Two things:

Sadly, my USB port completely borked, so that’s off the table. I use KDE-something-or-other to txfr files over my internetless wifi.

Second, I did look into it, and even on my Graphene OS phone, the USB tether is treated identically to the hot spot; that is to say, the carrier can detect you’re connecting a device and there is no workaround other than paying the cellular provider for the privilege of using your connection as they see fit.

The only hassle is the tranfer, and that’s set & forget.

And I don’t spend $50-100/mo (wifi + streaming)to waste time channel surfin.

There’s a small profit to be made administering a plan on a common carrier while the bigger operators. rake in the big money from idiots permanently leasing a fucking cell phone.

I’m using Cricket wireless. $45/mo gets me unlimited internet on my phone with a 15gig hotspot.

I’m all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.

Yes, thank you for this, motivated me to pull the drive only to find out to my confusion that it wasn’t there… mostly likely I was mounting a partition this entire time. Good news is that I have n 8-year-old 4TB and and 12-year-old 3TB I might as well consume.

lsblk is as low level as it gets, no? Anyway, gparted sees nothing either, nor does Mint’s Disks.

Driver issue? For a hard drive? Ok… Uh, so what do I install exactly?

Edit: Check the edit to my post.

Haha it’s for the security of her data of course!

Linux is my last stop for desktop computers. I’ll probably still always have one, but I’m transitioning to using mobile devices more. But for media storage and setup, I still can’t beat a desktop.

This is all I got:

<pre>NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1M 0 part ├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 513M 0 part /boot/efi └─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 953.4G 0 part / </pre>

I did backup my data to external drive, tho, so I’m not sweating bullets.

I should have a whole-ass platter drive in this thing.

What? I thought Optane was a weird hybrid drive for mostly laptops I’m running a self-built desktop that’s over 10 years old with an MSI Mobo. I was just in settings because something else led me to think it might be a BIOS issue, but didn’t see any Optane.

But why would go from one-year-ago-Mint to today-Mint trigger any bios issues?

That would work for a single directory.

Most file managers have a global search.

Soylent green is made of Peter Thiel!

I will buy this rock.

Just found out about the Twiddler 4–a single-handheld bluetooth keyboard. too damn expensive at over $200, but something I’d definitely try otherwise.

• a bluetooth remote if you don’t want a really long cable

Do you have a flat rate sub to Qwen? I’m curious if you fed it something that you personally think is great writing that isn’t prominent training data, that you are intimately familiar with, and what you would make of its analysis?

My fear is two-fold: first, writing is communication between people with shared experiences. An LLM can’t really tell if someone’s going to have an emotional connection to your writing or why or what or how it works. Second, novelty and rule-breaking is highly context dependant. I’d be worried an LLM is merely steering me into probable lanes instead of allowing me to develop my own unique voice.

Explain to me how it’s better than you learning to analyze your own work from a formulaic perspective?

Everytime you choose to use AI, you are choosing NOT to develop an ability of your own. Sometimes, that’s an ability that just tedious to use, other times it might be something you obviously need to do yourself, yet others the ability might be something with a tangential utility you haven’t recognized.

An analogy might be reading music exclusively. Great, now you can play a wide range of music–indisputably beneficial!–but the cost of developing your own ear.

Hm. Would an old smart phone do in a pinch as a replacement roku?

It’s great news. The only hope for these companies is getting to monopoly enshittification before investors give up. This shows that timeline might be impossibly long.

I’m thinking of getting a subscription and burning tokens out of spite.

I’m horrrfied that an LLM is your writing coach.