#MemorialDay in the #US harks back to the #dead on the Northern side after the #CivilWar. It was also, says this article, about #race,.

https://amyfried.substack.com/p/memorial-day-woke-history-race?r=cwku&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

The C64 Dead Test Font

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2026/c64-dead-test-font

#HackerNews #C64 #Dead #Test #Font #retrocomputing #Commodore64 #programming #techhistory #vintagegaming

This is the back of the HDD with the view of the panel without the hard disk controller

#LLM #slop #AI #miscreant #price #gouging #HDD #hardware #dead #drives #Azul #Photography #chatgpt #fuckyou

This is another controller identical to the one of the broken HDD

Of course you understand why I want to revive the broken Drive. With this controller the HDD boots properly

However this controller has problems with the parking routines for the head assembly.

As a net result I still have 4 TiB that i can't access on a good drive because the replacement controller has another issue

#LLM #slop #AI #miscreant #price #gouging #HDD #hardware #dead #drives #Azul #Photography #chatgpt #fuckyou

HDD in Azul

This is a sublime dark blue rendering of a SATA HDD

I created The composition of this Drive to contrast the sad fact that it's controller finally gave up and died a Silent Death.

The HDD controller fried itself after 19 years of dependable service.
My drive bay suddenly went into short protection, which gave me the indication that there was something wrong with the power circuit.

I naively thought that it was something else, not realizing how long this drive has worked, stable, quietly, as hard as it can, as dependable as it can be. That's something I was not used to from Seagate consumer drives. It's partner drive died more than 10 years ago. It still made it to commendable age

I would have replaced this drive and many others if hard drive prices were normal:

• 8 TB HDD USD$120
• 16 TB HDD USD 300
• 22 TB HDD USD 450

All these drives are consumer grade none of them are server drives. Now I need a total of 128 TB of new HDD space. That's because I not only need to replace but I also need to expand the space

I will have to buy hard drives at the exorbitant prices which are now current. Now the LLM large language model slop shit hits hard here

Since I don't have the cash for this free I need to get myself sponsoring the drive space is needed for computing work

LLM price gouging sucks sweaty wet balls

At least I have been able to get myself a beautiful composition of the corps of the drive

#LLM #slop #AI #miscreant #price #gouging #HDD #hardware #dead #drives #Azul #Photography #chatgpt #fuckyou