use of SMR. Of course, they couldn't then be used in regular floppy drives again, but damn, 32MB on a regular 3.5" floppy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk

  • How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)

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  • Well, yeah. That's the one I fear.

    But there seems to be 2 ways it can happen.

    1. Non catastrophic - misaligned write destroying factory low level formatting
    2. Ripped off drive heads

    And I also found one blog post where it was caused by the 4 plastic prongs getting bent due to a stiff shutter on one of the disks, which was fixable by bending those back: https://www.siber-sonic.com/mac/Zip250fix.html

  • How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)

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  • Or I'll just... more bad financial decisions incoming - buy another one. Though I don't know how much it's worth. I got this one with the disks for €22. There's one more (functional) USB ZIP drive with 3 disks, an older one which also needs external power (and is transparent), but it's already at €35 and there's 19 people watching the auction, so... Probably because it's also with the original box and Iomegaware CDs.

    Really, I just wanted a functional ZIP drive just to have one. Honestly, if it was cheap, I'd just bring it with me and use it instead of a flash drive just for fun. That would get some stares. And 100MB is still pretty fine for documents (that are backed up).

  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    How do I not kill my Iomega ZIP drive I just got? (The experiences I've heard of scare me)

  • !@$& Homelab Networking

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  • !@$& Homelab Networking

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  • Touch it until it works, then never again while it still does.

  • How much of your interest in something is subtly based on esthetics?

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  • Depends. Some at least.For example, I dug out this old screenshot of how I used to listen to DAB radio, because regular radio receiver is too simple:

    Lots of visual stimuli.You can bet I use --verbose with every command possible.

  • Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer?

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  • I am sure at one point I had some auto skip extension in Firefox for this, but I don't remember what it was.

  • Why aren't you on #NOSTR

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  • I looked at it, but it seems to be for micro-blogging (like Mastodon), not communities (like Lemmy).

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

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  • I didn't know what Lemmy was, but I've seen SDF say they now host an instance on Twitter, so I joined.

    It is not very stable however. Sometimes it can go down for a week or more, sometimes the federation is broken. Historically, beehaw.org will always federate with us, even if somehow nothing else works.Up until recently there was a 2 day delay with federation of some content inwards, however the Cloudflare outage probably gave us enough time to catch up, so it's working again for now.Jerboa client often won't work with it because it times out after only 20 seconds. Sometimes you have to be more patient, at least 2 minutes. The MLMYM frontend seems to just load right away though.The admins haven't been posting or commenting for 2 years, but they randomly changed banner and picture of the main community, so someone is still here.

    At first they went big, with multiple instances. There is this US instance, but there were also ones in Germany, India, China and Japan from what I recall. But they're dead now.

    My issue is they only take donations via PayPal which doesn't like my debit card.

  • Removed

    Can-you-start Abracadabra ? Yes Confirm ALL

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  • Someone expecting LLMs with some sort of access to the system?

  • Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes?

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  • I do.

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • I don't know exactly, I'll just be myself.

  • Your task is to blow a job interview in the first 30 seconds. What do you do?

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  • You are hereby accepted to SexyTimesPorn Co.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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    1. Nestle products (I am bad at explaining why, and would just again end up researching their shit for 2 hours)
    2. Alcoholic drinks - kills braincells, and I'd prefer to keep both
    3. Cigarettes or vapes
    4. Closed-source software licenses (for personal use)
    5. Digital content that does not come on physical media
    6. Hardware with license-unlockable components (e.g. some networking equipment may limit throughput unless you pay more)

  • Perhaps some questions shouldn't be asked

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  • Maybe they have some dumb animals?Like in Out Of Position book, hence this comment/part:

    “I don’t give a crap what you do when you’re not here.” Coach dives right in. “Ladies, guys, livestock, whatever. What I care about is when it becomes a distraction that makes my job harder. Are you trying to make my job harder?”

    “No, sir.” I dismiss the image conjured up by him saying “livestock.” “My agent issued that statement without my authorization.”

    And yeah, they also eat meat.

  • Perhaps some questions shouldn't be asked

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  • Mad max? I don't know, the info is from my ass.

  • Perhaps some questions shouldn't be asked

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  • Tastes too watery in my opinion.I actually like soy milk more, in fact more than normal milk.

    Although that may depend on the brand, and I don't know what it does with ice cream.

    Unfortunately, they soy milk stuff makes my mouth itchy, throat scratchy, and gives a bit of a funny feeling to my stomach, and flushing it down with water doesn't help.Maybe I shouldn't..., meh. I already had to leave out most of fruit due to this. Ironically, no issues with pineapples and kiwis. I've heard someone say the pineapple core is just trash because it makes their tongue numb and is just hard anyway. I'll just chew it and the only drawback is having to floss afterwards.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org
    Song

    The Stop Bits - Put Linux On It

    thestopbits.bandcamp.com /track/put-linux-on-it

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Alright, so others went over the "easy" way to see which program is being the offender. But I feel like the average Lemmy user just skips GUI at this point.Say hello to KDE:

    KDE also does automatic fsck before mounting, which is why it may take some 2 seconds to mount a drive.

    HDDs it properly spins down and unpowers as well.

  • 99% of Windows usability issues would be fixed if Windows had the guts to add this button

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  • Writes are asynchronous on Linux.

    Unless I mount it with sync, which I wish would be default for non-system drives (which are going to be in fstab anyway). I didn't notice any difference, aside from the lack of guessing when the magic is over. 2GiB goes into black hole, now what?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    ~Probably an odd bug in WG Tunnel - either upload or download slow based on MTU~ Edit: And it was an IPv6 leak (for the most part)

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    goto spaghetti1 goto spaghetti8 goto spaghetti6 goto end1 goto start5

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    This Telekom's plan that cannot be purchased on website, requiring an app just opens a website for registration, which doesn't even work because I use Firefox rather than Chrome as default.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    UI regression in KDE Arianna - How can I back up and restore specific version of Flatpak package?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    Can APT and dpkg be normally used on Arch? I just found out they're in the official repos now.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    Mullvad: Reminder that OpenVPN is being removed January 15th 2026

    mullvad.net /en/blog/reminder-that-openvpn-is-being-removed
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    How did you survive living in a college dorm with another person? What did you bring with yourself?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    My earphones' cable has been oozing sticky goo for over a year now

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    Cute Deny Defend Depose - Credit: Sugary Carousel

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    Impulse purchase from over 5 months ago finally arrived - Zee The Raccoon plushie (banana for rule)

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    What smartphone do you have (if any) and what are its issues/quirks?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    How much do you pay for your phone plan, what do you get in return and in which country?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    I hate the day and like the night: I accidentally typed out too much into a comment about night shift vs day shift, so it's a 196 post now ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ (to follow the rule)

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    Netscape browser is back... as a shitty Chromium fork.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    Mullvad plans to remove support for OpenVPN in little over a year, on 2026-01-15

    mullvad.net /en/blog/removing-openvpn-15th-january-2026
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    Stickers rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org

    Please help me decide on a phone to keep/get.