It feels like half-assing due to lack of foresight/planning, though.
They could at least change it for the expendable storage, or couldn’t they?
Kinda maybe? in most modern smartphones expandable and internal storage is tied so you can use it for installing apps and such but some phones (LineageOS) also let you format it as portable storage so its used as the standard sd card but it still doesn’t have mass storage as an option.
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Mine can do that too but I like storage being separate. What’s that feature called on some linux distros where you can have one big pool of storage media as 1 volume and add more later on when you run out of space? I don’t like that. What if one drive fails? How do I know what files were on it?
What you mean like raid? what Android does isn’t raid, the storage device is still separate but you can use it as internal storage if you choose to install apps and such on it. Its tied in the sense that the phone needs access to it to function properly or those apps won’t work so you can’t remove/unmount it on the fly which is what MTP prevents.
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Heard Wendell explain it quickly in an old Ubuntu 14.10 installation video. He said LVM lets you seamlessly grow your partition over multiple drives.
But what happens to the partition if a drive fails? Sounds like a lot of trouble and a big headache.
Thats because it can, LVM just takes a bounch of devices and pools them together with no reduandcy, if you lose one disk then the whole loop is a risk, the prefered option is to use LVM on top of either software/hardware raid such as mdadm which will handle the redundnacy.
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idk…backing up each internal drive on a NAS and backing up the NAS on individual ext. drives would be my ideal solution (and archiving full drives where the content doesn’t change, like movies, images, music, etc).
And then every few years copying the archived drives onto new drives for archiving.
But muh muniz!
I don’t trust raid and I don’t know anything about it to use it on my own.
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@Fouquin the Swizzler is what appears to be very early physical test sample of LGA 1366, at least there’s no stuff on the back so probably.
The LGA 1150 CPU… I have absolutely no clue lol. Is blank and the electronics on the back don’t look like any haswell/broadwell chip I’ve seen so bit confused. Also there’s an ES Core 2 duo mobile T7400. The other 6 CPUs in the lot are old crap or broken.
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Nice. I figured as much.
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will have to get another 1150 motherboard in at some point to see what sorcery the LGA 1150 ES chip is, lol. i technically still have a Z97 WS here but is dead so doesn’t really count. but still.
also the core 2 duo would hav been useful… if i had a crappy old MBP or thinkpad but meh?
also have an ancient Xeon that is one of the very early dual socket ones, like 2002?. this thing
http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SL6VN.html
too many syllables
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It’s for the British, old chap.
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fuck hp and its device whitelist 
wanted to add a second wifi card but nope. the bios disables it at bootup
I posted an image of a FirePro M4000 on r/pcmasterrace a few months ago that got popular. Even though the post is archived now, the image is getting hits still, so I did an image search for it just to see where it ended up.
Apparently this news site is using it, and some rando on Pinterest is using it (a lot) for his own stuff. They haven’t removed the watermark though. 
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RIP, why do manufactures even have to do this, I thought it would’ve been alright given its an older laptop
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same here. oh well. might have to find a “offical” wifi adapter.
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yeah “official” I’d be interest if the whitelist was id locked to specific models or by manufacture? say could you even use a newer Intel card for example?
is gonna be based on model number
RIP so your stuck with the exact same WiFi card that you already have?
Might not be anything but is the second slot is wired properly for PCIe? I say this because my old laptop had dual PCIe ports but the second one wasn’t wired the same and only worked for WiMAX cards.
is wwan so it should work with a regular wireless card. not sure how its wired up. might have to dig that information up
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