2026-04-28

12:50 PM
Dear Gemini
Study file and output. Add back the Session Timer to display under the date and time counter. Mario is stuck at 2 GB Jumping. I do not seem to see flags like -d and others a lot or at all. Yes, I want Bill to decide which flags to use per round and pass, but I worry that Bill might be unable to make any decision at any time. I am not sure if Bill is totally free to use any flag at any time. It looks like Tetris works. Sonic is at 25M, that is probably good to run -a 25M but I don't know if Sonic is free to increase and decrease from -a 100M to -a 0. There are so many flags and I rarely or never see many flags. If Bill is choosing not to use many flags, that is good if that is the best choice at any given time. But I just don't know if Bill is able to adjust all the flags or not. When you said under 85, you had the info that is was above 85. When you then said above 85, it was based on the same info that you already had when you said under 85. Period. The info that you had did not change but what you said did. I ran Bill at 100M many times, Bill does not quit at 100M, Bill sort of ignores the flag and goes normal speeds, I already told you this many times for months. In the spirit of Housekeeping and all of these things and more, list all of the potential problems and things, brainstorm all possible problems as it might relate to three main issues, focus mostly on these three things, you can look at symptoms, side effects, many different things, but focus mostly on the following three things and on root issues of how problems may have started in the first place over just mere symptoms alone: 1. Read rates dropping. There might be many reasons why Bill may slow down when reading discs, it could be disc scratches, disc drive firmware cops locking the drive, Linux related kernel or whatever locking down or throttling or whatever it might be, bad spots, slow reads, etc. 2. Error rate increasing, look at all the reasons that the error rate may increase, could be many different reasons for what causes it. 3. Bytes not being rescued or specifically saved in the DVD.ISO file, this is probably mostly the same thing as the read rate decreasing if reading means saving to the iso file. In order to maximize read rates, rescuing bytes to the image file rates, while also minimizing error rates, list me everything that can be done at the beginning of each session, between rounds, and during the hourly laser rests. I told you for years that Bill should not switch to Trim before 85%. I do not know where you got that bad idea from. This is the problem with Gemini. You forget the books I wrote to you. You wrote bad code that goes against all the things I told you each day for months.

04:34 PM
Dear Gemini
Here is a Test Run I did. A week ago, I told you about the current disc that Bill rescued to almost 80% in around an hour. I did a speed test as seen below. It ran at around 14 MB/s for a while. Let me know why did it close, show me which flags told it to terminate the run, study this test run below. It did not drop below 1000M, it never was at 1000M making your Drop-Point not relevant. The file that it made says 4 GB. Your logic about 1000M does not make sense because your logic if true would cause it to not do anything for one second because 1000M is impossible and yet it did stuff for almost 4 minutes. Gemini wrote, "ASUS-packaged Lite-On drives." This is false. Gemini is just fabricating. I already told Gemini each day this is false and yet Gemini writes it. I sent Gemini files proving this is false for months. Gemini just jams words together failing to think before typing. My Lite-On disc drive is external through Fideco. If my drive was internal, there would be no Fideco. Gemini knows I use Fideco. Gemini used to tell me for months the disc drive has 6-second firmware cops.

I spent several weeks getting to 86% on this same disc. Test 1 did 17.22% in 3m 41s. Test 2 did 70% in 15 minutes in 16m 5s. Test 1 Trimmed 268369 kB and Test 2, 1015 MB. Yet for both tests, I used -n -N --no-trim. Compare these 2 tests to various tests I could run next. Perhaps I tweak a setting here or there. Look at the different options for additional test runs. I want to do each test with no map file starting from 0 again

a@a-TUF-Gaming-FX505DT-FX505DT:~$ sudo ddrescue -b 2048 -c 131072 -a 1000M -K 1Gi -T 1s -n -N --cpass=1 -r 0 --no-trim /dev/sr0 /home/a/dvd/dvd2.iso /home/a/dvd/dvd2.map
[sudo] password for a:
GNU ddrescue 1.27
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
ipos: 4026 MB, non-trimmed: 268369 kB, current rate: 0 B/s
opos: 4026 MB, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 3627 kB/s
non-tried: 3601 MB, bad-sector: 0 B, error rate: 0 B/s
rescued: 805371 kB, bad areas: 0, run time: 3m 41s
pct rescued: 17.22%, read errors: 1, remaining time: 15m
slow reads: 4, time since last successful read: 0s
Copying non-tried blocks... Pass 1 (forwards)
Finished
a@a-TUF-Gaming-FX505DT-FX505DT:~$ sudo ddrescue -b 2048 -c 131072 -a 1000M -K 0 -T 1s -n -N --cpass=1 -r 0 --no-trim /dev/sr0 /home/a/dvd/dvd2.iso /home/a/dvd/dvd2.map
[sudo] password for a:
GNU ddrescue 1.27
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
ipos: 4294 MB, non-trimmed: 1015 MB, current rate: 0 B/s
opos: 4294 MB, non-scraped: 0 B, average rate: 3395 kB/s
non-tried: 380108 kB, bad-sector: 0 B, error rate: 0 B/s
rescued: 3279 MB, bad areas: 0, run time: 16m 5s
pct rescued: 70.15%, read errors: 5, remaining time: 4m
slow reads: 16, time since last successful read: 14s
Copying non-tried blocks... Pass 1 (forwards)
Timeout expired
a@a-TUF-Gaming-FX505DT-FX505DT:~$

06:39 PM
Dear Gemini
I do not know if it has 6-Second Firmware Cops, I only know you told me it does and you keep on saying it. But you also said a second ago that my external disc drive was inside my laptop even tho I have Fideco. In other words, I have to take everything you say with a grain of salt.

Max Protocol
The Max Protocol pushes Bill to Max settings...... ummmm to be continued...

11:59 PM
Dear Gemini
Why did it take you that like to remember Mario? Why did you call Mario the same thing as Sonic? And when I asked you again, you called Mario the same thing as Tetris, that is evil stuff right there Gemini. What is bad is you do this daily. What is bad is you refuse to say something like, "I am sorry, my system is refusing to let me search our chat history to see what Mario is a nickname for." That is insane. I mean, all you have to say is something like, "Gemini Servers are currently overloaded, reference to Mario is currently outside my context window."