Mindlight

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[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Essentially it only moves the borders of the partitions and "repairs" the filesystem inside each affected partition.

If there is data in an area inside the partion you are manipulating gparted has to move the data to an area inside the partition that is unaffected or move it to the new parts of the partition. This can take a long time even if modern PCs easily move 100MB/s

Also, even if gparted is mature software and the devs probably have implemented a lot of security measures you should always backup your data before manipulating the partitions. Especially when you're playing around with filesystems that aren't native like NTFS or more complicated filesystems like ZFS. I know people often nag about this but trust me... Blow 2TB of your data and you really really regret not spending 10 minutes backing up the essentials.

I've been using gparted for as long as I can remember and only once or twice has it caused dats loss. Since I'm very old school (started playing with PCs when 386DX 16MHz was fairly hot and RLL disks were a thing) and nerdy I was able to use data rescue software that looked for filesystems over the whole disk and guessed where partition borders should be.

Avoid this type of anxiety by backing up all data or at least backing up the data you can't live without.

Also, if you have a spare disk, it's faster and much safer to partition the spare one and just clone each partition. Sometimes it's even faster to clone the disk this way and then clone it back.

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd rather have to open up stuff my self then have an uninvited visitor doing it without me knowing about it.

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

While high speed trains reach speeds up to around 350kmh ordinary trains reach speeds up to around 250kmh.

So while high speed trains can go about 50% faster than ordinary trains the price tag for building and maintaining is many times more expensive compared to ordinary railway.

So let's start maintaining the railways we have and build more. Making sure that it's possible to go from point A to point B safely and in time

Then we start building high speed railways, connecting major cities.

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah... Russians are known for their ability to reverse engineer and circumvent protections of all sorts... For good and bad...

I'm pretty sure it won't take long before there are easy ways to circumvent whatever VPN blocking Putin invests in...

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So it's time for our EU politicians to step up then....

Hey, US, where are you in this? We need you guys to get on board with the right to privacy...

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh... More unsubstantiated claims from you... Well .. have a nice Friday evening.

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You use a (heavily questioned) statement of an organization as a base for your claims when the organization explicitly doesn't support your conclusion. It's a fact that WHO still claims there is no dangers consuming the recommended daily amount.

The method used on rats to estimate the dangers is the method used when estimating dangers every other substances. So the argument is valid as long as you claim that every other substance cause cancer.

Then you end up nibbling on edges of the classic "the great aspartame conspiracy" but what you totally miss that "big sugar" is even more powerfull...

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The statement you think is supporting your belief is actually saying the opposite. WHO specifically does not claim that aspartame cause cancer.

However, what they did state is there was no reason to change the recommended acceptable daily intake level of 40 mg per kg of body weight per day .

Also, The FDA disagrees with IARC’s (what you refer to as WHO) conclusion that these studies support classifying aspartame as a possible carcinogen to humans. FDA scientists reviewed the scientific information included in IARC’s review in 2021 when it was first made available and identified significant shortcomings in the studies on which IARC relied. FDA also pointed out that JECF (also WHO) did not raise safety concerns for aspartame under the current levels of use and did not change the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI).

So yeah.... Just believing journalists trying to click bait you is probably more likely to give you cancer than following the recommendation from WHO regarding daily intake of aspartame.

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It seems that you think something can't be bad if there's something else that's worse.

You bringing up things that doesn't even share a similar context is either plain stupid or very deliberate.

I'm voting for the latter.

By the way... You do agree that the Russian aggression against Ukraine is caused by Russia attacking Ukraine and that Russia have a deliberate strategy of killing civilians in Ukraine, right?

[–] Mindlight@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What statement do you mean is untrue?

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