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Probably faster to unplug the hard drive, order an adapter, and let UPS deliver it. The filesystem should be supported by any modern OS. If the disk works it will be a matter of browse and pluck.

I'm trying to come up with an apt description of how disappointing this "classic" redesign is and all I and all I can say is this morning everything was fine. Now it looks like some GNAA trolls mashed up the worst aspects of "classic" with the beta no one wanted.

Also... Seriously what happened to buttons.

This new version of "classic" isn't an improvement either. Now I'm dizzy, lost and disorriented. Left hand links kept the text meat in the middle a manageable width. Reading from deviant LTS Firefox on Openbsd 5.6 stable.

What. Samsung became worse than the double I's of Intel and IBM? Most tech companies are indeed shitty. Most don't respect users and cater to lusers with their ease of use, plug n play, and just works over actually works bullshit. There's a lot of companies squeezing the oil snakes for their latest products, but samsung at least has the engineering talent to produce refrigerators and washer/dryer sets.

Right. Improved drive reliability still doesn't negate a need for backups. It's moved from NAND write wear to controller failure as the primary killer of SSD disks. On one hand this isn't very predictable, on the other measures to control the damage when it happens are available.

This. SLC offers a "promise" of greater longevity with lots of write cycling. Still when most SSD's fail they die at the controller.

A number of 840 evo drives experienced substantial performance degradation much faster than was reasonable. That said I ended up getting an 850 evo recently because with Samsung's output volume I imagine their whiner/[just works] ratio is probably rather favourable to the consumer. In the past I mostly used Intel SSD's to great life span (storage needs began exceeding requirements well before hardware failure). When buying as SSD the big concern is going to be how many is the maker putting out versus how many complaints there are. Of course with the recent resurrection of storage firmware diddling in the news it would make sense to take measures to keep NSAware away from your drives as it can't be good for longevity or performance.

This. So much this. When these regressions happen there are people behind them. The great value of a Linus or a Theo is shaming this people out the door. At least this was caught in -Current and not -Stable. This incident appears to be at least as much a social engineering attack as a code quality issue.

Mostly the guide on ribalinux.blogspot.com did it. I didn't follow it exactly because who really wants/needs Dbus. If you google around there's plenty of workable guides, just make sure they point to more recent versions of OpenBSD. Installing XFCE now is as simple as pkg_add XFCE and editing a couple files to get it to automatically fire up by default. The most time consuming part of the affair was getting a new wifi card that OpenBSD supports (~20 dollars) and reflashing my BIOS to remove the Wifi whitelist.

Actually you can do exactly this in PC-BSD, which is one of my dislikes of this desktop BSD effort. Its repository leans heavily on the linux compatibility layer instead of ported software.