I tried this once, but stupid me didn’t think it through all the way. My steamer basket is for the microwave… do not steam eggs in a microwave steamer.

6 minutes in a pressure cooker and the eggs will be perfectly cooked and peel like a banana.

As a longtime OG Pixel Fold owner, god I hate the look of the camera bar. I wish google would work on their design a bit more. It’s like they took all of the hate for their “pill” style UI design and thought that the problem was just that it wasn’t more thoroughly integrated into the overall product.

Yeah, several years back I had a pair of the Sony earbuds that I bought refurbished off of eBay. A firmware update borked the battery in one of the buds and Sony was replacing them free of charge, but since mine weren’t bought new and weren’t from an actual store, they told me to screw off, so I did and haven’t been back. Before Sony ruined them they were really nice buds, but I’m not trusting them with my money anymore since they have proven a willingness to unilaterally decommission their devices.

Of course the justification was, “they’re making us look bad!”

I’ll continue using them.

I had never heard this before. I always have an Android tracker in both my checked and carry on bags.

Just rip that specific section of peel all the way off and throw away. You’re still composting 2/3 to 3/4 of the peel and not eating any more time than necessary.

Action Launcher is what you seek then. I liked it better than Nova back when Nova was everybody’s darling, and finally stopped trying other launchers because they lacked something or other.

Thanks, I’ll give this a try!

Is there a straightforward way to do this on Linux?

And the whole letting cats roam freely outdoors bit. But other than that yeah, nice story.

4 people with 5k each can get almost 20% down on a 350k propery

Do you think that 20% of $350k is about $20,000? I feel like I’m missing something important here .

An unregulated “nutritional” supplement. If it puts you on dialysis for the rest of your life - arbitration only and the best they can offer is a 25% discount on your next purchase. Limit 2.

The keyboard icon always in the system tray may have been an accessibility setting. I honestly don’t remember anymore.

I use Mint on a Surface tablet with detachable keyboard. When I detach the keyboard no virtual one appears automatically, which I prefer. If I need a keyboard there is a quick menubar icon that brings one up. I cant remember if it loaded itself there by default or if I went into settings to make the virtual keyboard icon always in the status bar, but that’s how I manage it.

Ask then how small their penises are if these look phallic to them…

Yeah this is what I’m doing now. I tried all of the tricks but they aren’t working. Unfortunately this dock is USB 2.0 so I think it will take quite a while. These are “only” 3TB drives, but I need to clean 2 of them before I can test. Hopefully sometime next week??? Haha.

Thanks, this looked really promising but didn’t work for me. lvremove said it couldn’t find the volume group and dmraid said that I have an unsupported sector size and it didn’t see any raid disks at me drive location.

I’m currently using dd to write zeros to the drives. I’m not sure how long that will take me on this old USB 2.0 dock.

I want to use RAID 1 but I’ve tried single disk as well.

hdparm wouldn’t let me run the security-erase or security-erase-enhanced commands. It was indicating an IO failure. I thought maybe that was due to me not giving the drive a file system so I went back to Disks and gave it one, but still no luck. When I give it a file system the drive mounts though, so no actual hardware issues that I can see.

I found a thread on another site about using dd to remove the last 1-10MB of a RAID disk in order to make their RAID appliance see the drives as unconfigured. That’s basically what I’m trying to do here so I followed those instructions but this Mediasonic bay is still not coming to life with the old drives. I might be at the point of sending it back and looking for something else.

Just for completeness, the command used to wipe the end of the drive is as follows where you specify the amount to wipe using the “mb” variable and you change /dev/sdX to the correct drive. From a thread on Stack Exchange.

disk=/dev/sdX && mb=10 && dd if=/dev/zero of=$disk bs=512 count=$(( 2048 * $mb )) seek=$(( $(blockdev --getsz $disk) - 2048 * $mb ))