usb type d
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@hj Finally proper USB for the D:
sheWantsTheD.jpg

@lanodan but D is either second HDD or CD-drive...

@hj Shit…
I stole this image back in 2014 and I only realise it now.

How to tell that I basically haven't used Windows.

@lanodan @hj D can also be a hot swappable ext HDD in a caddy frame I think

@piggo @lanodan i mean in windows it goes like this:

A: and B: are typically for floppy drives, in my experience A: is 3.5" and B is 5".

First hard disk is always C:, even if system has no FDDs, and it's also usually they boot/system disk, I think i managed to get windows to use other disk label for system but idk.

then it goes D, E, F... etc until it reaches Z and then i think it goes AB, AC etc but i'm not sure. You CAN however mount disks as folders on other disks, Unix-style, even on home versions.

Oh and by disks i mean partitions.

So after A and B letters are used in following order:

HDDs
ODDs
any drives that were added during runtime, i.e. flash drives.

network attached disks (samba shares) lets you choose a label (i think it defaults to W?)

I think you can reassign disks labels however, it just defaults to "next available letter".

@hj @piggo @lanodan On the 286 I learned computers on, the 5 1/4" drive was the A drive. I think the A drive is just the primary floppy drive.

I always wondered why they never moved CD drives or removables to A after floppies became deprecated.

@mrsaturday @piggo @lanodan backwards compatibility most likely. Same reasons you can't have a file named COM1 in windows

@hj @piggo @lanodan @mrsaturday also pretty sure Windows can still work with floppies, and i know for a fact people still use them

@vaartis @piggo @lanodan @mrsaturday i think they did remove some very old-ass support for something recently, but not floppies.

floppies are cool, i wish the process of making them cheaper didn't make them so unreliable

@hj @piggo @vaartis @mrsaturday Still more reliable than the rest of the shit you can have today.

(I have few of them at home, useful for netboot purposes)

@lanodan @piggo @vaartis @mrsaturday >Still more reliable than the rest of the shit you can have today.

not really. back in 2003 i had buncha floppies at school and they were unreadable just week after being written to, they were stored properly.

@hj @piggo @vaartis @mrsaturday Ah well… that's almost like how SD cards work for me…

@lanodan @piggo @vaartis @hj @mrsaturday What kind of SD cards are you working with? They're not as reliable as flash drives (at least from my experience) but I never have any issues with them.

@xianc78 @piggo @vaartis @hj @mrsaturday I think the issue is more that SBCs are garbage.

The ones I use for my cameras are fine for example.

@lanodan @xianc78 @piggo @vaartis @mrsaturday SD cards have quite limited rewrite cycles, much less than flash drives and ssds, mostly due to their physical size. SBCs are generally running general-purposes OSes that do logging into the disk which exhausts writecycles quickly.

which is why i use dietpi ↗️ Promoted

@hj @piggo @vaartis @lanodan @mrsaturday It seems like most people use these things for emulation so it's really not a problem for them.

I tried to use mine just to do some server projects but then I realized that I can't use wi-fi on Ubuntu Server and my TV (the only display device I could use) was too far away for an ethernet connection. So I use it as an emulation console instead.

@xianc78 @piggo @vaartis @lanodan @mrsaturday you can use wifi it's just pain in the ass to setup. I use two SBCs, one for homeassistant stuff, other for media stuff.

Initially wanted to use media stuff also as HTPC but meh, don't want to mix and match headless and desktop especially with pulse.

@hj @xianc78 @piggo @vaartis @mrsaturday Just set a light desktop on it.

The only difference between headless and desktop are the packages.

@lanodan @xianc78 @piggo @vaartis @mrsaturday i mean...

first of all, sddm/kde lockscreen seem to overheat/crash system, even with display disconnected/no one logged into gui.

second of all, i use system-wide pulseaudio for bluetooth, which doesn't seem to work well with standard user-started pulseaudio and I don't want to mess with it.

@hj @xianc78 @piggo @vaartis @mrsaturday
> light desktop
> KDE

I was thinking more like LXDE or JWM and ditching the display managers (getty + xinit).