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As far as the screen goes, I advise following the manual in my other message to disassemble and reassemble. I love to push things back in, but breaking the LCD will be upsetting.

https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t480s-hmm_en.pdf

Starting at Page 57, there is a part number for screw kits and then replacement procedures for each item with screw size and description

I'm not familiar with the hat, you can always run hdparm /I against the drive and see what the output is.

Turns out my comments were not brief, but once you get the hang of it you can write down the commands you are using and repeat them.

I scripted the whole thing for work, so it is getting more and more rusty.

OK, to be clear, you can boot to raspbian or your distro of choice and use hdparm if you have a proper SATA controller and connection. This does not work on NVME drives.

#shred

If you have a spinning disk and either are forced to use a USB to SATA adapter or if the drive itself does not support secure erase, then you can use the shred command.

shred -fv /dev/sdb

will write random data to the sata device sdb. f is for force and v is for verbose. You can add z to add an extra zero pass and z to change the number of passes. That means that

shred -z -n 5 /dev/sdb

should do 5 passes and then zero on drive sdb

It will ALSO work for older parallel drives that identify as hd or that still appear as sd with a USB adapter. You had better check your devices with a lsblk before you run it. It will probably overwrite the OS of a running system.

Last word on shred is that it is ungodly slow. One pass of 1 tb takes 1.5 to 3 hours.

#hdparm

For SATA drives that support it, you can use hdparm. A deep explanation of what I'm doing is available here: https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16716. I could write out how to do it, but it goes into greater detail.

For forcing the system to sleep, you may need to

echo disk | sudo tee /sys/power/state

Also, be sure to set a password when prompted. If you omit the password, you may brick the drive. I have rarely been able to unbrick a drive.

This process may take several hours. The output of hdparm -I (that is an uppercase i) should tell you how long.

#NVME

Check processes here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive/Memory_cell_clearing#NVMe_drive

I have followed them once upon a time, but i haven't done it in years and cannot offer solid advice.

Yes! You can use SATA secure erase features. Give me a few and I'll post a brief set of commands.

https://www.goodcatholic.com/st-paul-shows-us-how-to-hate-the-sin-and-love-the-sinner/

Once you get past all the popups, it seems to agree with you. I went in and was waiting to pick it apart.

What the article breaks down is that we are running off a translation of “Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum,” which the article translates as, “With love for mankind and hatred for sins.” I'm personally also stepping in here and pointing out that this quote has NO CONTEXT.

As the article continues, it explains that love itself should manifest the same way we do for our child. Children require guidance, and if you have to step in and give them a time out, it is not love with strings.

For adults, you are not directing or controlling them. If things get tough with someone you love, sometimes you need a break. Sometimes you need to tell them how it is. Do it with compassion and empathy.

With strangers, you still need to treat them with compassion and empathy! Especially people you disagree with. Just because you disagree, it doesn't mean they are wrong or less deserving.

My take on this is that you should not take your frustration out on the individual. The sin is not a concrete thing that can be hated. The act of prayer should be for your enemies (however you parse that) and your frustrations. It is a form of meditation meant to seek peace.

So, love everyone, and give your grief to God. Need to talk about it? That's cool too. I can listen, but I generally offer terrible life advice.

I'm about to go in a few

I don't know what the man in the suit is doing, but all the rest is Musk's Tesla Diner.

Looks like 😎 they can't afford to be neutral.

I had to stop, uninstall, and reinstall on my LG TV. Maybe there was a data purge in there somewhere, too.

It took the experience from a 2 to a 4.

I'll tell you, I used my Razor™ keyboard to write this response. It was pretty easy, actually, once I learned to use it.