living in a bruh moment

You should, it’s never been better. I don’t play it as much as I should.

I sure don’t miss having to move the stupid jumpers for master/slave drives and then losing one of the bastards and having to try and jam a paperclip alongside the pins with some scotch tape to insulate it. Cable select was always a lie.

This gives me Warframe Corpus faction vibes…

Raining is the state of the weather outside. The “it” is implied to be the weather, because nothing else can really be raining.

-Must be paid

-Get employee input on desires and liked events before planning anything.

-Make sure deadlines are accounted for and adjusted a day or two later to compensate for a lost days work. getting a paid event but knowing in the back of your head that it’s going to make you fall behind on what you had laid out for the day is the absolute worst.

I’ve not once had an issue with our dbzero admins in terms of disinformation or censorship. We’re big on “free as in pirate freedom”. They’re proactive and very engaged with the community too. Come give us a look.

Not even good soup. Real soups use some kind of broth to give a lot of base flavor.

About 449 Rankine should be perfect.

The chess square is not aligned with the monitor pixels so it is sharp edged on the bottom and left, but has a blended border on the top and right.

You’re welcome.

We are all the sons of someone’s crotch

Adapter or caddy is fine. Can get them on most shopping sites for cheap.

IIRC from my old office PC slinging days, a lot of those cases with 5-1/4 bays usually had slots for mounting screws that would allow you to mount a 3.5 drive flush to one sideusijg 2 screws. Then you get a 1-3/4" 6-32 screw stand off, thread it into the drive, and use that to mount it to the other side of the 5-1/4 bay.

Did that a lot to really old reused cases where there were a ton of 5-1/4 bays but only one 3.5 bay.

all in on two pair

Stack the jeans

Trucks should either be a 1992 Ford Ranger extended cab or a full-size commercial box truck or flatbed for actual commerical hauling needs. Most trucks in the midrange between those levels are just bad at both worlds.

Nah, they’ll make corporations immune from it but the normal consumer will still have to deal with licensing hell

At best it let’s you get a few gigs of data out, at worst it doesn’t work and you’re back to where you were (which was nothing). Doesn’t really hurt the drive at all.

So, my first goto with an unresponsive external would be to remove the drive from its enclosure. Typically these are retail internal hard drive that are put in an enclosure with a small circuit board that converts SATA to a USB or firewire and sometimes those die.
If you “shuck” the drive and connect it directly to a computer internally via SATA you can bypass that board.

Next step is put the drive in your freezer for an hour or so then pull it out and connect it immediately. Sometimes this frees them up and makes them work for a short while, enough to copy some of the data off.

Drives not being recognized also sometimes happens if they corrupt one sector that’s part of the file system tables and not the actual file system. The drive may be there but not have a file system for windows to read So there’s some other tricks you can try using Linux tools to dump the exact bit for bit contents of the drive, and pass them thru an analyzer that will try to pick out what’s likely of the file structure.

However, still given the drives age, I’ll almost guarantee it’s experienced a full mechanical failure and there might not be anything to recover…

Your house is insanely easy to break into unless it’s built with special materials or has steel bars over all openings.

Disregarding the fact that windows break, pretty much every residential door (both interior and exterior) can be busted down by anyone with a decent body weight or with a framing hammer. Hammer thru the door skin, or claw pry on the jamb to force the latch to release, or even just bodyslamming it can be enough to separate the lock block and stiles and the doors will simply fall apart from there.

Can you hear or feel the drive spinning with the power and USB plugged in?

Do you have a second computer (Linux or windows) to also try it in?

A brief search seems to indicate this drive is a minimum of 15 years old, which is an incredible age for a portable mechanical drive. I would honestly be preparing yourself to be dealing with this drove finally being cooked beyond repair. Sure hope you kept backups of what was on it!

Might be 6’3 if he was stretched out on one of those Medieval torture racks.