living in a bruh moment

their mobile app isn’t even their own base code. they bought out Alien Blue, which was one of the earliest and arguably best mobile apps for Reddit, and relaunched it as their own. all they had to do was not fuck that one up and they would have straight up driven the other popup 3rd party apps out of business by just being good and official. but of course, reddit must always rise to their incompetence.

Nope, and don’t waste any breath trying.

They ignore all appeals and always have been. Any new accounts will pull your previously logged in device ID’s and instantly ban them too. Leave it behind bro. The site is dead.

My gf got told “it’s a pinch” and “there are no nerves in the cervix you won’t feel it”.

They stab that shit with sharp pincers to hold it open. Ohhh it hurts.

Adapter or caddy is fine. Can get them on most shopping sites for cheap.

IIRC from my old office PC slinging days, a lot of those cases with 5-1/4 bays usually had slots for mounting screws that would allow you to mount a 3.5 drive flush to one sideusijg 2 screws. Then you get 1-3/4" 6-32 screw stand offs, thread it into the drive, and use that to mount it to the other side of the 5-1/4 bay.

Did that a lot to really old reused cases where there were a ton of 5-1/4 bays but only one 3.5 bay.

Nah, they’ll make corporations immune from it but the normal consumer will still have to deal with licensing hell

At best it let’s you get a few gigs of data out, at worst it doesn’t work and you’re back to where you were (which was nothing). Doesn’t really hurt the drive at all.

So, my first goto with an unresponsive external would be to remove the drive from its enclosure. Typically these are retail internal hard drive that are put in an enclosure with a small circuit board that converts SATA to a USB or firewire and sometimes those die.
If you “shuck” the drive and connect it directly to a computer internally via SATA you can bypass that board.

Next step is put the drive in your freezer for an hour or so then pull it out and connect it immediately. Sometimes this frees them up and makes them work for a short while, enough to copy some of the data off.

Drives not being recognized also sometimes happens if they corrupt one sector that’s part of the file system tables and not the actual file system. The drive may be there but not have a file system for windows to read So there’s some other tricks you can try using Linux tools to dump the exact bit for bit contents of the drive, and pass them thru an analyzer that will try to pick out what’s likely of the file structure.

However, still given the drives age, I’ll almost guarantee it’s experienced a full mechanical failure and there might not be anything to recover…

Your house is insanely easy to break into unless it’s built with special materials or has steel bars over all openings.

Disregarding the fact that windows break, pretty much every residential door (both interior and exterior) can be busted down by anyone with a decent body weight or with a framing hammer. Hammer thru the door skin, or claw pry on the jamb to force the latch to release, or even just bodyslamming it can be enough to separate the lock block and stiles and the doors will simply fall apart from there.

Can you hear or feel the drive spinning with the power and USB plugged in?

Do you have a second computer (Linux or windows) to also try it in?

A brief search seems to indicate this drive is a minimum of 15 years old, which is an incredible age for a portable mechanical drive. I would honestly be preparing yourself to be dealing with this drove finally being cooked beyond repair. Sure hope you kept backups of what was on it!

Be careful when describing Lemmy as a “privacy valuing” service.

Your personal identity privacy is improved, yes, as there are no corporations to actively sell this data… but your identity (the email and info you signed up with) is at the whims of the admins of whatever instance you signed up for, and hoping their opsec is good.

The privacy of your content does not exist at all. Anything you post including direct messages is blasted out across the entire fediverse to ALL federated servers, where you have NO control who is downloading and storing it.

You should treat Lemmy like it is a early 2000s forum site, where you should feel comfortable saying what you like, but never use anything personally identifying anywhere on your profile (including a personal email during sign up), never share anything personal in DM’s, and consider a proxy/VPN to further obscure your ID from instance admins.

You can just check the modlog of your local instance and search for your own username. Most of the time the ban action will federate (but again, sometimes not, never really sure why). If nothing shows up locally check the modlog of the remote instance you’re trying to post to.

The other chance that you got no comments on your post for is that you are banned from the remote instance/community, or federation is broken (still happens intermittently).

Lemmy will still allow you to post from your home instance since you are not banned there, but your content will simply get black-holed by the remote instance if you’re banned there. Sometimes you have to check the remote instance directly to see if your post was federated or not.

It’s legal boilerplate.

is somebody really expected check the ToS of the server the community they’re posting in is on,

Technically yes. Practically nobody does.

Give it 48 hours before all mods are purged and the sub is no longer “closed”

3 sticky notes telling me to “go get that incremental backup working”,
2 separate external hard drives,
1 month out of date

VLC includes all codecs it needs internally to play DVD’s. If VLC is not playing DVD’s, there’s something else wrong with your system.

You might also try MPV player.

I’m currently half way thru building a ZFS array using (5) 8tb Ironwolf Pro drives. I’m modelling and 3d printing a custom drive cage with brackets to hold them all inside the shitty Dell tower case I have dedicated to it. Hoping I can get it done sometime Sunday, I’m on V2 of the drive cage print and it takes like 8 hours to do lol.