With the “stripping all the copper” analogy you’re describing a strung out drug addict more than a businessman, though.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, mind you, just that you’re not making any supporting claim for him being a businessman.

Or how about “Scientists Discover Turtle with Brain the Size of Goldfish”

My wife goes there for party supplies that get thrown out after the party, or maybe they survive for a 2nd use.

Also gift bags and blank greeting cards. Sure the designs aren’t as hip, but sometimes you don’t want to pay half the price of your gift just for the wrapper.

“…whom the president insulted as being ‘radically left’”

Where’s the insult?

You are what we like to call “confidently incorrect”.

Well, when we’re trying to be nice, anyway.

Mexico!

Yeah I was gonna say, “define plead guilty”

I honestly don’t remember how pervasive the need for a PIN was on the Pixel Watch, but even if it was only for purchases, it would invariably take 10X as long to switch to the Wallet when I was at checkout, or I would fumble hitting the right numbers on the small screen.

With my phone, if I’m not unlocking it with my finger as I pull it from my pocket, I can do it as part of the payment process very easily.

The whole experience of paying with my watch was lacking. If the phone and watch are connected via BT, then I feel like the wallet on the watch should just work without a PIN. Or at most a voice confirmation.

I just sold my Pixel Watch and bought a Withings Scanwatch.

Daily charging is annoying. I stopped using it to pay because then I’d have to set up a PIN, and then type in the PIN every time I want to use it. I’m not without my phone and it’s more convenient to pay with.

I did like the health monitoring features, but the daily charging made it intrusive and another thing I had to actively monitor.

Scanwatch gives me 30 days of battery, all the health tracking, and some basic notifications, which is fine but I’d get it even without that.

Where are the Teamsters these days? I hear they don’t like people messing with their livelihoods.

I’m not always working in the office, and they’ve asked us to connect to VPN only if we need access to the internal network. Email and Teams work without VPN, but now you want me to log in for web access? A browser blocker is better imo.

GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER USA !!!

oh wait, that’s me. nvm

Gals will be gals

We don’t all call them fukkking morons? What do you call the dumbest white supremacists?

Evolution doesn’t trend toward good it or bad, only what survives. It’s up to us to make sure only the good mutations survive.

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?