Yeah I wish I had the flexibility to walk closer to the performers or have several cameras to switch between. I’ve been getting passable pictures with some f4.5 to f6.3 lenses, but with noticeable noise when zooming into people just outside of the spotlight. Hopefully the Tamron and a monopod will do what I want. I think that’s the one I’ll go with.

This is kind of how I’m leaning. Unless I discover another lens in the same price range I think I’ll go with the Tamron. Thanks.

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.

And you just know that Hollywood is waiting for that one guy to die so that they can reboot this. Instead of just making an original nostalgia-driven time traveling movie.

Why hasn’t the market dropped yet with all the fuckery going on in DC? Because the impact of said fuckery has not occurred yet.

This is s completely incorrect take on the stock market.

Rule #1 of the stock market is that none understands how it responds to inputs.

Rule #2 is that it attempts to factor in future expectations, so if you wait for something to happen, the impact is already accounted for in the price if the stock.

Market frenzy, people piling on when FOMO takes over, etc all make it impossible to have any level of certainty. So it’s a valid question to ask why all of the current fuckery has not translated into market chaos.

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?

Eh, we let healthcare CEOs roam the streets…

My hospital buys from Harbor Freight!

Ohhh, so it’s like a Dune reboot. Got it. So Dune, Alien, and Starship Troopers?

You’re kind of an ass. I hope we’re not co-workers in real life or something.

That’s not just what the teenagers call it? Bumpass Cove is it’s actual, legal name?

Wow, that’s certainly a… choice.

Yeah this is probably the most likely. We do love to put plastic on everything.

That’s a reasonable guess, but it suggests that (a lot) of people are unpacking new electronics over bare live electrical wire.

I’ve been buying electrical and electronic things for years (okay decades), and the toys and computers I got as a kid never had these. The cords are always nicely coiled in their own cavity of the box too, so already protected well enough.

All in all it just seems like a solution to a non-existent problem.