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A couple made a deal that whoever died first would come back and inform the other of the afterlife. Their biggest fear was that there was no after life at all.
After a long life together, the husband was the first to die. True to his word, he made the first contact:
- "Marion... Marion"
- "Is that you, Bob?"
- "Yes, I've come back like we agreed."
- "That's wonderful! What's it like?"
- "Well, I get up in the morning, I have sex. I have breakfast and then it's off to the golf course. I have sex again, bathe in the warm sun and then have sex a couple of more times. Then I have lunch (you'd be proud - lots of greens). Another romp around the golf course, then pretty much have sex the rest of the afternoon. After supper, it's back to golf course again. Then it's more sex until late at night. I catch some much needed sleep and then the next day it starts all over again"
- "Oh, Bob are you in Heaven?"
- "No!!! I'm a rabbit in Arizona...."
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How you get this that fast?
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I searched also in CP to be more or less sure not to re post. But my search abilities on CP seems to be weak 
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Don't blame yourself for the weird search system here. It is difficult to use.
Tips from my experiences over the years:
Use QUOTEs around multiple words, e.g. "my search abilities".
Use capitals for AND, e.g. "my search abilities" AND "seems to be weak".
When searching for a joke, there can be variants in the lead-up, but the punchline is usually the same, so search for the punchline. Try not to include names (of people and places), as they vary more widely.
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Thanks 
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Perhaps this should become a pinned message, or, posted somewhere prominently on this site. Because there are many of us who are illiterate about searching on CP.
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I thought I'd finally have a reason to have a machine running some version of Linux on bare metal, and not in a VM. But nope, still found some show-stopper that sent me right back to Windows.
I bought a 5-bay USB-C hard drive enclosure. I thought I'd dedicate a machine to run TrueNAS, and put some of my smaller(-ish)/retired drives to use again in a software RAID configuration.
Apparently I had silly expectations. Software RAID over a USB connection is "just not reliable enough", so TrueNAS doesn't support it. Only one of the drives is showing up in the web-based admin UI. Supposedly you can drop to a command prompt and build the drive pool from there, but (a) they strongly recommend against it and (b) if you subsequently keep using the admin UI to manage it, you risk breaking things. And "breaking things", when it comes to a RAID configuration, usually means very, very bad things. So that's a non-starter for me.
I thought I had done my homework; people rave about TrueNAS; it's described as professional-grade, yet user-friendly and (bonus) open-source. I had come to the understanding you could throw just about anything at it, and it'll work. But reality is, 10 minutes after a fresh install, this is where I found myself.
Yet puny, crappy Windows sees all drives, and its decades old Disk Manager will dutifully create a software RAID out of them without a complaint, or warning.
I want to like Linux. I really do. I want to run it on a system and have it be useful. I've installed dozens of distributions on VMs, but still haven't found enough of a use for any of them to have an actual physical machine committed to running it natively. I thought this would be my way in. But no, it knows better than me and won't let me do it. I thought that was Apple's thing.
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A few years ago, I was trying to get Linux running on bare iron. Now my development and sysadmin days go well back into the 80s where I developed on and configured multiple Unix types, so I know a bit about it. Fast forward, and I managed to get the distribution running, but I had a display problem. Default resolution was 800x600, but I needed native - 1920x1080. After googling and reading a bit, I came across the most god-awful command to fix the problem.
And that was the end of my Linux days. Might get into some embedded linux development next year, so I might be back, but the sheer disorganization puts me off.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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And I've had the exact opposite experience. A year or so ago I got all new equipment, MoBo, GPU, Ram, NVME, etc. When I tried to install windows 10 (new DVD download) on that system I got a very helpful popup something like "Driver not found, insert Disc". No mention of WHAT driver was needed, nor any Help/Info button, just OK or Cancel. Fedora, on the other hand installed with no issues, found everything on the system, and has been rock solid ever since. I do have a windows VM I boot occasionally, but other than that I never touch it.
But then, I've been running Linux as my desktop, at work and at home, for at least 20 years.
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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I'm working on Fedora for a decade and had a lot of problems (just today I solved an certificate issue), but hardware problems are very rare in my experience...
In my cases if Fedora couldn't handle the hardware, than Window could not either...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Completely opposite situation here.
I’ve used Windows exclusively at work for the last 25 years. It’s OK but has given me plenty of silly issues over the years. I used Windows at home as well until about 12 years ago when a few of the “silly” issues became too much. I switched to a combination of Apple and Linux and have never looked back. I even added ChromeOS into the mix 5-6 years ago. IMHO all 3 OSes are more reliable then Windows.
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Saw an article this morning recommending that you run the command: "Defrag C:" from time to time on your SSD drives. But does it make sense to defrag a SSD? I can understand that it is of value on old spinning disk hard drives, where fragmentation can cause the reader to physically jump from fragment to fragment, but a SSD has no moving parts.
What do the experts say?
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
modified 8hrs ago.
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No - all it will do is 'burning' write cycles, which shortens the life of the drive
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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This is a well-known and probably correct argument.
On the other hand, the question I have is: If SSDs use something like DMA, could a certain kind of defragmentation increase throughput?
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Agreed.
Steve Gibson (author of Spin-Rite) has discussed this numerous times on his Security Now podcast, and it makes zero sense to "defrag" an SSD.
Some people have called him a quack, and I originally sided with them (somewhat), but after listening to his podcast for nearly a decade, it's clear he's technical to an extreme and very knowledgeable. When he does a deep dive into some technical matter, I think he always makes a lot of sense. He's not clickbait-y and doesn't make outrageous claims.
Not that I had any doubt, when it comes to defragging an SSD. But his explanation for it (I don't have a show number for it, sorry) just sealed the deal for me.
modified 6hrs 5mins ago.
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Does a "defrag" use less space? Are there fewer "pointers" to follow? How much can you "save" in extreme cases? Is space a concern on a "maxed out" SSD?
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Defragging an SSD makes no sense, but trimming does.
SSD TRIM is an ATA command that enables an operating system to inform an SSD drive which data blocks it can erase because they are no longer in use. The use of TRIM can improve the performance of writing data to SSDs and contribute to longer SSD life. This is an expensive operation, which is why it isn't performed after every time a block is released.
See this explanation by Kingston Technology, a RAM and SSD drive manufacturer: The Importance of Garbage Collection and TRIM Processes for SSD Performance
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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...downhill!
VS consuming huge amount of memory isn't new (even MS decided to ignore it totally)...
But now I have something new... And it confirmed several times...
I have a solution with around 80 projects in it, only a several loaded at any given time... If I reload a project to change something it will not compile until VS closed and re-opened...
Until that time it will report compilation failed without any actual error, but also without the option to run...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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After the last update of VS2022 my colleague reported that debugging with step over and step into didn't work anymore. It was not clear to me if he was talking about C++ or C# debugging, he also uses other debugging tools that might interfere with VS debugging.
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RickZeeland wrote: debugging with step over and step into didn't work anymore. It was not clear to me if he was talking about C++ or C# debugging
Interesting you'd mention that. I installed the latest update last week, and on Thursday/Friday, on multiple occasions, single-stepping (F10) seemed to continue execution or couldn't recover or something like that. I attributed it to me fat-fingering it, but happened enough times that now I see your post, I'm wondering if there's something to it.
In my case that would be C#.
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wow. Not testing much, are you Microsoft.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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One has to remember that multi-project solutions don't (always) compile if you haven't checked the proper project(s) in the "Build | Configuration Manager" unless you specifically ask to "Build / Rebuild" that project. (Been there)
On the other hand, when VS is "sleeping", it "seems" to release (more) excess memory. I think they're doing a lot of tinkering.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I have a very precise dependency tree, so compiling the main project will compile everything that is outdated - I also mostly do build-solution...
But the main issue is that, there is no error behind the fail and re-opening VS solves the problem - which indicates that VS does no know how to reload a unloaded project correctly... anymore... (which is fixed by re-opening VS and the solution)...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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