My 2011 iPad 3rd gen.
A lightweight Linux distribution would make that thing killer for word processing and document reading. Might even allow YouTube videos to be watched again.
Any equivalent Android tablet would have custom ROMs etc. to get a bit more functionality out of it. I know it's not a tablet, but look at the Samsung galaxy SII - the amount of community development for that is incredible to this day.
Gotta love Australian politicians. This is the same bloke who, a week earlier, was campaigning against gay marriage.
You've seen a Willis Jeep, right? Marginally faster than a golf cart, but slightly less protection.
Cinnamon doesn't support it yet either, so I'm also not on it :(
In Australia, you can't choose the suppliers. All the gas comes from the same place.
You can, however, choose the billing company. And it's the same story for electricity.
I take it webmail is due to Exchange-based mail?
The €10 I pay a year for Exquilla is worth its weight in gold. It's about the only thing on my system that's not FOSS, but I'm not even mad because it works. 9.5/10 would recommend.
There is a reason why I don't use Windows on devices I own.
This. This is the reason.
0-100°F also has more individual degrees than -18-38°C, and when a couple degrees can make a big difference for indoor comfort (or the heating bill), I appreciate more granularity.
Ah yes, because I've always found 16.5°C such a difficult concept. Decimal places are hard.
I concede the "human" scale could be handy to some, but I mean - the civilised world uses metres, not feet - why should it be any different with temperature?
Just corebooted my X230T daily driver. I've had the x220 keyboard for years and just upgraded the WiFi card, too. I want to keep this thing running as long as possible!
Haha thanks. I think it's a lost cause! Perhaps I shouldn't have worded the post the way I did.
I suspect this is what I'll have to do. I was hoping to avoid it as that'll take a weekend of copying, but I might just have to bite the bullet.
I'm not using Windows. I run Debian on this server.
The bulk of external enclosures that money can buy tell the computer they're plugged into that the disks have logical sector sizes of 4096 bytes, apparently for compatibility with >2TB drives on Windows XP.
I do not need compatibility with Windows XP as the current year is 2024. My disk has logical sectors 512 bytes in size, but the external enclosures don't report that. I want to know how I can mount the disk anyway, despite the enclosure's attempts to thwart me. I know the disk is fine, as it is detected with 512 byte sectors and mounts happily via SATA.
The only enclosure I have that works out of the box is one of those "SATA to USB adaptors" rather than a bona fide "3.5 inch drive enclosure". It's not ideal for long-term use.
I wonder if there's a place to find out if any given make/model of enclosure will report the sector size as 512 bytes. Then, presumably, one could purchase an enclosure off that list and be confident the disk will be readable.
Hi All,
I have a 4TB drive that was originally in a PC connected via SATA. I now wish to put it in an external enclosure and connect it via USB, however this is proving more difficult than I expected, and from what I understand it's Windows XP's fault.
On attempting to mount the drive with sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt, I receive the following error:
mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
The output of fdisk -l is as follows:
```
Disk /dev/sdc: 3.64 TiB, 4000787025920 bytes, 976754645 sectors
Disk model: Expansion Desk
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 1 4294967295 4294967295 16T ee GPT ```
As can be seen, the disk is detected correctly as a 3.64TiB drive, but there is a partition that's read as 16TB. This, AFAIK, is because the sectors are incorrectly read as 4096 bytes long when they should be 512 bytes, and this is a thing that external enclosures do to ensure MBR compatibility with Windows XP.
I tried overcoming this by mounting as follows:
$ sudo mount -o ro,offset=$((1*512)) /dev/sdc1 /mnt
however now I have a new error:
mount: /mnt: failed to setup loop device for /dev/sdc1.
Trying to mount with sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt only yields
mount: /mnt: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist.
I'm at a loss as to how to mount this drive - at least, without reformatting it. Is it at all possible? Once I've cracked the code, can I configure /etc/fstab to do it automatically for me, or am I stuck in this limbo-land where I have data on my disk that's only readable with a hacky workaround? As a last resort, I think I can plug it back in via SATA, copy all 4TB off, plug it in via USB, reformat it and copy everything back on, but I want to avoid that hassle.
Edit: Output of fdisk -l when connected via SATA. Note the sector size is now 512 and the drive mounts happily.
```
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.7 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Disk model: HGST HDN724040AL
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 5852E3A7-A2E4-4589-9D93-F8020C2D7E54
Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdb1 2048 7814035455 7814033408 3.7T Linux filesystem ```
Hopefully this is the right community to ask this question in.
I have been tasked with providing a way for a small team to send and receive text messages via a real mobile phone from their computers. Having daily driven Fedora since 2017, my first thought was KDE Connect SMS. Unfortunately, I have to be able to support Windows in this endeavour.
As such, I have three questions:
- KDE connect is available for Windows, however as far as I can figure kpeoplevcard is not. Am I mistaken? Is there a way to get contact names syncing successfully in a Windows environment, even just one-way?
- Despite the notification permission being granted on Android, incoming text messages produce no notification on Windows. I have read this may be a fault that occurs when the Android client was installed from F-Droid. Is this the case? I haven't made a Google account for this device, so perhaps I need to do that and install the Play Store version.
- MMS images appear fine in the KDE Connect SMS application, however they are only thumbnail sized and can not be saved as a file or copied. Can they at least be made bigger, if not exported?
I'm worried that KDE Connect may not be the correct choice for this use-case if these issues don't have workarounds. I may have to use Google's Messages for Web, but that doesn't allow concurrent connections from multiple PCs like KDE Connect does - and it will mean I have to deal with Google.
I jumped off Reddit's cliff and landed here just like many other Lemmings.