Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @lauriewired on Thread Reader App – SSDs are shockingly bad at power off retention, esp if it’s near it’s endurance rating.
Your files are dying.
That SSD you keep in the closet, the one from your old system “just in case”. Yup, degrading as we speak.
SSDs are *shockingly* bad at power off retention, esp if it’s near it’s endurance rating.
The JEDEC standard only requires 1 year of unpowered data retention at 30C after max TBW (writes).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14
Back in the days, Plextor made a series of great PlexWriter CD and DVD/RW devices. This is how to get them working again:
[Wayback/Archive] Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “@jpluimers Usually the trays are a little sticky on these: I take them apart, grease up the tray mechanism and any gears (use lithium grease), clean the laser with Isopropyl alcohol, clean all the connectors with WD40 contact cleaner, retro-bright the front – job done!” (retrobright thread further down this blog-post)
Via [Wayback/Archive] Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “I’ve fully refurbished the Plextor PlexWriter on the bottom, inside and out, I need to get these other three sorted! 👍 💿📀📀📀”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/07
Nice [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jhewitt_net on Thread Reader App that started with [Wayback/Archive] Joseph Hewitt on Twitter: “I bought some cheap aliexpress directional 2.4GHz antennas. As expected, they aren’t very good. (A small thread)”:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31
[Wayback/Archive] Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community was a great question that I had myself for a long time.
TL;DR: On Windows, you can either cycle focus using F6, Alt + Shift + b to use the keyboard for getting focus to the bookmarks bar.
This is not officially documented for Windows/Linux at [Wayback/Archive] Chrome keyboard shortcuts – Computer – Google Chrome Help:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
For my link archive on the Apple 30-pin Dock Connector:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/03
Yup, I have been in the Ring ecosystem since way before Amazon took them over, and it is kind of hard to part from the useful cameras, so here is for my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Latest Products/Feature Request Board topics – Ring Community
Via two suggestions I did:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/02
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive.is] Converting Phono Inputs to Line-Level
It shows for some receiver models how to have the Phono input signals bypass the preamplifier (preamp) so they effectively become Line level inputs and there is no need for an extra devices that undoes RIAA equalisation.
If that fails, then you need something like the [Wayback/Archive.is] Line level to phono input converter diagram:
Or get you a [Wayback/Archive.is] iRIAA2 – Inverse RIAA Filter – Hagerman Audio Labs
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/27
A while ago there was an interesting point of using tiered md to both obtain low read latency and write safety on the Google Cloud Platform in [Wayback/Archive] How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
It is an interesting approach to universally tune performance within the sketched boundaries, but raised some questions as their aim was improving ScyllaDB performance and Unix-like platforms on Google Cloud Platform can supports ZFS.
In this case Discord wanted to improve their ScyllaDB that was already read/written from GCP Persistent Storage and used tiered md to improve that.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/20
Yup, old model, but this is supposed to work: [Wayback/Archive] How to lock the Philips TV after a specific time? | Philips
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/11
I wish I had bumped into this page a way sooner as it contains most if not all the keyboard symbols I ever looked for: [Wayback/Archive] Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫
The page contains a lot more than just this diagram (which already is a great start):
⎋ ` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = ⌫ ⎀ ⤒ ⇞ ⇥ Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ] \ ⌦ ⤓ ⇟ 🄰 A S D F G H J K L ; ' ↵ ⇧ Z X C V B N M , . / ⇧ ↑ ⎈ ❖ ⎇ ␣ ⎇ ❖ ▤ ⎈ ← ↓ → 🌐 ⌃ ⌥ ⌘
Some more symbols are at these pages:
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