Repeat after me: The cruelty is the point. In order to get a judge to rule that these can’t be used, a case has to be brought in front of one. The gloves can easily be deployed and used for intimidation and punishment in the field until a case makes its way through the system, then if it ends up in front of an administration friendly judge, it could be ruled in their favor.

I’ll do you one better; why is forgejo?

What even is a Progressive Conservative? It’s like doublethink became a political party.

OP was asking how to switch between 512 byte sectors and 4096 byte sectors. A low level format is how to do that. It’s triggered by the sg_format tool on Linux, or by a tool provided by the drive manufacturer.

Low level formating is how the data tracks are layed out on the disk platters, it’s what the drive firmware sees. hdparm and sg_format instruct the disk to rearrange those tracks. High-level formatting is what the OS sees when you run mkfs. It creates a new file system or replaces an existing one.

Use sg_format to run a low level format on the disk. 512E vs 4kN isn’t going to change much in a homelab environment. If you create a filesystem with 4k clusters, Linux will send 4k wrudte blocks to the disk. The firmware on the disk will write that out into 8 logical disk sectors, usually in a single 4k physical sector. I use my storage mainly for media and there’s no performance difference between my 512E disks and my 4nN disks. I simply don’t have an intense and sensitive enough environment to show the performance gain. I’d say leave the low level formating alone and just write a filesystem on top of it with 4k blocks.

That’s an interesting thought. Genetics is largely a mixing and copying process with occasional “hallucinations” in the form of transcription errors. Most of these errors result in the termination of the hallucinated code. Hallucinations that damage the termination process result in cancer. In the larger sense of evolution, there’s a robust external “review” process. Environmental pressures, predation, and resource availability weed out most of the mistakes and selects the results most likely to succeed.

Nope, pedant away. That’s a better way to convey what I was trying to say. Thanks.

“Generative” is a misnomer. It will never generate anything new, it can only regurgitate existing ideas based on patterns that already exist. It’s very good at pattern recognition and summarizing, but lacks the ability to form a distinct new idea.

The Plex loading spinner.

How do I reliably tell an unlockable bootloader from just a carrier unlocked device that may still have a carrier firmware that prevents bootloader unlocking?

Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!

It’s because law enforcement needs way less oversight to search a database through a subscription service than to get phone data from the telcos.

Assuming similar input effort, a trebuchet is more durable and efficient. Better for throwing more CEOs while consuming fewer resources.

Well, it’s roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It’s a real bargain!

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Gotta pump up those numbers. You need 30+ felony counts to be president. Professor probably needs at least a few more.

Flash carts

They also weren’t willfully ignorant. There was a problem, and they put the smartest person they could find in charge of fixing it.

Capitol Hill asks politely for answers then hangs their head and moves on when they don’t get any.