I am "nervous about my laptop sitting at an angle because that can damage the hard drive" years old

@gudenau @0xabad1dea When I got my first SSD I put it in my Laptop and did that, only to discover that my Laptop has hardware on the motherboard that parks the drive when it detects rapidly changing G-Forces.

Which is great if you have a mechanical hard drive, but this SSD did not gracefully recover from rapidfire park commands.

@0xabad1dea what is it like to miss out on being "marble blast gold on the school computer" years old

@0xabad1dea Just reminded me I used to manually degauss the family CRT with a magnet from some science kit

@0xabad1dea I am “sync; sync; sync; shutdown” years old.

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Magnets and CRTs, name a more iconic duo
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Lol, when I was at school in the Late 80's we had lots of BBC Micro's on a network that was connected to a 10mb Hard Drive.
It had its own special room (Big Cupboard) and absolutely no one was allowed physical access to it other than the two specific computer studies teachers who were also maths teachers. We were given dire warning and threats of expulsion from school if anyone ever went near it.

@krutonium @0xabad1dea isn't it the hard drive that's supposed to do that?

@darthnull @0xabad1dea wait, wasn't the idea specifically that you should type each sync manually, because the delay of a human typing in the additional syncs is what let the first sync finish??

@gudenau @0xabad1dea IIRC not all of them do? And HP was being proactive, which I do appreciate.

I later ended up figuring out how to read the values from it and made my Screen rotate using the gyro.

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Laptop platter drive: Vrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzznk... chk. chk. chk. chk. chk... Vrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzznk... chk. chk. chk. chk. chk.

Me: ​​

@0xabad1dea I am “typing ‘win’ to start Windows” years old

@krutonium I wonder if you can use the sensors in hard drives with smart data to do that with just a hard drive.

@considermycat @0xabad1dea I’m “typing LOAD “” and then sitting through three to six minutes of screaming noises” years old.

@hedders @0xabad1dea “typing in three pages of machine code from Sinclair User only for it not to work”

@considermycat @0xabad1dea Hah! Yes. Very precisely this.

@gudenau Almost certainly, but I bet the "how" is vendor specific, and largely undocumented lol.

@mei @0xabad1dea I guess it depends on whether the sync command waits for completion, or just launched the sync system call asynchronously.

Realistically it was probably never *really* a big deal on most of the systems I picked up the habit on (Ultrix 3, SunOS 4, etc.)

@0xabad1dea Ah, but are you “nervous about a pacemaker being too close to a microwave” old?