I assure you, it’s gonna get dumber.

I don’t understand the purpose of this post

I have not seen any evidence of this plan, nor any long-term planning from the administration in general. Can you support this claim?

That is a separate incident. Perhaps I should have said additional damage.

I did. They bought on Newegg, which is a platform. Some items are shipped and sold by Newegg, some are third-party, just like Amazon. OP did not confirm who actually fulfilled the order in the post.

Yeah if it doesn’t even boot something as basic as freedos it’s probably not a configuration issue. You can try resetting the BIOS and pulling the battery, and of course try a different USB stick if you haven’t already.

But if it’s not even booting a previously good OS it might be that the board died.

While probably true, morons like these two would be unlikely to get past even those measures.

What is this world coming to, even Mom™ is being privatized

Nine miles? I’m surprised they were able to do that. Confined spaces don’t usually have breathable air.

This instance shows that it is, in fact, how that works, at least in part:

Shang wasn’t an official federal employee yet, meaning he couldn’t access the pump.

No credentials, no access. Most infrastructure like this has physical security like fencing, padlocks, steel doors, and so on. I don’t know if there’s a break-in alarm, but even if not, they’d still have to figure out how to access the pumps and turn them on. They’re probably computer-controlled, so you’d have to get access to the computer system. I’m sure you could override it on the PLC, or just plain hotwire it, but that takes a whole new set of skills.

It’s fortunate that they’re so incompetent that they couldn’t do any damage.

What’s wrong with the word “content”? What word would you use to describe the things shared in places like Lemmy?

Once in a while I skim the communities list. Other users make recommendations too.

The physiological response could be driven by literally anything and there’s no way to isolated it to “lying” - what if I’m nervous just because I’m being interrogated by people who are known to be dirty and untrustworthy?

This is why they’re unreliable. Too many false positives. But the stress of lying can produce a physiological response, which is the basis for the polygraph in the first place.

But people can also control their responses, so there’s also a high possibly of false negatives.

The true positive and true negative rate is too low to be considered reliable, but it’s not like there’s zero basis in fact, like those bomb scanners that were literally empty shells.

Maybe they work flex time, so they can take time off during the week to do other stuff with their family. Or maybe they’re not working at all, could be organizing sports stuff for their kid. Or doing an online class or something.

That should be correct. What desktop is it exactly? Are you using the current OS versions? Does it boot from USB if you try older ones, Windows 7, or even freedos?

What kind of server? Dell’s caddies have adapters, and I’m pretty sure some have screw holes on the bottom so you don’t need an adapter.

Call me blind if you will, but I don’t see anywhere you’ve said exactly how they’re packed. One place you said “only air bubbles”, but another place you mentioned boxes. All I’m asking is that you bring all the complete relevant information to the table in the first place.

Edit: okay that’s not all I’m asking. I’m also asking for test data on the received drives, so that we can determine whether the packaging was fit for purpose.

If you rejected the drives out of hand, then it’s impossible to say the packaging was obviously faulty.

You also did not answer my question about how exactly they were packaged. The plastic clamshell is generally fit for purpose and I doubt WD, Seagate, etc. would continue using packaging that resulted in high rates of failure. If you wish to contest that assumption, prove it with data.

I’m sure they can and do. I have never received a defective drive purchased new, through I don’t even know how many desktops, servers, and storage systems. Even drives preinstalled in desktops with no extra packaging have run perfectly well for years. I can count on one finger the number of hard drive failures in those desktops I’ve seen in the last decade.