You might be looking for the HDPARM command …

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/hdparm-command-in-linux-with-examples/

I remember playing with this one for my measley 4Tb drive: LOts of options:

-S Set the standby timeout for the drive. A value of 0 disables standby mode.

Oh yeah, a live boot from a USB is a very good test … so they can try it out before making the leap. Better still, install it on a second partition … then they still have access to their Win install.

Consider joining the tens of thousands of people who’ve moved on to Linux Mint Cinnamon in the past year.

I’ve used Mint since for a dozen years, and have -never- learned to compile a program. Mint’s software manager will display the thousands of wares (by category) and install (and even start) them for you. The updates manager makes sure you get all you need … when you feel like it.

P.S. I built my first computer in 1978. I use Linux by choice.

Gotta keep those defense magnates happy. They haven’t had anything since the Cold Warnukes, silos and missles to keep their blood going.

oh oh … there’s that old vegeta ble again.

Also, note that LMint installs many Ubuntu components, but supports Flatpak apps out-of-the-box, but not Snap.

Animals are sometimes declared ‘extinct’ (no one is aware of any living examples) while they still exist (sometimes for decades).

Until 1967, noone was aware of the existence of gamma-ray bursts, the result of the biggest explosions in the universe. The bursts were only visible to specialized satellites.

Right now, people are suffering from diseases caused by unknown viruses.

Now that he realizes that he got fished in, what’s he plan to do to make up for his multiple mistakes?

Good to see people are learning that when they finally elect the stupid, they finally learn what was -really- going through those stupid heads for all those years. What they get is marinated in stupid… proud stupid … EPIC stupid. (Compated to today’s crowd, Reagan was a genius.)

It has been fun watching that Old Guard tearing themselves apart -every day-.

LOL Wishing doesn’t make it so.

Well sure … but then, a majority of Americans actually VOTED FOR HIM. So … what’s that worth at the Bogega?

Two hours and 45 minutes though!

The feeling of intimacy is totally bogus and the techies have a term for it … RLHF = “Reinforcement learning from human feedback”. Users are training the LLMs to act more human. Can’t get that from stealing copyrighted text from online. And it’s still free !!

MTV was like radio was for decades before it came along. Black artists with great music and no hits would get covered by cheesy white artists like Pat Boone who got big hits. Baked into the system.

Of course Bowie grew up in a place where the BBC handled alla that kind of sorting.

LOL well CharlesDarwin, you know, they’re too evolved for prison … they just go hide somewhere until everyone forgets…

But lots and LOTS of people are resigning their jobs around the world. The last one will be the, uh, cherry on top.

“It’s bad for our industry, it’s bad for our country, it’s bad for consumers.”

I think they (accidentally, of course) left out the people that it’s worst for.

Once these guys are gone, where are the Better Business Bureaus gonna find smarmy guys in suits?

because … if we don’t live by the rule of law … they’ll be out of work?

Crazy in the best possible way