AlternatePersonMan

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[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Double checked and all of the drives are basic. I'm very confused as to what is different between the disks that readable and the ones that aren't.

I've even tried multiple distros. Same scenario.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was a good theory, but no luck. I'm perplexed on this one.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

With the recent Microsoft garbage, I'm giving Linux another try. I've been running a laptop for a while, no issues. My main rig, however can't read all of my um..?hard drives

A live USB of Mint 21 reads 2 of 5 drives fine. The rest are recognized from GParted, but can't access them. It looks like NTFS-3G is installed.

I've duck duck go'd (which apparently is just Bing) for a solution, but haven't succeeded. Long term, I can probably pick up another drive, copy, and reformat everything to something Linux friendly. For now, I just want access.

I'm lazy and burned out. I don't want to use the terminal- which I did try. I just want to make a few clicks and have access to all of my files.

If it matters, the drives (roughly) show up as: 500 gb, 4 TB NTFS (readable) 3, 12, 16 TB unknown (not readable)

Windows says they're all NTFS.

Is there an easy way to easily mount my drives?

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I'm drooling at the thought.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago

Who would have thought that another merger would not lead to lower prices for the consumer? Break all these companies until there's like 10.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was trying to find active users since he took over. But the only numbers I can find are numbers provided by Musk, who is a well known liar.

I know Lemmy and Mastodon are niche communities, and that people put up with a lot of garbage from Big Tech, but I have to believe that a lot of users have left Twitter, or least that usage is down. I also assume bots are way up, because Musk wants his numbers to be up regardless of the source (save for people with an opposing opinion).

Hopefully Musk's shitty little empire crumbles...soon.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A speeding ticket for like .0000000000001% of your daily income.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Well that's terrifying... I might watch the show if it ever comes out

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Not sure what changes, but it's scary how much Google controls. Even if we just broke off YouTube from them, that would be a big deal.

Ideally we would split their search engine, YouTube, and chrome each into two competing companies. (Google A, Google B, Chrome A, Chrome B, YouTube A, YouTube B)

Because Google has so much power they can make changes that will break search results, websites, and browsers if you don't accept changes that are beneficial to them.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

Because this asshat isn't a journalist. He makes shit up and spins it how he's paid to. He has zero morals, zero integrity, and is less reputable than the boy who cried wolf.

There's been plenty of leaks of him flat out lying on Fox. Combine that with Putin also being a lying psycho, and there's really no good or truth that can come from this interview. Only propaganda and misinformation.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And Google is bringing AI to private text messages. It will read all of your previous messages. On iOS? Better hope nothing important was said to anyone with an Android phone (not that I trust Apple either).

The implications are terrifying. Nudes, private conversations, passwords, identifying information like your home address, etc. There's a lot of scary scenarios. I also predict that Bard becomes closet racist real fast.

We need strict data privacy laws with teeth. Otherwise corporations will just keep rolling out poorly tested, unsecured, software without a second thought.

AI can do some cool stuff, but the leaks, misinformation, fraud, etc., scare the shit out of me. With a Congress aged ~60 years old on average, I'm not counting on them to regulate or even understand any of this.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago (11 children)

By law, anything should be a one click to cancel service, instead of the maze they send you through.

Xbox live, gyms, etc.

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