Ah Tesla… I too attempt to accomplish tasks by being a leader and going completely insane.

Chiming in to say: I’ve had issues in the past where the WiFi router was factory resetting itself and it turned out this can happen if the power supply isn’t powerful enough for the device. In this case, I think I had gotten the WiFi router 2nd hand from Goodwill or something, and the provided power supply fit in the port, and it had the same voltage, but was an amp underpowered, instead of being something like 12volts 3.5amps, the plug was supplying 12volts 2.5amps, and I guess everything was fine until the unit needed more power (likely from routing high amounts of traffic, or more WiFi units connected)

I had no idea factory resetting could be the result of something like this so I was at a loss for a while until I found the info online.

So: check to make sure that

1. The power supply matches what the unit is requiring, and if it is,

2. If you have another power plug that matches the barrel jack size, volts and amps, try using that one in case the power supply itself is going bad.

From my initial research for my own Samsung watch, I think you’ll probably be required to use the Samsung app to connect your watch as Samsung uses a non-standard bluetooth encryption which requires their specific app to connect correctly. I tried many times with gadgetbridge to no luck.

Did they take this idea from the TV show Poker Face? Because there’s an episode involving this, except its not an urn, its a record, pressed with the remains into the vinyl.

Yup.

Its coming to light in modern times, that they realized they could grab land and money by accusing vulnerable people, and then just taking their land when they couldn’t defend themselves against a confession under torture.

There’s this weird phenomenon that people tend to think those in the past were less intelligent than now, when really it was history being spun a certain way. For example: the witch burning thing, most people accusing witches, etc didn’t actually believe that shit. Its coming to light in modern times, that they realized they could grab land and money by accusing vulnerable people, and then just taking their land when they couldn’t defend themselves against a confession under torture.

Keep in mind all the advancements and progress humans have made in mathemathics and sciences over the last few thousand years. Those people weren’t stupid, if they were doing stupid things, its probably because they were evil (like burning witches for their own financial gain)

Ahhh, I see

Well old Patel showed up to I’m assuming ‘encourage’ them to go, so they’re probably all afraid for their families at this point.

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Oorrr they’re pieces of shit, apparently.

I think this stuff sort of depends on how often you upgrade drives. I bought 2 4TB drives in 2015 running in a ZFS mirror, spinning 24/7 as I had heard that the hardest time on a spinning disk is the initial spin up from cold boot, or sleep. (I’m not sure is this if true anymore, but I had disabled sleep on the drives, regardless)

5 years later, I bought 2 10TB drives to upgrade my storage capacity, and relocated the 4TB mirror to media content, and stuff that was replaceable if the drives failed, so I didn’t need to really back it up.

Juuust now, at the end of 2025, 1 of the initial 4 TB drives failed and now my ‘old’ ZFS mirror is in a degraded state running on 1 drive, but the drive that failed lasted 10 years.

I bet the average home lab or self hoster is probably upgrading and replacing their drives with higher capacity more often than 10 years, so they probably would never actually see a drive fail in real life use.

Also Trump and Musk absolutely destroyed what little of an EV charging infrastructure we had. I would absolutely love to have gotten an EV for my last car, but with Trump literally forcing the pentagon to buy coal power, there’s no way in hell I’d trust being able to charge it away from my house on a trip, and they’re still too expensive to have an ‘extra car’ for when i drive around town, and another vehicle for road trips.