dmention7

dmention7 , 6 days ago to Selfhosted in HDD data recovery

For a quick and dirty clean room run the shower really hot for a few minutes to make a bunch of steam and then wait for the humidity to naturally equalize, boom you got a few minutes to do your swap job.

I've never heard of this... what's the idea behind it? That you get the RH near 100%, and any dust particles will be a nucleation point for water to condense on, causing them to literally rain out of the air?

dmention7 , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in How much does it matter what type of harddisk i buy for my server?

On the power disable feature topic, I've only bought a few used enterprise drives from Goharddrive.com and Serverpartsdeals.com, but they both included a handy little SATA power adapter with each drive for exactly that reason.

The first desktop I installed them in worked just fine with the factory PSU cables, but when I upgraded I was left scratching my head for a few minutes until I remembered those adapters!

dmention7 , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs

To be fair, this post is pretty much the epitome of mildly infuriating.

dmention7 , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs

Not discounting your mild infuriation, but I am 100% certain that if they switched to being individually wrapped tomorrow, a complaint about excessive packaging would be one of the top posts here.

I'm not sure about Germany, but these have been sold in the US for decades now, and have always been 2 bars per wrapper as long as I can remember.

dmention7 , 2 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Annoyingly similar buttons with very different functions

On top of that, I swear the UI changes 1-2 times per year with software updates. It's hard to pinpoint since I'm usually 90% asleep when interacting with the alarm, but I know it has changed from tap to swipe and switched sides at least once since I got my last phone in 2022.

There is absolutely no reason for that shit. If you look at an old school alarm clock, the snooze button is the size of a small country, and there is usually a much smaller button or sliding switch to make damn sure you meant to turn the alarm off.

dmention7 , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Every single jigsaw puzzle in the store was one of these.

I have this exact puzzle!

The small differences actually make it fun to put together, and my spouse and I both enjoyed it!.

7/10
10/10 with rice

dmention7 , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Signed up for direct deposit to reduce paper waste, but now I get a letter stating that I'll be getting a direct deposit...

Honestly there is enough rage bait everywhere else, so it's nice to have a place to commiserate over the truly petty annoyances in life.

dmention7 , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Signed up for direct deposit to reduce paper waste, but now I get a letter stating that I'll be getting a direct deposit...

Yeah, this is only mildly infuriating!

dmention7 , 3 months ago to Technology in Outlook (new)

The big one for me is drag/drop, copy/paste, saving of emails and attachments between Outlook and the rest of Windows/Office is completely borked.

I have to keep both versions open at work to keep from going completely insane.

dmention7 , 3 months ago to Comic Strips in Marital Mirth!

I honestly can't tell if it's a legit "wife bad" comic or a parody of the trope.

dmention7 , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in According to my camera's focus assist, this is perfectly focused

You're 100% right. Im going to look into a remedial reading course at the local elementary school.

dmention7 , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in According to my camera's focus assist, this is perfectly focused

Sorry, I don't know what the hell was going on that my brain interpreted your post to say you were using a phone. Thanks for not being a dick in return, even though you would have been justified 😅

dmention7 , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in According to my camera's focus assist, this is perfectly focused

TBH, that's significantly better than I would have expected for photos of the stars taken on a phone.

FYI stars (and anything over a few hundred feet actually) is at an infinite distance as far as your phone's optics are concerned. So it's not a matter of focusing, it's a matter of trying to resolve what are effectively pinpoints of light on a black background while in your hand, where the minutest movement will smear them across the sensor.

Photographing the stars is not trivial, even with a real camera and a tripod.

dmention7 , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in The milk has gone bad

I feel like this joke has been done 1000 times, but I still lold

dmention7 , 4 months ago to Technology in You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

I actually didn't, which was the main reason I replied.

It's fairly common to see people arguing as though a thing is either risky or not risky, without any sense of context.