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I went through the nonsense of putting the LG tv and some other stuff on a separate network that has no internet access but I can still connect to them. It’s annoying that’s needed.

Fountain of Chowder = horror

It does look like your storage controller got switched to raid moda. Some ai generated slop-fix:

Your storage controller actually is visible in the lspci output, but it is currently hidden inside a RAID cluster.

Look closely at this specific line from your list:
00:17.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Comet Lake PCH-H RAID

Why Your Drive Seems Missing

• Intel RST Active: Your motherboard BIOS is configured to use Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) RAID mode.
• Controller Hiding: When RAID mode is active, the Intel controller intercepts individual NVMe or SATA drives.
• Linux Limitation: The standard Linux kernel cannot see individual NVMe drives behind this specific Intel RAID controller without configuration.

How to Fix It

You need to switch your storage controller from RAID mode to AHCI/NVMe mode.

1. Reboot your laptop and enter the BIOS setup (usually by pressing F2, F12, or Del at startup).
2. Locate the Storage Configuration, SATA Mode, or VMD Setup menu.
3. Change the setting from RAID or Intel RST to AHCI (or disable VMD).
4. Save and exit. [1]

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Sorry, I think my reading comprehension was shit there… I got fixated on rescue usb not seeing the disk.

No, I wouldn’t expect it to be a bad port if grub is loading (and the grub partition is on the same disk). Bios not booting at all with disk removed is strange too, I’d expect it to just boot the usb if that were plugged in while disk is not.

You said usb rescue lsblk doesn’t list the disk, guessing it doesn’t show up under /dev/disk/by-id either? lspci? How about with a windows install usb, does it see the disk?

Like others said, sounds like hardware. But before you toss the drive, you said SSD, if it’s an ssd try different cables connecting to different ports. If it’s nvme try reseating it at least, moving it to another port if you have a 2nd. Just saying that sometimes ports and cables fail, so make sure you rule those out before losing hope.

Also possible it’s a bios thing, like maybe the port itself on got disabled in bios or controller got switched to raid mode.

I used to use them, yes. It’s a pretty solid setup, especially like you say, if the tang server itself requires you enter a password to unlock.

A while ago I moved to tpm and secureboot to auto-unlock my servers on boot. It’s definitely slightly less secure, tpm vulnerabilities or a severe enough vulnerability in one of the network services on the machine and a hacker could get into them. But it’s quite a bit more secure than storing the unlock key on usb, and requires at least some degree of hacking skill to break in.

sbctl makes the process of signing boot files pretty easy, systems-cryptenroll for setting up tpm auto-unlock

It could be worse, there could be two Microsoft Teams…

‘I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working’: Artemis II astronauts have the most relatable complaint

Would Iran be interested in a shitty, hideous, gold ballroom in DC? Maybe a Qatari 747 that’s probably 1/2 blinged out by now?

Opencode Go is a pretty good value for the amount of credits you get and the TUI and web/desktop client is pretty good.

I’m really happy switching to opencode after copilot got ridiculous with their pricing bullshit this month

I start to wonder if we need something sitting between extra and aur, few more trusted maintainers and well secured update process that’s more than the aur Wild West

Also, some sort of yay hook to do some scanning for suspicious diffs and warning or skipping those packages…

I don’t want / need a system where I can blindly update everything, but something to help me avoid having to visually check every package diff would be nice

I was still using my copilot account, figured I’d see how the new pricing worked. I blew through 60% of my max+ limit in 1 day on absurdly light usage, promptly cancelled rather than upgrade from the $39 / month plan to the $100 /month plan.

I do think there’s a productivity help from AI but vibe coding everything is miserable and gives awful results. Targeted AI usage makes sense and I’ll refine my local AI usage and tooling for that.

They’re just trying to help developers reach the target Jensen Huang set, that developers should be spending half their salaries on tokens. Now you can do that so much more quickly.

It’s how you build the biggest bubble.

It works pretty well for greenfield, that’s where I’ve been using it. A pretty involved monorepo with a decent bit of code and things are still going reasonably well.

Also, leaning on documents as deliverable artifacts for people and for AI awareness / consumption helps me.

Like put together an architecture document for either the entire application or specific parts and subsystems (or multiple documents with different granularity) those can list future considerations.

I pretty often will include those documents when generating proposals / specs to make sure the AI is building in the right direction. It’s not perfect, there are some rough edges and these are the early days of this whole process.

Openspec has an “explore” command you can use to give some thoughts and have agent spit out a high level plan, some back and forth, then create the proposal once you’re happy. I’ve also generated markdown documentation for a subsystem or thought so I can check it in, then continue improving that later, then when ready to turn it into a proposal and implement I start by referencing that document.

It sounds like a big part of what you’re talking about is just pre-feeding future concerns into one proposal for work that you plan to do in the future, also nothing wrong with that. I’ve used “in the future we will need … so design in that direction without implementing in this first iteration” sort of wording.

And not sure if this applies but I’ve found big monolithic code bases become too large for AI to work well in… enforcing some boundaries by breaking code into technical foundation and vertical slice functional modules really helps decouple code and focus on cross-module boundaries and interfaces, similarly to how they help reduce cognitive load for developers, helps for AI too

That was intentional. They were trying to word the announcement to not make it sound like you’re now getting 1/5-1/9 as much AI for the same price.

Related: Microsoft and OpenAI announced end of exclusivity agreement today

I love that their email made it sound like it was a wash, like “we’re just changing our billing model, you’ll get credits now, samesies!” but then this pricing chart buried 3-levels down from the announcement lays out just how much less you’re going to get for the same price.

I wonder about all the startups who were bragging about their $10k/month AI coding bills being the best money they ever spent. When this new pricing kicks in and pushes it to $40k/month right around the time all the vibe-coded shit blows up their codebase, I wonder if they’ll still be so happy with their choices.

I interviewed for a place a while back and started asking about quality and velocity and how they balance it with AI developer tools, he said something like “One of our developers closed 400 PRs last month” and I instantly knew it was definitely not the place for me.

Shun the nonbelievers

When you’re deranged they let you do it.

I’ll remember this in 12 months when 50% of new LLMs are still getting the “I want to wash my car, the car wash is 100 yards from my house, should I walk or drive?” question wrong. I mean, they’ll add that one to the training data so they’ll probably be getting that one right by then, but there will always be examples of why THESE THINGS AREN’T INTELLIGENT.

I use LLMs quite a bit, they’re neat tools and helpful, but anyone who tries to say they’re AGI is either an idiot or just too heavily invested in the bubble.