u/VanillaCold57

I remembered that NetBSD has a Wii port, and an actively maintained one at that, and immediately thought "is it possible to daily drive a wii?"

....and, scrolling down the NetBSD package list for probably way too long, I think it might actually be feasible.
LuaKit seems to be a browser that supports Javascript which is available on the PowerPC NetBSD builds, so you'd be able to do basic internet tasks on the Wii alongside the obvious of playing Gamecube and Wii games.

since a lot of people just use their PCs for accessing the internet, it honestsly might be possible to daily drive a wii, at least for a week. It's a gaming machine so it works for entertainment, it's got NetBSD and everything that comes with the PPC version of that...

Granted, there's the obvious problem of having an incredibly small amount of RAM to use the modern web with, but maybe it'd still work regardless?
I do want to try this soonish as at least a proof-of-concept, just out of curiosity if anything.

So, I have a biig 8TB HDD in my main PC for backing up files. I put my PC on sleep, fiddled with the panels a bit because the front fan sometimes makes a somewhat wonky noise, and then after turning back on the HDD makes an absolutely awful noise.

Uh. Powered off asap, held the power button down, rebooted, and no more wonky noise and the drive runs fine.
KDE Partition Manager's reporting of the SMART data shows everything is all fine; SMART status is good, overall assessment is healthy, self-tests succeeded, no bad sectors, no fly height errors, no uncorrectable errors, etc.

Is the drive okay and this was just a fluke bc I messed with the system when it wasn't entirely 100% off?
I don't want to assume it is, but at the same time everything went back to normal and I don't know if there's actually any other evidence of the drive being the thing that's borked.

Aaaand I know this is probably an awful sign and I should look into replacing the drive asap, but like opening up my PC is a chore especially with how messy it is, and the SATA cables barely reaching the drive, and the prices recently, and etc-

(I bought the drive about a year ago, a Seagate BarraCuda 8tb drive.)

I randomly saw that one of my repositories got forked, a project of mine called Wiimote Mouse.
Looking at the person who forked it ("igiteam"), they seem to have forks of a bunch of other open-source projects where they keep making random commits all called "fixes"?

Some of the forks look like they might be some LLM agents forking random programs and making random changes, but others seem to be adding huge blocks of what I can only assume is unformatted scam code. Thankfully they haven't touched my repo yet though.

Is... is this normal? I know a lot of people make forks of others' projects randomly and don't touch them again, but their behaviour just seems... weird. Weird at best.