Notices by Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social), page 48

Aaand my old one failed before I could get data off it. I'm a genius. 😅

Thank you all for your generosity! 🙏 Going in to get a replacement.
(Machine goes into boot loop when attempting CHKDSK, and all proprietary tools error out. So I guess I'm lucky I noticed this when I did.)

@damianogerli Oh yes, I always forget about that one. It's bullshit too.

Wanted to see if upcoming Tomb Raider Remastered's assets in "original graphics" mode actually match the original game, and it appears that they more or less do. You can see that the models are still made of separate meshes with independent shading.

Remastered trailer vs original (software rendering):

@damianogerli I mean, yes, but let's admit that it is the lowpoint of an otherwise a very solid game. Especially if you compare it to the first, which is rather beloved mostly because of nostalgia.

@PiecesOfKate Yeah, I finished it. It's not actually *that* difficult. Never finished the sequel though.

@tredstone William Shatner's TekWar

It really tied the room together.

@brennen No, sorry. Doesn't ring a bell. And just went through the list of all the Tetris-adjacent games that I have, and nothing look like that either.

@brennen Did the astronaut guy physically move the pieces?

@stooovie I get it, but I'm finding files with unreadable bits. Surely that's not a great sign.

@robdaemon @48kRAM I've read they send you refurbished drives as replacements? But also, this has probably ruined my trust in Samsung SSDs for a long time.

If you'd like to help out a fellow nerd, and contribute to my new SSD fund: https://ko-fi.com/dosnostalgic

I've been in in a paycheck-to-playcheck situation for the past couple of years, so even something as trivial as getting new storage can be a bit difficult for me.

After a full scan. Ouch.

@grum999 It's a bad thing. And yes, that's what that means.

Btw, did you know that if you have a file that can't be read, and you ask Windows 10 to compress it, it'll successfully create a zip archive with only the readable part of the file, and NOT PUT UP A SINGLE ERROR MESSAGE?! Now you know.

@DrGravitas I don't think I'm alright

@DrGravitas This https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-beware-certain-batches-prone-to-failure.291504/ along with a whole bunch of stuff on the internet that instantly pops up the second you look up SAMSUNG SSD FAILURE

@DrGravitas Looking into this right now, and it appears that no, I'm not fine and that GOOD thing means absolutely nothing. Apparently a Samsung EVO 870 thing.

@g1comics I've updated the firmware when I got the drive, so I'm apparently screwed.