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[~~Help~~ Diagnosis] How to turn off power to NVMe SSD? OR Why/How is my SSD heating up in weird ways?
  • Perhaps your GPU is heating up your SSDs?

    Of course, that is happening to an extent, but the moon is not hotter than the sun, right?


    Also, I later found out, the problem was that the SSD was staying on when I woke from Sleep.

    As to why my OFF temp is higher than your ON temp, it's probably just bad airflow, which I haven't come to fix yet.

  • [~~Help~~ Diagnosis] How to turn off power to NVMe SSD? OR Why/How is my SSD heating up in weird ways?

    I have a multiboot system. One of the installed OS's does not use the NVMe SSD installed on the motherboard at all. At the time of taking the screenshot, all the SSD partitions are unmounted, so apart from detection, the SSD is mostly unused.

    • I would like the temps to drop down to SYSTIN (≈35°C) levels.
    • I know, it's right next to my GPU, but I am not doing anything GPU intensive, the GPU temps are ~37°C ^[apart from GPU memory, which is 48°C due to the awful AMD 7th gen Zero RPM, which has no workarounds on Linux]

    For the unmounted and unused HDDs, I just use hdparm -Y, but there seems to be nothing in terms of that for the SSD. And even though I appreciate the additional heat in winters, this is going to be too expensive for me. I'd rather burn some cheap Nichrome than my data storage device.

    I checked out a Debian forum thread and from that, I checked the following:

    sh ❯ sudo nvme get-feature /dev/nvme0 -f 2 -H get-feature:0x02 (Power Management), Current value:0x00000004 Workload Hint (WH): 0 - No Workload Power State (PS): 4 Showing it is already in the lowest power state.

    I have no active cooling setup for the SSD from my side. This becomes relevant soon.

    • Checking the SSD temps (using the same widget as in the image), the temperature on Sensor 2 starts out at ~40°C (after a normal reboot) and slowly increases to >50°C as shown at the start of the graph. Power State (PS) is still 4.

    • Running KDE partitionmanager, which probably does some reading to check the partition information, at 50°C stage, causes a temperature drop, as shown in the image.

    • Running KDE partitionmanager right after reboot, when the temperature is increasing very sloowly, seems to do nothing significant.

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    • Turns out that after a few minutes of System Standby, the SSD doesn't return to PS: 4, so I have the culprit.
    • Running partitionmanager after that causes it to go back to PS: 4

    So we have a solution! All I need to do is run partitionmanager on wake. nlol jk ___

    Motherboard: MSI MAG X570S TORPEDO MAX (MS-7D54) SSD: Samsung 980 512GB (correct firmware, bought long before the fakes started coming out)

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    In that case, I suggest:

    1. Taking into consideration, the US Govt. mandates and learning Rust.
    • This would only work out in the long term though, as in most places, there is not a demand for it yet
    • I feel like it will catch on, considering they do have some points and a lot of power.
    1. If you are going with the short term one, getting familiar with C, C++ and being able to visualise memory.
    • The visualise memory is required anyway. Alright, maybe not strictly required (I worked in a Govt. workplace and a lot of them could not) but it is important to excel.
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  • Having rules, means we need to be sure everyone follows it. And having a condition in which everyone wants to and strives to follow it, is also something utopian.

    So even if the rules turn out to be desirable, a deterrent would be required. Now of course, for the thoughtful, the deterrent would be the possibility of losing long term stability, but for those who only think of immediate gains, you either have to band up (which eventually causes formation of communities and states) or they band up (= bandits) and eventually become kings (the problematic kind).

    And then these things come into play:
    Cooperation game Pretty good linking of thoughts by Veritasion

    Then comes the most important point (or at least what I consider so). Technological progress. Science is very much viable in Anarchy, with most scientist-scientist interactions not really requiring a state in the first place. You just need an incentive structure that is good enough to make maintenance (including prevention of loss of knowledge) and further improvements, a desirable endeavour. And science can take a lot of resources, while not showing any return for a long time.
    Depending upon the case, this might incite frustration in those, investing in it for those working on it.
    And stagnation is not a possibility. Any attempts at that will just cause a slow downfall.

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    • "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov is one of the only 3 novels I have read, that are were not part of my school course.
    • Another one was some romance novel that I got as a prize for some competition I can't remember and I managed to force myself to read it until the end. Needless to say, I didn't like it. The setting was probably Victorian Era.
    • The third is an English translation of the Light Novel "Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei", which I am not sure when I intend on completing.

    I am a very sloow reader. Foundation was a pretty thin book and I took months. I tend to read a little, imagine it, dream on it and have fun that way and this one turned out to work really well for that. I thought of checking out the Prelude and other parts in the series, but never went ahead with it.

    I have seen myself getting intrigued by the thought the writer (may/may not have) put into the worldbuilding aspect and find myself exploring the same in my mind.

    My habits: I read what I feel like, when I feel like it. I remember having borrowed picture encyclopedias from school libraries as a child and just leisurely reading them. Those things were pretty fun too.

  • People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.
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    A lot of the noise on the screen (and speaker) was affected by radiation from nearby stuff.

    I'd think that nowadays, it would be even more so, with way more WiFi and mobile phone signals everywhere. Now sure, different frequencies mean they would affect less, but the cumulative effect would still be more than the CMBR.

    Also, I have a flat-screen CRT at home.

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    Or why don't we just download an mp3 from soundcloud and use that? It's not like YouTube is giving 1000Kb/s HD audio.

    Oh right, YouTube is right there.

  • "GitHub CI is easy", he said. "It's just `bash` ", he said.

    Until he actually had to use it.

    Took 2 hours of reading through examples just to deploy the site. Turns out, it is hard to do even just the bash stuff when you can't see the container.

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