You can sorta change that default, but Apple sure loves to bury that particular setting. And occasionally forgets it.
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First, make sure your laptop bios is up to date. Updating should be a simple matter of downloading the naked bios file, put it on a fat32 stick, boot into bios and use the built-in flasher.
You could set up a winToUSB drive to run the WD firmware update tool.
Or, you could go through this. https://community.frame.work/t/western-digital-drive-update-guide-without-windows-wd-dashboard/20616
I think he was trying to one-hand a snack platter that was just a little too epic
In my experience, gnome-shell already has a highly variable refresh rate. Sometimes it'll go 2-5 frames without refreshing at all.
I think someone accidentally loaded cat software into the kid
Oh, we don't believe God's word in those parts.
The other way to look at it is to stick the drives into a usb enclosure. That gets you away from the PC's 3v3 rail. If you then hang the drive enclosure off of a powered hub/dock, you are definitely way outside of the PC's power supply problems.
Here's one that I have, hopefully it's still made halfway good. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08G14NBCS/
There is also a Bocchi lemmy ... thing. Thread, board, magazine, whichever.
I would get rid of snaps.
So they called it an "Orange Pi", but it is not an ARM SBC.
That's an interesting choice.
The actual news is "renews focus on AI bullshit".