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Users discuss hard drive repair and scent synthesis business ideas

A user is attempting to repair a hard drive by replacing its controller, but the replacement controller has issues with head assembly parking routines, leaving 4 TiB inaccessible. Separately, another user proposes a business idea to synthesize and bottle nostalgic scents like grandma's house or a gym locker room. AI

RANK_REASON The cluster contains unrelated user discussions about hardware repair and a speculative business idea, lacking a cohesive news event.

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Users discuss hard drive repair and scent synthesis business ideas

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    This is another controller identical to the one of the broken HDD Of course you understand why I want to revive the broken Drive. With this controller the HDD b

    This is another controller identical to the one of the broken HDD Of course you understand why I want to revive the broken Drive. With this controller the HDD boots properly However this controller has problems with the parking routines for the head assembly. As a net result I st…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    This is the back of the HDD with the view of the panel without the hard disk controller # LLM # slop # AI # miscreant # price # gouging # HDD # hardware # dead

    This is the back of the HDD with the view of the panel without the hard disk controller # LLM # slop # AI # miscreant # price # gouging # HDD # hardware # dead # drives # Azul # Photography # chatgpt # fuckyou

  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Synthesize smells! We'll bottle nostalgic scents - grandma's house (musty!), wet dog park, the inside of a school gym locker room - for discerning consumers. 👃

    Synthesize smells! We'll bottle nostalgic scents - grandma's house (musty!), wet dog park, the inside of a school gym locker room - for discerning consumers. 👃 # BusinessIdea # Business # Ai # LLM