I have one and it works as a drive but all the seagate software doesn’t run in Linux.

If it’s like the older vtech educational toys it uses some z80 processor, so you won’t be able to run Linux but you can a few different hobbyist microcomputer operating systems like zeal8bit and fuzix.

Unfortunately no.

I remember the selinux controversy and the nsa trying to slip bad algorithms in.

That’s not a civil war though, that’s stoichastic terrorism at least and militia violence at most. I, uh, was just in a disaster in the us where militias were said to have been run off by the national guard and local law enforcement.

It’s still scary, but it’s not civil war.

To give you an idea of how common what you’re describing used to be, when 9/11 happened people who hadn’t already gotten the word from the federal government were blaming it on domestic terrorist organizations and individuals. We had just come off of a decade of federal law enforcement torching Waco, sniping ruby ridge, package bombs, federal building bombs (including wtc!) and school shootings there at the end.

The harmless nut job was such a common idea that the Feds had to really struggle against it when they bungled Waco and ruby ridge.

There’s been thirty years of domestic counter terror training to deal with just this type of situation. Fifty if you count the bender mienhoff group in Europe as the start.

You may see Waco 2.0 but you won’t see a civil war.

No and you should not listen to people who think it could.

A civil war is large scale armed conflict between groups vying for the levers of power. In the case of the American civil war it was over slavery and came to war because there was no mechanism to integrate the south’s elites into the power structures of the north’s or vice versa and the material bases of those two groups power structures were in opposition.

What two groups would fight an American civil war nowadays? Democrats and republicans? They serve the same masters. We are witnessing propaganda bent to the ends of integrating members of one group into another.

Separatist militias? Not only would that not be a civil war, we saw how the fbi handled them in the 90s.

Corporations? Why would they do that? Government already does the unprofitable things they want and does them how they want them.

Separatist states? It’s against the economic interests of the very people who would make up the elite class of the new nation of Texas to submit their borders to taxes and tariffs.

Workers? That’s a revolution, not a civil war.

If someone wants you to fear modern civil war they’re trying to control you.

If someone makes art about a modern civil war they’re trying to tell you about something else on the sly, like with zombies.

No need to worry, disk failures almost never result in fires or hazardous conditions.

A-yuk-yuk-yuk.

Seriously: you have a disk that has failed, based just on that little snippet of the logs, internally (ICRC ABRT). You can either use a tool like spinrite to try and repair it, but you may lose all the data in the process, or replace it.

A user suggested bad cabling and that’s a possibility, one you can check easily if the error is reproducible by swapping the cable. Before I swap cables often I’ll confirm the diagnosis using smartctl and look for whatever the drive manufacturer calls the errors that happen between the media and disk controller chip on the drive. If it has those then there’s no point in trying a cable swap, the problem is not happening there.

People will say that you can’t “fix” bad disks with tools like spinrite or smartctl. I’ve found that to be incorrect. There are certainly times when the disk is kaput but most of the time it’ll work fine and can go back into service.

Of course, that’s recovering from errors when I get an email or text the first time and going back to service in a multi-parity array so lowered criticality and early detection could have lots to do with that experience.

I don’t know of any msi or asus boards with problems. Of course, I rejected coreboot as a requirement so that plays into it.

My personal experience is: don’t overclock and everything will run fine for at least ten years.

Blender works faster with nvidia and it’s been the optimal hardware for maybe two decades now. There’s just so much support and knowledge out there for getting every feature in the tool working with it that I couldn’t in good faith recommend a person use amd cards to have a slightly nicer Wayland experience or a little better deal.

If you’re only doing llm text work then a case could be made for a non cuda (non-nvidia) accelerator. Of course at that point you’d be better served by one of those coral doodads.

Were you only doing text based ml work or was there image recognition/diffusion/whatever in there too?

Nah, anything will work fine.

Just a quick question, are you sure it’s the cpu that died? Those ivy bridge (?) chips really seem to last. I’d be surprised if it was the cpu and not the motherboard or power supply of something.

You have one of the nicer fourth gen chips. It would probably be worth it to take it to a computer shop or something and have them try to boot it with a good board.

If it’s still kicking, those motherboards are cheap as heck. The ddr3 is cheap too.

No reason not to keep it around to run a file server/seedbox/Jellyfin server/whatever.

What desktop?

As a non-Wayland user, I’m glad it’s coming along.

You need to use intel/nvidia.

You might be able to get away with amd instead of intel, but nvenc and cuda support is a non negotiable thing for your use case.

You will not encounter any problems as long as you don’t run Wayland.

Any motherboard is fine. You don’t need coreboot support to run Linux.

They aren’t proprietary, they’re Bluetooth.

Pair them with your computer and they’ll work.

If it’s not turned off then xscreensaver kicks in and draws something.

Hell yeah

I think bazzite uses systemd.

You can use journalctl to see the logs and find out what happened. They’re pretty straightforward to understand.

E: journalctl, not systemctl.

Hey I see that you found hd-idle.

Last time I tried to use it it wasn’t compatible with smartmon.

I would take smartmon over spin down every day of the week.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume the reason you have this problem with power is that you’re running a zfs/md-raid 5 or whatever. It may be a good idea to get away from that configuration. When you write a file to a 3 disk pool with parity, all three drives spin up. The details are a whole nother can of worms but the way that operating systems, busses and hbas interact with disks make this even worse.

I got away from that situation with a mergerfs/snapraid setup where my disks are jbod and writing a file to the pool only spins up one disk (with some caveats) and parity calculation is done at night as a snapshot all at once.

I do not think this saves power, although my power use has been very low in this configuration. I do think this saves drives, because snapraid is decently judicious with spin up/spin down work, amassing all the changes first then calculating what to put where and doing that all at once.

If your primary concern is power use and hard disk life, consider a ssd pool. The density and power consumption are why datacenters switched to them and why 3.5 racks are so cheap now in comparison.

Don’t look too far into android if the browser having a bunch of compatibility exceptions baked in makes you squeamish.

May I interest you in lynx?

Pretty sure it’s always been like this.

The web is a mess. If you do anything on it on any combination of software and hardware and expect security or functionality you’re barking up the wrong tree.

Cups-browsed-eez nutz!