Now who is taunting whom, sir?
What made me unhappy today ?
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I said I wouldn't mention those toasty heated seats. And I won't. I'm above such things.Now who is taunting whom, sir?
Just found out my oldest (and one of my best) friends has spinal cancer.
Happy new year?
Happy new year?
I thought the two-hands emoji was a symbol of shared understanding, didn't realize it meant thank you. What I meant to convey was sympathy and understanding of how hard that must be. Life is not always fair or easy, and nothing lasts forever. At least you had your friend for years.
Bleah, just had to do another repair install on my PC. Really borked up the boot drive last night. It wouldn't boot to the login screen. It doesn't like my heater, but it's cold, dammit! I should really get round to making that restore disc I keep putting off.
I'll do it tomorrow, I swear.
I'll do it tomorrow, I swear.
We’ll punish you if you forget.
If Windows randomly corrupts (and you are not causing it somehow), you might have failing storage media that you should address ASAP before it fails completely.
I had a Samsung SSD that did this. It was functional (and in good health according to SMART readings) but things were randomly corrupting every so often until I finally realized that the drive was bad. I thankfully lost nothing but that could have gone so much worse.
It's corrupting due to excess heat when I have my fan heater turned on. The drive itself isn't a problem, and is fine as long as I don't put the heater on, but I ain't gonna sit here and freeze in winter.
If that's true, you are killing your storage drive. Overheating will almost certainly just cause it to die prematurely and without warning, likely very soon. This basically makes your drive unreliable and you should never store (even for a minute) anything important in there.
Computer parts have a safe operating temperature threshold. If you exceed that reguarly, you are putting them at risk.
I am having a bit of trouble comprehending this though. Is the heater pointing directly at the computer? Your typical SSD and HDD can safely operate at around 55C (check exact temps based on models), which is way below whatever ambient temperature (less than 30c, I presume) you are heating the room at. You'd only cross safe temps if the heater blasts the computer directly.
I don't mean to be an alarmist but whatever the reason behind regular corruption, it's not normal and you should look into it. Most HDDs and SSDs have internal temperature sensors. Get HWMonitor (it's a free app) and monitor them (and the rest of the system while you are at it) to see whether you really do exceed safe temps.
You sound technically literate so you should be able to figure this out. No, you won't have to sacrafise your heating. But you will have to stop these corruptions somehow.
I am so sorry to hear this, Iain.
Sorry to hear, Iain. Wishing your friend a swift and painless (or as much as possible) recovery.
Dog V4 snuggled on my lap. You may think this is something that would make me happy but not when's he's unleashing silent but deadly toxic farts.
I remember those days. Sweetly smelly innocence (on the dog's part). The worst part, though, is when the dog gets up and leaves the room, giving you a look of disgust.
Getting ready to move this to the Made Me Happy page. The garage door company has a guy who said he has nothing special planned for New Years Day, and he just showed up on this morning. A nice young guy with a Nordish accent. Says he'll be done in a couple hours. Worrisome part is that my wife is making fresh coffee just so we can offer him some. For some reason she seems impressed with this young stud who can contentedly work in such frigid conditions. I told her I could do that if I wanted to, but just don't want to. And that I am content to drink the stale coffee we had left over. She wasn't as impressed.
Agh. Kindle Fire has packed in - wouldn't connect to my account, and now won't reconnect. It is 12 years old, but it's highly frustrating that it's decided to die now.
All is good now. Turned out the guy's accent was British, from London. Wife dug out her secret stash of Walker shortbread cookies for him. But he's gone now, and the door works even better than the one it replaced.
No one deserves better treatment than people who turn up on holidays to mitigate disaster.
Yup. I plan to let them know how much I appreciated it.
"We're all feeling better, so it's safe to come over!"
Then why do I sound like Aunt Darlene who chain smokes behind the Walmarts and tells everybody about her uncle's gout even though he's been dead for twelve years? Hmmmmmmm??? Explain that, family. Explain my sore throat and the cough that feels like it rips my chest apart.
But it's not covid, so I guess there's that gift. I just get to have another chest burster of a cold.
Then why do I sound like Aunt Darlene who chain smokes behind the Walmarts and tells everybody about her uncle's gout even though he's been dead for twelve years? Hmmmmmmm??? Explain that, family. Explain my sore throat and the cough that feels like it rips my chest apart.
But it's not covid, so I guess there's that gift. I just get to have another chest burster of a cold.
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