First off, I live in the USA and I haven’t seen a gas station where you could pump without paying first

And I live in Slovakia and haven’t yet seen pre-paid gas station either.
You pump the gas, go in, tell the cashier the pump number, pay, go back and leave.

turn it on and off

And then forget about it, and just leave it off.

Years longer than its days

That sounds oddly familiar

Well, that is an available preset too: https://virt.moe/cferr/wxqcqcd

That github link randomly redirects me to https://virt.moe/cferr/editor/

Huh?

Edit: No I am just a fucking idiot. I thought “Github Website” was a single link, not 2 links.

What a lousy name.

Could also be power source for PoE, if that is separate on the device. And if that is powering IP phones, and the PCs are connected to integrated switches of those IP phones, “the internet is down”.

I wish I could see into the drive when it was clicking to see what exactly was happening, whether it was seek issue, or the head arm was just stuck (and not even entering the disk). It should have been functional before shipping. And also, I let it warm up for an hour, but there was some condensation after bringing it in on it, and I don’t know how it was doing inside, though I think it should have been okay after that much time on table.

But I guess you could also say these are always in the state of dying, and were since their manufacture. Welp, fingers crossed, all I can do.

Anyway, as for the problematic disk, Iomegaware’s full format manages to take care of it, but it’s far slower than writing the whole disk.

Long Format performs a complete surface verify on the disk as it is formatted. This option should be used for all disks that have developed read/write errors.

It also shows disk and “formatting” life percentage, whatever those actually mean. I couldn’t get Trouble in Paradise to work in either Windows XP or 2000, though I didn’t try on bare metal.

One I wish I could get is SuperDisk LS-240. It came some time later, so it wasn’t quite popular, but the later LS-240 drives had one very cool trick. They could re-format 1.44MB floppies to FD32MB format as they called it, bringing them to 32MB through the use of SMR. Of course, they couldn’t then be used in regular floppy drives again, but damn, 32MB on a regular 3.5" floppy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk

Well, yeah. That’s the one I fear.

But there seems to be 2 ways it can happen.

1. Non catastrophic - misaligned write destroying factory low level formatting
2. Ripped off drive heads

And I also found one blog post where it was caused by the 4 plastic prongs getting bent due to a stiff shutter on one of the disks, which was fixable by bending those back: https://www.siber-sonic.com/mac/Zip250fix.html

Or I’ll just… more bad financial decisions incoming - buy another one. Though I don’t know how much it’s worth. I got this one with the disks for €22. There’s one more (functional) USB ZIP drive with 3 disks, an older one which also needs external power (and is transparent), but it’s already at €35 and there’s 19 people watching the auction, so… Probably because it’s also with the original box and Iomegaware CDs.

Really, I just wanted a functional ZIP drive just to have one. Honestly, if it was cheap, I’d just bring it with me and use it instead of a flash drive just for fun. That would get some stares. And 100MB is still pretty fine for documents (that are backed up).

Considering that Slovakian road workers are surprised by snow during winter every winter, yes, I do drift.

OK, here’s a somewhat famous case of email that could only be sent within something over 500 miles, but no further: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

Touch it until it works, then never again while it still does.

I’ve heard Oracle just randomly cancels these accounts.

ZSSK seems to think the same:

No indication there’s no windows (same for the single seat at the end) during selection. In the cart it even mentions the window. You just… gotta know the train already.
The image is stolen from this video, I don’t have one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGXdAn54eAc

Hey, I also bought a ticket where the description said “seat next to the table”, and there was none, though to be fair the diagram did not show it, just howering the mouse above the seat did. Also 1st class in that case.

Then own it, show it who’s the boss here.

Not usable for anything Internet-related really, but I still use Samsung Galaxy Ace with Android 2.3.6 as a secondary device. It lasts long enough in standby for me to just forget charging it.

But I got that refurbished on AliExpress. It seems to be reflashed with German version of stock ROM, but an odd thing is both have the same ID on ADB. Something along the lines of 1234567890ABCDEF.
The components… sometimes battery percentage just jumps down randomly, and the vibrator squeeks if not used for a while.

Alright, so others went over the “easy” way to see which program is being the offender. But I feel like the average Lemmy user just skips GUI at this point.
Say hello to KDE:

KDE also does automatic fsck before mounting, which is why it may take some 2 seconds to mount a drive.

HDDs it properly spins down and unpowers as well.

Writes are asynchronous on Linux.

Unless I mount it with sync, which I wish would be default for non-system drives (which are going to be in fstab anyway). I didn’t notice any difference, aside from the lack of guessing when the magic is over. 2GiB goes into black hole, now what?