Look, I say this as a former religious zealot. Life was MUCH EASIER black and white, good and bad. I didn’t have to think through these issues, they were already well written about. Here is a book about how what you are doing is wrong. Of course it is right, it is in the church library.
For AI, you will be fine as long as the person has not given up thinking for themselves. Once you give up reason, you cannot be convinced.
There is no arguing with a zealot.
Whoa, papers please. Not the physical ones, I need you to hand over your smart phone and we will scan your access.
You need to go get a drink of water.
I definitely got a lot of mileage out of Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Xubuntu the most, trying to get more mileage out of a p4 or early dual core in 2012.
I’m trying to convince myself that I will enjoy something like Bazzite, but I’m not sure about something built off snaps.
Run something stable that will remind you to update it. I’m familiar with Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and Mint.
I advise against Ubuntu only because of the ads. I don’t want to endorse that behavior.
I advise against Arch only because you don’t want to be sorting out dependencies instead of using it for the intended purpose.
Debian and Mint both would probably be fine. Much software is written and either in the repository or has a deb.
I’m sure that others might work fine. I don’t have much experience with the snap based builds, but I guess they will be fine as well.
I am using proxmox to host my docker machine as well. I’m also using it to host a W11 machine for just-in-casies. Third machine so far is a VM for testing.
Well, everything in Linux is a file. I don’t see a problem as long as you are in the studies sudoers group.
I wonder if hirens would have done it. I have no qualms with running a firmware update through a Windows environment. My fear, however unfounded, is that I could only get as far as a firmware erase and not complete the write properly.
I’m trying to convince myself to try Bazzite from Mint. I have used Mint for 3 years now and need to install on a new larger drive.
You should add more CPUs. And stickers.
I’m not familiar with the hat, you can always run hdparm /I against the drive and see what the output is.
Turns out my comments were not brief, but once you get the hang of it you can write down the commands you are using and repeat them.
I scripted the whole thing for work, so it is getting more and more rusty.
OK, to be clear, you can boot to raspbian or your distro of choice and use hdparm if you have a proper SATA controller and connection. This does not work on NVME drives.
#shred
If you have a spinning disk and either are forced to use a USB to SATA adapter or if the drive itself does not support secure erase, then you can use the shred command.
shred -fv /dev/sdb
will write random data to the sata device sdb. f is for force and v is for verbose. You can add z to add an extra zero pass and z to change the number of passes. That means that
shred -z -n 5 /dev/sdb
should do 5 passes and then zero on drive sdb
It will ALSO work for older parallel drives that identify as hd or that still appear as sd with a USB adapter. You had better check your devices with a lsblk before you run it. It will probably overwrite the OS of a running system.
Last word on shred is that it is ungodly slow. One pass of 1 tb takes 1.5 to 3 hours.
#hdparm
For SATA drives that support it, you can use hdparm. A deep explanation of what I’m doing is available here: https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16716. I could write out how to do it, but it goes into greater detail.
For forcing the system to sleep, you may need to
echo disk | sudo tee /sys/power/state
Also, be sure to set a password when prompted. If you omit the password, you may brick the drive. I have rarely been able to unbrick a drive.
This process may take several hours. The output of hdparm -I (that is an uppercase i) should tell you how long.
#NVME
Check processes here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing#NVMe_drive
I have followed them once upon a time, but i haven’t done it in years and cannot offer solid advice.
Yes! You can use SATA secure erase features. Give me a few and I’ll post a brief set of commands.
SSL is safe when the initial key exchange happens ahead of time. If the the threat actor can capture the key exchange and substitute their own, then the security is broken.
Look, if it only cost half as much to ship it, then it will only cost half as much to rewrite it, right?
Wi-Fi mesh might be possible with neighbors, but mitm is extremely likely. Also, a non-Internet-routing protocol will need to be invented as I do not want possibly liable traffic to run over the clear web without some kind of tunnel.
One thing Ed did not cover was machine translation of one language to the next. Crunchyroll had a translation service that was using chatgpt, possibly because it was cheap and easy in the moment.
Once the company “pulls the profit lever,” the cost of using a human may suddenly be more attractive. There is no way prompted translation services are going to be able to provide cost effective services to cover their losses.
Additionally, there is no suggestion that we are entering babelfish or universal translator territory with the way that generative text requires constant prompting to stay on task.
Additionally, notably–and in my own research–generative text is terrible at maintaining consistency. Consistency is imperative to a translation because using different names for the same thing within one work or even a body of work results in long lasting confusion.
I wrote this initially to ask what about translation, and I answered my question. Comments welcome.