So it turns out my laptop, the one where I had setup all the dev environments decided to go full on kamikaze on me last night. As I was recording the @helpie hangout, since I'm trying to provide those agai for @helpie's blog, the computer froze completely. It being Linux Mint, I thought to myself, OK, no biggie, I could kill the processes on a terminal, but nothing, it was ded.
I've been working really hard on some models to play @magic-dice and had progressed quite a bit on the python code, and of course, as you might guess, backed absolutely nothing regarding that.
Now, the rest of my stuff I do have backed up, my keys, wallets, etc, so all that is fine, but the countless hours I've spent on this particular algo are completely lost. You see, I'm not even upset about the laptop, since its a 2007 model and truthfully it's done it's job. I'm upset I lost all that logic, even if it turns out it was futile after all.
I'm considering donating this laptop, slapping it on ebay as an auction and see what happens. Maybe it's time it moves on, I don't really know. What I do know is that hard drives can't be trusted, and one would think that lesson had not left my brain, but apparently it did.
"Always backup your work"
At any rate, I'm not going to work on the bot anymore, at least not on that one. That being said, some of the things I learnt while doing so can be very useful to some of the projects I have in mind, I even started to draft out a game too.
Enough complaining... time for bed for this old man.
Sucks that all that happened. I know that feeling when a HDD just crashes and everything is gone. :(
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
That data is still recoverable depending on the amount of work or money you're willing to put into it. If you're willing to spend about $1,500, you can have fun and smash it with a hammer before sending it into https://drivesaversdatarecovery.com/. They'll still get the data back to you. They're incredible.
If you'd like some assistance trying to recover the disc yourself, it is something I have a small amount of experience with, and I'll do what I can free of charge.
If you do sell it on ebay, still remove your drive and make sure you mention that in your listing. That data is still recoverable, and there are bad actors regularly purchasing up used electronics to recover it.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Sorry to hear that @meno. Like you, I know better (having been burned in the past).
About this time last year, a $@%^*$&&# Microsoft / Intel "auto" upgrade took me out. Rendered my laptop unusable, no matter what I tried.
Was "sweating bullets" about recovery of my crypto investments, in particular ...
The "punch line?" The specialist I ended up taking my HD to for recovery said the Microsoft / Intel upgrades were his single biggest source of business!😞
Now have a much more robust encrypted backup routinely uploaded to a cloud service ... 👍
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The bright side is that the opportunity is now to get the latest and greatest for your new found interest in coding! I just found a 10 year old laptop laying around and was considering also playing around with it! What was your configuration?
Posted using Partiko iOS
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Good grief! My computer just gave up on me last night! No backup for ages!
Ho! Ho! Your post came out one day late! I have to get some help today!
I hope I haven’t lost all my files!
Praying very hard right now!
Posted using Partiko iOS
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I feel you sir.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thank you so much for participating the Partiko Delegation Plan Round 1! We really appreciate your support! As part of the delegation benefits, we just gave you a 3.00% upvote! Together, let’s change the world!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Hi @meno!
Your post was upvoted by @steem-ua, new Steem dApp, using UserAuthority for algorithmic post curation!
Your UA account score is currently 6.158 which ranks you at #258 across all Steem accounts.
Your rank has dropped 1 places in the last three days (old rank 257).
In our last Algorithmic Curation Round, consisting of 247 contributions, your post is ranked at #6.
Evaluation of your UA score:
Feel free to join our @steem-ua Discord server
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit