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00:04
If you pronounce .gif as "jif", then how do you pronounce .jiff? -.-
Oh, I just realized it's jfif and not jiff
Would this be an appropriate place to get a little help with my linux installation? I'm a bit confused about partitioning.
00:27
@Sermo shoot
We will point you at the site if it's a better fit
Thanks for the hospitality. I'll try to upload a picture of what I'm talking about to make it easier. Is there an easy way to do that?
https://ibb.co/3kC89x3 https://ibb.co/GJ292gy

So, in the first picture, I have a partitioned drive "Ubunut (D:)." From my understanding, that should make it to where I can load Ubuntu onto that volume, thus having the ability to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu on two seperate hard drives.

But as you can see in the second picture, when I get to the installation screen of Ubuntu, there are no volumes that say "195.31 GB." I'm afraid to download it onto any of the others because I'm too unknowledgeable about this stuff, and I feel like it'll wreck my computer.
Sorry for the long post.
@JourneymanGeek
Ah uhm
I'm on my phone and can't see the images too well
If no one else pipes up I'll see when I get home
Alright, appreciate it. :)
01:22
@Sermo You can work it out logically. You have 2 physical drives.
One has 3 partitions, and the other has 2.
You want to install Ubuntu on the smaller partition of the drive with only 2 partitions.
So there's really only one option.
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Q: Why Ubuntu and Windows show different amount of free space

lullabyFor all my NTFS partitions, Ubuntu always shows 1~2GB more free space than Windows. What's the cause of this? Will some of my files be overwritten just because Ubuntu thinks there is more free space than there actually is?

This explains why there's a difference between the displayed size.
So, that drive with 209.7 should work?
@MichaelFrank
01:38
@user30773 Yea
Thanks!
 
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02:59
How do I get drivers for my Logitech G430? It's not connecting :(
On ubuntu
 
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07:21
@user30773 did you google it?
08:19
morning
wooo hi.
 
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12:31
(inside Whitehall Street station)
Anyone got an email with tittle "The Overflow issue #1"?
12:46
I did
i deleted it
13:07
Engagement drives site impressions. Site impressions mean revenue.
Every dollar counts.
Revenue-focused thinking promotes those who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing
It's dramatically changed the way I manage spend. Every purchase is heavily scrutinized.
@bertieb SURVEYS
13:30
@bwDraco why did you edit out the location then immediately tell us the location?
13:59
@Burgi The coordinates were wrong.
hmmm....
oh ZenDesk got hacked
14:15
> September 24, 2019, we determined that information belonging to a small percentage of customers was accessed prior to November of 2016.
something about these days
oh wait that's it
3 years!
 
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15:51
oh
16:26
> Even so, we indicate that the storage device in all phone models can be worn out in a matter of days to a few weeks. In the two budget smartphones "BLU 512MB" and "BLU 4GB" the eMMC chip did not provide reliable wear-out indications. However, both phones were bricked within two weeks.
"bricked within two weeks"
That's... disturbing.
17:18
what's global entry?
ah....
not randal's best
heh thought for the day: how long before we ban bullet points because might cause PTSD
@bwDraco hardly standard usage tho
We repeatedly rewrote small, randomly-selected regions of four
100MB files on each external card, and measured the wear-out
indicator, shown in Figure 2. The results show that the required I/O
volume is mostly constant throughout the lifetime of the devices.
Specifically, it takes a maximum of 992GiB to increment the wearout level by 10% in the 8GB eMMC chip. From the OS’s perspective,
this is roughly three times lower than the “back-of-the-envelope”
three thousand or more complete rewrites. Moreover, at a maximum
i'mma write files over and over 24/7 then derp when it no worky
18:02
@djsmiley2k lol
Yeah. I'm more curious about whether there do exist real-world applications that do that.
Considering that some flagships have SSD-level storage, where one can write dozens or even hundreds of terabytes to the NAND before it fails, it's less of an issue these days.
Even midrange phones have way more storage than 8 GiB these days. (The standard North American configuration of the $350 Samsung Galaxy A50 has 64 GB of storage, with provision for expansion via microSDXC slot.)
Heck, the fact that newer phones have more RAM than ever before means that more write caching is possible, turning random I/O into less demanding sequential I/O.
I have a 128 GB microSDXC card in my Galaxy Note10+ but it's more for convenience than expansion.
Aside from enterprise workloads, video editing, or buggy applications (e.g. Spotify doing significant fractions of a drive write per day), this kind of failure is rare on PCs with reasonably-sized SSDs. (Systems with 32 GB or less of eMMC storage are more likely to experience endurance failures, but I digress.)
18:18
i'm beginning to think SD cards in phones are utterly pointless
yesterday, by bwDraco
https://twitter.com/bwDraco/status/1179564746078609408
yeah i run into similar issues with my parent's phones
to allow an app to run from the SD card the app developer must enable a flag when compiling it
and most don't bother
facebook and google are the biggest offenders in my experience
Oh yah that sucks
it should be a mandatory option
yup
i'mma going shop, anyone want anything?
(god I remember when people would ask that in chatrooms and stuff hahah)
18:23
my dad's phone has 8GB internal storage and he bought a 64GB sd card
WRT the Spotify bug... I would have caught it within days or even hours because I obsessively watch disk writes in CrystalDiskInfo.
however the SD is almost empty because i can't move the apps to it
so i'll get a phone call weekly telling me the phone is out of storage space
why am i half the star wall :D
we are the only two left here that say anything worthwhile....
fibble fobble
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I had a perfectly cromulent reference
Yeah
I shoulda seen that coming ;-P
It's Friday, at about Silly O'Clock
18:38
its later than that
more like Mad O'Clock
19:12
rI have 1.5 chineses in front of me to eat \o/
 
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20:35
I failed.
 
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22:19
Got a pair of Galaxy Buds. First impressions are very good; the soundstage isn't as broad as my Sennheiser PXC 550, but they still sound great.
I wanted to get the Sony WF-1000XM3, but the reviews really turned me away. I can't spend $230 on earbuds when I can't be sure they'll perform as advertised.

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