swapoff, reformat, swapon?
Also make sure the drive isn't dying.
SheeEttin
joined 11 months ago
The employer doesn’t claim any intellectual property rights over my work product. I’m not able to find anywhere that the proprietary vendor does either.
You're probably in the clear. Legalese isn't so opaque that you would miss a section about this.
Of course, that doesn't stop them from suing you if they decide your work could be very profitable for them.
I'm not sure there's a good adhesive that will accomplish this. What's the shape of the earbud? Could a piece of heatshrink on the outside accomplish it?
tl;dr:
The research was initiated after scientists on the research team reported seeing occasional flashes of green light while working with an infrared laser. Unlike the laser pointers used in lecture halls or as toys, the powerful infrared laser the scientists worked with emits light waves thought to be invisible to the human eye.
But packing a lot of photons in a short pulse of the rapidly pulsing laser light makes it possible for two photons to be absorbed at one time by a single photopigment, and the combined energy of the two light particles is enough to activate the pigment and allow the eye to see what normally is invisible.
“The visible spectrum includes waves of light that are 400-720 nanometers long,” explained Kefalov, an associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences. “But if a pigment molecule in the retina is hit in rapid succession by a pair of photons that are 1,000 nanometers long, those light particles will deliver the same amount of energy as a single hit from a 500-nanometer photon, which is well within the visible spectrum. That’s how we are able to see it.”
Neat! But please don't shine lasers into your eyes even if it's supposed to be invisible.
Even at big companies, devs get flexibility because they need to run a bunch of random stuff that can look sketchy to security software.
Sometimes it can’t connect to the server (which is a completely stupid necessity).
That's where it does the voice processing. The only processing it does on-device is the wake word and taking commands. Actually figuring out what you mean is done in The Cloud. Doing that on-device would not only make the devices significantly more expensive, but they would also rapidly become outdated.
The rest of your complaints are valid and I've experienced them all myself to boot.
Overkill and overpriced. If you're on Windows, bitlocker is enough. If you're on Linux, LUKS is enough.
I've used Apricorn drives at previous jobs. They're cool and very much fit for purpose, but I'd have a hard time justifying the significant price premium when software is nearly as good, free, and works with any drive.
It wouldn't be significantly different from any other access method.
Android provides this information natively under /sys. Exactly where depends on your version.
But if you want an app, merely searching F-Droid for "battery" produces a number of leads.
Mounting or unmounting a filesystem won't make a difference for drive longevity.
If you want to keep your backups secure, you want to keep them offline, so if you get ransomware it doesn't encrypt your backup too. (Or if you just mistype a command and target the wrong device, folder, etc.)
But drive motor starts and stops are when the most failures occur. So the ultimate question isn't how to make a drive last longer, it's how you plan to handle it when the failure inevitably occurs.
Good news, the GNU Image Manipulation Program is designed for manipulating photos