So for Christmas my friend got me some USB's from a pretty reputable company. When I copied some folder (~1.5 gb) to it (it was exFAT format) it errored out around 31%, then my OS just unplugged it (I'm not using Windows, Linux person) then errored out. So I replugged it, tried again, and again same thing happened. So 3rd time, my OS just doesn't recognize it... I checked "lsblk" (a linux command to list all drives) and it doesn't appear. So I checked the logs of my system (not OS but system itself) and it says that it's a memory issue (so I know nothing about this cause I never saw something like this before, but I think the USB is formatless as in like it has no accepted format.) So I was extremely confused. I put it on GParted, which is a tool dedicated to formatting drives. Not as an app but I booted a USB with it, AND EVEN THAT DOESN'T RECOGNIZE IT. My dad suggested booting on windows and trying it. So I went on the windows installer again off a USB, opened command prompt, then notepad, then the file dialog (since explorer doesn't exist) and sure enough, even that doesn't recognize it. So my USB is absolutely cooked. All from 1 folder. Wow. Any ideas what to do with it to fix it, or should I just abandon it? Also merry christmas! :D

i got recommended my own post on my feed js now, awesome

so, i tried following @ghost on daily.dev but there was no follow button so i did some reverse engineering and api fckery, all in 10 minutes. then got a whole ass undocumented api error code just for mr @ghost saying I can’t follow it. Then, the one follower before me: a daily.dev employee who probably admin abused and went into the database and followed to flex. when we all know, they suck. and they put such low effort into following such a rare account, then furthermore restricting others from doing it so he can be the only one. crazy. I wish I could do this: The exact opposite of what he did. Instead of denying following to one single account on daily.dev, allow anti-following (and deny following) one single account on daily.dev, which account to do that to? The employee who did this and their daily dev account… Anti-following in my idea is basically publicly saying “I hate you with a passion” on daily.dev. So, there. And since he made a custom api code restricting following the @ghost account, I’ll make a custom API code when trying to anti-follow another account or follow his: 3714957 (translating to “f…you” from old telephone language, if you’re confused, take each letter from the original word, get the number in the alphabet from the start it’s in. then divide it by 3. you’ll get a result close to each letter I made in that api code.) So yeah, nice day today. F. ck graphql and overprivileged employees. Ever heard of principle of the least privilege daily.dev CEO? I bet you give interns root. I regret signing up there. Peace :]

Ok, so I host a website on Vercel connected to a GitLab repo. And when my Vercel pro trial ended, I couldn't deploy projects from my "group" (For GitHub users, it's the equivalent of a GitHub organization) except I'm the only one in my group. So after panicking for 5 minutes, I found out I could just put projects in my personal account. And that is free. So, it was very stressful transferring the repositories to my personal account. (there were 5 repositories on different domains. It's more of a connected network of websites) Then updating the Git stuff on Vercel. Then after it finally finished. So, that was a scary first experience...

The new daily.dev survey is funny as heck

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python's threading is like cake. you eat one piece, then it eats the rest, and if you want the rest, you gotta convince it to vomit it out by doing absurd code. Then once it vomits it out, its still bad. So in the end, you can never win :p