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One thing other answers have missed is that some ssds encrypt data before writing and obviously after reading (this prevents a swap the storage controller type attack) A secure erase on such a device consists of changing the read/write key. Takes milliseconds. Irrevocable (unless you find a way to read previous contents of the key storage)
A clump.
If it was an SSD… Its possible you have an SSD that claims to be say 256Gb but actually has a 32Gb chip inside (or smaller) that lies about how big it is and just wraps the writes so they complete… However the format is broken, as is the drive.
First off - not a retail employee.
Untidy carts in the corral, for some reason, annoy me. Even if it takes a few minutes to sort them, for size and straightness, I have to - much to the annoyance of people who are waiting for me to get back to the car.
I guess it’s irritation at the bad people who cba to be considerate to the cart collectors. Ffs you aren’t doing someone’s job, you are making their lives a bit less shit for 30s of effort.
Don’t hold on to things you haven’t done before you retire… It is a waste of time and regretting not doing stuff, which lasts for moments, is the folly of youth.
Also what/who you want to do changes as you get older…
/sauce greybeard who is 10 years off retirement.
Yes. In the Aga at home and the coal fire in the living room. Also in the grate at a friend’s house.
Why? Aga for cooking and hot water, coal stove for heat, likewise coal in a grate.
ETA: coal as in Anthracite, Stove Esse, Stove Nuts. Not charcoal or coke. The latter two I have cooked on and forged metal with respectively.
I have never worked that out - it’s probably to do with display modes/buffers being swapped around whilst the machine starts up.
Back in the day it was text only but these days you have systemd starting up all sorts of stuff and boot managers doing likewise… And something in the mess is either not clearing something or reusing something that it shouldn’t.
That’s the time stamp for that part of the boot process in seconds. There will be (should be…) text on the line to say what it was doing at the time.
Back in the day you could actually see the text but these days it flashes past so quickly that the timestamps are, IMHO, less useful.
Why not mount your windows partition in Linux and copy it over? OK, problematic if you have bitlockered your windows partition… But in all other use cases I can’t see a problem.
I would second pdq.
I use the free version to assist with the non gpo installable crapware the school has to use. It is restricted in what it can do but us good enough.
For python and the like, are you sure you want that on your network on every day workstations? Most school networks have a no programming languages policy (though handwave powershell)
We use a virtualbox vm with an immutable hard disk as a container… Semms to work OK and might be something to look at. Has the advantage that updates are simple - change to disk image.
It’s a hay rake design by some guy called Barnsley… Arts & Crafts movement. Plain oak top, 7’x3’ ish, dovetail fit to oak hay rake frame which is wooden pinned together. The top has been abused over the years but being oak it just absorbs the abuse and turns it into character!
There is one in the same style in Cheltenham museum (UK) but mine is nicer. My cousin has its twin.
Not sure it counts but I have an oak dining table my grandfather bought back in 1910 or there abouts… So 113 years-ish. Still used every day.
I didn’t claim anything :) - the words “pure guess” are a give away.
Pure guess here…
signal uses “magic” to encrypt messages at rest.
Part of this magic relates to the hardware.
Change the hardware and you won’t be able to decrypt the messages.
So try to move a message database to a new machine (either because you want to or because someone else has snaffled it) and you won’t be able to decrypt the database.
/me arch user with 4 crotch goblins… Must be a cuck and not know it :(