lol, the phone app was called dialler because at the time it didn’t make sense to have a phone app called phone.

I get the joke but some folks won’t get it. OP should explain the joke for those folks who missed it

Do you work for big-ancient-temples? It sounds like you’re just setting me up so that I end up in a pit of snakes or buried in lava.

I would buy the replacement part. I’m all for DIY solutions when they make sense but in this case it’s only a $14 the replacement part.

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That’s actually really clever. Triggering an anger response with an urgency to act will reduce the victim’s critical thinking and make the phishing attack more likely to succeed.

It also looks like they’ll be the right age for WW3 deployment

Cloudflare also has caching on the free tier which will reduce these kinds of AI attacks

Let them both drown, that’s the only way they’ll learn

I don’t mean it to be. I’m trying to be a realist so that I can take appropriate steps to protect myself online. If you want to be anonymous on social media then you should only connect via a VPN. And if you’re using a VPN you can set your location to be somewhere that doesn’t have these requirements. There are other ways that these companies can track you as well and they will freely give this data to the authorities. Even if you’re protect yourself from all of those vectors, if you upload a photo of yourself or someone else tags you then there is a good chance you’re identifiable with tools like ClearView. People making the argument that this new restriction will allow governments to track citizens clearly have no clue about the current surveillance systems. I’m not pro these surveillance systems but this ignorance is dangerous. The biggest danger I see from these new rules are data leaks.

Governments already have access to your data and can easily link you to your social media accounts

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How do pickleball balls fit into this? They’ve got holes in them, is this something I need to look out for?

2022: Yay, I finally got my Canadian citizenship! Crossing the US border will be much smoother now 2025: psych!

How do you have the SAS drive connected to your Mint 22 box (what exact adapter/controller)? Is it going through a real SAS HBA (LSI/Broadcom-style, IT/HBA mode), or through a RAID controller / USB-SAS bridge / “virtual” adapter?

Reason I’m asking: there are basically two connection paths:

• True HBA/passthrough: Linux gets direct SCSI access (you’ll see a /dev/sgX for the disk) and you can usually low-level reformat it back to 512-byte logical blocks (e.g., from 520/528).
• RAID/USB/translation layer: the controller hides or emulates the SCSI commands, so tools like sg_format often can’t issue the low-level format needed to switch the sector size. That might be why the disk is visible in the disks app but not in gparted.

Given the screen shots I believe it’s the later. Can someone smarter than me confirm?

USB enclosures for SAS drives are available

I’m confident this is recoverable. Can you throw the failing drive into a USB enclosure? It might be easier to reformat the drive in the OS you’re most familiar with.

And don’t feel bad about breaking things, that’s the best way to learn! I’ve been breaking things long before ChatGPT came along.