Recent content by bob466

The reason the British started sending convicts to Australia was because they lost the Americas...many of those convicts were guilty of stealing something minor like a loaf of bread to feed a starving family. All this happened long before Queen Victoria...

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Some reading for you... https://ssdsphere.com/trim/ https://www.newsoftwares.net/blog/truth-does-trim-securely-delete-data/ No never not what it does.

This ones good.

Doesn't matter what's on the Flash Drive...the ISO will format it. If you want to remove it...either right click and select Format and choose whatever you like or install another ISO over it...works for me.

Just off topic but...why is 500Gb only 465GB ? https://darwinsdata.com/why-is-500gb-only-465gb/ This isn't something new...been happening since HDDs were invented...not something I worry about now.

There's heaps of info out there...I've read much of it and it's very easy to become paranoid...at the end of the day people will do what they want regardless of what we say.

I'm very surprised some people don't know...what you see on the box is not what you get...it's been that way for years. A 500GB SSD...install Mint (2.9GB) space now on Drive about 460GB because formatting takes up space.

Don't use a Swap Partition on an SSD either...do so at your own risk. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/optimize-linux-ssds/

Wizard, Some reading for you... https://robots.net/tech/how-much-space-should-i-leave-on-my-ssd/ https://www.howtogeek.com/165472/6-things-you-shouldnt-do-with-solid-state-drives/ https://idealssd.com/does-ssd-free-space-affect-performance I always have more than 20% of free space on all my...

This command for external SSDs... sudo fstrim / -v

I hate moving...done it a few time but never again.

I have 650w power supply...it runs not much but it's better to have more than less.

Quote "Running fstrim frequently, or even using mount -o discard, might negatively affect the lifetime of poor-quality SSD devices." If you use poor quality SSDs (cheap) anything could happen and does...I don't use cheap and small SSDs...as they say...you get what you pay for. Cheap SSDs...

I don't think it matters who pushes what...beginners will choose what they like and if they choose the wrong one they've only themselves to blame.