And I might be doing it in the rain today. Forecast has us in the rain/possible T storm category for today and tomorrow. Yesterday stayed mostly overcast and muggy. I was certainly sweaty, and the garage door tech was dripping. Today will likely be the same, with more chance of precip.
I spent all afternoon and early evening at the rent house involved in fixing the garage door. I did get the two rotten trees removed, through blunt force. I used my survival saw from the truck to cut one root, but otherwise just pushed them over, worked them loose, and tore them out of the ground. And ended up sweaty for my efforts.
Today I’ve got a couple of small items to pickup, and I need to get my Ranger battery sorted. I may put the slightly smaller battery from the whole house gennie in the truck so I can drive the truck to get the new battery and then on to do the pickups. Or I guess I can use the Expy, since the items are small. Getting the pickups done and my tools and supplies together for the rest of the work I need to do at the rent house will take most of today, but will set me up to crank them out tomorrow. I’m pretty sure the universe will intervene in my plans though.
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My renter has her sister and niece in town and staying with her. The sister is an immigration lawyer from MN. She was wearing a necklace that said “Smash the patriarchy” in gold script. We had a brief chat where I was watching my p’s and q’s. She lives in a reality that is almost completely different from mine. How the heck can that work? I know that my reality and the checker at HEB’s reality only intersect in a few places, but I’m pretty sure the world we both inhabit has a high degree of congruity. I’m not at all sure of that with the sister.
She’s intelligent, articulate, passionate, and absolutely living in a different world. Her world doesn’t have Tren de Aquaa in it, or stash houses where 14 people are held captive with the women being prostituted and the men forced to work as day laborers just 2 miles from her home. It’s filled with people unfairly caught up in dragnets while just trying to live their best lives and an oppressive government that is headed by the worst human alive. All while she’s married to an engineer, and brought her daughter to Houston to ride horses on Spring Break, and owns rental property.
If she thought about it, her head would surely explode. But they don’t seem to.
Stack. Prep. Build under and around, because they are righteous holy warriors fighting against civilization as we know it, and there are a bunch of them.
nick
Most people don’t think much, and not very critically or clearly even then.
Wednesday. Good morning! Rainy and dull here. Pathetic fallacy, I say, as I am back to durance vile today.
I had hoped the rain would wash away some evil pollen, but it doesn’t rain indoors, where I am still sneezing and stuffed up, and my eyes are itchy.
I have to give a presentation presently, and I will probably look and sound like I have a rotten cold. Effectively, I do – a pollen headcold. Ah, well. Wish me luck…
Here, there was a recent article about how women suffer from discrimination, because they are underrepresented in influential business positions. Yet the article failed to mention that most new doctors and lawyers are women. Most university students are women. The most dangerous jobs (forestry, construction, police, etc.) are held almost exclusively by men. Men are required to do military service. There is even solid evidence that girls in primary school receive better grades than boys for the same quality of work. But, yeah, women are discriminated against.
These are the same women who protesting Israel and defend Hamas, and yet see no need to protest that women in Islamic countries are essentially chattel.
Different worlds. One more in touch with reality than the other…
I saw my ex-wife a couple years ago, for our son’s military promotion ceremony. At lunch afterward, she brought up (out of nowhere, so far as I recall) that she doesn’t understand male-to-female trans because “being a woman today is harder than it’s ever been”. There’s no reasoning with that level of delusion. (A contributing factor for why she’s my ex-wife.)
That sounds like quite a necklace. I’m guessing Amish, but I could be wrong.
Amish (?), female, and a law degree. Plus Minnesota.
She’s not where she is totally based on merit, even without the Amish part.
I know Scott Adams used to say it didn’t matter how they get there if they are there, but it does create a lot of paranoia in the heads of the beneficiaries of the system as currently structured.
Gender “confirmation” processes/procedures are big business for someone.
My guess is that both of the new pediatric hospital complexes near my house were built to deliver that kind of … care.
Even if the law was a distraction from the state government’s antics with tax “reform”, the hospitals have been very quiet since the Governor signed the law banning “confirmation” treatments for minors in Texas.
It wasn’t just hospitals that went up but very high end, high density housing for staff, both close to the light rail line for eventual easy access to the airport.
Brownsville has a similar complex which was built recently, on the edge of the freeway going to the border and South Padre Island.
A lot of “old” money is based on rentier skims of some kind.
Someone’s debt is always another party’s asset.
After nationalization of the program, student loans quickly became the Federal Government’s most lucrative income generating asset prior to the Pandemic. The “good” schools who benefited from the capex now want at least partial forgiveness before Borrower Defense starts eviscerating their reputations.
Much like feeding stray cats, feeding bond ghouls always results in regrets for those unprepared to accept the long term consequences.
“Had any of us known that all of these bus routes were going to be cut, I am positive that we would have had second thoughts about passing a bond package that included $11 million for new buses.”
A billion dollar bond package.
The living room decor flipped my Bozo bit on that wine mom even before she opened her mouth.
A lot of chardonnay has been consumed on that couch. She is the poster child for most of the mothers in my part of the metro.
https://www.fox7austin.com/video/fmc-ip5gr7qzqchpnzsb
Despite a lot of accomodation and special treatment, including some wildly uneven faculty grading standards, none of the female CS undergrads I graded as a TA in WA State are currently working in the field. One, who went to school totally on student loans totaling more than $10k/semester, is driving a truck.
Another, who runs a podcast about her “alcoholism” the last time I heard, went through four tech jobs, including a blue (permanent hire) badge Intel position in the space of about six years.
Did you really keep track of them all? Not that I disbelieve you, it’s just that I never keep track of my students after they graduate. Ok, I’ve had thousands by now, but still…
Anyway, first, you have the undeniable fact that women don’t choose technical fields. In the more technical courses I never have more than about 10% women. Of those, some have been perfectly competent, but none have ever been “nerds” in the sense that guys sometimes are: programming for fun, trying things just to see what happens, etc.. One woman – absolutely a solid programmer – told me that programming was going to be her day job, and she otherwise had a life.
Which is fair enough, but it’s different from the best guys.
Just as an example: at the trade school, I’m currently teaching an intro to HTML/CSS. As a project, each person has to hand-code a website with 3-4 simple pages. One of the guys is up to 20 pages or so, has embedded a live Excel sheet to do calculations, and lots of other crazy stuff. He has gone totally overboard, but that also means that he has learned a huge amount, way beyond the material covered in class.
I’ve never seen a female student do that kind of thing. That kind of obsessiveness seems to be a male trait.
That’s what I’ve been saying for years: of the dozens of female programmers or engineers I’ve worked with, a few have been competent (and diligent and honest) but none has been good. (And most have not even been competent, diligent and honest.)
Something similar applies to the H-1Bs I’ve worked with. Earlier in my career, through the 1990s, at least half of my H-1B coworkers were pretty good. Not top performers but I had no objection to working with them. Starting in the late 1990s and continuing through today, the best of the H-1Bs are competent, most are incompetent and lazy and dishonest, and none is good.
A Salute to Chief Edwards
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/a-salute-to-assistant-chief-edwards.php
Great photo
I was a TA for a semester in WA State before quitting in disgust, and the program was small.
Plus, school made a big deal out of a couple of the female students, particularly the “alcoholic”, designating her the Suma Cum Laude commencement speaker … in the Fall of her Junior year.
Other grad students who were in classes with me at the time keep me informed.
Of course they kept their mouths shut and heads down so they could graduate. I cant fault them, but I’m not wired that way.
Speaking of Ellington on yesterday’s post, the Wings Over Houston airshow will be October 31 and November 1 this year.
I volunteered as a radio operator, assigned to one of the roving medical teams. I probably walked 4 miles that day. We spent a fair amount of time searching for a lost kid, who apparently fell asleep in the backseat of a car at the VW display area…
It occurred during the government shutdown, so all the military jets were absent. No Thunderbirds.
There was a good demo of a lot of RC airplanes, some quite large, and a couple of them with jet engines. Lots of static displays
I really should splurge one of these days and take a ride in a B-17. My dad flew 25 missions over Europe as tail gunner in WWII. I have done a walk-thru of one.
I had a friend who was training to fly a B-25. I could have wrangled a ride in that if I had pressed.
81F with 74%RH and bright overcast.
Breakfast is done. Coffee is about half finished.
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WRT flying in warbirds, they are old. REALLY old for aircraft, and they do fall out of the sky depressingly regularly. My wife’s good friend is a reenactor on one of them out of Ellington. He’s got a full uniform and backstory. He’s spent countless hours working on restoration and events. The last warbird that went down hit him hard as it is a small fraternity.
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@greg, the necklace was pretty prominent, but not amish levels of prominent. Haven’t seen the husband or daughter though. Typical middle aged white woman by appearance. Not even the weird half closed eyes and depressed metabolism of the wine mom in that news clip. (also, driving a BMW sedan with TX plates. Didn’t look like a rental, and I don’t think it was my renter’s car either.)
WRT busses. Our district busses the close kids and lets the far kids (especially those that transfer or are in a program, or out of zone) make their own arrangements. Kinda the opposite of when I was growing up.
What I learned about the ISDs is that they always act in their own interest, not that of the parents or students.
Also had to laugh that the woman only voted yes on busses because SHE would benefit from new busses. Not a care in the world for the other kids who would benefit.
Also, that subdivision looked pretty worn down. Could just be the news team, but that is a neighborhood with a lot of rentals and multiple households under the same roof, judging by the yards, ie. lot of illegals.
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Bit of gusty wind banging the windows in and out this morning..
n
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/trump-announces-first-new-u-s-oil-refinery/
– to be built in Brownsville, with Indian money.
n
another win for the good guys.
n
How many were crimmigrants?
They voted for a $1 billion bond issue last Fall as well as returning the Socialists to the ISD board in 2022.
Round Rock is the ISD that had parents arrested in their homes for disrupting a board meeting discussion about masks.
“Former CEO of Woke Starbucks Flees Blue State to Retire in Florida”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/former-ceo-woke-starbucks-heads-flees-blue-state/
“Howard Schultz, the former CEO of far-left Starbucks, and his wife are fleeing woke Washington state for Florida for their “retirement phase” following the state’s advancement of a new “millionaire tax.””
“The announcement came after Seattle-based Starbucks said it would open a new corporate office in Nashville.”
Yup, the untaxed flee when the tax man shows up. And I would do the same.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
You’re a racist! That’s how many.
“Trump touts massive Texas refinery project planned for South Texas”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/trump-houston-texas-refinery-22070920.php
“Developers say the project could bring thousands of jobs and billions in economic impact.”
“The first oil refinery to be built in Houston in nearly 50 years got a boost from President Trump—who touted the energy deal in a social media post.”
“A company called America First Refining plans to build the facility at the Port of Brownsville, a project executives say could begin construction in the second quarter of 2026, according to their recent announcement.”
Them Californians gonna be burning Texas gasoline at $20 per gallon after the shippers add on all of their fees.
“The refinery is designed specifically to process American light shale oil, which the company says became abundant during the U.S. shale boom but is not always compatible with older U.S. refineries built to process heavier imported crude.”
Yup, gonna be a Tea Kettle Refinery (boil the crude oil and process accordingly) but that is all that is needed nowadays with the light and sweet shale crude oil.
Been pouring down rain for a bit now. BOL is getting hammered too. Lots of little flickers in the lights here in the office…
I’m headed out now to do my pickups and battery stuff. I’m taking the expy and hoping stuff fits.
n
“Trump envoy Steve Witkoff says Iran claimed it had enough enriched uranium to make 11 nuclear bombs”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-steve-witkoff-iran-enriched-uranium-11-nuclear-bombs/
“President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said that Iran claimed it had enough enriched uranium to make 11 nuclear bombs before the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on the country over the weekend.”
“Witkoff told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Monday that Iran’s negotiators had said to him and Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, before the strikes that the country controlled roughly 460 kilograms of uranium at 60% enrichment. Witkoff said that the uranium could have been enriched to the weapons-grade level of 90% within a week to 10 days.”
“”Both the Iranian negotiators said to us, directly, with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%, and they’re aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance,” Witkoff told Fox News.”
THIS is why Trump is bombing Iran back into the Stone Ages. The Iranians were two weeks away from having one or more nuclear weapons. 60% uranium to 98% uranium is just two weeks in a centrifuge and the Irans have thousands of centrifuges. They also have nuclear bomb experts.
And the Iranians have been threatening us, the USA, with a nuclear weapon. Trump had to take that threat seriously. The threat to Israel is secondary in this case, this is all about protecting the homeland of the USA or several of our foreign military bases.
Trump needs to produce the evidence or face an Impeachment that even the hardcore won’t be able to dismiss.
“Who Said That?”
https://areaocho.com/who-said-that/
“The next liberal who complains about the Iran conflict, ask them if the above quote is an accurate description of Presidential powers. If it isn’t, what should happen to the President making this claim?”
“Then point out that the above quote was from Obama.”
Cool.
Evidence of what?
The uranium? The centrifuges? The claims of the Iranian negotiators?
The statements were probably made in closed-door sessions and can’t be proven. Whether the uranium exists or not, such a statement is, in itself, a credible threat.
If it turns out in the end to be false, well, that’s just another Iranian lie. Which is the most likely outcome, in my mind.
Trump will face impeachment next year even if partially assembled bombs are found on missiles targeting NYC, with proof in triplicate.
And we can thank Thune, Cornyn, McConnell, Murkowski, et al. for failing to SAVE America.
“Very useful information on long-term emergency food storage”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/03/very-useful-information-on-long-term.html
“Commander Zero, whom we’ve met in these pages on several occasions, recently wrote an article asking his readers for feedback on cold weather food storage. His exact question was: “If you were going to store foods in a location that was going to be subject to freeze/thaw cycles, what foods would be best choices?””
https://www.commanderzero.com/?p=12928
“Many of his readers responded – 44 of them, as I write these words. They’ve provided a great deal of information that’s useful for anyone considering food storage, even if not in a cold-weather environment. I highly recommend clicking over to his place to read his question and explanation, and their responses.”
I have several hundred cans of food, both vegetables and meats, maybe 500 at the moment. Then I have about a hundred freeze dried foods, both Mountain House packages and Augason #10 cans. And then I have at least 32 cases of 24 pack bottled water in the garage that we continuously circulate through.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LBGQ0CY?tag=ttgnet-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084P72LJS?tag=ttgnet-20
Plus I have a propane camp stove or two and several propane bottles.
Is this enough for the long term ? No. But it is long enough for six months for four people assuming that some level of infrastructure will be still available. After that, it will get grim.
I just returned from the Apple store. I am replacing my 4th generation iPad with the newest iPad with the M4 chip. The battery in my iPad was starting to show signs of age and probably needed to be replaced. Apple gave me $160.00 for my old iPad. I may have been able to get more selling privately, but I just don’t want to deal with the hassle.
While in the store I fondled one of the new NEO laptops. It is indeed an impressive machine for $600.00. I opened a dozen apps, Safari with 20 tabs, and the machine still ran smoothly. That is counter to many of the nay-sayers who are basing their “expertise” on smoke and mirrors. The machine felt good and solid in my hands, the track pad worked and felt good, the display was good enough. I liked it so much I am tempted to get one, in Burgandy.
HP, ASUS, DELL, and all the other plastic shelled budget laptop makers with their sub $500.00 laptops, even some sub $1000.00 laptops, should be considerably concerned. Or up their game significantly.
“Court Strikes Down Biden-era Energy Requirement ”
https://texasscorecard.com/federal/court-strikes-down-biden-era-energy-requirement/
“A federal court has struck down a Biden-era rule that imposed “green energy” requirements for new housing constructions, threatening the availability of affordable housing.”
“In 2025, Texas—along with 14 other states and the National Association of Homebuilders—sued the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture over a 2024 rule that required new homes being built “with certain federal housing financing to comply with significantly stricter energy-efficiency building codes.””
“The case, co-led with Utah, was argued by Attorney General Ken Paxton in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Tyler.”
Good.
“Anduril Makes Huge Acquisition So They Can Land the Space Contract for Trump’s Golden Dome”
https://economiccollapse.report/anduril-makes-huge-acquisition-so-they-can-land-the-space-contract-for-trumps-golden-dome/
“Anduril Industries, the defense technology company founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey in 2017, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ExoAnalytic Solutions — a national security firm specializing in space situational awareness and missile defense. The move is Anduril’s first acquisition under its dedicated space business unit and its 11th acquisition overall.”
“The deal sends a clear signal: Anduril is no longer content to be known primarily for its autonomous drone technology. It wants a central role in what could become one of the most consequential and lucrative defense programs in recent U.S. history — President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome.””
“Golden Dome is the Trump administration’s initiative to build a space-based missile defense shield capable of intercepting ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles. The program envisions thousands of satellites working in concert to detect, track, and neutralize incoming threats at multiple stages of flight. Hundreds of defense contractors are vying for a piece of it, and tracking systems — exactly what ExoAnalytic specializes in — sit at its core.”
So people are going to fight SpaceX for some of the Golden Dome contracts. Good.
“Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: A Creative Powerhouse With Some Trade-Offs”
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra
“The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra (starting at $1,299.99) is the company’s flagship Android phone and one of its most important products of the year. It introduces a host of improvements over its predecessor, including a Privacy Display, more AI tools, a refined design, class-leading connectivity, and extremely capable cameras. While these are all marks in its favor, the Privacy Display comes with some trade-offs, and Samsung is starting to fall behind in some areas, like battery life, where competitors are making big strides. The S26 Ultra is an excellent phone for creatives who want an S Pen stylus and the absolute best camera quality, but everyone else should also consider the S26 or S26+ for a largely similar experience in a smaller, more affordable package.”
I need me one of these to replace my Galaxy S10 that I have been carrying for over a decade and has many screen cracks. Or maybe just the plain S26, I need to see them first.
I am going to move my service from Verizon to Tmobile. Tmobile has the better network on this side of Houston.
I saw some little, tiny, sparrows yesterday and today. Almost as small as hummingbirds.
I cleaned the jug and made fresh sugar water. Yes, I do add a drop of food color. They seem to like the flavor, I can see with a glance if I need to fill the feeder, and it seems to be a bit of a preservative. I’ll clean the feeder tomorrow.
Then I had no Internet. I could connect to the NanoBeam in the house. That was all. Rebooted. Nope. Power cycled the switch. Nope. Power cycled the PiHole. Nope. Well then I need to check stuff in the EDC. There was a cat on the windowsill. The NanoBeam was knocked off of the windowsill.
Every thing works out there.
Back in the house, nope. Opened network settings. Looked good. Turned Wired off and back on and everything is working. Seems like a reboot would have fixed it.
I poked around in the music server software. It feels hostile. I wonder if I can downgrade a few versions? I’m missing a checkbox somewhere. It sees my music files but I haven’t figured how to make it play anything. Time to read the directions.
Suppose to be 40f tonight. 65f tomorrow. Maybe I’ll turn the pellet stove on, it’s full, and watch Sisu Road to Revenge.
The PC hasn’t been going to sleep. It worked but not for the last couple of days. Oh! I had a bookmark in Files to Slim, the new Pi machine. Deleted the bookmark, went to get a beer put the hummingbird water in the fridge and the Mint box was asleep. Details…
I’ve been with T-Mobile for ~10 years, and I’ve always been satisfied. Their customer service people have always been helpful and ready to solve the few problems that I’ve had.
We are under a tornado watch until 6pm. Looks like most of the Houston Metropolitan area is under the watch.
https://www.wunderground.com/severe/us/tx/richmond
DisplayPort driving an external 4k display at 60 Hz is not something that any of the Windows machines can match below $500.
WiFi 7 is another feature that isn’t common at that pricepoint.
Sheriff Chad Chronister faces reelection this year, and he has been dealing with a potential scandal about who exacty did his classwork at the FBI Academy.
Usually, Chronister’s office is not that motivated.
“American dream life of mansion-dwelling Afghan family whose ungrateful son, 19, is now charged with ISIS terrorism outside NYC mayoral residence”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15632253/ibrahim-kayumi-family-wealth-isis-bomb-attack-nyc.html
“The teen who helped hurl an ISIS bomb at a protest outside the New York City mayor’s mansion is the son of wealthy Afghan immigrants who were seemingly living the American dream.”
“Ibrahim Kayumi and his friend Emir Balat, 18, were indicted on five federal charges Monday including attempting to provide material support to ISIS and use of a weapon of mass destruction.”
“The pair were arrested on Saturday after throwing a homemade ‘Mother of Satan’ bomb outside Gracie Mansion during an anti-Islam protest. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji were not home at the time of the attack.”
“Kayumi, 19, asserted that he was affiliated with the Islamic State and pledged his allegiance to the terror group as he was taken into police custody, the complaint said.”
“But the Daily Mail can now reveal Kayumi comes from a seemingly hardworking family that co-owns a Popeyes chicken franchise and amassed a residential property portfolio worth more than $4.2 million, county records show.”
You can take the boy out of Afghanistan but can you take the Afghanistan out of the boy ?
Does not look like so.
The young men will find out what Rikers prison is like up and close.
Oh wait, I’d rather you not see this
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/03/11/james-talarico-quietly-deletes-endorsement-page-showcasing-his-most-radical-supporters-n2672690
Best is to look close at the X post and who surrounds him…..
https://x.com/NRSC/status/2029042213477388504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2029042213477388504%7Ctwgr%5E5f04b33e117d78db15a3a9f60910fb3676356d43%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftownhall.com%2Ftipsheet%2Fjosephchalfant%2F2026%2F03%2F11%2Fjames-talarico-quietly-deletes-endorsement-page-showcasing-his-most-radical-supporters-n2672690
I’m kind of stumped. The Pi sees the external drive named Windows. It’s Moas old drive with everything but the music folders deleted. It did work, I tossed a file over to it this morning.
I rebooted the Pi. I wanted to see if the music server started automatically. Because if it’s going to sitting in a corner with no keyboard or monitor….
Now it says:
“Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /media/slim/Windows: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error”
I don’t know. Pi is pretty slimmed down. Maybe it has Format and Chkdsk (equivalent) but I don’t know where. Do I take the drive and let the Mint box format it? Then take the drive out to Moa and copy my music over?
Or, heck, just copy the music files from the Mint box. It’s pretty much the same, I’ve tried to keep the two directories the same.
From someone named David Marcus on X:
“Judge’s block of Trump deportation plan struck down for THIRD time!”
https://www.wnd.com/2026/03/judges-block-trump-deportation-plan-struck-down-third/
“An anti-Trump federal judge who already had ruled against the president’s deportation plans for illegal aliens twice, and was slammed by the Supreme Court in each case, had tried it a third time.”
“But on the third strike by Judge Brian Murphy, the fight didn’t get to the Supreme Court. It was the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that shut him down this time.”
“WorldNetDaily previously reported when Murphy ruled against Trump’s plan, and was reversed by the Supreme Court. He insisted then that his order still stood, triggering a nearly unprecedented opinion from the Supreme Court justices that they, in fact, had reversed his decision.”
You know, about half of the federal judges in the USA need to go away. Right now. And this joker needs to be in the first group along with boazman.
“Waiting for Godot” was a movie we watched in class. I think it was in a Drama class but 1977 is a few years ago. I remember it as a black and white move and BORING.
I scored no points with the teacher, who seemed rather fond of the movie, because “it’s ART!” when I said “why did we just waste almost two hours of our lives watching this dreck?”.
Yeah. Art!
And I have no problems with old movies. Bette Davis and etc. But Godot? No.
If the drive is external, connect it to a Windows system and see if the files are still available in the directory tree.
NTFS support is still a work in progress on Linux. You can try ntfsfix, but the reputation is mixed.
Another thing to try is to mount the drive with the option set to remove the hibernation file. If you ran Windows 10 or 11 without disabling Fast Restart, that file may still be out there lurking.
sudo mount -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda3 /mnt
If it mounts clean and you can see the directories using “sudo ls -l /mnt”, then unmount the drive using the command
sudo umount /dev/sda3
and restart your system.
I’ve never tried ntfsfix, but I believe it is as simple as
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda3.
Again, I have no experience using that command. It may suck the paint off of your house and give your family an orange afro while doing nothing to resolve the disk issue.
I keep a set of USB 2.0 to SATA cables around if I have a problem on an internal disk and need to connect the drive to my Windows desktop for diagnosis.
Very handy. I know that USB-C to SATA eliminates the need for the power connection, but I’ve never bought a set.
Paul, try unplugging the external Windows-formatted drive, restarting the RPi, and plugging in the drive. See if it mounts.
The most commonly used RPi OS, Raspbian, does have most of the utilities found on Linux systems. I’m pretty sure the command line disk format tools are included among them but the GUI tools are not, but it’s been so long since I set up my RPi (and had it work essentially flawlessly the entire time) that things may have changed.
“Saudis Eye “Large Order” of Ukrainian Interceptor Drones as Kill-Cost Missile Crisis Deepens”
https://thelibertydaily.com/saudis-eye-large-order-ukrainian-interceptor-drones-as/
“(ZeroHedge)—Saudi Arabia is in discussions with a Ukrainian counter-drone firm to acquire low-cost interceptor drones designed to counter inexpensive IRGC kamikaze drones. The cost-exchange ratio remains highly unfavorable for the U.S. and its Gulf partners, who are using multimillion-dollar interceptor missiles against $20,000 drones. If the conflict drags on for months, the risk of depleting critical interceptor missile stockpiles will become a major problem, not just in the Gulf area but also on the Ukrainian battlefront.”
“The Wall Street Journal reports that Saudi Arabia is preparing to purchase a “large order” of interceptor drones and electronic warfare equipment from Ukraine. This report is based on sources and has yet to be confirmed.”
“The unfavorable kill-exchange ratio for the Saudis – eliminating a $20,000 IRGC drone with a +$2 million missile – is quickly straining defense budgets and supplies. A cheaper approach is to use Ukrainian interceptors that have been battle-tested in Eastern Europe for several years.”
“Other Gulf countries, including Qatar, are also examining the use of cheap Ukrainian drones. The U.S. has already deployed Ukraine-tested Merops interceptors to U.S. forces in the Gulf region.”
“Last week, a Financial Times report stated that U.S. officials were negotiating a purchase of interceptors to counter IRGC drones. This comes as supplies are dwindling and costs are soaring after nearly 12 days of conflict.”
““They have missiles for the Patriots, but hundreds or thousands of Shaheds cannot be intercepted with Patriot missiles. It is too costly,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview last week.”
The world has changed and not for the better.
Rods of god.
n
Did my pickup and got my battery. The guy tested it with an Interstate Battery logo’d battery tester that included scanning bar codes on the battery. And it failed. 1 ½ years into a 3 year warranty. So I got a new one, half off. I had a costco rewards check in my wallet from 2021 and it was good too, so $4 for my replacement battery.
Hit the next door Deseret Industries thrift store and scored two early rap/funk LPs. George Clinton and P Funk on one and P Funk princes on the other. They are in poor condition, without jackets, but are still a score.
I also stopped by the Goodwill outlet and got a 3d printer and some resale stuff.
Time to eat something.
n
The drive is external. It’s one of them NVM whatever stick drives in an Orico case. Not the 2.5 inch WD SSD jobby. (That is untouched.) So, yeah, it was the system drive on Moa before I cloned it to a 1TB WD drive with Acronis.
NTFS for sure. I had it connected to this Mint box and I deleted everything other than Music. And yes, I have “show all files” selected.
I’ll try what you suggest.
But you know? This machine, emu, was running Win11 and Mint wiped everything. I have no idea what it uses for a file system. I don’t even know were to look. Is there a Disk Manager? Where one can mess with partitions? I haven’t found it.
When installing Mint it asked, I had a choice of files systems, I clicked through with the default option. Because I don’t know what I’m doing.
So I will play. I have no problem attaching the drive to this Mint box and letting it format ala “format c: /u” to whatever Mint prefers for a half GB drive. I mean, I’m changing the OS I use, I suspect the file system will change. Ja?
I suspect the drive has a MBR screwing things up. And Pi is really minimal and did an update and went “nope!”. Just a guess. So let Mint on emu wipe the drive to metal and format to whatever ‘nix prefers.
The data is on other drives. Kind of a pain to copy files via USB speed wise. But I only have to do it once.
Plans. Perhaps not the best.
Hey, orange afros? Does that include pierced nipples?
I did. Nope. But the drive got warmish for a while so something was going on.
My Mint linux box which I use exclusively as an NVR completely forgot about my second drive. SATA attached to the motherboard, I configured it as an archive for the video and used it for a while, then it just disappeared never to be seen again.
I haven’t tried to get it back because it’s not my favorite way to spend time.
n
Boy that was good. Just had a piece of german chocolate cake from LAST year’s birthday celebration. It freezes really well.
n
I don’t think I’ve posted this before.
I stumbled across this somehow. Following links, you know?
Anyway. I think this is good story telling. You might not like the bible stuff. But it’s still good story telling.
Link to the first chapter:
https://www.arkhaven.com/comics/drama/prophet-to-the-remnant/1-an-ordinary-day
It’s still being written so I don”t know where the story goes.
You never know what will turn up in the returns auctions.
https://hibid.com/lot/290510461/-590-332x1116r-genuine-bosch-locomotive-fuel-injec
never seen this though.
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This auctioneer is usually pretty good. He’s got a good return policy and tests almost everything. That said, he’s been selling fake trijicon red dot sights for the last couple of auctions. They aren’t even really good fakes. I sent him a note asking about it but haven’t heard back. I’ll be asking in person when I do my pickup.
He’s also got fake Ugg boots in this auction. They don’t even look right to the eye, and the logos are wrong. FFS.
n
night time for nick, I’ve got stuff to do tomorrow including, apparently, taxi for youngest and her friends to the Rodeo. Right in the middle of the day.
n