I am "nervous about my laptop sitting at an angle because that can damage the hard drive" years old
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@0xabad1dea Just reminded me I used to manually degauss the family CRT with a magnet from some science kit
@ryan
Magnets and CRTs, name a more iconic duo
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@gudenau @0xabad1dea When I got my first SSD I put it in my Laptop and did that, only to discover that my Laptop has hardware on the motherboard that parks the drive when it detects rapidly changing G-Forces.
Which is great if you have a mechanical hard drive, but this SSD did not gracefully recover from rapidfire park commands.
@krutonium @0xabad1dea isn't it the hard drive that's supposed to do that?
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@0xabad1dea I am “sync; sync; sync; shutdown” years old.
@darthnull @0xabad1dea wait, wasn't the idea specifically that you should type each sync manually, because the delay of a human typing in the additional syncs is what let the first sync finish?? -
@krutonium @0xabad1dea isn't it the hard drive that's supposed to do that?
@gudenau @0xabad1dea IIRC not all of them do? And HP was being proactive, which I do appreciate.
I later ended up figuring out how to read the values from it and made my Screen rotate using the gyro.
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I am "nervous about my laptop sitting at an angle because that can damage the hard drive" years old
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
Laptop platter drive: Vrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzznk... chk. chk. chk. chk. chk... Vrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzznk... chk. chk. chk. chk. chk.
Me: 
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I am "nervous about my laptop sitting at an angle because that can damage the hard drive" years old
@0xabad1dea I am “typing ‘win’ to start Windows” years old
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@gudenau @0xabad1dea IIRC not all of them do? And HP was being proactive, which I do appreciate.
I later ended up figuring out how to read the values from it and made my Screen rotate using the gyro.
@krutonium I wonder if you can use the sensors in hard drives with smart data to do that with just a hard drive.
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@0xabad1dea I am “typing ‘win’ to start Windows” years old
@considermycat @0xabad1dea I’m “typing LOAD “” and then sitting through three to six minutes of screaming noises” years old.
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@considermycat @0xabad1dea I’m “typing LOAD “” and then sitting through three to six minutes of screaming noises” years old.
@hedders @0xabad1dea “typing in three pages of machine code from Sinclair User only for it not to work”
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@hedders @0xabad1dea “typing in three pages of machine code from Sinclair User only for it not to work”
@considermycat @0xabad1dea Hah! Yes. Very precisely this.
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@krutonium I wonder if you can use the sensors in hard drives with smart data to do that with just a hard drive.
@gudenau Almost certainly, but I bet the "how" is vendor specific, and largely undocumented lol.
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@darthnull @0xabad1dea wait, wasn't the idea specifically that you should type each sync manually, because the delay of a human typing in the additional syncs is what let the first sync finish??
@mei @0xabad1dea I guess it depends on whether the sync command waits for completion, or just launched the sync system call asynchronously.
Realistically it was probably never *really* a big deal on most of the systems I picked up the habit on (Ultrix 3, SunOS 4, etc.)
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I am "nervous about my laptop sitting at an angle because that can damage the hard drive" years old
@0xabad1dea Ah, but are you “nervous about a pacemaker being too close to a microwave” old?
