“This ‘Fantasia’ had better not awaken anything in me.”

You, you seem like good people.

Will I be able to run my steam and Epic games with this? What about another PC games I own?

Possibly yes, and incressingly possible over time. Check out ProtonDB. Proton is built into Steam. I don’t know anything about Epic.

And my hundreds of mp3 books and thousands of music files.

Absolutely yes.

I have them on internal harddrives. If I upgrade my main hard drive to this will I be able to access the files and docs on the two another drives?

Yep, there’s support for multiple hard drives, and Linux can read NTFS-formatted drives. But what’s more, Linux installers have long supported “guided partitioning,” which helps you install the OS alongside an existing one like Windows, and then choose between the two when you boot. Of course, when you’re installing any new OS, even Windows, you should make sure you have backups of all your stuff, just in case.

Agreed. What I think the article is trying to say is that it fits into a specific genre of lowbrow media.

Hey, how’s it going? I managed to do about 40 disks this week (still a fraction of my hoard), though most of them had errors and I’m not sure if my method is the best way to image corrupted disks, to allow for future error correction.

I would upvote you for thinking it through, but I will not be touching that comment.

That would be “onto.”

Great, thanks! Full disclosure: this is how long mine has been on my to-do list.

Created 2014-01-03 22:43

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I’m finally setting myself a due-date: later this week. Check in with me, bud, I’ll check in with you!

By your own admission, 10 MB of data could be a shit-ton of stuff that sounds important to you. Just get it done.

And to not be a hypocrite, I’ll get going on my own similar project I’ve been putting off for years, haha. Do we have a deal?

USB floppy drives aren’t expensive.

I think I saw that F3 is cross-platform. I used something else last time I needed it (it was a microSD), but I’m struggling to remember what it was. I’ll update you if I remember. Nope, it was F3!

No prob! Good luck, and prepare for disappointment. This sounds sketchy.

h2testw, F3 and FakeFlashTest keep coming up as recommended for this.

Which OS?

This and make sure to use the right test method. Sketchy SSDs will pretend to accept all the data you put in 'em, and then just silently throw away data that’s over their capacity. Use a method that writes and then verifies.

Tight timeline, but I guess you could be a grandparent.

“Here, have a Werther’s.”

From your original handwriting example, I thought you were suggesting that the way you were taught, letter “o” and “a” always have the leading stroke (like Larson’s standalone “a”), even when the letter starts a word. Sorry, I may have misunderstood.

The a in Gaffney doesn’t have the leading stroke from your handwriting example.

Explain the a in “Gaffney.”