I wonder if some kind of scan which looks for increasing latency in reading files would serve as a warning indicator... since the drive firmware probably hides a lot of errors...
...though I will suggest that if the block-relocation counter is zero, wouldn't that suggest that any problems are still some way off?
@rantingsteve it was a joke but you have tapped TWO of my infodump regions. I WILL talk about both for hours on end given the opportunity
@milo This makes me think of that scene in The Life of Brian where Brian has painted graffiti in Latin on a public building and a police-soldier gives him a tongue-lashing for his bad grammar, and makes him fix it.
Justice Brandeis famously wrote that when you have great concentrations of wealth in a society, you only have three choices…
@dthompson This is why I've been saying for many years now that we need something that's like HTML but is actually designed for interactive graphical apps rather than havng that ability shoe-horned in via CSS, JS, and additions to HTML.
Tangential question: Is there any way to detect accumulating wear on an SSD? Can SMART do it? Or does it just, like, one day out of the blue start refusing to read one particular file (and then another, and another...)?
Our govt has a long track record of supporting dictators, asst in the🚨overthrow of democratic govts, & sometimes➡️sending in the Marines
Tom Lehrer taught us about this back in 1965. :blobcatupsidedown:
@yacc143 @TimWardCam @ichbindabomb
"Most people I've had any communicative contact with" -- but your point is valid.
To refine my point: most Americans disapprove of what is happening now (albeit some of the time that's just "the leopards weren't supposed to eat my face"), and a large percentage of us are horrified.
It would indeed be nice* to know what percentage.
* or possibly horrifying, if it isn't within shouting distance of 50%.
@TimWardCam @ichbindabomb @yacc143
They're afraid of punishment (possibly eternal).
The authoritarian mindset is a weird and scary thing, and we seem to have more of it here than in most of the Anglosphere.
How about just a cartoon of the reflecting pool, clearly showing the bits of peeling liner, and label that "Lake America". That seems fitting.
@LucasWerkmeister In another thread, someone was talking about naming geological faults after him.
P.S. ...and also pretty appalled at things done by previous administrations, although this one sets new record lows every few days. It is past time for a reckoning with our system of government and the people who have come to be in control of it (and probably always were).
Just to be clear: most of us are absolutely fck'n appalled by that and many other things that our current federal government is doing. Please invade us for our own good (I'm only half-joking).
