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I didn't actually trust it anymore ever since I noticed, but since it's still in the computer and have it backed up, no harm done playing with it.

In my case, it depends on the occasion/mood, not one versus another. With a phone, I'm not restricted to that one room to that one chair.

I do use it at work for running Skype (few co-workers use Firefox generally). And sometimes at home when I get tired of Pale Moon freezing occasionally.

Nein, das ist nicht gut. Now current pending sector count is over 1000. This drive is done for and the new bigger one costs about 50€ if I was in a hurry. smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.13.0-48-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Green Device Model: WDC WD5000AADS-00S9B0 Serial Number: WD-WCAV94916370 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 102c17ef9 Firmware Version: 01.00A01 User Capacity: 500.107.862.016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s Local Time is: Sun May 14 08:37:22 2023 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (10980) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 129) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x3037) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 8607 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 185 183 021 Pre-fail Always - 3750 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 087 087 000 Old_age Always - 13323 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 047 047 000 Old_age Always - 39160 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 091 091 000 Old_age Always - 9458 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 193 193 000 Old_age Always - 5877 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 131 131 000 Old_age Always - 208324 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 116 101 000 Old_age Always - 27 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 184 184 000 Old_age Always - 1375 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 184 184 000 Old_age Offline - 1372 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 166 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 001 001 000 Old_age Offline - 39925 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 71 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. On an unrelated note, Linux is still not ready for the desktop. Dolphin didn't bother telling me it encountered read errors calculating file checksum. So much for German engineering. Or maybe there are under-the-hood limitations that don't necessarily originate from Germany.

Yikes, not good. I wonder how old is the incident.

I don't think USB issues are exclusive to MiniBrowser. It happened with 360Chrome 13.5.2022.0 today when I plugged a new old (known) USB device, my phone, nothing happened, no LED lighting up, no beep in Windows, nothing. Then I wanted to safely-eject already plugged-in flash drive and the window with the Stop button just froze after I clicked Stop. Then I closed 360Chrome and all started to work normally, phone was picked up by the OS and the flash drive was ejected. Worst, doesn't happen all the time, unknown how to reproduce. Obviously, the browser hijacks some important object and doesn't let it go. Didn't even visit any web site utilizing Web USB. The sloppy nature of these backports I guess.

Current Chromium source suggests SSE3 is detected by running CPUID instruction with EAX register set to 0x00000001 and inspecting if bit 0 of ECX register is set to 1, I also remember seeing trying to execute one of SSE3 instruction directly in one part of the code yesterday to verify availability, but would have to find it again. Reading /proc/cpuinfo would obviously not work on Windows. My Phenom II says SSE3 is supported, along with MONITOR instruction, an odd instruction that is rarely, if ever used. Though executing the latter throws illegal instruction exception. I doubt SSE3/no SSE3 has much impact on Speedometer 2.0, which I find to be a rather meaningless metric in the grand scheme of things. Also UXP browsers are much slower at it, SSE or no SSE. My smartphone with Chromium 113 engine scores about 8 points on it, doesn't make it useless for web browsing. VMware allows specifying returned feature flags when the guest uses CPUID instruction in a configuration file if I remember correctly, although I presume executing SSE3 instructions would work regardless on supported CPUs, so the program that wants them wouldn't use them only if it checks the feature flags and is programmed to not use them if feature flags say no SSE3. This is something I would have to test to be sure. There are some programs out there emulating very old CPUs, I only remember messing with PCem. In absence of owning real SSE3less CPU, emulating is probably the only way to have the "real" CPU without SSE3.

I don't think you can compare full-fledged Ubuntu releases which come with brand new bundled software releases, kernel and drivers supporting newer hardware etc. with Microsoft's service packs. XP from 2017 still can't do windowed Direct3D rendering with optimal performance across multiple screens, can it? Or run with CMOS clock in UTC? Vista had both by SP2, released in 2009.

Actually VARTA. I guess they make some batteries for automotive assembly plants to be fitted to newly manufactured cars. The picture above may eventually disappear, along with the source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234924280418

Ozzy Osbourne - Hellraiser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism

Well, the year is 2023 and Windows XP was released in 2001. Perhaps you are living in the wrong period? Though there is only one sure way through time and that is forward. Thinking back now, I think I exaggerated when I wrote that post here... ...the part about Mozart and DOOM. I guess generally more or less things from the person's own period is used. How much stuff from 1920 do you use? Additionally, and this is important, we're living in a time where these things develop rapidly, unlike when nothing changed in the person's entire lifetime. Anyway, is there a technical reason one should expect different results when Glarysoft's Quick Startup is running on XP that runs on bare hardware versus under a virtualizer?

Do XP users ever use Google Street View? It's a lag fest in UXP, 360Chrome, whatever.

Perhaps my words sound too frightening. Indeed they are. You just have to look past the meaningless distractions and see the meat grinder for what it is. https://teddit.net/r/MorbidReality/ Also, I'm sure @NotHereToPlayGames looks just fine the way he is and even if he does look to odd to someone, that's not a reason to attack him or anyone else for that matter. It just occured to me that I've heard several times now that also applies to country where I'm from that some people are afraid to go out in the night time while that wasn't the case 30+ years ago or so. Anyway, I'm tired and need the leave, which I'm taking very soon. School was much better in that regard, a week off every season and Christmas / new year period and 2 months off every summer. Now it's just work work work...what's the point? In any case, I remain a cynic.

In recent years, they write a new blog for a new release. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/ BTW, I made a jump from Chromium WebView 87 to 113 on my Android today. Whooping 26 versions difference, 20 MB bigger APK (65 MB -> 85 MB), only 4 MB left on the system partition, hanging at the bottom of the minimum system requirements list, 7 Android versions behind the latest already. Doesn't feel slower than the old one TBH, will see if the glitch with the blackness can still occur.

I don't know, it does exist on GitHub, but I'm not familiar with npm and whether compiling it would give an injectable version.

What I'm seeing and hearing out there is pretty scary. If it's paranoia, I think it's justified.

Does no one read the console errors anymore? Object.hasOwn() is required, implemented since Chrome 93.

It's not surprising at all. People are insufferable, scum everywhere you look, lying, deceiving, stepping over each other for monetary gain, psychological violence etc. It is my opinion if you take the gun and shoot some random people, it's highly likely you've done more good for the world than bad. Heck, that bullet in the head was probably too good for them. I believe it's better for one's mental health to avoid as much contact with other people as possible and reduce the chances of ending up in harm's way. Indeed that would be easier with sufficient wealth or at least if you manage to find a tolerable job that doesn't involve dealing with other people.

Oh, it just got confused because the clock went back by two hours in the middle of it, XP can't timekeep properly with RealTimeIsUniversal=1 setting. It got through in about 1,5h. At the end, it said it found bad sectors that may be repairable and offered to repair them, then after clicking Repair, it said it repaired them, but S.M.A.R.T. doesn't show any improvement. I imagine running full erase from that program won't help either, but I can try. No spare sectors/damaged spare sectors? Edit: Erasing disk also zeroed pending sector count, but didn't increase reallocated event count. Offline uncorrectable is at 25, some sources say this one never resets.

Testing. Nice times, eh?

There was another shooter in Serbia yesterday, this time, a 21 year old. How 'bout we all start shooting each other?

I think along the same lines. How many of you are just existing instead of living (whatever that means )?

Yes, that's what I meant, thanks for the hint. Having the program make the log while imagining was helpful, those sectors are logged there, but can also be extracted into a separate log file. When you're looking at the image you made, those sectors aren't offset by partition starting sector, so when you're looking at the log and want to navigate to particular sector, subtract the partition start sector from the logged bad sector to get to the same sector in the image as you would on partition on the disk. I got everything sorted now. Some files were read successfully during Robocopy, others during imaging. 2 out of 9 files that were problematic to read at one point couldn't be read successfully in either attempt. Now all that's left is to decide what to do with the disk.

Indeed a lot of troubled youngsters out there. Belgrade shooting: Teen made 'kill list' for Serbia school attack Serbia in shock after school shooting leaves eight children and a security guard dead