12:32 PM - Discord
A wide variety of things happened. Some people believe everything is ok. Roy Merrick MIGHT BE in that camp. Some people believe it does not really matter. Some people believe in NOT voting. It meaning life. It meaning making the world a better. Some people believe the world is fine. Some believe the world cannot be fixed. Some believe the world will be fixed someday but not by them. So they just sit there forever doing nothing. Three main views. That is why people hate politics, history, psychology. I want that Alex Jones book.

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Roy Merrick wants me to watch:
Patton, Lawrence of Arabia and Birth of A Nation come to mind.

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I don't like war movies. Meloni is the new female president of Italy. Obama is so perfect. Obama loves you. File extension has to do with the formatting of operating systems. For example, Microsoft Windows would use Fat32. Most people used Fat32. I used Ext4 for Ubuntu. 6 million dollar man. But I'm thinking of a song by Kanye West. Hard drives can die after 2 years. I cannot buy new hard drives every 2 years. 2 years is not very long for archiving projects. I am running into these brick walls. I am trying to archive. Some said SSDs had shorter life expectancy. There are several options for long-term data storage. Some said DVDs might be able to last 100 years. Some hard drives might last ten years or longer. Some said the trick is you have to rewrite the data on the hard drives back onto the hard drives every few years. Discs can get rot, scratches. There are the older hard drives and the newer SSDs. There are also these tapes that people store data onto. Some of these tapes may cost thousands of dollars. But some have talked about storing data on these special tapes instead of discs or drives. The life of a drive depends partly on how many times you can write data onto it. When buying a drive, you need to find out the number for that, how much data can be written onto it again and again. I have not seen The Disintegration Loops but yeah. There are different types of SSDs.

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Hard Drives Debate

You have internal and external SSDs for desktops. There are other types of SSDs known as flash memory or thumb drives. There are also the types of SSDs inside phones. SSDs have evolved in the past ten years. They say SSDs are a lot better now in 2022 than they were in like 2009. I have to try to figure out how to store data long-term, the longer the better. I want cold data storage. I want to store data for a million years or at least a thousand years. They say SSDs are less mechanical when compared with HDDs. Punch cards. Yes. Some say SSDs and thumb drives have no mechanics. I say I would need to study the hardware before making such claims. Depends on your definition of mechanics. If by mechanics you mean no moving parts inside SSDs, I would say that appears to be the case. Buy USB-C thumb drives. The problem is if SSDs lack power for too long, does the electrical impulses, the data, fade away? HDDs are less expensive than SSDs. Were pyramids power plants? Some said HDDs do NOT have write cycle limits. It appears SSDs do have write cycle limits. Some said WD drives are better than Seagate drives. In my experience, I think I do prefer WD over Seagate. The temporary solution is HDD. I would say who knows how long HDDs can last. But they say if you're using HDDs like 24/7, like all the time, it may begin to die after ten years or less. They say HDDs begin falling apart slowly over time, some say possibly even after only two years. I want to store data inside crystals, rocks, metals, the sun, water, oxygen, dirt, sand, etc. I have a new laptop. I'm not using it because the SSD inside may be defective. I am currently trying to determine if I can save my SSD. Meanwhile, my Yoga laptop is six years old and it makes loud noises. So, I am between a rock and a hard place. I kind of want to use up this old laptop until it blows up. But I currently don't have the new laptop up and running yet.

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02:57 PM - Discord
The problem is when the power goes out, the desktop may go out with it, unless if you have a UPS. I got the new laptop in 2021 and probably no warranty and nor would I want to go that route. I'm too busy to deal with warranties, returning items, things of that nature.

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Another factor in hard drives is write speed. Some have said a minimum of 18 MB/s HDD write speed is ok. I don't know. All I know is I would prefer the fastest write speed possible for drives. Over time, hard drive write speed may decrease. That may be another problem is the slow decline in the life of a drive over a period of time.

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03:26 PM
Somebody wrote: "I use Samsung EVO SSD as my primary storage drive. I run FreeFileSync to make automated backups every two hours to two Samsung USB 3.1 FIT+ mini flash drives. These flash drives have a rugged metal body and are waterproof, shock-proof, temperature-proof, magnet-proof, and X-ray-proof. Try that with a fragile hard disk drive."

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A man on Joe Rogan talked about how climate goes through 500-year weather cycles. Randal Carlson was the guy. If you hungry, eat. If you thirsty, eat. If you tired, eat. If you depressed, eat.

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03:34 AM
Ontrack: "A NAND Flash chip based SSD is a totally different storage media than the traditional hard disk drive which saves its data on a magnetic plate. It consists of an electronic controller and several storage chips. A hybrid drive – also called SSHD – consists of both storage technologies: A normal magnetic hard disk drive as well as storage chips."

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Ontrack: "The downside of SSDs with the NAND Flash based chips is that they have a limited life span by default. While normal HDDs can – in theory – last forever (in reality about 10 years max.), an SSD lifespan has a built-in “time of death.” To keep it simple: An electric effect results in the fact that data can only be written on a storage cell inside the chips between approximately 3,000 and 100,000 times during its lifetime. After that, the cells “forget” new data. Because of this fact – and to prevent certain cells from getting used all the time while others aren’t – manufacturers use wear-leveling algorithms to distribute data evenly over all cells by the controller. As with HDDs the user can check the current SSD status by using the S.M.A.R.T. analysis tool, which shows the remaining life span of an SSD."

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This might be saying it rotates between cells. I don't know how much data per cell. I don't know how many cells. Ontrack: "A typical TBW figure for a 250 GB SSD lies between 60 and 150 terabytes written. That means: To get over a guaranteed TBW of 70, a user would have to write 190(!) GB daily over a period of one year (in other words, to fill two thirds of the SSD with new data every day). In a consumer environment this is highly unlikely."

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TBW
Tera Bytes Written
The write limit for SSDs.
Example: Samsung: 1 TB SSD = 150 TBW which would mean you could fill up the hard drive 150 times before it could no longer write new data onto it. They say some SSDs may have 150 TBW. Some HDDs might have an unlimited TBW. Well, HDDs may die before SSDs do meaning that is a potential limitation that may come RANDOMLY. They say HDD reliability may be more RANDOM.

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Operating System Onto ASUS

2022-09-30 - Friday - 05:00 PM - Operating System Log

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I go to install Ubuntu onto my 2021 ASUS laptop but it said "Go back to the menu and resume partitioning? (as suoeruser). No EFI System Partition was found. This system will likely not be able to boot successfully, and the installation process may fail. Please go back and add an EFI System Partition, or continue at your own risk. Go Back. Continue."

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I am installing Ubuntu onto my 2021 ASUS laptop with the following partitions:
1 MB - Free space, this was created automatically
799 MB - EFI/ESP
979,200 MB - root partition, operating system here, home files here
20203 MB - swap
0 MB - Free space to the end of the 1 TB SSD drive.

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Name of my OS on this is a meaning ASUS.

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10:38 PM
I hope you lose so that you are forced to buy Twitter. After that, we will be asking you to restore accounts. Censorship is TERRIBLE. I've been banned and SUSPENDED off social media so many times for NOTHING. Crazy stuff.

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