02:09 AM
​@Woji Woji, ​I agree with you, Dexter doesn't have to be dead. But the actor is probably not going to come back. But as a writer, I could come up with a few ways to save Dexter. And I'm not even a professional writer. Meaning if I can save Dexter, and I'm nobody, then they should have no excuse. But they probably don't want to and Michael C. Hall probably doesn't want to either. But what's the point of coming back for one season? Better yet, why not call it season 9? I was ok with calling it a new show, New Blood, especially if they were going to try to do five seasons or as many as possible. But now what? Are they going to continue with the Harrison Show or what? Not very many people are going to watch Harrison who was simply not ready to become a lead of a show. And I'm not saying he couldn't. But not right now. They needed more time to get Harrison into that position of being a star of his own show. But at the same time, what in the world would a Harrison show be about? If the Harrison show was to be a show similar to Dexter, then Harrison wouldn't have killed Dexter period.

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12:43 PM
You are insane. Covid Vaccines are killing over a billion people before 2030. Could be as many as 8 billion or as many as possible, they want us all dead. But already, many are on that path and don't even know it. But we can try to save as many people as we can these next few years. They lie about why people die. Covid Vaccines causes blood clots, brain seizures, autoimmune dependency enhancement (ADE), heart attacks, cancer, etc. So, they'll say people died of those things but won't say what was at the root of those symptoms.

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About My Seagate Expansion 4 TB Drive

01:00 PM - 05:00 PM - Notes. Been working on this in the afternoon and evening and on going. Was looking around for the right power adapter for this device. Had to find one that could do at least 1.5 Amps. I believe that is the minimum. I don't know if it requires DC or AC power or what else is there? I thought maybe one website said like it took AC or that it came with an AC power adapter. I'm not saying that is correct. But to be fair and technical, I believe that website was talking about a different product. I believe same company but a newer drive model and I think 5 TB. So, does it apply? Maybe.

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Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive 4TB. Model SRD0NF2. PN 1TFAP3-500. SN NAAAZ962. Assembled in Thailand. 2020. IS 13252 (Part 1). R-41106283. Nemko. 12 Volts. 1.5 or 2 Amps. Mono Pin 5.5mm x 2.5mm. Polarity: Center Positive. Volts or V. Current or Amps or A. Another thing is called Resistance which means the size of the pipe. It doesn't say anything about Watts or W. Wait, I might have an answer to that. 18W. But not sure if it is 18W input or output.

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Seagate says 18W. Model No: STKR4000400. PDF. Manual.

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Seagate Expansion Desktop 4TB - Quzo. 5000 Mbit/s. 950.00g weight. 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1). Micro-USB B connector. Connectivity technology: wired. Microphone
Type: HDD. Weight & dimensions: Height 36.6 mm, Width 176 mm, Weight 950 g, Depth 120 mm. Hard drive: HDD size 3.5". MPN: STEB4000200. Initial Release Date: 19/03/2015. But the one I got says 2020 on the device meaning I assume its a newer version than this one.

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Price Manu. Type: External Hard Drive Brand: Seagate Model: SRD0NF2 Capacity: 4TB Interface: USB 3.0. Price Manu said: "SKU 100230896_NP-1020503252" for the brand, serial, model, company, product, or something. Not sure what SKU means, whether it is a specific serial number, a product number, or what. On the back of the Seagate drive I have, I don't see SKU on it at all. I've included photos of my drive. I scanned. I wrote down relevant numbers and such as well. SKU is not on it. But SKU could be important. Bh Photo Video. Built with a compact form factor and ready for on-the-go usage, the 4TB Expansion Portable USB 3.0 External Hard Drive from Seagate is preformatted exFAT, meaning it is compatible with Windows and Mac right out of the box. This hard drive provides a storage capacity of up to 4TB and connects to your host system using its micro-USB 3.0 interface. They wrote it is bus powered. I guess that means powered by the USB. But not sure if that is true or not sure what they mean by bus because it has a power input meaning you plug it into the wall for power. That means not USB power, I assume. And that probably means not bus power. But it depends on what bus power means. Current price for it is $89.99. I think I bought mine around 2018-2020 at the Walmart near my house where I live now since 2018. It's 2022 right now as I write this. I believe the price when I bought mine was around $120. Not sure exactly but over $100 I believe. Amazon said 18W power adapter for the one they were selling. It said file system is NTFS. ANother website said ExFat. SO, which is it of the two? Not sure.

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Somebody wrote on Amazon regarding this drive:
"First thing to note is that these are SMR drives. What is SMR? It means Shingled Magnetic Recording, basically the data on the drive is written overlapped like shingles on a roof. This means you can get more data on each disk platter, hence less platters for a given size and thus the drive is cheaper. Ok that's great right? Well the problem is this DRASTICALLY slows down the write speed for long sequential writes. It can get bogged down during large writes and become very very slow, like 10MB/s on average slow. Reads are fine it is only writing that is affected."

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"That being said, the SMR technology does make this drive one of the best for $s/TB on the market, just don't expect amazing performance from it. You definitely get what you pay for, and for it's intended purpose as a backup drive it works fine. I can't speak for the long term reliability as I haven't had them for very long, but it has a 1 year warranty (most drives have a 2 or 3 year). The warranties are specifically calculated to balance between how cheap the manufacturer can go on the components and how many RMAs they will get when a certain expected % of the components fail. I wouldn't expect to get 5 years out of this drive, not that it's not possible but you are relatively lucky if you do."

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"Summary:
-SMR = slow writes
-Only 1 year warranty = components of meh quality
-For the price and purpose, not a bad drive."

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05:33 PM
Update

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After plugging the drive into the wall via a switching power adapter, it didn't appear to power on. Didn't hear sounds. I assume no power. The noises I hear is coming from my laptop. It has been raining. The adapter says the output is 12 Volts and 1.5 Amps. It says switching meaning AC and DC I assume. Input is 100-240V, 50/60 Hz. It says Max 7A. I guess that means input max is 7A.

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Power Adapter
ADS-25E-12 12018EPCU AC Adapter ACDC.

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Quora: "An output of 12V and 2A means 24W of maximum output power." Ok. 120vx2a= 240 watts.

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1.5 A equals 1500 mA.

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07:24 PM
​ @Roy Merrick , I don't know if the Christmas help I did was appreciated or not. I wrote some feelings about it. I would say those feelings don't matter in some ways.

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I would say it probably depends on who you ask regarding who may appreciate my work offline and to what extent and everything else. I wrote a bunch of things about that. I would imagine appreciation is there. But at the same time, it's intermixed with a variety of other things regarding how people deal with world news and their thoughts regarding health, history, etc. So, in other words, some of this is not personal. Like, I will sometimes make it sound personal. But that is not the most important thing to investigate in regards to the bigger picture and everything else.

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What is Three Kings Day? One story I liked from that book you got me was the Chinese Proverb which reminds me of Job from the Bible. He said maybe no matter if good or bad things happened to him. He loses his horse. Oh my God. So bad yeah? Maybe. Next day, horse comes back with other horses. So good yeah? Maybe. Next day horse breaks son's legs. Oh my God, yeah, so bad? Maybe. Next day, the king was unable to draft the injured son to war to likely die in it and never return kind of thing. Impressive story.

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That's the thing about some of these ancient legends, fables, stories, etc, regardless of how true or fictional some of them may or may not be. These are the things I study. I'm intrigued with what humans end up passing on from generation to generation via books, word of mouth, the oral traditions via tribe chiefs around campfires, etc.

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07:37 PM
What I do is blow lightly and slowly. I learn how to do it by concentrating. It's important to try other things too. Blowing out of your ears can feel different the first time you do it. Your ears may be sensitive. You may feel like you might be hurting yourself. So, it is kind of like stretching your legs in that you have to slowly ease yourself into it. You can brace yourself. You could either blow lightly or very hard or something. You could blow really hard and then wait to see how your ear feels. Or you could try blowing lightly. It's like cold water. Do you slowly walk into cold water or do you jump in very quickly? Same thing with the ears. So, you have to know yourself and know what you can handle. If you blow too hard or if it hurts too much, you could remember that and not do that again.

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09:42 PM
Maybe not breathe because it looks like there is no hole for air to escape through the ears based on the drawings I have seen. So, it looks like the pipes, the tubes, the canals, goes up to the backside of the ear. It's on the other side of the eardrum. A hole goes from the outside and goes into your head and to your eardrums. The hole from your mouth goes up to your ears. I would wonder if the two holes connect so you can breathe out of your ears. I don't know but probably not. But I would have to research this. But it does seem to connect.

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