While the original is down the archive has it: https://web.archive.org/web/20150105082427/https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751

My religion isn’t really based on belief, just practice. And I do the practices because they make me feel better and more connected.

The dev entry point changing like that means that it disconnected and then reconnected, which shouldn’t have anything to do with the specific file system on the drive. That really makes it sound like the drive isn’t getting quite enough power, which causes a brown out, which Linux detects as the drive getting unplugged and coming back, which is why it gets a new dev entry.

A look through the usb logs by using something like usbrip would confirm that.

Interesting. When you say that they show up as a different drive completely, do you mean that their UUIDs change, or that they get mounted at a different point?

Anyway, random disconnection sounds like a hardware issue, maybe a USB brownout, as much as anything else. What’s your connection setup, distro and kernel version?

Eh? I’ve never had a problem with reading NTFS drives in linux, including USB sticks and SATA/USB adapters. Are you just wanting to read them or use them as read/write? Write is a bit more tricky, requiring ntfs-3g, but most reasonable distros come with that nowadays.

Mint. It’s a great, simple, well supported first distro. And last distro, TBH. I know plenty of people like to distro hop as a hobby, but if you just want to use your machine pick a well supported basic distro and stick with it. Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora are all good options, but Mint is really aimed at newcomers.

Huh? Topgrade does that for you.

alias up=topgrade 

Oh! Which tablet? And what interface are you using on it?

I really need to check out Carbonyl. How well does it handle very low end machines?

At work I have a laptop, a high end virtual workstation, and then a target machine which is in a different city than I am. I typically have 3 tmux sessions open, one for each machine, each split into a left and a right pane.

On my local session I have Helix open for notes and things on the left and a bash terminal for misc work on the right. On my workstation session I have Helix on the left for coding and a bash session for building on the right. On the target machine session I have the left pane open to bash for starting/stopping the target devices and programs. The right pane is following logs.

For my personal setup, I have an e-waste Thinkpad often in a similar style except that instead of a virtual workstation it’s my personal desktop that I connect to for large builds. I use it to write, do some hobby coding, 3D printing, chat with friends over Matrix and Discord, plan gaming sessions, play music, etc.

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I can’t wait to visit Starfleet Medical to get my back and stomach fixed, live in a post scarcity utiopia, see other worlds, and study whatever I want.

EDIT: I think the worst thing will be contemplating the metaphysics of transporters. But maybe I’ll just never take one.