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I was surprised to find out that today I earned a badge / popular link for this stupid thing 
Now I’m curious as to who has been digging up my old posts 
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I mean, arguably we’re just glorified ML networks, too. If you think about it, all of our thoughts are from a cascade of neurons firing.
But yeah, ChatGPT is way too primitive to be considered a true AI (although we’re getting there with O1 and reasoning).
Also, happy new years! 
(Sorry I’m late lol)
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Don’t… Back when I did psychology at college in 2009 (god I feel old) I had a mental breakdown over that exact thought… Haha
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This is what we do on IF every time the admin creates something new
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Awww 
I just setup pihole, not on my router, but on aws with both dns over tls and dns over https 
Ah, relaxing to see the dashboard without css
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my eyes are burning 
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I just had a laptop in for repair, running extremely slowly with a mountain of garbage apps installed with popups all over the place
I quickly checked the s.m.a.r.t. data on on the hdd which showed 100% and told the customer that your drive looks ok so its probably just your messed up windows causing all the trouble
I then started a fresh windows 10 install and noticed that the installer was extremely slow I mean really really slow so I shut off the laptop, removed the hdd and tested the s.m.a.r.t. again and this is when I noticed weird values
The lifetime hours was 0, the start stop count was 0, basically everything was 0 or default values and I suspect that this drive was some junk drive that has had its memory reflashed to appear as a 100% fresh new drive
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I’ve seen these kinds of things when I was working in device repair. I don’t understand why people make crap drives like that. I’ve had a customer who replaced his HDD with an SSD that he purchased from Amazon, and noticed that his laptop wouldn’t boot. The SSD claimed to be 160GB, open it up and it’s a 5GB crap USB flash connected to a faker board. Open the USB and it has 2 2.5GB microSD cards on a faker board. Customer paid $69 for the drive. Since it was a nice day for me, I only charged half of the price of drive replacement, OS installation always free.
At least I’m not the only one dealing with these fake parts 
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Yikes! Well, if it works for you, it works, right? 
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I used to work at a computer market with many different traders one of which was a friend of mine
One day two dodgy looking dudes were walking around with a box containing 200 x 500GB 100% health SATA HDD’s wanting to sell the whole box for £500 which is only £2.50 per drive, I warned my friend that this sounds very dodgy but he checked about 5 drives and they all are showing 100% health so he bought them
Not a single drive worked
Possibly this drive came from the same guys ?
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I thought I’d seen it all when a freidnd of mine purchased a “1pb” sata drive, that turned out to be a 12gb usb a converter, and a pile of washers in a hdd case…
that was… intresting.
Wouldn’t doubt it 
If tech lies, people buy. While it reads 100% health, the real (and forever ) test is speed.
Welp, that’s new!
They do it to take your money. Ship $5 of garbage for $50 for something that should cost $150 and people will buy it thinking they’ll have a great deal.
I think LTT once did a video where they tested some “too good to be true” drives from AliExpress or a similar marketplace.
Hmm, my first guess was firmware corruption, but this probably makes more sense.
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I think it was intentional firmware corruption, probably a half-arsed hacked firmware to always read good but they forgot to let the stop/start count up
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If they are wanting to make money, why do they bother to sell crap? If enough people go against the seller, they lose money.
Because it’s a scam operation. Even if their store is taken down, they’ll just create a new one easily. It’s also worth noting that many people who fall for it probably never report it. If you know enough about technology to recognize it as a shady crap drive in person, then you probably also know that the price is too good to be true anyways.
Unfortunately the nature of e-commerce can make it difficult to fully stop these types of scammers, especially if they’re located somewhere where the law enforcement is either unable or unwilling to do anything about it.
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Just spent an entire day (from 8 to 5 with an hour break for lunch) trying to get a fresh installation of home assistant to boot from an SSD on a Pi 4. Very annoyed, very frustrated.
Now I just have to restore my old backup …
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