Muddy? This time of year you should probably expect everything to be frozen solid…

https://www.dmi.dk/gronland/

You can block channels for a child.

First you will need to set up their account as a child account, and your own account as a parent account using the Family system in Google.

On mobile: Using your PARENT account, go to the channel you want to block for your child. Then press the “3-dot” menu in the top right corner, then select “Block channel for kids”, and finally select which child accounts to block it for.

On desktop: Using your PARENT account, go to the channel you want to block. Click the channel description. Scroll to the bottom. Click “Report user”. In the menu that pops up select “Block channel for children”, and then select which whildren to block the channel for.

18-30 GB is completely valid… If you have 4 sockets in your computer, nothing is stopping you from adding 2x4 GB sticks and 2x8 GB sticks for a total of 24 GB. And you can even still run at full dual channel speeds…

It’s not that common, as most people don’t mix the sizes of the sticks… But as long as each dual channel pair is of the same size, and the slowest stick timing is good enough, there’s no trouble.

Damn… I was hoping you were aware of things that I had missed…

Anyway, if you run out of M.2 NVMe slots on your motherboard there are still options, since NVMe is just PCIe:

https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Converter-Reader-Expansion-Internal/dp/B0BK2R7T57

Do you know of any m.2 to SATA adapters that support NVMe? Or are these only for Sata M.2s?

Most phones are full disk encrypted. So they don’t need to zero out the whole disk… They just need to zero out the part of the disk that stores the encryption key. Once the encryption key is erased, the rest of the disk is essentially random noise.

I had an older computer where the CPU died, and it exhibited exactly these symptoms.

See if you can find someone with a compatible system, and try to swap some parts back and forth to rule out which are the broken ones. If you can find another DDR4 system and put your RAM sticks in, then you’ll know whether your RAM is actually broken or not.

Sometimes a BIOS reset can also help when the system can’t POST.

What does that have to do with whether Russia or Ukraine is nazis? Weapons aid or no weapons aid shouldn’t change whether someone is a nazi.

The debate here was about whether or not Ukraine are nazis, and your only proof seems to be that a US Neo-nazi supports them… Which is a rather flimsy argument…

I don’t think Ukraine is nazis. Their president is Jewish, and they haven’t been invading any of their neighbors…

Russia on the other hand is certainly behaving much like Nazi Germany did in World War 2, so I’m fine with sending Ukraine as much aid as possible.

• Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Just to get this straight…

So one American Neo-nazi says they support Ukraine, and that constitutes proof that Ukraine is Nazis?

In that case, I have proof of Russia being Neo-Nazis:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/the-base-neo-nazi-russia-ukraine

Very much this. My daughter was bottle fed, and almost like clockwork she would get hungry every 3 hours, at 12, 3, 6 and 9. My wife would feed and go to bed at midnight, and then I would stay up until 3 and feed there, then straight to bed. Then at 6 my wife would wake up and feed, and then finally at 9 in the morning I would wake up. Getting those 6 hours uninterrupted was invaluable.

I have a Raspberry Pi with a Wireguard VPN on it. So on my android phone, I connect to the Wireguard VPN, and then I use this app to trigger the WakeOnLan:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitklog.wolon

Understandable. RAID1 can be a significant reduction of available space, but it of course depends a lot on which combination of disks you are using. In my case the difference is fairly minor. With RAID6 I would have 26 TB usable, and with RAID1 I have 23 TB usable… So to me the safety is worth the lost storage… But that if course depends entirely in which disks you have.

Here’s my setup: https://www.carfax.org.uk/btrfs-usage/?c=2&slo=1&shi=1&p=0&dg=1&d=8000&d=6000&d=3000&d=3000&d=12000&d=8000&d=6000

Ah, it’s probably a result of running RAID6 then. All the parity RAID modes in BTRFS still has some issues, such as suffering from the “write hole” issue. This can result in data loss when the filesystem isn’t unmounted cleanly, such as a crash or power loss.

RAID5 and RAID6 are still not recommended for production use.

I forget my passwords because they are in a password manager

We are not the same

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (2010) was set in Rome, but this is during the Italian Wars, (1499-1507)

Huh, that sound very weird… If for example you’re running RAID1, then all bits of the metadata should be duplicated. So unless the same bit of metadata was also corrupted on the other disk, it should be recoverable…

What checksum algorithm are you running?

BTRFS has native checksumming, so it will detect any bitrot that occurs. Additionally it supports various RAID levels. So if you have some level of replication or parity, then combined with the checksums, it will automatically correct bitrot as well.

A proper backup strategy is of course still necessary.

But Windows is hard. You have too use the Windows Registry. 🤷

Ah right… You are indeed correct in the formal definition.

But even the Merriam-Webster dictionary mentions that the word “data” is more informally being used just like the work “information”.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data