Post 3147404 by aven@sealion.club
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 (DIR) Post #3147403 by lukewrites@fosstodon.org
       2018-10-16T23:34:12Z
       
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       New Seagate external hdd. When it loads, the disk is unwritable; you have a choice of a Mac executable or a Windows executable. I click on the Mac executable and it tries to connect to Baidu and Google. Things I don't think are necessary: Baidu (and, invariably, the CPC) and Google (and, invariably, the CIA) knowing I am formatting an external hard drive for the first time.Let's just fire up Disk Utility and format the thing.
       
 (DIR) Post #3147404 by aven@sealion.club
       2018-10-17T00:47:10+00:00
       
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       @lukewrites What happens in Linux?  If it's hardware that can't just be hardware, you should probably return it for a refund, because that's FUBAR.  Also, there are legit uses for hardware that never touches the internet, I'm sure Google and Baidu know that.
       
 (DIR) Post #3147405 by djsumdog@hitchhiker.social
       2019-01-19T16:15:26Z
       
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       @aven @lukewrites I remember removing a WD MyBook from an enclosure and noticed it was unreadable. The enclosure had an AES encryption chip that encrypted everything (even if you didn't set a password , plus it did the 4k sector thing so it could work with 32-bit OSes).After that I never purchased a drive with enclosure again. I always purchased them separately, put them together, and made sure the enclosure just passed the raw drive and didn't try to do any fancy stuff. remapping. Fuck this.