Raining is the state of the weather outside. The “it” is implied to be the weather, because nothing else can really be raining.

Adapter or caddy is fine. Can get them on most shopping sites for cheap.

IIRC from my old office PC slinging days, a lot of those cases with 5-1/4 bays usually had slots for mounting screws that would allow you to mount a 3.5 drive flush to one sideusijg 2 screws. Then you get 1-3/4" 6-32 screw stand offs, thread it into the drive, and use that to mount it to the other side of the 5-1/4 bay.

Did that a lot to really old reused cases where there were a ton of 5-1/4 bays but only one 3.5 bay.

Absolutely zero idea why something like this would catch on fire. None at all. A complete mystery.

Bigger hammer and a concrete surface. Three good whacks to the thin sheet metal casing (opposite the drive motor/PCB) should shatter the platters inside.
You can also buy a sharp punch that looks like this and punch thru the sheetmetal side to really get those platters broke.

Realistically if they’re already failed, nobody is going through the effort to send these disks through any kind of speciality recovery for a random john q public anyway.

Any normal computer can become a “server”, its all based on the software.
Most enterprise server hardware is expensive because its designed around demanding workloads where uptime and redundancy is important. For a goober wanting to start a Minecraft and Jellyfin server, any old PC will work.
For home labbers office PC’s is the best way to do it. I have two machines right now that are repurposed office machines. They usually work well as office machines generally focus on having a decent CPU and plenty of memory without wasting money on a high end GPU, and can be had used for very cheap (or even free if you make friends that work in IT). And unless you’re running a lot of game servers or want a 4k streaming box, even a mediocre PC from 2012 is powerful enough to do a lot of stuff on.

Weimar Republic had a whole bunch of multimillionaire too. Via hyperinflation that made the Deutchmark worthless.

Fuck off with that misinformation piece.

3 sticky notes telling me to “go get that incremental backup working”,
2 separate external hard drives,
1 month out of date

I’m currently half way thru building a ZFS array using (5) 8tb Ironwolf Pro drives. I’m modelling and 3d printing a custom drive cage with brackets to hold them all inside the shitty Dell tower case I have dedicated to it. Hoping I can get it done sometime Sunday, I’m on V2 of the drive cage print and it takes like 8 hours to do lol.

Your first mistake here is assuming he can read.

Ahh, I didn’t know about that historical context. Thanks!

Wasn’t the upside down us flag thing used by j6’ers? Are the line workers taking it back as the symbol of a stolen country for themselves, or is this Musk and crew indicating we’re fucked?

your hardware ain’t shit until it’s a first gen core2duo in a random Dell office PC and 2gb of memory that you specifically only use just because it’s a cheaper way to get x86 when you can’t use your raspberry pi.

Also they lie most of the time and it may technically run fine on more memory, especially if it’s older when dimm capacities were a lot lower than they can be now. It just won’t be “supported”.

racist troll account, ban

wipe everything- HP is the worst possible company for preinstalled data mining bloatware. reinstall Tiny11 to further reduce Microsoft’s bloat. Then consider getting a 1tb portable SSD, most of them are plenty fast enough to support having games installed.

If it is a bottom of the barrel HP laptop it has a very high chance of being soldered RAM and storage with a glued case.

Cue the next three months of continuous 24/7 media smear destroying his entire family and anyone remotely connected to him to make an example out of the man who dared show an ounce of resistance against the capital holders. Regardless of whether he is found to be the perpetrator or not.

Condensation means there is more water evaporating, not alcohol.

Keep it in a cooler place and this will reduce the evaporation rate.

GPA’s mean jack shit these days anyway. Super smart kids who nolifed through college or were so heavily funded by rich parents that they had personal tutors and zero life stress to focus on a 4.0 are now common, but aren’t enough for the limited number of poorly paying entry level positions. The bar has moved up to graduating experience; if you didn’t get one, ideally two summer or 6-month internships during your bachelor’s you might as well just go jump off a bridge now.

I managed to squeeze myself into a full time job directly from an intership because it was with a locally based company that I was able to intern for while going to school, but maybe 50% of my graduating class still has OpenToWork on their linkedin’s a full year down now…

If it works, it works. Really any old cheap pcie card will work, if you just need video out of any kind the card type need not be specific. Glad you got it to work.

Get a used SFF office PC low profile card off Ebay. They often have chipset wattages around 25 or so and easily run on slot power only

Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/p/1958445856 (idea only, not endorsing this seller).

Anything of a semi modern format with a pcie interface thata not an outright scam card will be fine for VGA no-driver video output. IME older AMD/ATI cards seem to boot better than oder NVidia cards…