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  • If the speeds are right, that’s almost a smoking gun for a weak autoreverse spring.

    You might be able to jury-rig it temporarily, I don’t know this unit’s design, but either remove the spring and replace it with string or wire so the autoreverse sensor can’t trigger, or fix the spring itself.

    Pull it and see what kind of tension it has.

    Heat treating is the proper method to fix it, here’s the directions from chatgpt, it’s not wrong, usually I’ve just seen it kept relaxed and heated with a lighter for 10 seconds, then left to cool.

    Heat the spring to ~400–600°F (204–316°C) depending on material (e.g., music wire, stainless).

    Hold for 30 minutes.

    Let it cool slowly in air.


  • I have had a long-term vision for decades, it basically involves waiting till the south goes too far (which they can’t help, their narcissistic evil has no concept of self-restraint), and rallying the decent parts of America (ie the rest) to stand against them.

    But we can’t stand unless we admit the South is the unending fount of evil that it is.

    100 years after the civil war they kept all the same features under Jim Crow, not because of economic reasons, but because they need to feel power from domination and cruelty.

    I grew up in the midwest, they don’t have that naturally, they’re human, if a bit backwards, they mean well.

    The south isn’t that, they are the enemy of the world, and the only way they win is when we pretend they are normal.








  • It’s interesting, however, if you mkfs.ext4 without -E ssd, or through some weirdness in your driver chain the filsystem doesn’t know it can discard, then everything everywhere sucks for everyone, a cow fs is worse because no blocks are ever overwritten till the end, and the block map becomes a disaster while performance goes down the drain.

    Nowadays this rarely happens outside of very broken USB mass storage chips.

    This is why we used to have the fstrim command.