adventures with a crusty old crucial ssd
In my mind, "SSD" doesn't translate to "old", but yeah, that storage tech has been around for a long time.
One of the oldest SSDs I have is a Crucial CT256M4SSD2 that I bought direct from Crucial themselves back in 2012. I don't remember how much I paid for it, but it probably wasn't cheap. This is what that 256GB SSD looks like these days:
Right up front, let it be known this is an out-of-the-box STOCK feature in any modern Linux distribution with KDE Plasma. No plugins or special programs are even necessary to do what you're about to see.
One of the most annoying things about Windows 11 is the taskbar. It's at the bottom of the screen, but that's not the problem. The problem is that you can't move it, nor can you resize it. All you can do is adjust the alignment of stuff to center or left and enable or disable auto-hide. That's it.
There was a way to get a cool floating taskbar in Win11 at one point...
Before I saw this cable, I thought of every type of USB connector type I've ever used. There's "the big rectangle" A type that everybody knows, the one most people call a "printer cable" B type because of it's notchy squared shape, mini USB (all my older Garmins use this), micro USB (smaller and flatter than mini USB), and C (which largely replaced micro USB).
Well, there's a cable that does more, and it's specifically for charging:
