we are blessed here to have the noise in the winter, too. more than three flakes of snow and there’s sure to be a legion of leaf blowers clearing off precious pavement in neighborhoods all over town. the guys that do it at 4-5am are the true treasures.

we aren’t supposed to be taking medical advice from him.

“I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.” --Robert F. Kennedy Jr

already not looking forward to the next updates on a few systems.

we could have had bob or clippy instead of ‘cortana’ or ‘copilot’

you mean, doin’ what microsoft and their ai ‘partners’ do to others?

Also, as Microsoft appears to have recognized scraping for AI training as a problem, are you seizing your own scraping activities on public code and the larger web or is this a case of double standards?

that is not an acceptable ‘solution’ and opens up an entirely different and more significant can o’ worms instead.

i’ve hit it many times so far… even as quick as the second page view (first internal link clicked) after more than a day or two since the last visit (yes, even with cleaned browser data or private window).

it’s fucking stupid how quick they are to throw up a roadblock.

like this one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_one_hundred_trillion_dollar_note

the number of years i’ve run usb->sata adapters and had (up to a dozen or so) bare drives laying around and propped up anywhere i could find a spot…

you aren’t putting a 3.5in in that slimline bay. you might be able to rig something to hold one there, though. that’s where the get ‘‘creative’’ part comes in.

you also have the 2x2.5in at the bottom but you’re missing the rails or caddies for them. should be like 5-6 bucks each or so on ebay or azn. don’t bother with those, though, unless you’re putting in hdd there. sata ssd can just be stuffed in the cage, they ain’t going anywhere.

be careful with whatever mb->sata power cables you have. make sure they’re the correct ones, as they aren’t all the same. you could get away with a 1->2 sata power splitter once on each mb power connection, as the output of each is designed for 2x3.5in hdd anyway.

edit: just looked at a similar model here. removing the slimline optical and stuffing a 3.5in hdd there will obstruct the cpu hsf a bit. might have to swap that for a lower profile cooler to put the drive there… BUT. if you take out the existing hdd (because its caddy thing gets in the way), there is just enough room along the flipout bit between that hdd bay and the 2.5in cage below to fit a 3.5in. would need a little ‘modification’ to the case there to rig a mount for it. but it fits. then the existing hdd can slide back in. (see pic, the ancient seagate hdd is placed in that space)

why we need this? wasn’t muskrat supposed to save like 3x that all by his little self?

we could also do m4a and save that much or more on health care–every two years.

you’re talking the ‘RED’ series inspiron minitower?

iirc there’s only one 3.5in bay adjacent to the slimline optical bay, and two 2.5in bays in a cage at the bottom front.

bays use drive rails which may or may not be present if the bay was unpopulated when originally shipped.

the pc uses 12vo power supply, so the drives are powered off the motherboard. those cables may also not be present if they weren’t needed for the original configuration.

slimline optical bays can often be filled with a caddy designed fit in the form factor, connecting to the optical power and sata, and hold a 2.5in ssd drive.

you will have to get ‘‘creative’’ to securely mount more than one 3.5in hdd inside.

that just means more social security funds they can pilfer.

oh, who am i kidding. like that’ll even be there at all once they’ve stolen the entire fund.

you can certainly mix-and-match display sizes and resolutions. the system i am typing on now has 24in 16:9 and 19in 5:4. i am constantly flipping which screen or both (or neither, for that matter–there are other things connected to other inputs on them) is active on this pc

there may be a setting in the bios to configure the mode the storage device(s) use. it may simply be expecting nvme and not even looking for ahci sata.

don’t try to power on the system, even for ‘testing’, without the m2 card properly slotted and secured.

are you certain that the slot is m-key? see this page for help identifying b and m keys.

if it is m-key, are you also certain that the system supports sata via that m2 slot? sata support via m-key m2 is system dependent and not guaranteed to be there. the usual upgrade for m-key m2 is nvme ssd.

if your slot is actually “mSATA” (not “m2” or more accurately, “m.2”) you need an entirely different ssd card.

“All we want is for the decree issued by the US government to be complied with,” Sheinbaum said.

“The US government only calls the portion of the US continental shelf the Gulf of America, not the entire gulf, because it wouldn’t have the authority to name the entire gulf,” she added.

this suit pertains to google’s renaming of the entire body of water instead of just the bits over the u.s. continental shelf; or essentially the u.s. eez–which is no more than 200nm from land, less where it runs into another nation’s eez.

that region extends roughly due east from the southern tip of texas to 200nm from flordia’s gulf coast, then south until it runs into cuba’s eez where it’s then split between the two countries.

should have been at ‘massive’ sanctions a couple years ago.

the administration is under foreign influence, that’s more an ‘invasion’ than the ‘immigration problem’.

my dad’s and grampa’s idea of ‘hot sauce’ was ketchup.